The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-15
Judge mgraham Sends Them Back
TO Be Locked Up Until This
Morning and Tells Them
That He Cannot Dis
charge Them Yet.
Intense Excitement In the City Among
All Glasses Of People.
HOW DO THEY STAND?
A Rum0r That There Are Four Jurors
for Acquittal, Two for Murder in the
First 1egree and Six for Man
slaughter In the Third De-
- gree, Late Last Night.

- gree, Late Last Night.
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Now Yoskers who do business downtown
who sleep above Union square are well acquainted
with Chambers street and Its vicinity. For Blk
days Of the week 1t Is almost impossible nom Gen.
tire street to Church street. Vehicles pass to and
fro-drays, beer wagons, spring carts, express
wagons, coupes, with eager lawyers snugy en-.
Bconced inside, and all manner Of conveyances for
merchandise and passenger trafic, and not ex-
septing the big, numbering stages that render
Broadway, our finest street. place OF dimculty and
hanger for swift hurrying people.
But yesterday morning Chambers street had
ainerent look. The wild eagerness Of the people to
know II the jury in the Stokes case had decided
upon verdict had provoked the gathering OF On
immense crowd
me front Of the new Court House is dis1gured by
scanolding and loose planking, and on every coign
pf vantage hundreds OF persons were perched at as
eariy an hour eight O'Clock of the morning. The
A6ns descent Of marble steps leading to the great
Gntrance OF this building, tho greatest monu-
lnent Of the defunct Ring, was thickly packed with
Sxcited people Of both sexes, standing, sitting
down, and In argumentative groups Of threes and
tours and hves and SKIES
The crowds were like the jurors-they could not
-
The last three or four days, however. Those who
were anxious to see Stokes hanged week ago
wore yesterday discussing the relative probabilities
Df manslaughter In the third degree or an absolute
AcQuittal Of the prisoner.
line Of police came early In the day to keep the
rr0wd In order, and number Of angry disputes
were settled by them In O summary manner, the
nisputants being told to moderate their feelings
and go cool themselves with weiss beer. The
crowds were In O bad predicament, however, as the
places OF drinking for man and beast all closed.
Fronting the Court House for half block either
way great swarm Of people, 5000 in NUMBER
we're gathered. Every man and woman In the
taass was looking upward to the windows, expect
ing to see Stokes come out and make a speech, as
b the wont with all foolish assemblages In New
York city. The gathering was something like what
b seen on Fourth Of July night in one OF our pub
No parks when the fireworks are being touched OF.
Hundreds Of individuals stood ready to cry "Oh"
pr "Ahln at the slightest sensation that might be
produced by any untoward event.
dog fight or the appearance Of drunken
woman would have proved Of great relief to these
people. Nothing Of the kind came to dsspate their
monotony, and In default Of other amusement four
Or fve hundred people Of the three thousand gath
cred there on the quiet Sunday, pitched into each
other on the merits of the case.
It seemed as II the days Of the civil war had
come back. Our people will recolect how, during
that terrible time, men went mad about rumored
defeats or possible victories on the Sab
bath days, devoted to rest and divine wor-
nip. Yesterday there was Q renewal OF
these scenes but with the difference that
instead Of the words "Rappahannock," "Frede-
ricksburg,n sChancelorsvillen or Gettysburg"
which at that time dropped from mems mouths
Ike the smeItings from furnace, there were heard
such expressions as 'Stokes ought to be hanged"
s,Pisk was murderous vllain," There won't be
any agreement Of the jury" "Ingrahams charge
was all on one side, like the handle of q pitcher"
and "Did you see what the HERALD said to-day2'
The feeling was of the most intense kind. On the
cars, on the ferry boats, in shops, where
the BARRIERS camored that their victims,
whose necks were swathed by towels, should
purchase lavender and hair invigorator;
In bar rooms and hotels; when churches
we're emptied Of their congregations; In Fifth
avenue and Tenth avenue; In the purliens Of the
Points and in the perfumed dir Of Murray Hill, the
names Of Fisk and Stokes grated on the dull, close
and oppressive atmosphere.
1t was, indeed, midsummer Madness and It's
ofects made men Of lucid minds imagine that after
MI New York was but little behind Paris for Its civic
impctuosity and exctability.
This was the state Of the city yesterday generally
s1Cn .ra was pcyft eelere known In the metrop-
49, WAS one u EDWARD s. stokes Tor tne limbs "
-EBK And how was II In the building on thls Sab.
bath day, In which the jury were testing the evil.
dence
About i've hundred persons OF both sexes had
been allowed to pass the triple line Of policemen
and the four ranks Of doorkeepers 1t Is needless
% say that the ladies, blonde and brunette, who
have attended the trial for weeks were In their
usual places reinforced BY new acoessions Of their
own sex. The Baron Probasco and My Lady the
Duchess OF ord-knows-who were in their cane.bot
toned chairs These people were allowed to come
In at halEpast ten o'clock number Of the Erie
people, whom rumor credits with the receipt of 8
day for steady attendance, were ais
permitted to come. Professor Nealis escorted
the ladies to their seats with o graceful
wave Of the hand. Deputy Mulvihill held one door
and there was great demand for Mr. McInierney. Tit
Hobbies were crowded by lawyers and attaches o
the Court and the adjoining room was occupied by
the prisoner Stokes and his friends who seem more
warmly attached to him as the slowly draws t(
close.
The ladies OF the prisoners family unable any
longer to bear the terrible ordeal OF the trial. were
absent, worn out and sick with anxiety at theii
hearts, Stokes, who has borne up bravely al
through the trial, until the case went to the Jury
seemed tired out and nervous. This man, who IL
naturally lghthcarted and OF an impulsive
g0ahead temperament that no shock or adversely
could unsettle, has during the last two days sui
fered tyrture that no human being may evel
envy. Many men with hls light hearted, harebraine(
nature would have become mad under such ire
TO bear on him during the last orty-cight hours lie
n unit 10 Withstand q long suspense, though any