Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-06
5r Examination Of Witnesses for the De
ig fense-Interest Increasing
"a ,El Large Attendance.


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the printed Feport-of the proceedings a
the Inquest held over Fisk's body by th'
I Coroner.
Coroner Young testified that the testi
mony at the inquest was taken by I
I Isten0grapher; the testimony was no
[ read to the witnesses; the stenographel
was sworn. ~ AA
Judge b. III. Bixley testified to th'
I trial of the case Of Mansfield agains
Fisk being before him; that on the day
Of the murder both Stokes and Fisk lef
4 his court about one O'Clock. q
/ A question whether any effort wa:
made TO arrest Fisk when the complaint
was first made, was ruled out.
Francis S. BOxby and RUFUS n. An
/ drews were the next witnesses. A till
took place between the counsel in refer.
! ence to private counsel assisting the
I District Attorney, after which recess waS
had.
4 r.. S. Bixley testified that Stokes
! came TO his office, after leaving ne Po.
/ lice Court at YOrkville, and asked him
/ if it was true that Fisk obtained an in.
dictment against him from the Grand
/ jury for blackniailing. Witness told
4 $, 0I1es the matter had been before the
! Grand Jury, but was dismissed.
The counsel here asked witness L
4 Stokes made any statement as TO wheth'
! er he was going anywhere on business
/ but the Judge thought the question in.
admissible. --
| Mr.. Tremaine, of Stokes's counsel, ar.
/ gued to its admissability, as being part
4 OF the connecting link Ofevidence goinG
! TO show that, instead Of being at the
/ Grand Central Hotel with murderoui
I intent, he was there on business con.
nected with q tr0tting race in Provi.
denee, in which he was Interested. He
claimed it was Gods truth that Mr.
! Stokes had nothing farther from his
mind than murder during the two ol
/ three hours preceding the shooting, and
during which all his actions and words
I form part Of the transactions in which
/ he was engaged.
| The District Attorney replied, sup.
porting the inadmissability OF the ques.
I ton, to which
Mr. Tremaine responded very shortly
Icondemning the course Of the District
| Attorney and of the press. He alluded
/ to the District Attorney having private
counsel in this case in a very sarcastic
manner.
The District Attorney responded by
calling Mr. Tremaine's attention to the
| fact that he fTremaine) was employed
as private counsel to assist the State At
tOrney in the Cole murder case, and
also referred to the fact that Tremaine's
associate was private counsel for Mrs.
Mansfield in the libel suit against Fisk,
Us also private counsel in the Concome
murder case
r1biu tilt n 2 -ao,7v,soI bair,or y,v,ar fba FOL
/ lowing questions were pat, but ruled out
by the court and exceptions taken:
: What reason did the prisoner give for
making inquiry about the indictment
by the Grand Jury? Did he say any,
thing in relation to going to Providence
on Tuesday as a reason for making in
quiTy as TO the indictments, and what
did he say?
r. T. Andrews testified that Stokes,
on the day of the murder, asked him if
there was an indictment against him,
and if he went out of the State whether
a requisitiOn could be procured against
him.
Mr.. McKeon here made another at
tack on the District Attorney, and was
reprimanded by the Judge. kilograms
OF Stokes's, Of the sixth Of January, were
Ol4E4NA % CIV AuEA4LC ~ 6A4Om l4AE RlAENnCl
intentions that day, but were excluded.
The court then took a recess.
After recess Mr.. KcKeOn read to the
jury the testimony Of Lawrence Carr, a
hack-driver, as taken before the Coroner,
and which has already been published,
that he did not drive after any carriage,
and had no directions from Stokes to
drive fast.
r r.r,r-l,ls-, Nl,,.-,. 1,,l
witness stand. He testified: l was at
the Hoffman House twenty-five minutes
before four o clock on the sixth of Janu-
ary, engaged in assisting Stokes in bis
case before the Court OF Appeals; was
looking with him for witnesses in this
city.
Odd you tell him where to find
these witnesses?
Al did.
Q.-Where did you tell him he would
find them?
Al told him be would find two of
them at the corner Of Amity and Broad
way; when 1 first saw him he was stand
ing near the telegraph Office; saw him
leave the Hoffman House in a carriage /;
be told me he was going.
Q.-What did be say? Excluded
Odd he say anything to you in re-
gard to his fear that Fisk was going to
shoot him2
Tremaine asked this question, and of
fered to show that this fact was known
to the witness as well as the prisoner.
LExcluded.
ID. z. Ingraham, jr., testified: l know
Stokes; knew him two years ago; be
was then arrested for embezzlement at
the instance of Fisk on the sixth of Jan
uary; / saw him at Chamberlain 4
DOdge's; be came over and shook
hands with me; asked him to walk up
town with me; he said ne could not, as
be had an appointment at the corner of
Amity and Broadway; l think he said
he bad an engagement with man
about some hOrse-rscing business; left
and walked up Broadway, and when at
the Astor Place saw Fisk coming down
ia a carriage, and bowed to him.
James Brennan testified: I was at the
House Of Refuge with 7. Hart as a wit
ness IN homicide case; conversed with
him about Fisk's case; about six weeks
afterI came there he told me he was in
a different part Of the house at the time,
and all he knew was that he saw Stokes
and followed him, but that a person
came 20 him and offered him one thou
sand dollars to swear TO what he did be-
fore the Coroner, and be was glad he
did as be would be well taken care Of
for life; told him be might be sent to
the State prison, but be said he had
the biggest people In town on his side,
and be was all right; he also said he
would get his friends to get me out If
/ said nothing about what be told; saw
Redmond there, too; several people in
vited him; Mr.. Crockett was enc OF
them.
Cross-examined by the District At
torney; i am twenty-one years Of age;
was sent to the House Of Refugefor steal
ing a watch at Apollo Hall; stole
several times before; 1 was nine weeks
in the House ofDetention; was on friend
ly terms with Hart and Redmond; Hart
told nae that Stokes came up al the La
dies entrance, and that he saw him fire
at Colonel Fisk. Mr.. McKeon came to
see metwice; Hart told me,two different
stories; he told nae one when l came
first, and another enc afterward.
Redirect examination by McKeOn
was examined BY the District Attor-
nGy before the Grand Jury in the case Of
J0stus Dun; was appointed a monitor
in the House Of Detention for good con-
duct; when I first came to the house
Hart told me that he was near Stokes
when be fred the shots; five or six
months after, he told me that he was
after putting some globes in room and
saw Stokes coming after hearing the
shots fred and followed him, seeing no
else around. -aza 1
J. 7, Redmond was called IS a Wit
ness, when Judge Hngraham asked the
counsel for the defense if be would be
bound by his testimony, being called as
their own witness. Under this view oil
the case they did not examine him as to
whether anybody endeavored to bribe
him % testify Wrongfully. Court ad-
journed. WFT & !
An AbOrtiOEiHt seeks Pardon.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-A pardon was
to-day dispatched to Long Branch for
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