New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-24
sTOKEs's FEAR OF FISK.
CONTINUATION or TIE DEFESSR-TT DEATH
EIsK A1TRlHI,rEn TO MOKEuEEE.

CONTINUATION or TIE DEFESSE-THE DEATH on
FISK ATTRIBUTED To MORPuENE.
Another dull day in the Stokes trial is to be
chronicod The same crowd surEed around the doors
and endeavored to pass the bar, which lifted 10 only
few lucky individuals. The first witness Rufus L.
Andrews who resumed his testimony given few days
ago. lie described the nervous and eXctable condition
of the prisoner for weeke prior TO the homicide
The witness a lawyer considered the prisoners con
duct very irrational and il produced impression
his mind that the prisoner not sane man. Stokes
insisted that Seward Buckley, Fullerton, and other law
yers had sold him out in the interest OF Fisk.
j. NJ Datur was recalled to mention remark he once
heard Stokes make in the Hoffman House, when ques-
toned about his troubles with FISK said he " have
doubt Of the result only fear Is that Fsk
Of his gang may shoot me-"
Jenny Turner next called; she was The young
waiting maid OF the Morse family, and the sprighty,
pert testimony she gave the other trial is familiar 10
many. She stated that few minutes before the shooting
she down the second floor TO look for brace
Let which Miss Morse had lost the prisoner came along
the hall and looked into parlor No. 2o passed on came
back and looked into the paror again then passed to
the end Of the hall, and going down the private
stairs; Henry, the parlor the Witness but
Thomas Hart was IN the hall; the witness
around by the elevator and spoke Thomas Hart
had globe in his hand; then there the report OF
ladies' stairs and Stokes back looking very pale.
and cried out twice, where's the dOctori or Get
out, Stop That man. The croSs-examination was
painful account OF the tears OF the witness caused by
question as TO her past. From her story IL appears
that she married 10 VIM. Chase and lived with him
in Middletown, y. ", until November, 1871 when he
abandoned her. She went TO service with the Morse
family, and lives In Lee, Mass. in her testimony
she Contradicts the washer-wOman Adelne Barker,
who swOre 10 Overhearng Fisk threaten TO kill Stokes
with his little rascal pistO The old woman testified
that the room Of the Morses looked like paror and
had two beds and piano III H. Jenny Turner testified
that their paror had no beds III IT, and that heir bed
room had no piano in it,
NV f. g. Shanks gave testimony In regard 70 stOkess
fear OF Fisk. On occasion Stokes went 10 him
about affidavit which clerk I'm Pinest. had made.
They went down 10 Pnest. ana the Stokes
called his companions attention 10 two men, who he
said were OF Tommy Iynch's gang in the pay Of Fisk
Fisk, he said. had set price his head, and mad
offered $500 for his life The witness did not see the
men, but when they got to f1nest stokes again pointed
Them Out, ana asked nun 10 notice whether they were
| following him. The witness and Stokes walked 10
broadway and turned, but stopped at the
them, and one nndeed the other as they passed
| and then stopped. The witness and Stokes
past them and went by men again. aad when he and
Stokes turned to down broadway the men again fol
ADVISED him 10 get into stage he refused. ana waited
for carriage. averrng "a reason his Fears Mr. shanks
then trying to get hold Of the letters which Judge
Brady had tied up by injunction TIKI TRIBUNE was then
/ IN earnest hight with the Erie Ring and he Under
stood that these letters revealed matters damag
ing to the Ping. He nfterward learned that they were
mere vulgar letters from Fisk Miss Mansfield and
ceased MS pursuit He ascertained their character from
DR.. VIM II. Thompson. Professor OF Matena MediCa
in the University. examined in regard the treat
meu OF Col FISK by the doctors after was shot and
said the fact of Fsks making will hours after the
shooting would show that the shock by tho shoot
ing not severe; he described the effects OF
morphine aud the characteristics OF poisoning by that
drug; he said that In his opinion Fisk died Of the effects
Of tue drugs administered; slight pertOns would have
no efcct IN such After recess DR.. Carnochan
was recalled and gave careful statement OF the SWIM.
toms OF shock He stated positively
ton that the death OF Fisk caused by morphine and
not by the wound and when pressed by Mr. Phelps 10
say whether the wound contributed to the result he
said possibly But" urged his questioner twas IL
pr0babler This the doctor would answer but only
repeated: II wac contingency only The Court Nd.
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