The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1872~TRIPLE SHERT. STOKES. Further Interesting Details of the Shoot- ing and Death of Colonel Fisk. The Parlor Man’s Testimony---“No- body Helps Me! Nobody Protects Me!” -—_——— “YES, IT WAS STOKES.” The Finding of the Pistol—Diffi- culty of Identification. THE BLOODY GARMENTS IN COURT. Testimony of the Valet of the Deceased and Deep Sensation in Court. PIES SR Ee EEE ‘EENTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS. Yesterday was the tenth and hottest day of the trial of Edward 8, Stokes for the killing of James Fisk, Jr. ‘The Court of Oyer and Terminer, in which this case drags its dreary way, before Judge and jury, Was filled at half-past ten o'clock and auring the day. The heat being yery intense made the room feel like a sweat box to all the spectators enclosed within its four walis. THE JURORS IN COURT. The jurors were all present in their proper places, looking very hot and flustered, and the counsel on both sides came in one by one until they had all taken their seats. First of all came Mr. Beach, whom Mr. McKeon takes so much delight in badgering, and who was at one time counsel for Stokes, and is now believed ‘to be retained for the estate of Mrs. Fisk, on be- half of the prosecution. His assoclate, ex-Judge Fullerton, was also in court, dasisting the District Attorney, Mr. Garvin, in the case for the people. Directly fronting each witness who takes his seat on the stand these two lawyers are posted in a concave line. As each witness speaks or gives evidence he or she is watched by these two lawyers as a beagle watches the game which will soon enter his maw. Directly behind sits the District Attorney, whose huge form, enclosed in clerical black, is seen front- Ing the equally bulky form of ex-Attorney General fTremain, the heavy gun of the defence. Garvin has a slow, sententious and ponderous way about him, and his manner is that of a man who seeks to confine himself.solely to the killing of Fisk. THE LINE OF THE DEFENCE. The line of the defence is strongly posted behind BS very long table. First sits Tremain, at the ex- treme right, and aligned by him, in a row, are John | McKeon, the most flery, irrepressible, earnest and plucky Uttle counsel that an accused man can have ‘to argue for his life; next are the junior counsel for the defence—Daily, who resembles Theodore Thomas very much, and Townshend, who is espe- cially crammed with medical lore for cross-exami- nations. Behind this line sits an old gentleman ‘with a white beard and spectacles, and it is tdhted that he is the medical expert, with an unknown mame, who, it is said, the defence have engaged to propound medical questions as to the effects of the probing in Fisk’s wounds, and the effects of chloro- form or opium on his system, and whether the lat- ter produced collapse or strangulation. Just in the rear of Mr. McKeon, and between him very short between the firing of the shots and the arrest of Stokes this last statement of the hall man made the lawyers look at each other in astonish- ment. The principal point in this witness’ testi- mony was that the pistol shown to him in Court was not and could not be the pistol which was found on the sofa in the Grand Central Hotel, Here the defence made a point. When the question was asked of Corley, “Do you recognize the man whom you saw in the white coat here in court ?” there was a stir, but the answer was stopped and ex- cluded, STOKES TAKING A DRINK. The next witness was Mr. Henry A, Polhamus, doing business as a commission inerchant in Front strect. He found Stokes at the drinking place of Chamberlin & Dodge, No. 709 Broadway, on the day of the shooting. Polhamus declared that there were four persons in this place when be was pres- ent, one of whom was Mr. D. P. Ingraham, Jr.; they were all talking and conversing with Stokes; the time was between three and four o'clock of the afternoon, and this man was cross-examined as to the distance from the drinking saloon to the Grand Central, but nothing of interest was elicited by his answers. A SELF-POSSESSED VALET DR PLACE. The next witness was @ young negro named John Marshall, a builet-headed ‘and cheeky specimen of his race, who carried a cane and sucked at its head during the evidence which he gave. He seemed to regard the Court and jury and spectators a8 an assembiage of persons who were collected to witness his coolness and cheek, He wore a sport- pair of check trousers, and his ensemble was cal PaUtod to strike the beholder with astonish- ment. This witness was summoned by the District At- torney to have the cape of Fisk tried on Lis person, and the prosecution made as much as possible of the occasion, Jive was produced in which the clothes of the deceased man were enclosed, and the lock was opened with a sudden snap, which had tts efect in court. There were but nine women in court, and of this number there were three who sat together and Attracted general attention by their loud appearance. 1t was whispered that they were ballet girls from the old company at the Grand Opera Honse, and their appearance justified the supposition, The inside frock cout, vest, and anenormous pair of pants of a light brown color were produced, and the bullet holes were pointed out by the two private counsel, Beach and Fuller- ton. ‘These garments were viewed with compara- tive quiet, and there was no excitement whatever in court When the bullet holes were exposed. FISK'S BLOODY COAT, But whon the inside of tue t sleeve was shown, with a bloody stain, there was an exclamation, and the three women, who were supposed to be ballet dancers, spasmodically shouted “Ah! Oh!” and then subsided for the rest of the afternoon, The clothes were handed to and fro, and every man’s morbia curiosity was completely satisfied before they were replaced in the valise and the bloody show was hidden away from sight. The witness, who was a ‘valet’ of Fisk's, created @ laugh in court by his pronunciation of the word valet, and testified to his whereabouts for five years, being cross-examined by Mr. McKeon, In the cross-examination it was shown that. the witness had been in the employ of Fisk really, while immediately he served the mistress of the dead man, Josie Mans- fleld, in a menial capacity. The cross-examination brought out the fact that while in the house No. 359 West Twenty-third street he waited on Miss Mans- field, and she sent him for money to Fisk, and when he brought it from the Opera House Mansfleld paid him his wages as well as the other servants out of the money which Fisk sent to his Jezebel. The amount paid him while with Mansfield was $25 a taonth, but when he left the house No. 359 and went to Fisk’s own house, No. 313, to live in the service of the latter, Fisk Increased his salary to $60 a month or more than doxble his former pay a3 a valet. He gave as his reason in court why he leit the house where Miss Mansfield resided that ‘the did not care to wait upon Stokes.” This time nearly every one in court laughed, and Stokes joined in, although the Jaugh was against him. ‘A STATR-BUILDING EXPERT, The next witness was Mr. Frank Reed, who was summoned as a Stair-building expert, and he brougnt with him into Court a model of the stair- way. This was criticized and shown up by both sides, but nothing new was developed. The next witness was a beautiful and intelligent young lady, named Miss Grace G. Hall, who testified to having found