The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-07

back OF the desk al which commitments are
received and in what is known as Murderer's Row.
In this row Of cells all those condemned to death
are confined While awaiting their execution; but
at present there are no condemned prisoners In
this row, with the exception OfSt0kes. This cell
is number four in the corridor on the ground floor.
and on the left-hand side looking to the south
quadrangle Of the prison. ~
Stokes went quietly to the new cell provided for
him In his usual gentlemanly manpe,, and said,
"well. believe have to change my quarters this
tire :: :ssther, GEN." small rosewood table
destitute Of all furniture but mock bed. There
doubt be remedied to-day, as there is no desire in
the prison officials either to starve him out or
the Tambs sna no
ries that he may desire Stokes on meeting tic
greeted him warmly, although ne Gould only give
him two fingers through the bars OF the iron wicket
v well ven Ed' am sorry to see you here. HOW 90
spirits, but was not at all boister0us in his man
ner He was dressed In yachting jacket and
sTokEs-weli, I feel better than Beach or Fuller.
ton, am sure. They have locked me up here, but
they have not been able to deprive me OF the heart
In my breast Although they have deprived me OF
my liberty they have not deprived me Of my feeling
RkPoRTER-well, Ed, 1 want to ask you what you
think OF the verdict OF the jury. You did not ex-
pect such a verdict, did your
= STokEs-Why, am SIMPLY astonished at the YER
dlct. expected nom the jury an entire acquitta
It was the severest shock ever received in nv life
never dreamed OF such verdict. could not I'M
derstand how the jury could give such a verdict
REPORTER-What cause do you assign for the
sudden change In the Jury after the new evidence
Oorley ana others IN regard to the finding OF q
second pistol
sToKEs-A malicious and false report has been
started that have said that the jury were bribed
said no such thing at any time or to any person.
u Is mere SANDER, like all the other SANDERS In
this case. But it is wel.known fact that they all
declared, when they were sworn in as Jurors, that
they had each and all an opinion, and that they
would be able TO give verdict on the evidence.
The fact Is that they could not do anything oil the
kind, and they did not give verdict on the evil
dence. They brought IN conviction on false tes-
timony, injected into the case by the ingenious
lawyers for the prosecution. 1t was oil as false as
REPoRTER--Do you refer to any particular wit
SUCCESSFULLY must refer to Thomas Hart in
particular. Now, look here; Hart says and swears
fred the two shots DIR. Marsh proved incon-
ttestably tnat the ball entered the right side OF
Fisk and passed into the lett part Of the abdomen.
Mind you, Fisk Is coming uD the stairs and am at
the north side according to Thomas Hart. II so,
how could ball enter the right side Of Fisk,
lower part of his body. Why, any reasonable man
Will tell you that 1t Is impossible The position OF
Fisk, as described, and the posture Of myself sworn
to by Thomas Hart render such shot impossible.
never was at the north side of the stairs. 1t was
from the sOuth side that the shot was fired during
this conversation Stokes Illustrated the action as
II he had been firing. He swere falsely, that
man Hart, and he knows 1t, too.
REPoRTER-What OF the other witnesses?
SToKEs-Just look at the manner in which the
prosecution treated Miss Jenny Turner They
asked her all sorts of degrading questions. They
saloon, and the fact was the poor girl had never
been inside Of concert saloon since She born;
mitted theft from the Morse's, THAT as a shame.
Mrs. Morse dare not prove any such thing.
REPDRTER-Was she corrObOrated by any one
SToKEs-Why, certainly she was. Did not Charles
X. Hill corroborate her and Henry de COrey and
itsefS One Of the witnesses for the prosecution
tells tel false story mean the man named Curtis
He sWea a that he was on the third floor when he
swears that he left the third moor and
came down to the second floor and went below all
where Fisk was shot. All this was done In q
crowded hotel-one OF the most crowded and pub
Fisk, with other persons, up the stairs slowly
mind, he swears slowly. When he had assisted
was no man or woman on the corridor or on the
stairs: How is i possible that there was
know. Is 1t possible that at this time IN q crowded
hotel, and gltests transient and PERMANENT going
to and fro, that ne should be the only person to
sistent with truth on the lace of lts Does not
Jenny Turner swear that there were as many as
when Fisk was assisted up to the head
Of the staircase That Is the kind of testimony
that God Almighty WIN justify and bring the truth
out yet. Do you think that any one but an idiot
would believe that man could, on hearing the
s during al that timer AM, And Mr.. Beach
saw Jenny Turner at the top Of the ne stairs where
she was certainly standing. and Of course Mr.:
Curtis says NO." at once. Mr.. Powers, too, and
u nEnff tah av VII thA al
Each OF these two men, 1t seems, found a pistol,
and they can't tell anything else. wonder which
S Both them ind really unS sas pistol ms Ss fa 4s ss
that the defence had suborned Miss Turner as a
false witness to give false testimony Now you are
pretty well acquainted with this case, and Won
know of your own knowledge that did not know
a aSUa ST anssnhng fSSe s
assssa MY fs' ra6s aha shove y yoa
If that letter was not brought to me In the
Tombs, In the consultation room, and given to me.
This letter told me where Miss Turner was at
time when the poor girl was keeping out OF the
way to AVOID being locked up in the dismal House
OF Detention. This is copy Of the letter; read it.
letter, the original OF which this writer certainly
saw delivered by reporter to Stokes In the TOmbs
oce this c ana the
OF the yellow envelope In which IL was enclosed
had been broken by the person to whom it had
been addressed Inc letter ls as IolloWs:-
LEE, Mass. date torn ofD.
To- T-sf .as.Ste.ss.gy srr,,.... g.,
DEAR sIR-There is stopping at our place one Jenny
Turner She Is an important witness in the stokes
Fisks friends have intinidated her from coming New
York II you desire further information will give ii
you. j. =. MOORE, Deputy Sheriff
STOKES (continuing)-You know that received
that letter and that knew nothing about the
young girl at the time or her whereabouts. There
was another witness who came on the stand. !
refer to Captain Byrnes. He went on the stand
and tried to contradict De Corley the parlor
a
witness for the prosecution on the nrst
trial. and when my pistol was handed to
De Corley by the District Attorney he positively
swore that my pistol was not the pistol handed to
him by Miss Grace Hail. Now, mind you he never
came on the stand during the FIRST trial to contra
TEL and Mr. Crockett one OF the clerks, both swear
that they each handed the pistol to Captain Byrnes
Now, the question would like to ask Is, Which OF
these gentlemen handed the pistol to Captain
Byrnes. One Of them must have sworn falsely.
Captain Byrnes went to De Corey and got rom