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LITTLE NEOK MURDERER UND18COV-EKED.The inquest (q tlio case of James Graham, the shoemaker who was mardorod Iq Ijjb store fit Little Neck on the night of the 7th o! February last, was resumed before Coroner lieimer at Lekllg’fj Hotel, Douglaston, yesterday. District-Attorney Downing wttH present, and examined the wltnesson,Detect ya PbJl Jtlley read a statement that ho bad obtained irom the sayings banka In which Graham barf deposited money, m each ol the bunks Graham had given hla occupation and blrtb dltfereiitly. The oITlcer found that the $600 which bo was to Joan to Boggcrton, bad not been drawn from the bank.Jane Wilson, a clerk in Poole’s store, which jg about H^YeDty-bvp feet from Graham’s residence* corroborated the, testimony of James McConnell, Win, Boswortb. and Udall,being In the store on the evening of the night that Graham was murdered,. Fannie IUpylta, colured, testified to going to McConnell's on the Saturday jnoruiug that the murder was discovered, and informing Mrs, 3fcO, of tfia fact, and that shfr never told any person that aha knew any thiog about the murder. John ileubara, a former witness, recalled. Bata Mr, Bmhain ex-» plained the absence of Udaii, a workman In his era* ploy, who was,examined os a witness at the flrat meeting. The witness also testified that Udall on the night of the murder was at home and la bed at nine o’clock, Mr, Jacoby, baker, of tittle Nock, explained the whereabouts of a former workman panied Jones on the night of the murder* „Margaret McCftnnelJ, wife of Jamas McConnell, who was arrestedtogether with the Mccreerya on suspicion of being the murderer of Graham, testa-flea to giving her DUBbflnd money with which to pay for a pair of boots at Grahamls on the night of the murder; that he returned homo that oyenlug about seven o’clock, and that the did not know of the murder until Informed by Fannie Rapyloa; knew that her husband had money deposited In the savings bank.The story of Jofe Harper, a hostler at the Little NcoK Hotel,, who met a roan on the road to BJacK Stump some two weeks after the murder, who informed hint that * person la the employ of Mr, Jdcliarda at BJaefc stump wont home ou the night ol the murder wiih blfl shift bloody and torn, and left for parts unknown the next (lay after changing a ilOQ dll at Hyde Park, was shown by theofflosrs to pe without the lean foundation of truth.The case was then given, to the lory, who. after a few momenta1 consultation, rendered a verdict to the effect that the «d4 James Graham came to his (lcatHfet the hands of some person or persons unknown, * '
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New York World
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Fri, Mar 07, 1873
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