The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1876-11-08
THE SLAYER or JIM FISK.
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ta a 81. L0nis Tunes.
The history Of Edward ). Stokes, the
man who killed jim Fisk, will bear study,
ifit does not point moral or adorn
tale" On last Saturday morning ut )
o'clock hc Completed ais three years, Term
of imprisonment. and walked forth from
Auburn, n. Y state prison free man
once iDnrc. And notwithstanding the fact
that The expenses Of his three TRIALS for
murder. lawyers fees and other items, in
Guiding bis iiHHl verdict. have amounted IN
1--WE years. tooyer $500, 600, Stokes will
come out Of prison = comparatively wealthy
man. his oil refining works at Hunter
Point. which have been taken care Of BY
his mother, being very valuable property.
II is also said that be has speculated since
be has been in prison, and is the owner Of
very valuable patent for paving streets !,
which he purchased from a convict shile
IN Sing Sing.
But Sto';cs has learned that severe old
lesson: The way Of the transgressor >
hard, lie is no longer the S-iisant
broadway elegant, who i've years agu paid
81, 00O u year to his tailor to keep him at
tired in the latest fashions Of tile day. His
incarceration seems 10 have been no gala
day with him. lie said to New York
Herald correspondent few days ago. in
response to aquestion as to how lie felt:
Well. Mr. -, | don't feel well at all. !
thought | was pretty night gane. For four
weeks Iwoula die, and have suffered terri
bly, since came here. tell you i thought
| would never leave this hospital. You do
hot know what persecution | have suffer-
cd since ] left Sing Sing. fhink Of the
cruelty d fsending me nearly three hundred
miles fr"m Sing Sing to this place. with
my hands and feet IN irons. Then have
been kept on bread aud water, aud have
not even been allowed prison fare. as bad
as that is. do not wish Il 6nd fault with
Warden Durstnn: il was the state prison
inspectors Clark and crowley. tlIa, order
ei it, | mn little better out sometimes
| bnve intermittent fever and am all flush-
ed now from it. and the asthma hurts me.
You do not know how have suffered. |
assure You will bear up until the day
comes for my release as we'll as | can. if
they don't kill me before the 2Sih OF De.
tober. My letters have been interdicted
aud intercepted. have not been allowed
to see any one since came here's
Mifortunes IN multitudes have visited
Stokes since the fatal day when Fisk fell
al the foot Of the Grand Central stair case.
Ills brother Clinton died of consumption,
and bis father died year age. worried to
death by grief for his sons disgace. His
wife has procured a divorce. and he has an
accomplished daughter eighteen years old
wao has forsaken him. lie seems 10 have
no friends left him at the end 81 his term,
save his mother. who has stood by her un-
fortunate son with unfaihng aeyctiob and
fidelity throughout his terrible ordeal. She
alone hovers like guardian augel around
the prisoner, though he is blightcd and
fallen.
Around the dear ruin each wish of
II. heart s
Will entwinc itself ycrdantly STILL
At the age Of thirty-eight be is broken
and shattered in health. emaciated. irritable
with stopped figure aud hair prematurely
gray.
Stokes expresses his intention TO go to
Europe for short tune upon his release
from prison. But tnis cup Of bitterness
will scarcely depart entirely flom him.
Wherever he may roam he will behold a
thousand multiplied limoges Of his crime
AM is consequences, reflected frvm mir
rOr Of bis own memory.
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