Year: 1876

There has been no trial in the Court Of Oyer and
Termner for time that has excited so much inter
est and more particularly among sporting men, than
that Of Michael Fnne indicted for the alleged murder
Of Ned 0Baldwin, the Irish Giant Judge Barrett,
District Attorney Phelps and Assistant District Attor
ney Lyons who conducted the prosecution; Mt William
F. Howe and Colonel Charles s. Spencer the prisoners
COUNSEL the prisoner his wife and three children and
large and xious crowd remained in the
until nearly three O'Clock yesterday morning waiting
for the verdict The jury were anxious to be dis
charged the ground OF inability TO agree; but the


fact being ascertaned that only stood for convic


ton and eleven for acquital Judge Barrett refused to
discharge them and locked them for the OF the
night meantime remanding the prisoner TO the Tombs


On the opening OF the Court at hafpast ten O'Clock
yesterday morning Judge Barrett promptly took his
seat on the bench The court room was already
crowded In the prisoners wife, their


three children and his mother The prisoner occupied
his usual by his counsel Very the jury hled
into their seats amid breathless silence in the court
room Every eye turned upon the foreman
Mr.. Sparks, the Clerk asked the usual question,
Have you agreed upon a verdict" When the FORE
man uttered In response 'Not guilty. the prisoner
for their efforts his behalf The jury also came for
ward and shook hands with him, thereby inensfying
their Endorsement OF his innocence. The prisoners
wife, children and mother crowded their way up TO him
and seemed, If anything to be happier at the result
than the prisoner himself


When quiet was rest ored Mr. Howe moved the pris
oner's discharge Judge Barrett addressing the pris
who still standing told nlm tnat he regarded
the verdict just rendered as great triumph Of law
disordera verdict equally beneficial TO the
munty with that rendered the day previous against
Ling the reckless Of the knife The people had
been told through their verdict that the lawess ruan
and the brutal prize fighter who, without provocatlon
using his demorazed skill the strength that God
had given him Tor nobler purpose attacks the weak
and nohensive must take the consequences OF his
vicious acts He. could not sufficiently repre-
hend the Of the knife the pistol
or indeed, the carrying Of any concealed
weapon but in this case the jury had found
facfo ab ha
that the deceased rufan at the time OF receiving his
death wound had imperilled his life If he had been
placed in the same circumstances himself he had
doubt but that he should have acted in the same way
He therefore granted the motion of his counsel
ordered his discharge but he trusted that the recoec
tion of this trial would be warning him and others
that justice time would surely overtake and punish
the lawless and evil doer.


Finnel thanked the Court for the impartial manner
in which the trial had been conducted, and again
thanked the counsel and the jury and then with his
wife and little ones, left the court room free and
happy man.


MORGAN JONES PLUMBING BILL,


The suit of Morgan Jones' ex-member OF Congress
to recover So, 143 IL from the city payment for
plumbers work done under the Tweed regime, is still
hanging fire in the courts. When Mr. Tweed ceased to
be Commissioner of Public Works this bill unpaid.
The opposition TO its payment that the work
not done according to the contract Mr. Jones was
uuired to produce certificate showing that the work
proving that the work done, his complaint
dismissed he then applied for mandamus direct
ing Commissioner Van Mort to furnish him
the required certificate. Before a decision was
gwen Mr.. Van Mort out OF office and Fitz John
Porter became Commissioner of Public Works Appli-
cation then made TO have a similar mandamus
against the latter but while this application pend
ing the Hwhirhgig OF time rotated Ftz John Porter
out OF Office, and Mr. Allan Campbell the present Com
missioner, became his BY consent of both
parties yesterday Judge Lawrence, in Supreme Court
Chambers denied the motion. IL Is evident that Mr.
MOrQan Jones commenced