a pistol on the sofa in the hotel on the day of the killing of Fisk. There was nothing pi taaatense in her testimony, which was given with a lady-like and blushing reluctance, with the exception of the fact that she, like the hall man, could not identify the pistol shown In court as the pistol found by her on the 6th of January. A MEDICAL EXPERT. Dr. James R. Wood, the eminent surgeon, closed with his testimony for the day's proceedings. He was cross-examined in regard to the influence of chloroform and probing, and no one could see exactly why he was called, although he was kept on the stand an hour and five minutes. He simply proved that he had examined the wounds on Fisk’s person, and nothing else. Dr. Sayre was then called, but did not appear, and the Court adjourned, at seven minutes past three o'clock, until half-past ten this morning. Tenth Day—Continuation of Testimony. Notwithstanding the oppressive heat of the past three days and the certainty that yesterday would and Mr. Daily, the prisoner Stokes sits. Yesterday he was neatly dressed in a thin gray coat and white H duck trowsers, and his shirt collar was fastened by ablack bow necktle. His fave was clean shaven, and the anxious look which sensation mongers have stated to ‘be continually resting on is fea- tures was not observable yesterday. Hila hair is mot one shade grayer than it was on the day of his arrest in January last. Stokes’ hair, though of a jet black, has had gray hairs mixed for ‘the last seven years, and to all outward appearance Yesterday, both in person and mind, the accused ‘was the coolest man in court, the thermometer ‘being at ninety-five, with the exception of the Clerk, Mr. Sparks, who looked as if he had just emerged from a refrigerator. STOKES AND HIS FRIENDS. « Several friends of Stokes, mostly young men, dressed in the height of fashion, came in and spoke | ‘to Stokes during the progress of the trial or sat down by his side and conversed with him earnestly at times, and Stokes, on replying, would bend over and whisper, the while never taking hiseyes off the witness under examination. Perhaps no more at- ‘tentive man has ever stood before a bar of justice Xo hear testimony concerting his life and personal | security than thissame man. It is not bravado or indifference, but it seems to be a determination firmly made not to lose one tota of the evidence or Dother his counsel by stupidity or incoherent con- ; duct in public. The first witness called by the prosecution was Henry D. Corley, the hali man of the Grand Central Hotel. This witness was a German, and manifested , considerable uneasiness when cross-examined by the defence. He was in the hall and stood by the | door in the corridor when he heard the shooting; ‘was very much excited, and here the witness rose to illustrate by pointing to a diagram, which is | hung against the wall of the Court. This triai sees full of diagrams, models and plans, and, to some extent, resembles an investigation of a boiler explosion. The witness heard the shots, and, as he ran in the direction of the reports, heard a voice | crying, “Nobody heips me; nobody protects me,” | and iooking over the banisters saw the figure of | Fisk crawling up the stairs as well as he could. | Then the hall man saw some one coming toward | him, and he asked “For God’s sake what is the Matter!” the man sald “Somebody is shot,” and passed on; meeting a Mr. Curtis, who has already testified, and the hall boy, Corley, the witness, help -d Fisk up to the reception room, and he was then taken to room 218, in which he after. | wards died, ‘The Gerinan, in his own quaint man- | ner, tc stifled that the man whom he had met on the stairs, and whom be had not known before that | time, W s brought into the room where Fisk was | lying undressed by an officer, who asked the | wounded ran it his prisoner was the person who had shot vim, and Fisk answered, “Yes; Stokes.” | A BEWILDERED WITNESS, It appeared from this man’s testimony that there is a prominent employé of the Grand Central who has been busi. v engaged in collecting evidence for ‘the District Avtorney, and this Crockett, the wit- | ness, Corley, swore, had told him that if he answered any questions it would endanger his ‘position as a servant in the hotel. Corley testified that he met the man whom he identified in Court | aus Stokes going toward the dining room after the shots, while he was coming away from the eleva- | tor. Crockett was, it seems, engaged in looking 1 Jor a pistol when the witness returned, and he an the veala | man, Morsé, brother to one of the avomen who are continually being referred to in this case in an oblique manner, were put out of the room whore Fisk was hog 2 A pistol was handed to the hall man aboutan hour after the shooting, | which, xccording to all accounts, occurred about | 2 quarter before Ove o'clock, by Miss Grace Hall. Dit is seems that Miss Hall contradicts the hall man’s testimony; for she testified, when cross-ex- amined by Mr. Tremain, that it could not have Deen more than a quarter after five when she found | \ | | i | | j ~~——— ‘The at was produced, and the hall man was asked if he could not identify tt. The witness stammered and hestitated, but could not identify it. He could pot tell whether the pistol banded to him by Miss Hall on the day of the shooting was a six-barrelicd or a four-chambered revolver, but he believed |t was @ six-barrelled pistol. Fisk was leaning on the right band baluster when the nail man looked down the stairs. When Stokes met him | the hall man testified that the accused was very cool in manner, and in his answer about the shooting ey much 60 that be. (the witness) thought it siran, that the man whom he supposea had done ¢) shooting should be so cool. THB FATAL PISTOL, When the pistol was shown to the witness his failure, under the searching cross fire of Tremain, ‘was complete. He could not identify tne weapon even in smallest detail or particular, Crockett placed the pistol at once in his pocket when the ‘witness rr it to him, The witness swore posi- oerk tee Stokes did not + i toward the parior in wi the pistol was found, but that he went vo- H ward the elevator and around it. As the me was ; prompt, and at the moment of half-past ten, Mr. Sparks having called and the | said to me, pointing with his hand in the dire | to the stairs and looked down, and | | the pistol sticking out of a crevice in the sofa. \ hi | how just as be one of the heated term—without any diminution, but rather the prospect of additional fervency of Old Sol’s visitation—the court room of Oyer and Terminer was crowded yesterday morning at the opening. The jurors, after their two days’ rest, were early on hand and were in their seats a few min- utes before the formal opeping. Judge Ingraham» counsel, prisoner and newspaper men were all jurors having | answered to their names, the proceedings were commenced, | TESTIMONY OF HENRY DE CORLEY. Henry De Corley, parlor man in the Grand Central Hotel, sworn and testified—Was employed in the | Grand Central Hotel as parlorman on the 6th of | January last; at the time of the shooting on that aay was standing between parlors 6 and 7, beside the heater; was then talking to some two or three ladies. Witness indicated on the map his exact position in the hall of the hotel at the moment he heard the | first shot. | Witness was standing beside the first parlor, No. | 207, in the hall about midway: was standing