The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-10
IN THE GRAND JURY ROOM.

A Bill OF Indictment Ordered Against
Frank III. WalwOrth of Murder in the
First Degrce-Thc Case Not To BE Tried
Before the Fall Term OF the Court of
Oyer and Termfner.
Yesterday morning the Grand Jury OF the Court
of Oyer and Terminer filed into their seats IN their
room in the County Court House at halfpast ten
O'Clock. Shortly after meeting and while trans
acting some minor business the District Attorney
sent into the jury room the papers relative to the
Walw0rth case. The Grand Jury Immediately gave
the its exclusive attention and the witnesses
in the case were called. Among the witnesses
examined were Drs. Childs Fleming and Milford.
who attended to the murdered man Immediately
after the shooting Mr. Barrett, the hotel clerk, to
whom Walworth surrendered himself; Mrs. Eliza
Semms, with whom Mansfield Tracy Walworth
boarded Immediately preceding his death; More
head the boarder at the Sturtevant House, and
the han man, who was examined before the Coro
ner. All these were examined very fully by the
foreman OF the Jury, and cOrrObOrated their testi
mony already given elsewhere, and their state
ments to the HERALD reporters on the day OF the
shooting The examination OF all these witnesses
did not take more than two hours III all, after
which
THE SENTIMENT OF THE GRAND JURY
was taken, and it was found that the jurymen
were unanimously in favor Of an Indictment for
murder in the first degree against Frank H.
out. The names OF the members Of the Grand
Jury which ordered this bill run as follows
Charles Patrick uOreman), sam w. Millbank,
Edgar Wright Francis Endicott, Samuel SprOulls
William L. Vanderyorst, Sylvester W. Comstock,
William Clarkson, James 7. Taller James A. Hearn,
William J. Blair, COurtlant Schuyler, Frederick
Ward, Theodore Martin, Edmund ID. SaxtOD,
Jesse Oakley, George Hurst Jonathan L. Hyde, Will
ham 8. Corwin, Henry NJ Laher. Elisha Brooks
This has decided the mere finding of the bill
The Grand Jury will come into the court room OF
oyer and Terminer this morning and will deliver
the bill to Justice Davis. II was being copied by
the clerks in the District Attorneys ONCE last even
ing, and will be very long document.
A HERALD reporter had a short conversation on
the case with
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY YESTERDAY.
This gentleman said he believed that public SEN
Of late and thet his statement before the Coroner
had done nothing to help him, but had rather in
jured his own case The case OF Frank II. Wal
worth would not be brought up before the Fall
as the Courts were just about adjourning
now for the Summer vacation. and he could
see no reason why the case should
trial for MONTHS and Of whom the Tombs should
be cleared before new cases had right to go on.
The idea In having tried young WalwOrth like
others in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, instead
OF the Court OF General Sessions was that the for
eral Sessions the prisoner convicted OF capital
offence had right OF appeal which could only
exist IN the other Court by obtaining stay of pro-
ceedings, which was hard TO get. Therefore, bust
ness was much more expeditions in the Oyer and
Termner than elsewhere. The prisoner could not
elect to be tried in any Court he pleased. He had
to be tried in the Court in which he was indicted,
and the District Attorney had tue sole choice OF
as to this at all. II was probable the case would
come up for trial in October.