Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-16
The Secrets of the Jary Rsen

The Secrets Of the Jary Room.
New Yokk, July lb.-There was an i'm
mense eoncourse at the court house this
morning, awaiting the jury with, Stokes
case. The prisoner and his counsel looked
rather cheerful. Wkeh the jury entered,
the foreman announced that they could
come to no agreement whatever. The
Judge thereupon discharged them. Stokes
was taken back to the Tomhs,
Among the reports as 10 Stokes jury, is
one claiming seven for murder in the first
degree, four for manslaughter in the third
degree and one for acquittsl. ......-..-
Views OF the Press. -s--...-
The Express calls it a farce, coltemlt
for common sense. Hereafter, it says,mur-
der is no crime, but little srial, disagree
ment at frs, and finally an acquittal.
The Commercial blames the law which
allows no intermediate verdict between
murder in the first degree and manslahSht=
er In the third degree.
The Post says we ere hearing if we have
not already Reached that point where the
! taking of life is not to be considered a
murder, except in case of vulgar burglars
who have trespassed on the rights of
property and sacrifice life to reach it.
Deliberations of the larry.
The following particulars eff the proceed
ings of the jury are g;Ten: On Saturday
evening when they 6rst retired to deliberate
ballot was taken which resulted in seven
for murder in the first degree, three for
acquittal and two for manslaughter in the
third degree. The names of the seven for
murder are Meyer Hamburger, Bennett
Williams, N. NJ. Cornish, Byron Stone,
John E. F. Bond, Peter e. Hopkins
aud N. a. Lefferts. The Jurors
for acquittal were Roderick HoFan, NJ 81.
Thompson and John Tucker, and TIE two
for manslaughter in third degree were
Theodore Fl8mme and Henry G. White.
This state of affairs remained until the jury
came into court and got Col. Fisk's clothes.
The clothes were all tried on one of the
jurors, and they arrived at the conclusion
that Fisk bad both his arms eHyeloped in
his military cape at the time Stokes fired,
aud consequently that the theory of Fisk
drawing pistol was a hum6ug. This in
fluenced the three for acquittal to veer
round for inanslaughter in the third degree.
The medical testimony was thrown out
altogether, all believing the wound mortal
from the first and the question of insanity
was barely referred to.
There was long discussion as TO the
premeditation. All the Jurors were of the
opinion that Stokes never went to the
Grand Central Hotel with a pemeditated
design Of meeting and killing Fisk. The
seven Jurors why were for murder believed
not NH GfoBo1 F;e1y 10 eN,.-e
in moment he formed in his
and that this second was a sufficient time
for generalization. The five jurors stoutly
maintained that Stokes pulled his pistol in
heat of passion, being st Tired to frenzy by
the sight of Fisk, aud that bis crime was
only manslaughter in the third degree. The
debate on this point became quite excited
and some hard words were used on both
sides. Time and again poll was taken
but all to no pun pose. Firm to their opin-
ions they all remained and at last fell asleep,
but woke up in precisely the same state Of
mind. Finally they gave up dispute, see
ing there was no hope of altering their opin-
ions.
L. is the opinion of several jurors that If
they were allowed to bring in verdict of
murder in the second degree, or manslaugh
ter in one of its higher degrees, they would
have arrived at verdict, but this was not
allowed them as the Judge charged them
that they should either find verdict of
murder in the first degree, manslaughter In
the third degree or acquittal
An application for bail will be made in a
few days.
Barnard.
The Court of Impeachment will assem-
BILE at Saratoga on Wednesday, to try Judge
Barnard.
In the south Atlantic.
The ship Agra, of this port, rescued the
crew Of the sinking ship Covingo, of Glas-
cow, ri in number, and landed them at st.
Helena. .....
Not Much Improvement on Tam
many.
The Mayor sent in his annual message
to the Common Council to-day. The en-
tire city debt is 127000,000 dollars. The
taxes 20 be ed this year are 3G,437,-
600, besides nine hundred thousand for
streets.
The aggregate valuation Of real and per-
sonal estates for 1872 amounts TO $l,104,-
09S, 1857, and for 1871 to 81, 076, 253, 633.
Wont be Prussianized.
A procession of about three thousand
natives of Alsace aud Lorraine, headed by
tho band of the Garde Lafayette marched
down Broadway to the Office OF the French
Consul where they signed papers of ALE
glance to France. On returning up Broad
way large numbers of women joined the
procession which was cheered at many
points and dispersed quietly at the Casino,
the French headquarters here.
COmmunistic.
At meeting of the Federal Council of
the Internationals held yesterday, % Sec
tons were represented. The platform
adopted declares the workingmen must
emancipate themselves, and demands the
total abolition of class rule, political and
social equality, the naturalization Of the
land, eight hours, education by the State,
and like doctrines. A plan Of organization
was reported.
Only Cholera MOrbus.
A cholera scare seemed imminent yester-
day, from the fact that a report had been
circulated of death from ASiatie cholera.
This was strengthened by q report that the
physician who made the post mortem eX-
animation declared it a genuine case of the
semiotic species. Further inquiries and
active measures by the health authorities
proved it a case of cholera morbus. The
quarantine officials have taken every pre-
caution against the importation of this dis
ease. -k
BaIlOOniBg i'm the Wake of q Yacht.
BOSTON, July 15.-1he balloon ascen-
sion made Saturday by Prof. King, accom-
panied by Holden, of the Boston Journal,
was complete success. After being up