there when I heard the first shot; I was excited and ran to the corner of the elevator; as I was going off I heard a second shot, and immediately after I heard | a distinct voice—a voice cry out very distinctly, } “NOBODY HELPS ME! NOBODY PROTECTS ME!” | ney Garvin—Was in the employ ot coat, but could not recollect distinctly about that. The man I saw coming towards me was alone and no qgtner person was in sight in the hall; would have seen Harte or any other man had he or any one been here. Q. When you saw the man with the gray coat coming towards you was he walking or running? A. He was was walking, not very fast, and I thought that was strange; he was very cool. Witness was again examined by the deience as to his first seeing the man in the gray coat and his ac- costing him, and the strange man’s reply, his answers not varying in substance in the slightest degree from his direct testimony, and only import- ant in sustaining the testimony previously ginee by him, Then followed a repetition, unvaried, of tes. timony with Pogara to his going to the rellef of Colonel Fisk, of no person being near or within view of the deceased when he first saw him, and of bis own part in the removal of Fisk with those who aided him; where Fisk had been first brought to and his subsequent removal to parlor and bedroom 218 and 214, in the latter of which he died on the following morning, ’ THE MORSE FAMILY AGAIN, Q. After Colonel Fisk had been removed to parlor 213 and was attended by the physicians and others, among the people there did you see young Morse A. I saw him when I came in the second time; the time I was driven out altogether—all in the room but the doctors, even Mr. Morse himself, . Did you see Fisk undressed there? A, I saw his military cape and t taken off; I don’t remember who took them oil; his gloves were handed to me; the coat was taken oif in the bedroom, Q. How long after the shooting was the pistol hanged to you that evening? A. It was a good our, Q. Describe the pistol, A. As near as I can recol- lect it was a six shooter; when it was handed to me I looked right inte the holes; it was A NICE, BEAUTIFUL, glittering pistol, shining in silver; I suppose it had ivory on it. Q. Did you see any black at allabout it? A. I don’t recollect any black. fe A six shooter? A, I don’t recoliect that posi- ively. A pistol that was found in the hotel the evening of the shooting, and handed by a young lady (the finder) to the witness, was put into the hand of the witness. There was an evident FRELING OF SCARE among the counsel as the witness examined the weapon, handling it rather carelessly, and the legal gentlemen on either side more than ‘once cried out, “KREP IT UP!" “Hold up the barrels!” ‘Now, you'll shoot the jury !’’ “Look out there !? “Please hold it up!’ Witness looked round at counsel, then at the gentlemen in the jury box, then at the pistol and at last held it up as required; almost as high as if he was taking aim at a fly on the ceiling above his head, Some merriment was caused in the court by the scare, breaking for a time the dull monotony of the earlier proceedings of the morning session, Witness—I cannot recognize this pistol or identify it as the one Miss Hall handed to me; the barrel of the one I mean was like this butt, glittering and white; I only heard reports of two shots; the moment I handed the pistol which Miss Hall gave to me to Mr. Crockett he put it “at once in his side pocket and walked away with it. Q. Before that pistol was handed to you did you see Mr. Crockett searching the parlor where it was found, as if looking for something? A, Yes; saw several gentlemen looking all around the parlors; ee neRN porter told me they were looking for the pistol. & Did Mr. Crockett come to you that evening and say to you that you must not say anything of what you heard or saw with regard to the pistol, or the finding of it ? The District Attorney objected. Mr. McKeon—We want to elicit some facts about this. We claim that Mr. Crockett is AN INTERESTED WITNESS, and conducted himself very strangely while on the stand the other day. The Court—That has nothing to do with the wit- ness; besides, the witness Crockett was not exam- ined on this point at all. I will not allow the ques- tion. Q. What did Crockett say to you on the snbject of saying nothing about the pistol? A. He only said, “Henry, It will be best for you to talk nothing and to say nothing about the affair, because it may en- danger your position ;” that was merely on account of the crowd of ladies and gentlemen and every- body that surrounded me, asking me all about the saw the inan with the “gray coat” some time that day, but it is very dim. Redirect—You say you have not seen the man you saw that day in the gray coat since that time; do you recognize that man i Court now? Objected to and objection sustained, Miss Hall, the finder of the pistol, called, and no response. TESTIMONY OF HENRY A. POLHEMUS. Henry A. Polhemus, Jr., sworn, testified—I ama commission merchant, of 140 Front street; on the 6th of January I was at 709 Broadway, about a block anda half above the Grand Central Hotel; it is a wholesale liquor place; this was between three and tour o’clock; I saw the prisoner there; I stayed till he went out. To Mr. McKeon—There were several gentlemen there; D. P. Ingraham, Jr., was there for one; I was there perhaps five minutes before him; there were four gentlemen there; the place is nearer Washington place than the block below; Amity is the next street to the Grand Central Hotel; the next street is Fourth and the next Washington place; I think there is a fur store on the corner of Broadway and Great Jones; | don’t Know what is next. Q. Didn't Stokes speak to young Mr. Ingrabam for some time? A, No, sir, I don’t think he did; he was there but a few moments; he talked, I think, to some one else. There was nothing important. elicited in the examination of this witness beyond the fact that Stokes was in close proximity to the Grae Central previous to the time of the shooting of Fisk. TESTIMONY OF FISK’S VALET—THR COLONEL'S PER- FORATED AND BLOOD-STAINED GARMENTS IN COURT. The next witness called for the prosecution was John Marshall, colored, examined by District Attor- the deceased, Colonel Fisk, as valet; went into his employ Sep- tember, two years and a half ago; recollects the morning of the 6th of January, the day Colonel ids was shot; recollects also the afternoon of that ay. & Were you present and did you assist Colonel Fisk in dressing that morning? A. Yes, I did, sir, | and saw and know all the clothes he put on and | Wore that day. Q. Describe them, He wore a pair of brown col- ored pants with a black shade, a gray coat mixed with black, a t of the same material, and a mili- tary cape, lined with red; he also wore a black silk aut. Q. When did you last see him that day before he went to the Grand Central Hotel? at the Opera House, about twelve o'clock. Q. After that did he return to his house or his rooms to change his clothes that day. A. No. sir. Q. What then? A, fhenIran to see what was | | going on, and as I ran over from the corner | towerds the ladies’ entrance, and as [ went I saw - a gentleman coming towards me, and I wondered | why he came that way, and I said to him, “POR GOD'S SAKE, WHAT IS THE MATTER ?"