The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-02
S 7 o K E S.
Further Interesting Details Of the Shoot
Ing and Death Of Colonel Fisk.
The ParlOr Mans Testimony---''No-
body Helps Me! Nobody
Protects Me!'
"YES, 1T WAS STOKES."
The Finding of the Pistol-Difh-
Guilty of Identification.
THE BLOODY GARMENTS IN COURT.
Testimony Of the Valet Of the Deceased and
Deep Sensation in Court.
ZENITH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
The Finding of the Pistol-DiM-
Guilty of Identification.
THE BLOODY GARMENTS In COURT.
Testimony Of tho Valet Of the Deceased and
Deep Sensation in Court.
ZENITH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.

Fisk, Jr.
The Court Of Oyer and Terminer, in which this
case drags its dreary way before Judge and jury
was filed at half-past ten O'Clock and curing the
day. The heat being very intense made the room
feel like a sweat box to all the spectators enclosed
within its four walls.
THE JURORS COURT.
The Jurors were all present in their proper
places, looking very hot and flustered, and the
counsel on both sides came in one by until they
had all taken their seats. First of all came Mr..
Beach, whom Mr.. McKeon takes so much delight In
badgerng, and who was at one time counsel for
Stokes, and is now believed to be retained
for the estate Of Mrs. Fisk, be-
half Of The prosecution. His associate
ex-Judge Fullerton was also In court, assisting the
District Attorney, Mr.. Garvin, in the for the
people Directly fronting each witness who takes
his seat on the stand these two lawyers posted
in concave line. As each witness speaks or gives
evidence he or she is watched by these two
lawyers as beagle watches the game which will
soon enter his nav.
Directly behind sits the District Attorney, whose
huge form, enclosed in clerical black, is 'front.'
Ing the equally bulky form of ex-Attorney General
fireman., the heavy gun of the defence. Garvin
has slow, sententious and ponderous way about
him, and his manner is that Of man who seeks to
condne himself solely to the killing of Fisk
THE LINE OF THE DEFENCE.
The line of the defence is strongly posted behind
q very long table, First sits Tremain, at the ex-
IRENE right, and aligned by him, in row. are John
McKeon the most fiery, irrepressible, earnest and
plucky little counsel that an accused man can have
to argue for his life; next the junior counsel
for the defence-Daily, who resembles Theodore
Thomas very much, and Townshend who is espe-
cially crammed with medical lore for Cross-exami-
mt htudt rio linn cito ola
with white beard and spectacles, and II is ldhted
that he is the medical expert, with an unknown
name, who, it is said, the defence have engaged to
PROFOUND medical questions as to the effects OF the
probing in Fisks wounds and the effects OF chloro-
form or opium on his system, and whether the lat
ter produced collapse or strangulation
Just In the rear OF Mr.. McKeOn, and between him
and Mr.. Daily, the prisoner Stokes Sits Yesterday
he was neatly dressed in thin gray coat and white
duck trowsers, and his shirt collar fastened by
black bow necktie. His face was clean shaven,
and the anxious look which sensation mongers
have stated to be continually resting on mis- fea.
lures was not observable yesterday. His hair is
not one shade grayer than II on the day OF his
arrest In January last. Stokes hair, though
OF a jet black has had gray hairs mixed for
the last seven years, and to all outward appearance
yesterday, both in person and mind, the accused
was the coolest man In court, the thermometer
being at ninety-fve, with the exception Of the
Clerk, Mr.. Sparks, who looked as II he had just
emerged from a refrigerator.
STOKES AND HIS FRIENDS.
Several friends OF Stokes, mostly young men,
dressed IN the height Of fashion, came in and spoke
TO Stokes during the progress OF the trial or sat
down by his side and conversed with him earnestly
at times, and Stokes, on replying, would bend over
and whisper, the while never taking his eyes of the
tentive man has ever stood before bar of justice
TO hear testimony concerning his life and personal
security than this same man. 1t is not bravado or
indifference but 1t seems to be determination
firmly made not to lose one iota of the evidence or
bother his counsel by stupidity or incoherent con-
duct In public
The first witness called by the prosecution was
Henry D. Corey, the hall man Of the Grand Central
Hotel. This witness was German, and manifested
considerable uneasiness when cross-examned by
the defence. He was in the hall and stood by the
door In the corridor when he heard the shooting;
was very much excited and here the witness rose
to Illustrate by pointing to diagram, which is
seems full OF diagrams, m odels and plans, and, to
some extent, resembles an investigation OF boiler
explosion. The witness heard the shots, and as he
crying "NObody helps me; nobody protects me-"
and looking over the banisters saw the figure OF
Then the hall man some one coming toward
HIN, and he asked "For Gods sake what Is the
passed on; meeting Mr.. Curtis, who has already
testified, and the hall boy, Corley, the witness,
help d Fisk up to the reception ROOM and he was
wards died. The German In his own quaint man
ner, t. 'tlned that the man whom he had met on
the stars, and whom he had not known before that
time, W brought into the room where Fisk was
lying III dressed by an officer, who asked the
wounded man II his prisoner was the person who
had cir XpGs tnkp
BEwILDERED WITNESS.
1t appcar.1 from this mans testimony that there
has been busiv engaged In collecting evidence for
the District Attorney, and this Crockett, the wit
answered any questions It Would i' epdanSer bis
position as servant in the hotel. Corley testified
that he met the man whom he identified in Court
rs Stokes going toward the dining room after the
shots, while he was coming away from the eleva-
tor. Crockett was, 1t seems, engaged In looking
5or pistol when the witness returned, and lie and
the young man, Morse, brother to one OF the
women who are continually being referred to in this
case In an 0bllque manner were put out OF the
10 the hall man about an hour after the shooting
which, according TO all accounts, occurred about
quarter before Eve O'Clock, by Miss Grace Hail.
Eut 1t seems that Miss Hall contradicts the hall
mans testimony; for she testified, when cross-ex-
ainlned by Mr.. Tremain, that II could not have
been more than quarter after five when she found
the pistol sticking out OF creyice In the SOFA
The pistol was produced, and the hall man was
stammercd and hestitated, but could not identify
81. He could not tell whether the pistol banded to
him by Miss Hall ON the day OF the shooting was
slx-barrelled or q four-chambered revolver but he
believed IL was sx-barreed pistol. Fisk was
leaning ON tho right hand baluster when tho nall
man looked down the stairs. When Stokes met him
the hall man testified that the accused was very cool
in manner, and In his answer about the shooting 20
much so that be. (the witness) thought II strange
that the man whom he supposed had done the
shooting should be so COOL
THE FATAL PISTOL.
When the pistol was shown TO the witness his
allure under the searching cross fire OF Tremain,
was complete. He could not Identify the weapon
even In the smallest detail particular. Crockett
placed the pistol at once In his pocket when the
witness gave IL to him. The witness swore posi-
which the pistol was found, but that he went TO-
ward the elevator and around IT, As the time was