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Ingraham.(Concluded.)Notwithstanding li was at this time 10 minutes past seven o’clock, the Court desired the prisoner’s. counsel to open the defence. ,Mr. Hoffman, accordingly commenced by stating that he would not detain the Court or Jury dong with many remark, which it would perhaps be unnecessary to do at this stage of the proceedings, and would be bet-ter'reserved until the Prosecutor asked fora verdict of Guilty—that the defence of persons similarly situated to the Prisoner, was always attended with disadvantages, inasmuch as there were ‘ fearful odds against him— that the Public Prosecutor had the Police at his control who could pry into evory uook for evidence, and he could then rejec t what was not fit for his use, and, added Mr. H. “what can this unfortunatei.„ri do in that way. His Counsel; cannot ?ii’ „ -C-steps of proslitu’es to their sinksfollow iu- , hlg |jfe iiangs on nie lesti-■of infamy, - -cl;tor and on your merci-mony for the Prose. .. »perhapsful consideration ot * , ani to produceIyou ask me what evidence x •I answer only such as God g.v.f I® toe innocencent, and I can produce sticn - _contradict the leading and matenaL ia^. urged against him. It may be said if .he m not theie that night, where was he 1 xl is at all times hard toprove an alibi, especially fora solitary unknown individual like him. If the District Attorney were in jeopardy, he is well known and could easily do so,' for there .s no part of the city but in which he Is riot only known, but would be sure to be seen br many to whom he is known. AVith this'miserable boy it is not so-, he has only his aged and miserable Father, whom you see sitting there behind him to partake of his strife. He might have been on that night at some ' refectory taking his oysters, and drinking his wine where no one knew him. If even public men weie there, they would neither notice or know him. To them therefore we could not go for evidence on his behalf. Uwe ask the har-Kccper ]LQ whom h.o paid, the money for his refreshments, his answer is, In°J. know him in particular—I dare notsay I have: seen him, but I have so hinny differerit persons hero that.I.cannot recollect ——[-these observations I make . as , to me extent of proof you ought to expo.et from such an individul. . Alike suppose.him to be in a completely distant part of (he town, how is he to prove it ?:.B u t ge n 11 e m an ,Ihave 'proof—proof which is infiaitely;above eyeu comparison with: ;that.of mil-, [the.. .Rosina Townsends, Elizabeth Salters, , and..some half dozen other prostitutes, that can be brought- I will show that, on .that uiglit, ato’clock, lie was away-.from, that housealtogether [The learned gentleman here took a somewhat, copious review ol Mi’s. Townsend’s testimony, as offered in. support of the prosecution * and added i—“If, the prisoner be the guilty man. then Rosina Townsend’s evidence. is true: .but to showyou that it is untrue, we will prove by a respectable man, who is. »bove abnlapce you’ could in any way put .with Rosina Townsend and the other prostitutes; a man who is hot In' any way whatever connected with1 the accused;^ hufeame'forward to save him from pure humanity..A man,who keeps a large grocery store,-and .carries on an extensive business; we,will prove by him,' that Robinson came into his. store at 9| o’clock, and lit u cigar; that he stood talking till, 10 ; that they each compared their avatches wiih a dock then striking ; that the porter then said it was time to shut up. the store ; that Robinson remained. .10 or 15 minutes after that, and then left, and went in a different direction to that which .would take him toRosina Townsend’s; and .that his store is a mile and a half away from her house. Now, gentlemen, if that witness is the witness of truth, then this: prisoner is not. guilty... Wo will also prove that he had a coat on, and no’ cloak *, that he.then wore a cap, and not ahat; and if we can prove this, we shall surely have proved even rnore-than could have been expected of us.” [Mr. H. here commented yery severely upon some of the discrepancies in Mrs. .Townsend’s; evidence, as also, on some variations, in it as given on the trial from that which she had given elsewhere, and went on to say :] ‘‘But there has been one kind of testimony produced here,which was pot thought of. before,; I .iljude to the shaving of his head ; . which was done by direction.