? ! I was excited then, but wondered why this young | man didn’t run with me in the direction of the shots; when I asked “What's the matter?” tate | ion | he came from, “There isa man shot there; this person wore a tall black silk hat and a gray coat; | he said a man was shot there very coolly; 1 ran on saw aman re- | clining sideways on the balustrades; I could not at | first sce who it was, but I found out afterwards it | was Mr. Fisk; I ran down the stairs, and said, “18 THIS YOU MR, FISK?" I got him by the right arm, and then I saw some folks come tliere from the street; I think they were | some coachmen from the street; when I first ran down H MR. FISK WAS ALL ALONE pf himself; alter that I recollect seeing Pat Harte, the hall boy, and some gentleman I didn’t know at | help and to fetch a doctor; we moved slowly, with | the Colonel resting upon us, to the reception room, | across from the lad entrance, to the second | sofa, and we put Mr. Fisk sitting there, and we | took of his militar, ape; I thought it better to | have hitn removed into a room, and after a | few minutes we took him to parlor 218, after the | room had been prepared for him; when we took | him into 215 there were present myself, Mr. Haskins | and Mr. Curtiss: while there @ man was brought | into the room by an officer; that was the | SAME MAN | | that I had seen in the hall, and who sald to me | fled, that a man was shot; he was confronted with Mr. | Fisk, and the om said to Fisk, “Is this the | Wan that shot you ’” and Mr. Fisk LOOKED UP THIS WAY | = first bending his head upon his breast and then | slowly but only partially raising it and elevating his eyebrows) and said, “YES—STORRS, that was all, and Mr, Fisk looked down again; he | just gave the man THAT LOOK 100) and said, “Yes--Stokes,” and tnén the officer took him away; from that ime I didn't ee that gentie- tleman any more; beforg that we had opened Mr. Visk’s coat and vest, and ? noticed that there was a | wound on his side, like @ slit made by a lite knife; | 1 touched it, and the + BLOOD CAME OUT Tight there; then Mr. Fisk was taken into the bed- room off the parior and the shirt was cut off round ; he waa laid on the bed; soon after the doc- tors and others arrived, and | left the room aud re- turned to niy duties in the parlor. Q State what occurred with regard to your being handed @ ee A. About an bour alter the shoot.ng @ lady in the house came to me and she an to me-—(Gnterrupted) State only what she Witness—-The lady gave me gosh nice, splen- did plstoi—that pistol; after looking at it a mo- ment 1 saw Mr. Crockett standing near the stairs at parlor 214, and I handed him the pistol, tellin, him how IJ got it; he took the pistol out of my han and put it right In his pocket; I can see hitn do it saw him do it then; that was the pis- tol I received from Miss Hall. CROSS-EXAMINED. Came to this country thirteen or fourteen years ago; was with General Avery dnring the war; served as a soldier during the late war; have been employed in the Gram for Dearly two years, and have been parlor all that time, Witness was questioned at some length as to whether previous to the shooting he had seen “the ; Sweltering court ¥ you see and identify the same suit of clothes that day? up in the wardrobe of the room where the Colonel lay in the hotei that same evening; it was the same suit he had put on in the morning. Q. What was done with those clothes? No, 313; that was the next day. Q. What was done with them then? A. I placed them in the wardrobe in the house in Twenty-third street, and they remained there till taken in charge by the Coroner; after that they were scaled and de- posited tn the Erie offices, in the Opera House, THE PRODUCTION OF THE BLOOD-STAINED CLOTHES. However the interest of the audience might have oozed out through the discomfort of sitting ina r listening to the dry detail eedingly scant on sensa- of evidence that | tional points, there came at last the great sensa- tion of the day and of the trial, in the production of the clothes worn by the deceased on the day of his murder, and bearing proof strong as holy writ | of the DEEP DAMNATION OF HIS TAKING OFF. The valet, as self-poss was a little drawback, however, in his utter: which counsel or the Court ought not to have per- mitted, aud which prevented his answers from being properly understood at a distance. He, with on alr of great nonchalance, coquetted with an ivory-handled cane, which ever and anon like the pouncet box in the hands of the King’s messenger to Hotspur, put to his mouth, not his nose, marring considerably the hearing of interesting testimony. In a pause of question and answer some interest wa excited to know what was coming. It w soon grati- as one of the court oiliciais deposited at the foot of the witness box a rather old and delapidated leather travelling valise, and it wae known that the murdered man’s elothes were now to be bronght in evidence, not through amy } (witness here described the look—“this way"—by | formula of oath, but through the gaping holes made by the bullet of the assassin, whoever that assassin may be, The witness, by direction of the District Attorney, came from the stand while Coroner Young cut ie cords and broke the seals which so long concealed the bloody and TELI-TALE GARMENTS, and as the top of the trunk went over he stooped, and drawing from the valise THE MILITARY CAPE of the deceased, held it up to view of all in Court. The District Attorney—What is that you hold in your band? A, This is the Colonel's military cape, Which he wore on the day of his death, . See if there are any holes in it? itness then held th pe up before him, sean- ning it closely, then feeling it with his hand. once he protruded a finger through a hole near where the flap covered the side of the wearer, in- dicating the passage of a bullet. GREAT SENSATION in court followed this action of the witness, who ‘was, to all appearance, the coolest and least in terested person there. Again witness felt and protruded his finger @ second time through the fold of the cloak inside of the outer fold, showing that the bullet had gone through a double fold in fulfliling its deadly mission. The interest of all in court was greatly excited, and scarcely a motion was heard, though a moment be- tore ans and handkerchiefs were in noisy operation in the bands of the perspiring audience, as the wit- ness coolly proceeded wil the investigation. Again the witness’ finger appeared throug! another rent over the arm, and a corresponding one, a8 in the other instance, was also laid bare. All eyes were TURNED ON THE PRISONER, as the witness, by directions of counsel, laid aside the cape and took from the valise the coat of the man with tho gray coat,” or any man With a gray deceased, Stokes leaned forward, with bis head shooting; I may have a very dim impression that I | A. I saw him | A. Yes, sir; | sew them hanging | A. Tafter- | ward took them to the house in Twenty-third street, | ssed a specimen of his race | | the time, but heard afterwards it was Mr. Curtiss; | as ever sat In a Witness box, had hitherto giveu his | this gentleman took him by the left arm and 1 by | testimony sitting in the allotted chair readily, | the right; [then calied out to Harte to go for some | promptly and intelligently. 