Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-10

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STOKES FOUND GUILTY OF
MURDER
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STOKES WILL ASK FOR A NEW
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SLEET STORM IN NEW YORK.
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STREETS IMPASSABLE AND THE
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THE OLDEST INHABITANT.
FIRE ALARMS DESTROYED AMI
81. BUSINESS SUSPENDED. '-e@
STOKES SENTENCED.
TO BE HUNG FEBRUARY. 2aTH.

| NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-StOkes has been
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. His sentence has been deferred
until Monday. -.-'. .-}tt
| This afternoon five convicts. three
women and two men, attempted to es-
cape from Wards Island in a small
boat, but the boat became unmanage-
BILE in the ice and capsized. Two of
the women, Henrietta Smith and
another, whose name is unknown, were
drowned. The others were rescued
and taken back to prison
| NEW YORK, Jan. 6-NOon. Stokes
counsel have determined to take a bill
of exceptions, and steps will be taken
at once to obtain stay-prOceedings and
obtain new trial. Stokes is to be
sentenced to-day, when he will be
| placed in the murderers row in the
! TOOmbs. .
Shortly after 10 o'clock a. IN. yesterday
rain storm commenced, which soon
! turned to slnet, and continued until
i late III the afternoon. Everything be-
came frlnged with icicles. No such
/ spectacle has been witnessed for Il
number of Years The trees were cased
| III ice and locomotion on the side
walks became almost impossible, and
| throughout the day the streets looked
deserted. About 30 p. III. telegraph
communication with points outside of
; the city was stopped. The ice which
froze to the wires broke them down.
The police and fire telegraphs through
! out the city were dest1 Dyed, and the
! wires and poles are now falling in the
streets and sidewalks. The whole of
! New York became isolated, so far
as communication with the outside
world was concerned. 1t will cost
$3.50, 900 to repair the fire alarm and
police wires, and the work cannot be
completed for some time. In the meall-
| time extraordinary measures have been
! taken to insure prompt transmissions
! of fire alarms or other emergencies.
Mounted patrolmen are kept at the
station houses, and the police and fire
men are to work amicahlv together in
j case of emergency.
No dispatches were received here
yesterday either from the West or
East. There never was SO complete a
wreck of telegraph wires in this city,
not even during the July riots of ten
years ago. Great damage was done to
the trees by the breaking OF limbs
from the great weight OF ice
At 10 o'clock last night the high
wind increased to /; gale from the
Southwest, clearing off the dense fog,
and this morning is bright with fall
ing thermometer
All the streets i'll low situations in
this city, Brooklyn, Jersey City, VII
liamsburg, Hoboken and other places
are badly flooded.
LATER.
New YORK, Jan. S-Nigllt-Aftern no.
, tice of exception to the Judges rulings,
Stokes was asked what he had to say
why sentence of death should not be
passed upon him. Stokes, i'll reply,
said that he had not Intentionally VIC
lated any law, and that the testimony
upon which he was convicted was
manufactured and perjured.
The Judge then, in feeling address,
in which he alluded to the prisoners
youth and social surroundings, sen-
fenced the prisoner to be hanged on
Friday, the 18th day of February next,
that being the shortest % time that
could he legally allowed the murderer.