The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-02

have seen Harte or any other man had he or any
Q. When you saw the man with the gray coat
coming towards you was he walking or running
A. He was was walking, not very fast, and
Witness was again examined by the defence as to
his first seeing the man In the gray coat and his ac-
costing him, and the strange mans reply ms
answers not varying In substance in the slightest
degree from his direct testimony, and only import
ant in sustaining the testimony previously given by
him. Then followed repetition, UNMARRIED OF tes-
tlmony with regard to his going TO the relief OF
Colonel Fisk, OF no person being near or within
view OF the deceased when he first saw him, and OF
his own part in the removal OF Fisk with those who
aided him; where Fisk had been first brought to
and his subsequent removal TO parlor and bedroom
2is and pa in the latter of which he died on the
following morning
THE MORSE FAMILY AGAIN,
Q. After Colonel Fisk had been removed to paror
2l3 and was attended by the physicians and Others
among the people there did you see young Morse 7
A. saw him when came in the second time; the
time was driven out at0gether-all In the room
Q. Did you see Fisk undressed thereP A. Isaw his
military cape and coat taken OF; don't remember
the coat was taken OF In the bedroom.
Q. How long after the shooting was the pistol
handed to you that EVENING" A. 1t was good
hour.
Q. Describe the pistol. A. AS near as can recol-
lect It was a six shooter; when II was handed to
me looked right int the holes; 1t was
NICE, BEAUTIFUL,
gltterng pistol shining in silver; suppose 1t had
ivory on 1t.
don't rec0lect any black.
q. A six shooters A. don't recollect that posi-
lively.
pistol that was found I'm the hotel the evening
Of the s9Stng and handed t BY y t6a lazy he
Witness There was an evident
FEELING OF SCARE
among the counsel as the witness examined the
weapon handling it rather carelessly and the legal
gentlemen on either side more than once cried out,
"KEEP 1T UPlh
Hold up the barrels n Snow, you'll shoot the Juryl"
nO mt thar DIaaoa bnI1 mt itpa
looked round at counsel, then at the gentlemen in
the jury box, then ut the pistol and at last held it
aim at fly on the ceiling above his head. Some
merriment was caused In the court by the scare,
breaking for time the dull monotony of the earlier
proceedings OF the morning session.
Witness-I cannot recognize this pistol or identify
1t as the one Miss Hall handed to me; the barrel Of
the one mean was like this butt, glittering and
white; only heard reports of two shots; the
moment handed the pistol which Miss Hall gave to
me to Mr. Crockett he put 1t 'at once in his side
pocket and walked away with 1t.
O. Before that pistol was handed to you did you
see Mr. Crockett searching the paror where it was
found, as II looking for something's A.. Yes; saw
the head porter told me they were looking for the
pistol.
and say to you that you must not say anything OF
what you heard or saw with regard to the pistol, or
the finding Of it ?
Mr.. McKeon-We want to elicit some facts about
this. We claim that Mr.. Crockett is
AN INTERESTED WITNESS,
and conducted himself very strangely while on the
stand the other day.
The Court-That has nothing to do with the wit
ness; besides, the witness Crockett was not exam
ined on this point at ALL will not allow the ques.
ton.
O. What did Crockett say to you on the subject of
saying nothing about the pistol? A. He only said,
Henry, 1t will be best for you to talk nothing and
to say nothing about the affair, because it may
of the crowd of ladies ana gentlemen and every
body that surrounded me, asking me all about the
shooting; may have very dim impression that
saw the man with the ''gray coat" some time that
day, but 1t Is very dim.
Redirect-You say you have not seen the man you
saw that day in the gray coat since that time do
you recognize that man IN Court nOwy
Objected to and objection sustained.
Miss Hall, the finder OF the pistol, called, and no
response.
TESTIMONY OF HENRY A. POLHEMUs.
Henry A. Polhemus, Jr., sworn, testiaed-I am
commission merchant, OF 40 Front street, on the
9th of January was at 100 Broadway, about block
and half above the Grand Central Hotel; it Is
wholesale liquor place. this was between three and
four o'clock saw the prisoner there stayed till
he went out.
To Mr.. McKeon-There were several gentlemen
there: ID. +. lngraham, Jr., was there for one;
were four gentlemen there; the place Is nearer
Washington place than the block below; Amity
is the next street to the Grand Central HOtel the
next street is Fourth and the next Washington
place; think there is fur store on the corner OF
Broadway and Great Jones; don't know what Is
next
Q. Didn't Stokes speak to young Mr. IngraEam
for some timer A. No, sir, don't think he did; he
to some one else. There was nothing important
elected in the examination OF this witness beyond
the fact that Stokes was In close proximity to the
Grand Central previous to the time OF the shooting
OF Fisk.
TESTIMONY OF FIsK's vALET-rHE CoLoNEL's PER-
FORATED AND BLOOD-STAiNED GARMENTS IN COURT.
The next witness called for the prosecution was
John Marshall colored, examined by District AttOr-
ney Garvin.Was in the employ OF the deceased.
tember two years and q half ago; recOllects the
morning OF the 9th OF January, the day Colonel
Fisk was shot, recollects also the afternoon Of that
O. Were you present and did you assist Colonel
Fisk in dressing that morning. A. Yes, did, sir,
aud saw and know all the clothes he put on and
wore that day.
O. Describe them. He wore a pair Of brown COL
orcd pants with black shade, gray coat mixed
with black, vest of the same material and mill
tary CAPE lined with red; he also wore black silk
hat
O. When did you last see him that day before he
went to the Grand Central Hotel? A. saw him
at the Opera House, about twelve o'clock.
O. After that did he return to his house or his
O. Did you and identity the same suit of
clothes that day. A. Yes sir: l saw them hanging
lay in the hotel that same evening; it was the same
suit he had put on in the morning.
q. What was done with those clothes9 A. after
ward took them to the house inTwentythird street,
No. 3l3; that was the next day.
q. What was done with them thenS A. placed
them in the wardrobe in the house in Twenty-thlrd
by the Coroner after that they sealed and de-
posted In the Erie offices, in the opera House.
THE PRODUCTION OF THE BLOOD-sTAINED CLOTHES.
However the interest OF the audience might have
oozed out through the discomfort of sitting in q
swelterng court room, listening to the dry detail
of evidence that was exceedingly scant on sensa-
tonal points, there came at last the great sensa-
ton OF the day and of the trial. in the production
of the clothes worn by the deceased on the day of
his murder, and bearing proof strong as holy writ
OF the
DEEP DAMNATION OF HIS TAKING OFF.
Int calf 1cnla l,t1
as ever sat In witness box had hitherto given his
testimony sitting in the allotted chair readily,
promptly and intelligently. There was "a little
however, in his utterances, from cause
which counsel or the Court ought not to have per-
mitted, and which prevented his answers from
being properly understood at a distance. He,
with an air OF great noRctoldnce, coquetted with
an ivory handled cane, which ever and anon
like the pouncet box in the hands Of the Kings
messenger to Hotspur, put to his mouth, not
his nose, marrng considerably the hearing of
interesting testimony. In pause Of question