1 pes, from a cause | At | between nis counsel, Tremain and stoop- ing rather low, but with his intently tivetted on the tell-tale garment, thetr light GROWING DARKER AND MORE CLOUDED, as ifthe shadow of what may come was already passing over them, was then taken up and Romig by witness, and the same evidences of the shooting ine of two bullets and the rents in the cloth. ex- hibited by the coo) valet. THE BLOODY SLEEVE. Witness turned the sleeve inside out and ex- hibited the lining, red with the blood of the de- ceased, holding it up in the presence of the Court, counscl, prisoner and the spectators, all eyes be- ing turned to where he stood and all ears awaiting the answers to the questions put to him. THB VEST was also exhibited, also havil sage of one bullet, the one there pe no sleeves to the vest there was but the trace of one bullet left; the hole caused by its passage being at the upper button of a lowcut winter vest; all the other articles, fonts, &c, (with the exception of the shirt, which had been cut to pieces bee doctor), of Colonel Fisk’s dress on the day of his murder were exhibited, but those others bore no trace of the deadly fray. OROSS-EXAMINED, To Mr. Tremain—I am twenty-three years olf; Iwas born in Charleston; I came here about six years ago; ! have lived in Columbia, Q. When you came to this city first where did you go tolive? A. fo Philadelphia; I lived there six months with an uncle; after I first came here I boarded three months; I lived for a time with a Mr. Grey; then! went to the Jubilee, Boston; then I went to Newport till September; a few days after Leame back from Newport I went to live with Mr. aK. Q. Who lived there ? A, Josie Mansfield, Q. Then wien you say you lived with Mr, Fisk bid mean in the house of rs. Mansfield, A. Yes, sir. Q. Did he make it bis home at that time? A. He came there of and on; I lived there about a year, then went to 313 Twenty-third street; Mrs. Mans- fleld’s house was 359; he went away to Boston at times, but during that year he made his headquar- ters at 359; there was a chambermaid there and cook and coachman. Q. Why did you leave Mrs, Mansfleld? A, Be- cause I didn’t care to wait on Stokes (laughter) ; then I went to 213; Mr. Fisk’s office was in the Opera House; he boarded there that year; the ear before he boarded at Mrs. Mansfield generally ; he had a family keeping house at Boston; he staye at 213 until he died; he boarded at the Opera House, in the dining room; that was kept for him; two Germans waited on him; Bell used to make his clothes; he had worn these pantaloons twice before that Winter. Q. How many pairs of pantaloons had he? A. About two or three dozen. Q. Had all his pantaloons pockets behind like these. A. Some of them had and some of them hadn't; Mr. Fisk had been sick just before this time; he had been confined to his bed; he left his room at half-past eleven ; I staid there till the room was cleared up; I did not hear he was shot till the carriage came pack for Mr. Comer; {went up to Central Park about one o'clock. 4 Q. Who paid you your wages during the Soar you were at Mrs, Mansfield's? A. Mr. Fisk; I would go and get the money for her from him and then she would give me the money. Q. In whose service did you consider yourself to be, Fisk's or Josie’s? A. In Mr. Fisk’s service, aud so I suppose did the other servants; about four months after I left Mrs, Mansfield’s my wages were increased; they were Just about doubled; they were $25 and were increased to $60;1 asked more than I got; since Fisk’s death I have lived here in New York. Q. Did you go to Brattleboro with Mrs. Fisk? A. I went to the funeral, This closed the testimony of the valet. EXAMINATION OF THE ARRESTING OFFICER. Henry McCadden, a police officer, Was sworn, and testificd—I first saw Mr. Stokes in the hall of the Grand Central Hotel, at the foot of the staircase; I made the arrest; I examined him to see if he had a pistol; he had none; Itook him up to Colonel Fisk ; TY don’t remember who else were there; I asked the Colonel, ‘Is this the man who shot your” he said, Yes,’ and begged me to take him away; when [got to the station house it was about twenty minutes past four. To John McKeon—The office is on the first floor; there is a place where the hall boys sit; Stokes was near that place; the barber shop is near that; I | think he was between the stairs and barber shop; | I was sent for to the station house ; I went round to the front entrance; Inever went in the back en- trance; Mr. Stokes was standing up; there was a crowd around him; I don’t remember who were there; I saw Mr. Crockett there; I did not hear the prisoner say anything there; when I took him in to Colonel Fisk Colonel Fisk was sitting on the loun, rather reclining; I asked him, ‘Colonel, is this the man that shot you?” He said, “Yes,’”’ and beckoned Me to take him away. TESTIMONY OF FRANK REED, Mr. Frank Reed was called and _testifled—I made this model of the stairs; I made it by measure ; the stairs are twenty-six feet four inches long and four feet ten inches wide; there is no entrance but at the top and bottom ; there are seven steps from the ae to the first landing, and from there up seven- een. ‘To Mr. Tremain—The stairs fill up the whole width; the distance from the first door to the first step is six feet two inches; the distance between the doors Is four feet and two inches; standing at Me head of the stairs there is no difficulty in seeing own. To the District Attorney—I think a person stand- bd at the head of the stairs could see out on the sidewalk if the doors were open; the inside doors are, I believe, glass, and the outside solid. ‘To Mr. McKeon—the pa: fe from the head of the stairs to the hall is eight feet ten inches long; there are fanlights over the doors. ‘To a Juror—A man standing at the hall conld per- haps see down; you can judge for yourself; here | (holding up his rule) is about the height of a five- ; foot man, traces of the pas- hat caused death; TESTIMONY OF A. H. HASKIN. | A. H, Haskin was next called, and testified—tI re- | side at Cape May; at the time of this affair | was | bookkeeper at the Grand Central hotel; Iheard of ita little after four; 1 saw men ranning towards | the barroom; I ran also; Mr. Powers told me to re- | turn, as some one was shot; I went up and found | Mr. Fisk, and the first thing was to get him to some place; | asked Mr, Fisk ifhe would have some | brandy; he said no; I went down stab irs and told | the officers to bring him up; I went back and heard | the officer ask if this was the man who shot him; I did not hear the reply; Iwas trying to keep the | crowd out. ‘To Mr. McKeon—When I first saw Mr. Stokes he was coming from the barber shop; Mr. Powers and I think Mr. Allen bad hold of him; I heard him say nothing; when I came back from Mr. Fisk I foun him seated; there were several around him; I | went up before Stokes; when he came in Captain | Byrnes and another ofiicer were with him; I don’t | know which spoke ; what was said was, “Is that the man who shot you?” TESTIMONY OF MISS HALL, Miss Grace G. Hall was called and testified—I re- side at Wallingford, Conn. ; I was at the Grand Cen- tral Hotel on the éth of January last; when the atfair occurred 1 was in my room on the third floor ; | 1 heard of the shooting a little before five; i came down into the parlor and heard of it from a lady; in the parlor I found | a pistol on the sofa between the_ back and the seat, which I took and carried to Henry, the parlor man; I found the pistol here (poling to a place about half way between the back and front of the room) ; there Was only a little of the handle sticking out, just enough to see it by the | gaslight; no more than enough to let the light | shine on it; [don’t