New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-13
MrRDERERs IN TIE TOaIBS.

FOUR CRIMINALS USDER SENTENCE OF DEATH,
AND EIGHT AWAITING TRIAL.
There are now in the Tombs Prison 30
prisoners including II who are charged with murder
four OF whom have been sentenced to be hanged In
each instance the prisoners counsel has succeeded In
nrocuring stay Of proceedings technical points and
has carried tie case TO a higher COnrt for revision.
The most prominent Of those under sentence Is WIN.
Foster the carook murderer. On the night Of May D.
ISL while intoxicated he quarreied with Avery D>Put
NAM on n Broadway car, and, unOGserycd by his victim
crept up behind him he RiiFhtins from tho car
with Madame Duval and her little daughter, at Forty
seyenth-st and dealt him blow on she head with no
few bonrs He was tried in the Court Of oyer and Ter
=, ho bon,,i ON Jnly a. His case will argued at the
next term OF the Supreme Court before Che full bench
is hopeful but regtets deeply tho aea'n oi DIS III
defatlcable counsel, ex Judge stuart. - - =.
Lawrence Sullivan committed in June q. 1870 for
the murder Of John OBrien. The murderer ana ms We
i'm Ivrre Iaporers and feOw-tenauts OF First Ward
tenement sullivan. while intoxicated, Dea5 ms "e In
brutal manner, and OBrien, at the solicitation oil inc
nnrlbnrs entered the apartment 10 protect the woman
sullivan turned upon him, and STABBED INN sewers
lew hours. The murderer convicted on jan 90
s7i The decision the lower Court was renflrlned by
a Supreme COurt and the IA now before the COM
missioner Of Appeals ter decision The condemned man
HAT ne was crazed by rum when he committed the act
John Purcell convicted on February ~ 1910 OF tnc
murder OF WIN. Herman, an acquaintance, on May ~
issa Herman had endeayored 10 induce PurcelPs
Younger brother to fight with boy OF ms own age JOhh
p'rie Objected 10 This and ght with Herman. Pur
ne9cd the quarrel with fatal results when taken to
h ITnion Market Poiicr-station Purcell de6anty de
clared that had killed Kirrnan, and that he could
stretch rope well as any other man IS case Is
now awaiting the decision OF the Court OF Appeals
The fourth condemned man is VIM. II. MacNeyin'. con
,iried ON May 49, of the murder OF Edward Hines on
D,r 1870 and sentenced to be hanged on July ISL
\" MS case aso a stay ~ proceedings was obtained,
and the General Term OF the supreme Court has decided
h appeal from his s murder in the first de-
Eighteenth Precinct say that the accused ana MS victim
,U1y 1ivpnd thcm Trouble Many of the members OF
these rival factions desperate humans ahd NV peo
guilty OF almost every crime MacNevhs ana i1nes ma
fnur on seycra occasions. and had once used pistols
They met in low grocery on the nlghs OF me murder
and Hines escaping from the saloon, was ioho"eu ~
his rival and fatally wounded. IN, , ~
OF the remaining prisoners charged with murder sew
eral will undoubtedly escape WIN terms oI %
urnt az thew cannot he convicted OF higher crime than
manslaughtcr in the second or third 9eGr,es pL 4, =,
Edward Stokes, the assassin or james FISK IT., Is
now the most prOniin inmate Of the prison
stranger observing light hearted manner with which
he conyerses with friends who Visit h, woud scarey
believe that this the man whom prominent ponce
sentenced 10 hanged within the space Of 80 days There
are times stokes fully roakss his position ana tLe
Of the evidence that will be produced ag ns
him, Nevertheless. he declares that he has good ana
snfcient defense, and that the public feeling VIII De
What anu :. al accounts that have been published
Of the gorgcousncss of the fittings OF his cell Ihe Iact
l. that his cell comfortably furnished ana there are
few artieeS o. Nv hi fr,1ds warden Stacom has
bru kind and courteous him. but he has only received
privileges which any other prisoner could command;
Pnllip Wilke committed on sept 26 ISL, LOT nav
in siapbed and mortaly wounded Rudolph Wucherer'
youug German Of party wlO entered Tue saloon VI
the prisoner in Teuth-aVe, between Ihlrty.thlrh ana
Thrfy h-ss., sunday evening, sept 20 ana
,Iugrre ed with the accused .. -
Wm H. Harris, mate Of the schooner una H. GainaEe'
j. hell to await trial killing samuel H. HassOn, Who
Nth to other sailors attacked him New Years Day
, The s,Loouer Was lying at the foot VI West twenty
ioiriu--t. =, ,.- - ~. 60
await a tra on the charge OF causing me dealh Oi
Mirna.I Fitzuaiuck they quarrelcd on Jan. 3, IN u
NItih.ove saloou and were elected. Fitzpatrick was
again attacked, feled to the pavement aLd iataiJ
wounded. -,,,-.- -. Al,
JoIn Cullen Is awaiting trial for stabbns John Mi,
cheI with whom Inc had drinking, At Bay ard aud
Baxtcr-st. ON Sunday morning August IL,
lanes Mc(anley AN Ignorant hDOrer - helu Tor aus
ing The death of Agnes Reiiey. by beaing and kSNhS
her August n. ISL s.I
Jeremiah Evans and Joseph Calvin yoanG men, ei me
Fnrth Ward are held for Killing Roger Belts WAC was
attacked y crowd Of drunken rufians In
on the light OF November 49, Eyaus r,aDhcu nun III tue
breast and Calvin /, held "a an accOmphce: -. A..
Several of these set down Iof tIia' upIus
present esson Of tho Courts Of Oyer anu IoFlhet au
General 80 ,Dns.