The Jersey City news., 1892-06-16

tones, as he faced the tro wded court room
aud gallery, which mad applaudei
Ex-Judge aoffman's eloquent ap-
that makes public opinion. Surety,
those men who have been applauding do
not make it. They are not the friends OF
order, justice and law, but are the friends
of disorder and Injustice when they ap-
plaud murderer. VINO are these ap-
plauders? Members of Odd Eel
who raise money and who pack
the court room with their clacquers.
ThaS is not public opinion" said the
Prosecutor in tones of disgust. He then
read number of extracts from law re-
ports and judicial decisions which had
bearing on the case aud afterward began
a review of the evidence in the case.
Referring TO the time that Stocker
came home from his work because it was
too cold to pursue his labors, the Prose-
cutor said:-''What did Mrs. Tier
ney do when he returned? Like a
rAfGhur, join us, take something
To drink. Those in the house then were
enLaged in such harmless amusement as
cOnversing, singing aud music, and later
indulging in the childish game of
Black Peter. There had been no trou-
mono before eleven o'clock. Up TO this
time there had not been a word of protest
offered by Stocker and he had laughed
when Dunno was Dlacked. But when
time passed and drinks increased, then
you see Stocker becoming morose,
the slevitish spirit that led him to
beat his wife on other occasions. DR..
Converse found bruises upon the woman
which plainly showed there had
been fight with fists, al
though Stocker has no recollection
oF rnlJ hNxr "
bruises and abrasions occur il no fight
had taken placer"
EVIDENCE DIssECTED.
"Now hear in mind. up to the time that
Stocker first fought with his wife there
had been no offence com nlitted by his wife,
no adultery had taken place. IL such
had been the case, the slaughter would
have begun then, and there would not
have been any fight with the fists. Now
once more concerning Du bic opinion. VINO
are they who make it? They say that
these men Ounne and Bremner)
Went to this house for a bad purpose
How do they know this? Do they judge
these men by themselves Are they OF
those who measure their oats by these
mems bushels?
Regarding the time that Stocker last
returned to his house, Bremner swears
that Srocker met him at the door and said
Come back and have q drink with me;
I'll send for some beer. / have not
treated today. Now, if he spoke as
Bremner swore he did, he certainly
could not have seen anything before to
heat his blood, although Stocker says he
left the house because he saw Bremner
on the bed in the room where his wife had
gone. Ii Stocker told the truth about
meeting Bremner and mis- wife
committing adultery, when he returned
and asked Bremner to take drink with
him, he acted like beast. But If. as his
counsel has eloquently said, as soon
as ne saw the guilty act he
piftol and came down again and shot his
sister-in-law aud then killed his wife, /
submit to the Court that there was pre-
meditation in the crime and the defendant
is guilty of murder in the first degree.
wHISKEY DID 1T.
SIT has been said that while the party
in his house were injurytng themselves
Stocker sat with his arms on his knees
| and his face buried in his
hands. 1t was not griet that
caused this. for no guilty condcct
had taken place. It was whiskey; he
| that led him. to give way TO his violent
passions and shoot Mamie, and that he
| did not kill her was no fault
of his. Then leaving her where she
till he followed his terrified aud fleeing
wife to No. 6l9 Zabriskie street, where he
klil6u her, duu altcE CudSiuss buhup "
the grocery he returned to his wife and
kissed her, saying, Katie you'll die
easy aud passing on. 1t was the
effect of the whiskey on his morose temper
that caused this crime, and not insanity.
There is no dispute ss to the facts in this
case, but the defence claims insanity as
an excuse. What a defencel This man
draws revolver and at that moment
God strikes him insane; when he ends his
victims life, he again becomes sane.
That kind of insanity is the uncontrolla-
BILE anger of the devil, and nothing else"
The Prosecutor made n careful resume
of the evidence, and told the jury it was
their duty to convict.