know anything about pistols, and I cannot say that this is the pistol; the pistol 1 found I gave to Henry. ‘To Mr. Tremain—I went to the third parlor before I went to the first parlor; 1 went into the third par- lor a little before five,and into the first parlor about | five; Isat down opposite the sofa and was talking to a gentleman sitting on the sofa; the pistol was not very near him, q. Was it pressed far in? A. Pretty far in. | _Q It would take considerable force to press it in, would it not ? A. I should hardly think 80; it took no | force to take it out; I did not examine to see how | Much force it would take to push itin; I can’t tell | whether it was the stock or handle 1 first saw; 1 handed it to Henry as soon as [ could walk to the door. Q. What was the color of the pistol? A. Dark; I | May have spoken ot the color of it to others. . Did it lay lengthwise or was it pushed in? A. Lengthwise. The Court here took a recess, Alter the Recess, The Court having reassembled and the jury answered to their names the case for the prosecu- tion was proceded with as follows THE MEDICAL TESTIMONY. Dr. James KR, Wood sworn—Q. You are a phy- sician and surgeon’? A, I am, sir; I live in the city of New York and have been in practice since 1837, and during most of the time have been en- gaged in Bellevue Hospital; I have a large practice. Do ad remember being called to the Grand Central Hotel on the 6th of January to see Colonel Fisk? A. 1 do, sir. FISK'S CONDITION. Q. What was the result of your examination ? A. 1 found him lying on a bed, with the lett arm resting upon a pillow ; his skin was cool and bathed in perspiration; his pulse was 76 and 74, and the respiration was 24; Liearned that there was a wound on the ieft arm above the elbow, which ap- eared to be a flesh wound; I did not examine it; found a wound in the abdomen two anda halt inches to the right of the median line, in the middle of the body, and six inches above the navel, PROBING FOR THE BULLET. I produced a Nelaton probe—the same instru- ment that Nelaton used to tnd the ball in Garibaldi’s leg; it was a silver probe; the wound was about half an inch in diameter; it was clean; I gently en- tered the wound with the probe, which passed readily for about four inches—a little less; I passed the probe through the fat and adipose matter into the muscle, and did not venture to go further, as it would have been madness to have done so; none but a crazy man would do #0; I withdrew the probe without discovering any erage body; Dr. White came in at this time; he took ti hing , but did not introduce it as far a8 I had done; he felt something that might have been the |, but it was not. FISK AMONG THE DOCTORS. Colonel Fisk seemed very anxious to have the ball removed, and also to have chloroform admin- istered; we gave him thirty drops of chloroform; Eos Lh. tk not bay enuer mn influence of the chloroform las be A julsé was more full, as is eae alter ie case where ere bas been a nervous shook, afver he came om they examined him with great ADVISED TO MAKE HIS WILL. T found that stimulants had been administered and that he had drunk them; In the consulting room eznciane: and it was resolved that he should be of his condition ; in other words, that he should make hus will, as I felt that this wound was @ very dangerous one, although there are some wonderful cases of this kind on record where recovery has been made; his lawyer was in the adjacent room, and we said to Mr. Field, “Your client better make his will.’ THE TREATMENT, We then retired again and the treatment was talked over; I think that lint, wetted in cold water, was applied to the wound; that was what I recom- mended, but I cannot of my own knowledge say that that was so; [left the carrying out of the in- structions to the attendant physicians. “WORTH SAVING,” My second visit was at eleven o'clock; I found Mr. Fisk in a better condition than I expected; I found his pulse at least ninety and his respiration thirty- two; he told me that he hoped everything would be done that could be, as he was worth saving; it was directed at this time—Dr. Sayre and other povpicians were algo there—that stimulants should e given him if he Paes it, and that he should not be allowed to sin! foe want of them. YING. Tsaw him again the next morning at about eight o'clock; I fornd Mr, Fisk insensible and breathing heavily; his pulse was 130 and his respiration eighteen; he was dying. THE FATAL WOUND. Q. State what the nature of the wound was. A. Dr. Marsh and Dr. Janeway made the post-mortem ; Isaw part of the post-mortem; I saw the wound which iny probe entered; I found a wound between the point where the ball entered the body and the int wiere it entered the abdomen four inches in length; the ball entered the abdomen and then passed Sucnen what is called the omentum; it then sed. through two loops of tho intestines and then through the mesentery, an organ which binds the intestines to the spine and keeps them in post- tion; it then passed through the colon, the sigmoid colon, or the lower part of the great gut, and thence to the process of the thigh. THE INJURY TO THB INTESTINES, Q. Passing through two loops of the intestines how many holes did the ball make? A. Four, one in and one out in each case. Q. And through the colon again, once in and once out? A. Yes, sir. THE CAUSE OF DEATH. Q. Ascertaining these wounds to be such as you have described, and having seen the patient before and after death, can you state to the jury the cause of death? A. Well, sir, I felt that the wound in the intestines would produce death, still, as 1 have said before, such wounds are not always fatal; I stated at the post mortem that in my opinion there ‘was no other appearance of the cadaver that could account for death except these wounds; I did not, however, see the whole case, as I was merely con- sulting physician. THE SHOCK FATAL, 2 What is it that causes death—the shock or the inflammation? A. The shock may prpauce death; inflammation may produce death; but there was mips enenge inflammation in this case to cause leath, Q. Was it the shock, then, in thiscase? A. I can account for death in no other way from my knowl- edge of the case, . So far as the wound in the arm was concerped, ‘would that influence the result? A. I did not®see it; it was merely a fesh wound. Cross-examined—Q. In the report of the post mortem it is stated that death was the result of peritonitis and shock, &c.; do you say that he did not die from peritonitis? There was peritonitis, but not enough to cause death. FURTHER PARTICULARS, Q. How man: sons were in the room when you first saw Colonel Fisk? A. A great many; so Many that I ordered the room cleared. . In that particular condition of the man was it injurious that. s0 many men should be around him? A. I have said that [ recommended the room to be cleared. Q. What were the medical men doing when you wentin? A. Ga Q. Did Colonel Fisk converse with you? A. Yes, sir. aa others? A, I believe with Mr. W. M. Q. Tweed. Q. During the time you were there were there reek of his bowels or urinary organs ? (0, sir. eee aoe notice any fetid odor from the wound ? . No, sir. Q Why, then, was it that ate smelt the probe after you withdrew it? A. Because I wished to know whether the bullet had entered the abdomen; if it had the gas from the abdomen would have es- caped into the wound. t the request of counsel the Doctor here exam- ined the rents in the clothes and eye it as his opinion that a very small amount of fibre, if any, could have been carried into the wound, CHLOROFORM NOT NEEDED. Q. Isit wise to give chloroform in such cases ? A. It was done at Colonel Fisk’s request; my judg- ment was against it. Q. What the action of chloroform upon the heart? A. It may paralize the heart. Q. What kind of a man was Fisk? A. Nervous temperament, short neck, large head. ¢. An apoplectic man? A. Yes, sir, though he did not have much blood in him at the time of his Geaths he had been sick for some days previously, eve. . What was the weight of hts brain? A. Fifty- eight ounces. wa Describe eis of a Leis 4 pace ence ‘ny organ, varying in importance to the impor- tance of the organ injured. git Pp Q. Is it not poss#le for opium to be fatal without leaving marked traces of its presence ?