Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-02
The stokes Trial.

SENSATION ABOUT A PIsToL-THE SHOCK
TO The SYSTEM CAUSE or FIsK's DEATH.
In the Stokes trial in New York. yesterday,
after our telegraphic report closed, considerable
interest was manifested when the witness-H.
-. Carley-stated that the pistol prcduced by
Coroner Young was not the pistol given him by
the woman Miss HalD at the hotel, which she
said she found on the door.
The witness resumed: Ladies gathered around
him (witreSs) and said: Hurry, it nj ght en-
danger your positions" Stokes did not 90 10 the
front parlor where the lady found the white
handled pistol.
Ii. a. Folhemus testified to Seeing Stokes in a
liquor store on Broadway shortly before four
O'Clock on the afternoon thar FIX was shot.
John Marshall testified that he vas valet 10
Colonel Fisk, and gathered Ip the clothes OF
Fisk az the hotel on the evening of the killing
OF Fisk and TO putting them into a yailse. The
yaise was olened in court and the clothing
identified as Fisk's, the cape showing four bul-
let holes. The witness also testified that Fisk
made bis headquarters at Josie ManSfeldS,
where he (wltuessl was employed 20 wait on
Fisk, and witness LEFT Manshelds because he
did not Ike 10 wait on Stokes, Josie sent wit
ness to Fisk and got money, when she gave wit
hess money.
officer McACam testified to arresting Stokes.
and TO FiskS Identifying him as his murderer.
Miss Grace Hall testified 10 finding pistol in
paTlor No. /, near the lounge. The pistol said
TO be Stokes was shewH here, but she failed to
identity it, but was positive the one she found
did Not have a white handle.
Austin II. MAY, boOkkeeper at the hotel, testi-
fed TO asking Fisk ii IL was Stokes who shot him.
but could not hear Fisks answer, there were so
many talking.
DIR. James X. Wood testified to probing Fisk's
wound, which he minutely described.
The district attorney asked him TO tell what
was the cause OF the colonels death. He said
that he could account for il in no other way but
that the shock 10 the system caused it.
Mr.. Iownsend.-It is stated in the cOroner's
inquest that death ensued from peritonitis an 4
and the shock. Do you only say that he died of
the shock?
Answer.-There was peritonitis, but not
enough 10 cause death.
QuestiOn.-Were there many persons in the
room when you entered it?
Answer.-There were several there, including
the physicians; | ordered the room 70 be
cleared; the doctors were doing nothing when L
got there; L prObed the wound; there was no
nOuIishment given him Whit remained in the
room; did not probe beyoAd the walls of the
abdomen; no one but a crazy man would: would
consiCeT II malpractice; probing had been done
10y Dr. 1ripler before / arrived, VIM. NJ. Tweed
was with Fisk; Col. Fisk was very anxious to
know whether or not he was going to die; |
ordered his will to be MADE; can't say that he
wandered in his mind at ALL was present at
the post moTtem examination; was interested in
II because the brain was 80 large; the heart was
also large; the shock TO Colonel Fisk was both
from the effect of the wound and mental excite
ment; coma always results from peritonitis; as
rule the head Is not affected in simple peri
tonitis; saw him at half-past eight, and he was
not then lnsensible; he died at ii o'clock; was
not present at his death.
Question-Didn't death ensue to soon after
the wound to be the effect OF peritontis?
Answer-I think so.
AT the conclusion of the doctors testimony
the court adjourned.