New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-06

o were here you walked good deal, did 20
/ not?
$ Stokes-Yes, 1 had some exercise Their
G but | have not had an excursion in tn
yard recently. The commissioners hav
5 treated me pretty well, though You Sc
it is little different, the life here an
: that which / have lived formerly. | use
2 to spend my summers at Saratoga. But
expect the commissioners will soon gran
me some privileges.
7 Reporter-There is considerable discus
sion about the gentlemen who are to b
your counsel in the coming trial. Have yol
retained Mr.. John McKeon for your mex
( trial to defend you?
Stokes-No, Mr.. McKeon labored very
hard at the last trial. He is a most faithful
andshonorabie gentleman; none ever lived
more so. He does not know whether he car
bear the labor and strain of the coming
trial or not, still it is unsettled. Mr.. Lyman
Tremain, Mr.. Townsend and Mr.. Daily are
retained, however, and they can not be sur
passed for fidelity and ability.
Reporter-H0W do you feel about your
trial this time, Mr.. Stokes?
Stokes-I am impatient to have it, have
to be tried some time-or another, and | can
endure anything but suspense. Still, if they
are going to delay my trial any longer, my
counsel will demand that shall be bailed
Reporter suppose the prosecution will
develop something startling on the new
| trial
Stokes-I don't know that the prosecu-
ton can make any very new developments
unless they can hire some more boys who
| have been concealed in stone closets and
| Wardrobes, who will spring out like mon
keys from a bandbox when the spring is
touched there Stokes laughed) q la Thomas
Hart. (StokeS' eyes sparkled tercely.)
Reporter-YOu get very excited when you
speak of Thomas Hart.
Stokes-Well, God knows (passionately)
| have had cause enough to denounce him
that bad boy walking around). 1t was his
false story, for which he received money,
that embittered public opinion against me,
believe, If l am rightly informed, that all
OF the jurymen on the late trial believed
Hart perjured himself. | think that five
or six witnesses swore that he was not
there at all.
Reporter-Do you suppose that that was
the reason that District Attorney Gafyin
ignored the testimony of Hart in his sum-
ming up?
Stokes-Well, you can tell yourself. You
were present at the trial. You heard the |
evidence that he was arrested for stealing |
while a servant at the Troy House in Troy,
and was discharged because the complain |
ant did not appear. Most unquesti0nabIy !
Garvin is too good jurist to have commit
ted any such blunder as to dwell on his tes-
timony to the jury. think Mr.. Garvin
treated me IN some respects very roughly,
but think it was creditable to him not to
use periured testimony. If he remains in I
office, and l am acquitted, how'll have the
opportunity to prosecute that boy for per-
jury: The evidence against him is over
whelming.
Reporter-When do you expect your trial
to come off? Judge John A. Brady holds
the next term of the Oyer and Termiuer;
how do you like to be tried by him
Stokes-Nery much indeed. | do not
think there is more upright judge on the
bench. He is not infallible, but when he
errs it is not from any impure m0tives-I
am sure of that.
Reporter-Do you think it will be diff
cult to get jury this time so that 1t may
be found necessary to change the venue to
another county?
Stokes-My counsel think that there will
be but little difficulty in obtaining jury;
IN tact, they think that jury can be OBJ
tanned in three or four DAYS.
Reporter-Well, now, Mr.. Stokes, would
like to ask you-that is, if you do not think
1t wrong-f you have any new evidence as
to whether Fisk had a pistol or not. The
public by this time-you know time changes
all things-seem to be pretty well satisfied
That your meeting at the hotel was acct
dental.
Stokes quite reseryed)-That is some
hing that must object to talk about, and
don't wish to be interviewed upon that
subject, Mr.. -. And l hope you will not
make me say anything that have not told
you, as have seen a good many statements
n newspapers that never came from me
exeitedly).
There the interview ended, and Stokes
I'd his interviewer good-by, shaking hands
During his confinement Stokes has re-
eiVed great number of letters expressing
with him. {
The trial will come off at the October
erm Of the Court of Oyer and Terminer.