The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-02
NEW YORK CITY.
atOkea, Trial.

New YORK, July 1.-Notwithstand
ing the intense heat to-day Stokes tria
was well attended. Many ladies wer'
present, including number Of actresses
from the Grand Opera House. Henry
D. Corey was examined for the prose
cution: Am patrolmsn at the Grand
Central Hotel; heard pistol shot or
the 9th of January, when the tragedy
occurred; shortly thereafter heard 6
second shot and then q voice crying
Nobody helps mel Nobody protects
me" ran towards elevator; met tStokes
asked For Gods sake, what's the mat
terT Stokes pointed toward ladies
entrance, saying, There's man shot
down there;" witness went down; saw
Fisk; helped him up stairs; was in the
room when Stokes was brought in and
identified. Witness was sharply Cross
examined-Did not see Thomas Hart
at the head of the stairs;
if there l should have seen him; Hart
swore he was near the top of the stairs
and witnessed the shooting. Corley con.
tinued, the lady handed me the pistol
which l gave to Mr.. Crockett the
lady's name was was Miss Hull, from
Connecticut-the pistol was an ivory
handled six-shooter silver-barrelled !;
the lady said she found it in the room
near the top of the ladies entrance the
pistol was found in the room where
Hart swore he saw stokes motion with
his hand as if throwing something
away; witness exclaimed that is not
the pistol handed to me by Miss Hall
this is a black handled and barrellep
pistol with four chambers, the other
was a six.sbooter ivory handled and
silver mounted"
Twenty Deaths from Sunstroke.
There were twenty deaths from SUM-
stroke in the city to-day and a large
number of cases in which the people
were overcome by the heat. The mer-
curry reached 9S' in the shade.
Crockett, when on the stand Friday
last, swore that the only pistol found in
the hotel was a four chambered one
found in the. room where Stokes mos
toned with his hand, "Corley," con-
tinued Crockett, said to me the night
after the shooting that l had better shut
up and not say anything or it might
an1anoer nv placen
1t is supposed that this second pistol,
which has been mysteriously spirited
away, belonged to Fisk.
Corley's evidence created favorable
for the prisoner.
Henry D. Polhemus, commission
and John Marshall, Fisk's
colored valet, gave testimony which was
mainly unimportant. During Mar.
sheaalIs szsfp%piiPpAtiesBr sppip aif ifyepisR,'iNl.
time OF the shooting were produced In
court. They still retained blood
stains, which, on the coat sleeve, were
plainly visible. They were regarded
with much interest by the jury and
spectators and when the bloody coat
sleeve was shown an audible murmur
OF horror went through the court room,
whilst the prisoner cast his eyes down
to avoid gazing at the articles. Miss
Grace S. Hall testified to finding a
pistol in the front psrlor, which she
gave to Henry, the parlor man, but
could not identify it as there was no
mark upon it. She thought it was
dark pistol. After recess had been
taken DR.. James R. Wood testified at
length to attending Fisk and gave
tech nical description Of his wound and
the process OF probing. He accounted
Tor Fisk's death by shock to his sys-
tenn. The Court then adjourned until