New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-22
sumed business. His Indebtedness is said to be
about $4,000, and his assets are nominally worth
more
G0ODE GETS TWENTY YEARS.
PUNISHED FOR AssAULTING MR.. CHURCH.
TIE PRISONER ON THE WITNESS sTAND-HIs VISITS
TO TIE COOPER Union

TIE PRISONER ON THE WITNESS sTAND-HIs vIsIr
TO THE COOPER UNION.
| A crowd of spectators waited half-hOur yester
day morning in the Court of General Sessions fol
the arrival ul Recorder Smyth to preside at the sec
! ond days session of the trial of the butchercart
| thief whose first name is Edward and whose last
| name is GOode Gearing or Morris, according to
circumstances. The prisoner was called TO the wit
ness stand. He is short in stature has red whiskers
| and shaVen chin. His eyes are weak and uncer-
| tain in their gaze, and he turned nervously from
| When asked his name he said Edward Gearing"
as II utterng challenge. He testified that Inc had
Twenty-irst and Twenty-second SITS, but he could
not tell the number On the day OF the robDeTy, nc
went, he SAID, to the house of his brother, Washing
ton Gearing and remained there from ABOUT ~
o'clock in the morning till about l p.m nearly an
hour before the robbery After walking snort dis
lance with his brother he went 10 the cooper Union
where he read the magazines for few hours, and
then took dinner at restaurant and returned to
=" Are, yoq in the habit of going to the Cooper
Union 7" asked the counsel.
ayes, frequently go there to read" said the wit
ness.
In answer 20 a question ny his counsel Goode said
he did not drive the butcheT-cart, and was in no
way concerned in the Church robbery. He achnOw-
lodged having at one time known Farrell, who was
sentenced 10 hlteen years imprisonment Tor the
same offence, but grew indignant when asked
whether he knew TitterngtOn, who gave evidence
against his companions.
"No, never saw him before went to the Police
Court" he said, what he says is all bosh. Not a
word OF it is true. Its all pack of lies"
Assistant District-AttOrney Adams. What is your
buSncssl
The wtnCss-Tm q specula.or.
Mr.. Adams Where do you speculate1
The witness-Oh, at all the Brighton Beach,
Jerome Park. sheepshead Bay. / make IL my business
to bet on the races ] attend the every day
Mr.. Adams-How did you come TO have many
names7
The witness-Oh they throwed the name of GOode on
me- My name is Gearing but had half-brOther
named GOOde once, they that name. didn't
want ii, as had another that good enough called
myself Morris when was arrested because did not
want my name known.
Mrs. Josephine Gearing, the prisoners sister-in-
law, corT0bOrated his testimony to his actions
the day of the robbery before 1 o'clock and after
appeals to the jury BY w. f. Knitting the prisoners
counsel, and Mr.. Adams, Recorder Sinyth charged
the jury, stating that the Only real question dis
pute was whether the prisoner was the man who
drove the butcher cart and SO assisted in the rob-
berry. The jury took about fifteen minutes to decide
that question, bringing IN "a verdict of guilty.
recorder Smyth said that in view of the enormitv
of the offence mitigation of the extreme penalty
could be given An elderly man had been attacked |
and struck with piece of lead pipe, and il evi
dent that the robbers would have been willing to |
kill their victim if necessary to their escape. He |
then sentenced GOOde to twenty years imprisonment |
lt hard labor III the State Prison. The prisoner re-
;eyed the sentence without comment