New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-09

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Kelly our Distrct-Attorney. will do his duty?
An outsider may 20 to the Grand Jury but wnere
IS the fairly drawn jury to be found, with County
Clerk Reilly. Sheriff Harrington and County
Judge Griffith i'm charge? We going TO have
a vigilance committee appointed to go to the
Governor ana ask him for an extra term OF oyer
and Termirer Court. with Judge TO hold it
whom the people can trust. We will go to the
Acknowledgement and ask him TO help Us. and
Reilly will do his duty FOR il he does not he VIII
be removed
\ COMMITTEE OF SAFETY APPOINTED.
Norman f. Squires took the platform and
moved that the chair appoint committee to ar
range for permanent committee OF one
hundred. to be termed. "a Committee Of
Safety" The motion prevailed and a committee
was appointed composed of many of Troy's rep
rresentative citizens \ meeting of this COM
mittee will be held Saturday afternoon, at
o'clock
The speakers were frequently Interrupted with
storms of approval, and the enthusiasm of those
present broke forth times innumerabe. The res
olutions read at the beginning Of the meeting
were adopted unanimously. In the course Of
sthe meeting the chairman urged the audience
ito subscribe to a fund for furthering prosecu-
lions and said subscription Of $1,000 had
>aiready been made Following upon the dis
posal of these matters came addresses from
Mayor Greene. of Binghamton. and General
Stewart l.. Woodford of Brooklyn.
GENERAL OF THE MURDERED WATCHER.
Tp-morrow will be a day Of mourning here in
Troy. for then will occur the funeral Of Robert
Ross. who was brutaly assassinated because he
6ared to stand between the ballot-box and gang
of bloodthirsty Democratic repeaters. Flags will
-..bc at half-mast many buildings. places of
business will be closed, and members of the
various societies of which young Ross was
'member will escort the body to the grave 1t Is
expected that several hundred men Will be in line.
The body will lie in state in the lakewood Avenue
Church for several hours. guarded by squad of
the same police who did absolutely nothing on
Election Day to protect the lives Of the aw-abid-
ing of this city against the thugs and
heelers employed by the Murphy Molloy men.
The man who struck Hayner is the man who
killed Ross" Those were the words spoken with
earnestness this morning by o. c. Lansing a
resident of the Thirteenth Ward. who says he
was a witness Of the cowardy and brutal muir
der. A reporter interviewed Mr.. Lansing this
morning Mr. Lansing says that he had voted
earlier in the day and had come back to the
polls. At the time Of the beginning of the ARRAY
Mr. Lansing was standing in front of the polling
place in the crowd and he says he obtained a
clear view of what going ON. "A man came
out of the polling place and struck a man in the
face. knocking him to the ground. That was the
man who afterward shot Ross"
''Who was the man who was struck was
asked. WAS it Hayner?"
That's the name and the man Mr.. Lansing
said with confidence. II watched him all through
the fight that afterward occurred. from the poll
ing-pace to the locality where the tragedy oc-
Cured"
AN EYEWITNESS DESCRIBES THE MURDER
when the crowd went along struggling and
fghting 1 followed after. l man on the
ground in a half-kneeling posture. At that
time the riff-raff and scum the repeaters. were
running away. This fellow who had struck
Hayner and whom l had observed taking a
prominent part in the trouble. turned about as
he ran and looked over his shoulder Seeing he
not followed. he went back to where Ross
lying and stuck his revolver against his
neck at the back of his head, and pulled the trig
ger. As he did that couldn't believe that he
meant murder. l exclaimed. Good Cod II
that pistol is loaded there's dead man The
murderer ran away in the direction of Sixth
ave"
Did you know the mhrderers name?" was
asked.
"Do you know Shea"
"No. / could identify the man who shot Robert
Ross among thousand others. He had no
beard or moustache. l am positive about that
point l don't know whether he wore over
coat not. but if he did it was not a large
one. AS he toward me- before he had shot
Ross, obtained a view Of his face that will not
Ieave me AS he fled. after committing the
murder. he gave me another view"
MI. Lansing conscious Of the gravity OF
ms statements and says he is ready to swear
mat what he told is true Mr. Lansing is of the
,,rm Oh W. If. O. C. Lansing. scroll manufact-
urers. His positive declaration that the muir
derer had no beard mustache sweeps away
me absurd charges against Mr.. Boland who now
lies in Jail accused of the murder OF his friend
sad. struck Hayner, and he answers Mr.. Ian
sings description perfectly. Shea is still being
well entertained in the county Jail. having had
comfortable quarters assigned to him, while John
Boiand who by nearly every one is declared alb
solutely innocent still is locked in cell.
10 REACH THE MURDERER AND THE ONE
BEHIND HIM
Troy. like Gravesend long has suffered from
the crimes of politicians, and like Gravesend it
now may be relieved IF the one who most of
all. is responsible for them. The murder of Rob
Ross may result with Edward Murphy. ir,
did the defiance Of the law and the courts
result with John Y. McKane. over 100 earnest
citizens have banded together to see that
all OF those responsible for this murder whether
high or low. whether it is the man who fired the
fatal shot or the man in authority who stood
behind HIM az the chief director in the dOings,
shall be punished and punished severely. Funds
now have been subscribed to aid in carrying
the purpose One Of the first steps which will
be taken will be to ask Governor Flower as
sign Judge who can be depended upon. and in
whom the people have confidence, to conduct the
trial and to secure the appOn tment of attOr-
Hey to prosecute the case more thoroughly than
st is feared the present Distrct-Attorney OF the
County would. 1t is hoped by all fair-mnded
+ men that Governor Flower will come TO his |
senses, he finally did after the Gravesend out
RACES had been perpetrated. and take hand at |
seeing that justics is done here as II finally was
done in Kings County.
~. William Ross. the brother OF the murdered |
man. who was wounded at the time his brother |
was killed, is still in precarious condition His
physician, yet, has not dared to probe for the |
; bullet.
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