-of his physician, unbeknown to his counsel or friends, and as a remedy . for a fulness of; blood in bis bead .which his confinement.and want of exercise have brought on, and he has in consequence been compelled as you see to wear a wig. Gentlemen, even in this matter, has the extreme charity of the public papers followed him, or rather I would say some of them and hot all, for there are some of them too respectable to resort to such paltry, base practices.— But some-of 'them have fallowed hitn, and forgetting either him, or his aged father, or heart broken mother, have, even if he were guilty of the crime, gone, far towards depriving him of a fair trial, for the very yvig has been published ;as a proof of his guilt and an artifice used to evade conviction arid among those [papers which; so proclaimed it, one paper which so. strongly alluded to it, had met Rosina’s eyes. . Oh yes, she had readit; and then, for the first time, she speaks of a bald, spot on his head, although his. counsel had not until that moment heard of it.” [The learned gentleman then commented on the evidence of the girl Dancombp, and the whitewash, especially connecting it with Brink’s evidence; which he went on to stats would be proved to be paiiit, and added,] “I will not comment on the manifold inconsistencies of the testimony offered against him, but I will ask you if on such (estimy you can take his lilV? way beguilty ; God and himself only know, but if even he is guilty, it would be better for him to escape than to convict him on such testimony, on account of the example you would thereby hold out for prostitutes. If he is guilty, it is the strangest murder ever known in the annals of crime, for he had just before laughed and smiled, while on his brow sat no cure.or remorse, and aft or 1 Jje was found in bed sleeping till morning, when he was awoke by the officers* He all alontr pursued the same even course and has done so river. since. He has declaredhimself innocent P1 God and ^ls COUDSe,*~ - were, told by the DistrictAttorney in the onset, that you were to say who did this murder, Ldec »reyoa aremot to say who did it, but did R^ard P Rob-nson do it; and you are to say that on strong and perfectly clear testimony, and when you hear our evidence I think you will say! you cannot say.he did it without tramp, ling on the law of theland and murderinginn°MCH. concluded at a i to 8 o’clock, and then called Robert Furlong, who stated: ri d Grocer at 2*Cedar, and keep a large tanuly. grocery , 1 have lived there about one year; ^torcLlivud at the corner of Liberty and hen in maiden Lane, in the wole If™'*1* in those places 26 years; I am 3J years ofI age ; I buvo seen Robinson frequently in my I ascer.tlain ,whi:(jier(r kllriiy hiilll I did hot | storeT«»r cigars; I never knew )vh(ior what he Uity • I did , iiot . know himJ. Wliaj, ( was or his name ; 1 knew lie was somewhere I .-ay; is true. 4 Mr.. . Burnham at Bul.cvue, | in Maiden’(Lane ; I .knew, bis face as well as ( head him call me. by name,; \iltld Sinv him I-do yoursv ( Air. Price) and I. have known shake hands with me. .1“ then spoke tlt;“in-. I not ihistiiken as to thiit f;,ct—S!,,d the fmind ,(,« (|..or ajar' :u/d portly jshti S«\id tills liirhl in the ftnlrv inlt;)pf3IVit. roundyou since I was a boy ; I heard of the iniir-der on theSunday,; on Monday it mis read to “me orininy presence; he. was at my. store on the Saturday night of the murder; ho Came : in at exactly 9^ o’clock, it did out vary1 one ; minute ; ■ lie bought a bundle of cig:irs:wilh 25 in the bundle, ■ he lighted oneand sat down i on a [barrel, he remained smoking and talking to me; lie lit a second cigar; when' the old Dutch church clock struck 10 ; I took my ; watch out and saidto Rdbinso’n I wish my bpya . would coine,they: are past their, lime ; Robinson pulled out a small silver ^watch examined hlis, and said his was one minute faster than mine; mine had been regulaied by Harold the watchmaker that day ; after 10 o’clock, the porter spoke about shutting up, and said the clock had struck ; that; is my usual time for shutting up the store,; Robinson still remained there sitting on the barrel and smoking;I keep things out on my stciup, and the porter had after 10 o’clock .