The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-28
EFFORTS TO SAVE M'KANE.
APPLICATIONS ron a sTAY NlDB
10 MANY JUSTICEG


| tio. ~ the Gravesrrd Eisetioa OReuess-
Ths Prosesutis. Cisssd - A. Ouisstes.
New York State was sprinkied With lawyers
Yesterday all hunting for q stay and q eertil-
cate OF reasonable doubt to keep John Y Nc
Kane out Of jail until the General Term and
the Court OF Appeals can pass on his eonvic-
ton. From Albany, Troy. Syracuse. oswsRo.
WATERFOWL. and other places came news that
| men representing Mr.. Frederick. McKane's
personal counsel. were on hand. haunting the
houses OF Supreme Court Justicca Wherever
| there was Justice there SEEM ed 10 be q law
yer armed with applications and pleas for a
stay.
It lie not known how many OF the Justices
| we're applied to. In some cases at least. Il Ia
said. the lawyers requested as q special favor
| from the justices they saw that the fact OF
| their visit and refusal to act should not be
| made known. II was feared that public
knowledge OF the refusal OF any great number
OF Judges would have bad effect on the jus
tees who hadn't been seen. 1t is known that
| an application was made to Justice NJ. I.
Wright at OsweRo. and that he wouldn't even
| listen to any argument. He told the lawyer
| that Mckane had been tried by an able and
| fair Justice. and that the case had been re-
viewed BIZ another able Justice. He thought
II would be both discourteous and improper
for him to interfere In any way. II 10 believed
| that an application was made to Justice Furs-
man in Troy. Notwithstanding the fact that
that Justice had asserted that McKsne's
conviction was just. and that no would not
interfere. 1t lie believed that applications were
made also to the three Justices who are sit
ting in General Term ut Albany and to jus
tics J. q. Nann ut Syracuse. as we'll rs to all
tho others who were called oil. They all, IL Is
said. took the same view OF the case that JUS
tlce Dykman Of White Plains and Justice
Wright o! OsweEo took.
Lawyer Backus and Col Edward C. James
were the only ones OF Mckane's counsel who
were left in Brooklyn Yesterday They had to
be there to defend M.Kans's Justice of the
Peace Kenneth +. Sutherland. who was on
trial for depressing" Mr. Gaynor's copyists
on the Saturday night before election. These
lawyers said they knew nothing at all Of the
efforts being made in Mckane's behalf
While the lawyers sped about the State. Nc
Kane sat In his room in tho Raymond street
Jail and read and re-rcad the decision Of JUS
tice Cullen refusing to grant him the certin-
cate OF reasonable doubt that would have gept
him out OF Sing Sing perhaps q year. He had
few callers during the day. His brother James
was the principal one. and his business was to
assist In winding ND the business affairs OF the
fallen Chief preparatory to the long sojourn in
prison. Nckane would sec no reporters. ana
his brother wouldn't talk about HIN. Justice
stay were oficiaiiy served on sherifY BUTT
,ns a., boS oei1cS IN p .ns m0sS 6 orm
sppllSasion to justiss Cullen for aI an order order
on the sheriff s to produce Ms Mex IN court as
would not Grant n but he granted A writ OF
recall, which ordered the Sheriff to keep No
nsaa a n witness in tbs case writ Of rscsii
the aH, 81 the a
IL shoniJ nor b.coms onspatixs nnti mcEsna
was sctuaiiy nsoded as q witness. This waste
time that ,bs
sicos dsci.ionI so' 'n' oiii'iA' 'op' VI '"''''-
IL ia eyident that McKane has plyen IN
.Sprt t on eor M out nt Of rd .isrs 10 ia
family. renuesupc them NOT to call on linn in
the haypGnd street a but t. Tai, S until he
he will breae down II he seea his family beiore
he goes. N'...'..,-,
Now that MckanS l. eon MI fer his part IN
,sppsrep5ly a Part OF the plan OF the defence to
lay the blame for everything on him and then
out yesterday In the trial Of Jps,iee snnhe o.,
iahn. Ater me prSseeuIion nsa got Ia ~ i,s
iinstruct the Jury 10 ac4uit on me GROUND that
Il a as N cKspa nst Spthsrinnd o dg5 ~
There was no evidence; he said that snther,,
Committed the copyists to Raymond street isii
aidnt. 10 Iaet; order them TO be tsLen 70 lail.
me iawyer shiu put perhaps Mchane ulo. Jus
tee cullen denied the LAWYERS request
u is my uhlikey thht usnce Sntnerihhus
trial Will be FINISHED today: when court
opened yesterday tol, lamp maue the opening
ADDRESS for tne prosecution. ne told OF the
arrest OF ar: Gayn ft men ana o. thsir com;
lnltment " Justice sutherland 10 RAYMOND
street lail as warrants anu uruhha Inc taSlng
o, testlmohy was !neh peguni l nc ieslmony
OF the WITNESSES az the morning session vas
almost xerDarim the evidence ev si, az the NC
name trial ,Ihere was one new witness IN the
AFTERNOON. Thomas Garaner Macy. the detee.
i've VINO was N cnarRe OF tne oatutdsy nlEht
sxpeatlon 70 oraEesend. nls aosence curing