The Jersey City news., 1892-06-16

stone, and disgraced daughter, and think
of your own pure wives and unpoliuted
beds, and say whether Arthur Stocker
should be killed. Forbid it, forbid i'll?
After some further remarks in this
strain. the eloquent speaker said the
Prosecutor had announced he would ask
for verdict of murder in the first de-
gree, and then he defined this crime From
that he began disseoiing the testimony,
beginning with that of the mother OF
Kate Stocker, Mrs. Tierney and with Que
of his outbursts of eloquence he Gald:-
81 firmly believs that no man in this
jury box believed Mrs. Tierney when she
said Arthur Stocker had repeatedly
threatened to kill his wife. While on the
witness stand she had been fiippant ana
acted as If she considered the whole affair
ghostlY joke" Reviewing her evidence
as to threats, ex-Judge Hoffman said,
Look at this threat Mrs. Tierney says
Stocker made to his wife: Katie If you
don't live with me You shall not live with
any other man, I'll end your life,' and
that for three months Stocker threatened
her life once week.
A HUSBANDS RIGHT.
Listen, gentlemen, INV wife shall not
live with another man. What would
you say? You would say hands off my
wife, hands off; she is mine by the law of
God and mine, she is mine ana mine
alone; hands off | say, and il that is not
SO lhen Isay God help The Commonwealth
of New jersey"
Great applause in the Court room.)
Judge Werts sternly said that il the
applause or any demonstration was again
| made he would clear the gallery, aud if
necessary the Court room. When the
confusion had subsided, eX-Judge Hof-
man continued.
"If man in your house, gentlemen
threatened for three months to take the
life of your daus hter, what would you do?
L.
your house No Jury that has ever
heard case since the Constitution of this
State was adopteI, would ever hang adog
son such evidence as that. Where was
| Iillie, the child sister, all this timer Why
was she not placed on the stand? The
| unnatural mother who saw her daughter
| embraced by a lewd man, testified;
| the sister, who saloonkeepers refused
| to admit to their places. testified;
| but why did not Tillie? / will tell you.
| This unnatural mother and disgraced Sis
! ter could come here and testify falsely,
| for they could be no more digraced. But
| Tillie is pure. She has retained her virtue
| in this home of horrors, and she could not
| be brought TO testify falsely. That is why
| she, who saw all, was not asked to tes-
| tHY."
THOSE CARTRIDGES.
In regard to Richard Whites evidence
| the speaker discrediUed his story. and
asked why with his detectives the Jersey
| City and Hoboken police at his command
| he had not found out where Stocker
| bought the cartridges which White sal
| said Stocker said he had bought that
morning.
VILE wRETCHEs.
| "In regard to John Dunne-and feel
| like taking glass of water and rinsing
4 my mouth each time | am forced to men
| tion his name or that of the fellow Brem-
! ner-when he took refuge IN the store
| where he took shelter ike coward that
| he was, he said Stocker chased him, but
Stocker said he had no recollection
| of doing SO. Stocker then was insane,
| and if he was insane for but five minutes
/ he was Just as insane as il he mad been SO
for fifty years.
Think, gentlemen, of what your con-
| dition of mind would be If while walk
should point his finger at your
| wife and say, know his wife. or think
| of your Child hearing some other loaIer
| saying know that child, her mother is
hariot, what would be your condition OF
| mind under such circumstances, and
these were what Stocker heard"
Referring to the picture of Mrs.
| Stocker. Mamie Tierney, Arthur U'Neill
| and Foley had taken together at CoaeY
| Island, and the letter which Mrs. Stocler
| had written making an assignation with
q man, the speaker exclaimed:
Great God, gentlemen, what would
any husband do under these
circumstances. The depth of de-
| pravty in this case is unfathomable
and this fippant sister on the witness
| stand laughed and her unnatural mother
| treated it as joke. Shame on the sister,
| shame on the mother
| WHY NOT?
| "Why did not these men Dunno and
| Bremner go home that morning after the
ball? Why did BremDer take home a
| virtuous daughter to virGuous mother
| and eturn to the lewd daughter and un-
natural mother? it was time then for
honest men and honest women to
| be in bed and what would you
| think if these had been your wife and
daughters. 1t is clear to you that the
| story of Mrs. Tierney is lie about all re-
| naming in the dining room from six A.
| out leaving it. When these women
came home what did they do.
| They entered and removed their
| dresses for loose wrappers, There is more
| in that gentleman than you think. Those
! wrappers were not for comfort, but for
convenience, and no one knows it better
| than that mother who partly shielded the
| bedroom door all the time"
| After recitinG tho events of the morn
! ing the speaker said: This mothers own
| evidence proves that she knew of tae
! guilty conduct Of Mrs. Stocker. for when
| hand after Mary, who - fled into
| the alley, Mrs. 1ferney cried
| out, she swears, Arthur don't shoot,
| that's Mamie That mother knew what
| Stocker wanted to shoot, and she knew
| that Stocker knew of the guilty conduct
| of his wife ana Bremuer."
In closing eX-Judge Hoffman entreated
| the jury with great eloquence to acquiJ
! Stocker. The speech lasted one hour.
WINFTETD MERHT EC0