-.to.; bring them in, because of its being Saturdaynight;'.Jlo'hiri-son stood , during that time talking to me ; he [said A: arri .encroaehing on your time ; but I will wait for, the hoys before I leave the store; I-do not think he had smoked the second segar out. - .The porter had been sleeping when Robinson came in and was sitting in one corner and. at .10. o’clock Rob-inson knocked some of the sugar ashes in his face ; I went to .look if the things were brought in, and Robinson followed me to the door stoiid on .the stoop' ; had a frock coat oh, buttoned it up when he went away, acap otl his.head ; :he bid me good night, andsaid he had been busy, and was tired, and he believed he should go home and go to bed ; this was.al a 10^; I bid him good night andlie then left me.To the Court—I know where M rs.Towti-send’s house is, which is, I believe, a mile from my store or more.To Mr; Price—On Wednesday, I heard that'a clerk at Mr. Ilbxie’s was the murder-.er, and reeollected his being there on the Saturday, .previous. All this 1 swear true.To the Court—First I head of the niurder was on Sunday motning, fiom the porter who comes to clean my boots, c. My bar-keeper read Robinson’s name, hut I did not know his name, and did not think of it. On the Wednesday I went past Hoxie’s store, and missing Robinson, my mind became impressed that it was him, arid 1 went to Bellevue to see him. At Bellevue I knew him as soon as I saw him, and he recognized tno. This was on a Wednesday, or Thursday, about a fortnight after the murder. Robinson called me by name. I knew him to be the same person t supposed, and who was at my house on Saturday night.— That person is Richard P.,Robmspn the prisoner at the bar; I am not related to him, or in any other way acquainted with him or his. I had made arrangements to go out of town with my wile,- when you (Mr. Maxwell) requested -.me to stay. I had been to Belletue before I saw you.The witness was then subjected to a severe arid rigid cross-examination by Mr. Pheriix, “ but as nothing occurred at all to invalidate his testimony* we shall on account of a great scarcity of- room only furnish our readers with such new topics as were elicited in the cross-examination.Mr. Furlong went on to state—Robinson has sometimes before that stopped a little while at my store, and lighted segars and read newspapers. It was a damp night, and damp either from fog or dew, which Inin certain of,, because I recollect the watchirian. buttoning up his coat rind saying he should want it. I think Robinson wore a black or dark blue frock coat, , but I am sure it was a dark colored frock-coat—I did not observe his pantaloons—he-hud a dark vest—I first heard for a certainty that he was a clerk at Hoxie’s the first time I went to Bellevue—I read a description of him in the papers and of his belonging to a house in Maiden Lane —I do not know whether it was a six-penny or a penny paper—from that description I supposed it might be him, and I thought I vould go and see him. I'told the keeper I should like to see if I should know him.I met you (Mr. Pheriix) there. 1 had seen him before ! saw you there, and the first time £ recognised him as being the person. You asked me what 1 wanted to see him for. I did not tell you 1 did not know, Robinson, but 1 told you 1 wished to see him. You are mistaken,and I will explain it lhns : after I had seen him the first time, somebody sent to me to knowwh'elher I knew him,'and I thought before I went to any court, I would go again, accordingly procured arv order to see him. lire keeper, on presenting- it, said that ■ it came from a “Whig,” and I was not admitted and I told you that I wanted to see him toghi »ii the 'entry was ill 1..S* .unrip, arid that there were but Burnham as to my knowing j,risim*.r, and of *V,lt;S 'hich behis heiiigin.my store on the Satiirdiiv eve‘rid ofi hinged m Miss SievW^; add'one • toniog. Mr. Lyons.stood by the sue.iii.l iiit-erview, and Mr. Burnham at the iirstl —— ,IIoxio sent his young inan tor me, anil. 1 went and told hiirt wlia't 1 have told yon, which was about ri week after I had first been !lt Bellevue. I have never entertained any; more doubt of prisoner’s being at my house at the: time l ltave stated than I now doubt,being here.[Here a watch was talien from the neck of. prisoner, and witness im.nedratelv recognised it as the one young man had in hissi ore.].. [Mr. Huxie was here call d and testified that lie hud bought,the'.watch iur prisonerabout 6 months ago, nud that prisoner hadworn it ever since.] ' 'Mr.'Furjoug added in answer to some question to Mr. Max well—f was refused admission to Be.llevue.by:the keeper,.who tossed the order, one side, and said : “ Lhatcomes from a whig,it has no authority here.” But that might be in jest—-he seemed very pleasant afterwards.