Arizona republican., 1898-03-18

onQlUS O1 d lTsdl III Iu0 SSu0Idl SoS- sions of New York was the cause of more comment among the lawyers and court attaches than probably any case that has ever come up in the big Sen ter street building. Walter Lamb, an Asiatic looking peddler of notions, was on trial for stabbing a restaurant keep CT, who had ordered the vender out of his place. The defense was hypno- tism. Lamb has an extraordinary countenance, and the superstitious say he has "the evil eye.' He told the jury that he could not remember the occurrences of the day in question, as "wise men, had been experimenting on him. Charles E. Fritschen, one of the jurors, seemed to be very much impressed by the story, and kept his eyes fixed intensely on the dark Ori- ental face of the prisoner. In the jury room he tainted, and when conscious ness was restored he had no recol
 lection of having heard the testimony.
 He could not remember even that he was juror in such a case, and Judge Cowan had to order a new trial. The i defendant, however, pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree, and the plea was accepted. Fritschen is try ing to recall what occurred.
 A new but unproftable industry has
 been started by boys in New Bruns- wick, N. J. Some one circulated the report that a musical string manufac- tory in the town was in need of cats
 out Of which to extract material for
 strings for violins, guitars and other
 musical instruments. The factory
 would pay 15 cents a cat, it was said
 Scores and scores of cats are being 1 brought to the factory every day, but as they are not wanted, the disgusted boys turn them loose on the premises to find their way to their old haunts
 as best they can. Wonderful tales of
 the feline instinct in this respect may be expected soon from all parts of Jersey.
 The mild weather hasn't started predictions about the Delaware peach
 crop or the strawberry output as yet,
 but Vermont is to the fore with cheer ing views of maple sugar. During | February more snow fell in the state than has been known for twenty years, but the spring warmth of the last
 week has melted it and the sap in the
 naples is beginning to flow copiously. The farmers were taken unawares, but are hastening preparations to make 1 lHc UISScSI CIOp Ol sugar dHQ SyI up
 ever produced in the state.
 The will of the late Amos R. Enc, of New York, makes bequests esti-
 mated at s20.000,000. Amos F. Enc, a 1 son, gets s1,25O,OOO besides one-sixth
 of the residue, after certain of the 1 legacies are paid Harry c. Enc. an
 other son; Mary Enc Pinchat, Antoin- cite Enc Wood, daughters. a million each: Florence c. and Mary P. Enc,
 granddaughters, s500,0OO each to be
 paid when they are twenty-five years i of age. The latter are daughters of
 John c. Enc, whose transactions with
 the money of the Second National bank of New York in 1884, cost his i father over S3.000,000. This son is to l get one-twelfth of the residue A num-
 Der of charitable institutions in the
 city are bequeathed s5,OOO each: Am herst college. $50 900: the chamber of
 commerce, S150.000 for the assistance
 of members and widows, with s100.000 1 additional if fund for the widows
 and orphans is created
 1 Never in the history of the criminal i courts of New York city has a jury i deliberated over a murder case as long i as the Koerner jury did over the fate
 of William J. Koerner, the young ar 1 tist tried for killing his sweetheart,
 Rose Alice Redgate. The jury en-
 tered court at 1:40 a. m. after being out f1fty-six hours, with verdict of
 guilty of murder in the second degree This carries with it imprisonment for l life. This was Koerner's second trial
 and it lasted four weeks. The cost of
 the trials has been nearly S50,0 ,000 and
 it is probable that the defense will ap-
 ply for a third, on the ground that one i of the jurors during the deliberations 1 in the jury room went out to telephone
 to his wife. The trial of Frederick G.
 Agens in Newark, N J., for man.
 slaughter, in causing the death of
 Caldwell Abeel, whom he struck for insulting women in a restaurant, re- suited in a verdict of acuuittal.