The sun., 1878-06-11

they hit Ho made a strong argument. at least
"a strong as the point admitted. but Prosecutor
jenkins seemed to think 1t not worth while to
spend much time in answering; g;,-,
How absurd, he epigrammaticalyb began his
argument. " II man IL struck here and dies
in Philadelphia his assaiant. under such con-
struction. cssccnpes punishment"
SO Judge Woodhull thought. for when Prose
cutor jenkins sat down he quietly said, us If tho
mutter was trivial:
IThc motion to 1uash is oyrrrulcd.",
Subject TO exception" said Counsellor Robe
son. and with bow of courtesy to the Judge
"Csrtginly.' replied Judge Woodruff.
Bafllcl in trying TO trip the State at the
threshold Of the trial. the counsel and Hunter
quietly began To make preparations for what
Every Juror who was supposed to be friendly
70 the sheriff. the Prosecutor. or in any way
| likclyto hc pnconsriously prrjudiced against
Hunter stood no chance of scrvingon that jury.
hluck line was checked against his name on
the list Col scoyr who knows everybody in
| Camden. was bound to see to IT that the jury
would start unbiased and he stood with his foot
| in chair. and sheets Of paper in his hand
ready for the Jury as they stepped up to be cX-
~" DID the sheriff ever employ you?" he asked
ono m Imosii
Tint man was sworn but whom tho next said
| that he livcd in the same ward that tho Sheriff
/ lN's IN. he was challenged.
! Juror. look on the prisoner; prisoner, look
ON the Juror, the court cricr, said. as each, ono
| came to the desk. aud when Hunter threw back
! ms mead and nN,d MS eye on the man who
| with olhers. held his life in his honds. ono
| would have thought the Juror was the culprit
! Ih"n Hunter would turn his eyes. without
! moving his head. toward his counsel. There
was some meaning in the look. and the counsel
| understood i. After the juror was accepted or
challenged Hunter t1lkrd with his counsel until
! the next one WIS called.
| hugc, Intelligent seeming negro was on tho
panel. H. looked very solemn when he was
| accepted and kissed the book. but he was the
o,, rrno, W. M LweiUt MO 5000 H,or, nmhdrr
/ ra~sWrnt.
Tho twelve were chosen within nm hour. They
HIHNs Inc lat..
them. and u bald. gray-bcardcd man. beside n
youth who has cast only one vote. Two OF them
as i they had come in from their oyster boats
t0 the court. All of them looked very solemn IA
| Prosecutor jenkins, standing before them so
That his finger almost reached the negro face rs
he Gc-ticuated began his opening plea. 1t
was plca only in name. II was simply the un-
rhetoric. excepting whom once he turned To
Hunter, who look, ~ steadily nj him. and spoke
OF the dreadful villniny which this once h. onor-
ed defendant would he believed be proven
Thomas Grahqm.,' he said in opening " n
married man and father. has confessed that
he WIS hired 10y BENJAMIN Hunter TO bring
John VI. Armstrong to New Jersey and then Kill
The low tone in which this was said was heari
everywhere in the room. Hunters eyes were
nut his forenngcr to his temple and closed his
eyes. Counsellor Robeson wound n piece OF
red tame tightly around his foreingcr;
But this confession. continued the Prose-
cutor. " il only the prologue to this awful viii
lainy The plot. the schemes. and the motive
will he made so clear that you must believe even
against your will Every important statement
in this confession Will be- corrOboraied. The
nrwspapers have hintcd ut some OF these cor
rohoratve proofs. hut only nj a part"
Here Hunter leaned forward and hraced his
chin On his hand. AMI there was no arting about
his manner then. A. the Prosecutor went on
and told the story of the murder, which he was
t. prove; how Hunter tempted cunningy by
/ strike the blow: how he had for months
iail MS lniernm schemes; how ht