_ A. Yes, sir. The counsel for the prosecution then asked for an adjournment for the day, as their next witness was not in Court. The Court said there was still half an hour to the usual hour of adjournment. -He thought the jury ougiit to be considered. the prosecution said they had very little ad- ditional evidence to produce, and they wished it to come in natural order. The Court then adjourned until half-past ten this morning. A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. “Eccentricities” of a Dranken Police- man—Brutal and Unprovoked Assault On a Citizen—The Shield as an Offen- sive Weapon. About eight o'clock on Sunday evening Anthony Ruck, a butcher living at No. 5 Bond street, Brook- lyn, and three German friends trom No, 2 Green- wich street, were coming up Broadway from the Battery, and when near Trinity church saw two men and a woman fighting on the sidewalk, The party halted to see how the affair was progressing and how it would terminate, when suddenly one of the men broke from the other and, together with the wontan, ran off. Ruck and his friends started on again up the street, when the belligerent party, to whom the field had been left clear, approached them and declared his intention of arresting Ruck. Ruck said that as he had not committed any oifence he would not be arrested, but when the party an- nounced himself as Officer Durham, of the Twenty- seventh precinct, he said he was willing to go any- where with him. At this point ofthe conversation Durham, it is alleged, who was in civilian’s dress, commenced @ most brutal assault on Ruck, striking him with his shield, which he held in his hand, and cutting his head, face and neck in @ shameful manner. Ruck’s friends attempted to remonstrate with the officer, which only seemed to increase his anger and bru- tality, for he at once began striking and kicking in- discriminately at every one within reach, James Kildane, the janitor of 71 Liberty street, received a severe cut on the leit side of the face from the shield. George Guttenson, of No, 2 Greenwich street, was kicked in the abdomen, and five or six other parties received injuries of @ more or less serious character. Omicer Sharon, of the First precinct, came up, but instead of heeding the | entreaties of the crowd of persons who had gath- ered around, and who urged him to arrest Durham, he, at the request of that individual, seized hold of Ruck and with the two started for the Twenty-sev- enth precinct station house, Roundsman Gilbert, of the First precinct, came on the scene, some of the citizens having gone to the station house and requested assistance, and de- manded to know what the matter was. Durham exhibited his shield, which he still held in his right hand, and replied that Ruck had assaulted him and he was trying to take him to the station house, Supposing such was the case Gilbert allowed the two—Durham and Sharon—to proceed ; but scarcely had they gone five steps when Durham again com- menced striking Ruck in the face and about the head. Not content with this he turned around and kicked a citizen who was walking close behind, but who had not said one word to him or, in fact, to any one else. The crowd now became furious and demanded that Gilbert arrest Durham. This was at last done, although not without considerable dim- culty, and another roundsman of the First precinct coming up, both Ruck and borham were taken to the station house. Since the latter declared pos- itively that Ruck had first asgauited him, the sergeant was compelled to lock him up as well as the oMcer (Durhar). AS so0n 4S the officers reached the station house with their prisoners a crowd of at least three hun- dred persons gathered around the door, very many of whom requested to be admitted so that they might give their names and residences with a view to appearing as witnesses when the trial comes otf, Yesterday morning Ruck and Durham were taken before Judge Hogan at the Tombs Police Court. His Honor first heard the latter’s version of the atfatr, and then gave Ruck a chance to tell his story, which was substantially as given above and which was corroborated by eight or ten witnesses. It appears, said Judge logan “that roffianism is not confined exclusively to ne lower classes of our citizens, but permeates the police force as well, aoe fee i requi ou to give bail in the sum Of $1,000 to answer this cl . 6 bail was not forthcoming ond the prisoner ‘was locked up. Before the ena tare ae Sharon, who was, as appears i the affair, een! tion t9 the Commis alouer& tin pla resign About this time | MONMOUTH PARK RACES. apeiedamatrses Longfellow and Harry Bassett. This will be an eventful day at Monmouth Park. The great equine champions of America, Harry Bas- sett, representing the eastern, and Longfellow the western sections of the country, meet to solve the great problem of which is the best race horse. It will be remembered that Longfellow came here last year and won the Monmouth Park cup in a canter, beating Preakness, Helmbold and Regard; that he went thence to Saratoga and beat Kingfisher easily for the Saratoga cup. He then lay up until the second meeting, when, being out of condition either from want of work or other cause, he was shame- fully beaten by Helmbold in a four-mile dash, fellow was then taken to Kentucky, where he won a two-mile heat race from Pilgrim at Lexington. He then went into good quarters for the autumn and winter. As soon as Harper’s track was fit to run on in the spring he was put to work, and has been at it ever since, and ig now in as fine condition as it is possible to make him for the contest before him, Asan Englishman would say, “He is fit to run for a kingdom.” Harry Bassett has met with no defeat since he was three years old, and in his four-year-old form at Jerome Park showed that he has as much foot as he had last year. He should have more, because in his three year-old stake races he carried 110 pounds, the penalty to all three-year-olds, whereas as @ four-year-old be has to carry only 108 pounds, Longfellow has to put up six pounds more than he carried last year, and he seems quite able to do tt, as he is @ much stouter horse than he was then. However, this six pounds ought to make three seconds in favor of Harry Bassett, and the question naturally arises, “Can Longfellow give Harry Bas- sett three seconds in two miles and a half and beat him?” As we said before, the problem will be solved to-day. The attractions of the day are three in number, and all of an interesting nature, but of course the main interest of the occasion centres in the Cup. The first event will be the Hopeful Stakes, half a mile, for two-year-olds, This will bring out many ood = youngsters, repre- sentatives of the followin; Stables ;—Littell, Chamberlain, Belmont, icGrath, Walden, Morris, Ward and Bacon.’ The second event, mile heats, for all ages, will be full of excitement. For this there will come to the post, John Merryman, Abdel Koree, Saucebox, Shylock, Lochiel, Bellé Aitken, Piedmont and Lyttleton. Uncle John Harper and Colonel McDaniel’s stables will have the good horses Lyttleton and Koree, and the race they make will be somewhat indicative of the greater event to follow, The third and last race is the great one for the Cup, and out of twelve nominations only Longfel- low and Harry Bassett will probably come to the 4 Post. Pools were sold on two of these events last night at Marshall & Johnson's, Broadway and Twenty- eighth street, the following figures giving an idea of the interest manitested in the contests by the veteran turfmen present :— MILE HEATS, Abdel-Korel. 8 40 88 Littleton... % 7 70 Saucebox. 40 35 8630 Lochiel.. 2 10 Shylock. 20 20 1 Field...... -M'° MW MONMOUTH CUP. Harry Bassett. 100 300 206 Longfellow ... : 235 150 - 170 85 Up toalate hour there were no bidders on the Hopeful Stakes, JOTS ON RACING. . To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The meeting of Longfellow and Harry Bassett proves there is a strong love of sport in the Ameri- can nation, and so a few words on racing may not be uninteresting during the dog days, when reading, qualified with @ brandy and soda, is all & man Can reasonably expect to do, Well, then, “to hark back.” I think too much importance is at- tached in America to the time test, which has proved itself so delusive a snare in England that no racing man regards it as any criterion of a horse’s merits, and the system is entirely dis- carded there by all trainers. Your sporting corre- spondent mentions that the one and a half mile was run by Meteor in 2:40%, and that the quickest Derby time was 2:43 (this is correct—Blair Athol, and Kettledrum both did it in this time)—the in- ference naturally being that a horse who beats 2:43 would be good enough to win a@ Derby; but in gauging the time the most important event is overlooked and that ts the severity or easiness of the course itself, which not only tests the speed, but also the stamina. ofthe horse. Any one conve rsant with the Epsom. Downs knows that the severe half mile up hill at the commencement, and the finish from the dis- tance post, being also up hill, is sufficient to break the heart of nine horses out of ten who run on it; thas the Derby course is dead against good time. The same remark applies to Ascot; also to the Rowley Mile at Newmarket, where th e Two Thousand ts rum. { Last year Forest King, carrying eight stone ten pounds, was second in the Derby, the pace being a donkey's gallop and taking 2:52. Yet, three weeks after, carrying five pounds more weight, he the Prince of rates Stakes at Ascot, on an equally dificult course, and one furlong farther (one mile five furlongs), in 2:53, How do the time exponents: account lor this? By either theory the King proved himself a duffer in the first race, yet a clipper in the second. In making an: maton against English horses Americans should remember that a race is rarely run from post to post in England unless some stable companion of the favorite is really able to force the pace, when tall time is always obtained. Whyn- ard won the Liverpool oy last year, one and @ half mile, up to his knees in dirt, in 1:37. Yet Fa- | Yonius, the Derby winner, who was 2:52 in doing | the Derby, would have given him a stone in weight and have lost him. I could cite numerous instances | of a similar nature, but will content myself by say- | ing Ihave seen Caller On wina mile race, ands down, and come bounding in like a cricket ball in | 1:42, and yet next day, over the same course and with the same weight, be beaten in 1:56, simp! through getting chopped at the start—another fal- lacy of the time test. T observed your correspondent last week, in re- porting on the Ascot races, commented on the “cowardice” of M. Lefevre in not sending Sterli to America to run a match, 1 think he loses sight of the fact that over a big handicap it is possible in England to win even one million dollars at long or at least fair odds; here it would be impossible to land any large stake at decent odds, owing to the conspicuons absence of the “knights of the pencil” and the supstitution of pools. When the enormous Lie dal iat can with racing are taken into account—breaking down of expensive yearlings, forfeits, trainers’ char; &c.—unless a man occasionally plunged and landed the good thing, nobody but a Rothschild could afford such an expensive luxury. Sterling's owner | always runs his horses as straight as a die. don’t you think, Mr. Editor, cowardice” is rather a hot term, when it might be only not wishing to incur the risk ofa valuable (but, in my opinion, a greatly overrated) horse ae down? The relative Value of English and American horses will only be decided when they actually meet, not by comparing time. Harry Bassett could easily be entered for the great autumn handicaps, such as Cesaerwitch or ee ee when his true form could be arrived at, his party win a fortune; and I am certain if Harry first caught the judge's eye “when his number went up” such a rin, English cheer would greet him that he would be frightened and go on galloping for a week. We always like seeing the best horse win. It is doubly sweet, though, if we should happen to be “on” the good thing. Without wishing to disparage the racing I wit- nessed at Jerome Park, the course is such an easy one that even & roarer could com it and & genuine stayer be beaten for speed by some flash eacocky horse. Over such a course quick time is ound to be made, and if a match took place on it between Cremorne (Derby winner) and Prince Charlie (Two Thousand winner) the latter would carry My money, though he couldn’t get withia hale on the Surrey Hills last 29th of May. Your cor- respondent remarked, on the way, the favorites were bowled over at Jerome. No wonder, for in some races, through the utter want of krowledge of pace on the jockeys’ pa , they ran their horses to acomplete standstill, and when the finish came they were all out and hadn't an ounce to stray with. Fordham’s and Challoner’s success is chie! owing to their marvellous knowledge of pace. Ap- parently outpaced, they gradually creep SPs and @ | magnificent race will ensue a few strides from home; the verdict, ‘a short head.” In England tn seven: Cases out of ton it: te etme doemeyy: ae) See horse, which wins, Here Lam compelled, but not in a captions spirit, to remark how much the roll- ing seats, the legs and arms going like windmills, prevented the horse winning, though there were Paes exceptions, Xpologtting for the length of this letter, J subscribe mysel A TRUE COSMOPOLITAN. KILLED ‘BY A DUMMY ENGINE, George Davis, ® lad fourteen years of age, was yesterday run over corner of West and Christopher streets by dummy engine No. 6, belonging to the Hudson River Railroad Company, crushing his thigh, leg and arm. George, who fell before the wheels, was first taken to the Ninth precinct station house and from thence to Bellevue Hospital, where death subsequently ensued. The body was carried to the corner of West Tenth and Greenwich streeta, where Coroger Herrman will hold gp inquest, €