[The Com t then adjourned till 10 o’clock on Monday morning:]Monday G.Several yvilpesses were called, wno were, not in 'attendance,.and Mr. Maxwell observed that from the immense crowd assembled 'about, the.building, and the extreme difficulty he himself hari found . in .getting in, he considered it extremely probable tii.it it was physically impossible lor them to pass thro’ the immense mass of persons on the out-' side. . /Peter Collier, at last appeared as a witness for tile defence and stated—I am! a watchman of-the.city .watch, and was on duty the night of the murder, and on duty be-1 tween Franklin,arid chapel Sts', at the time of the alartn, and heard the alarm rap, and went tp the house in Thomas st. I was the fifth :watchman, who entered theie,but among -the first lot.•. I was there till day breakr I saw Mrs.: Townsend and had conversation with her, to endeavor to find out the murderer. I asked her if she knew the person who had been in the room with Helen Jewelt.She said she knew him by the name of Frank Ri vers. I asked her if she thought, that was his right name. She said she did not know.I asked her if she knew his person if she should see him by daylight. She said no, she would not know him by daylighf,and further said lhat he had not visited there more than.4-or 5 times, and then with a cap on and a cloak round his face that she had scarcely seen him, and could riot recognize; this was said in the presence of somo of the girls : I think every girl 'in the house was' 10 the room at the time. . She said she went up stairs to .Helen’s room ; that 'there - was a bottle of champagne called for.tbut .she took-it ap, but did,not see him, for Helen came to the door and took the wine, iind that she had no opportunity of seeing him then so as to enable her to know him, for she came down stairs again directly. T asked the girls do not any of you know the young man % they all said they did not, with the exception of one. , 'Cross examined by Mr.; Phcenixl—Mr. Lane and.another man were in the reom at the time of this convetsalinn. Mrs. T. did not say she saw any person in Iloleiv’s room, the conversation was loud enough, to havebeen heard by nil in thd rno/n sho said sholet the persoti in that night who answered to the name of Frank Rivers ; she said when he came in lie had ; his cloak wrapped round his face, and always had it so when he came in, that she might not see him she said she did notice his face at the door, but could not swear to liimi . I risked her where Frank Rivers lived y she said she did not know ; one person, who- occupied the room adjoining, said she knew him—I think it was Miss Stevens, she said he frequented a dry good store in Pearl st. two doors out of Chatham, and could find him of ri week day in two minutes ; she ttor tio one. else then mentioned his name only as Frank Rivers ; I went out then to Mr.Brink with Mr, Laing, and told him ; we then returned to the house ; I did notjtuow Mrs. T. beforo this ; I was not in court when sho gave evidence; 1 have been in court before this, I was there on Friday ; 1 judged it was M rs. Townsend, because she was mistress, arid was called by, and answered to that name ; she did not mention the lamp being bu'rning when she let him in, if she had I Ibitik I must have heard ii ; she might have said other things which L did not hear, or do not recollect v I am sure she did not say she saw his lace by the light of- the lamp ; she said nothing about the light ip Ihe room or where it ston'd ; she said she saw ' a light standing in the entry at 3 o’clock in the utur-'did nfi i ;.,U'n?,,d s acco,J1 what she did after she Immd the light in the • entry, which corresponds with that already give.u by hersell m her evidence.] VVilnc3s cort. ..tinned, r-1 think no oilier watchintjn besides those two 1 have named, were present at the conversation —:Mr. Laing also sp„ke to her on the saw subjectifying. Cm m,- and myself all went tog'ulher. T found Mrs. T. ii(» stairs nil the landing—there wore 3 lt;.-her watchman there before 1 g,„ (he,e, viz. Gardner, Norton arid flul!—I did not salt;i Kiry,watchmen talking {0 Mrs. T. when I got there, nor afterwards before Lhud this conversation with hor~I did not hear what Liiiiig said to her, ffir T was called into the other room, excepting what he said about ,1amu of lhe person—I do not : kttoiy of any other watchman speukitig’m her about it- I returned, to the room in 5 minutes afi toy 1 went our,.'when Laing was speifim^— Mold this cohvtii'rfntjoH to several watchmen in the watch' house—-I ,m,„ed it to ! tjec.ir,-Vrai land, Jagger a’nd Griffin, with the exception of Ilmi relating to the light in ihe eritry.I have huuii oxVnriined by Mr. Maxwell this inonnng as to what I knew ahout this mat-ter—I also named it to Mr.Hoffman on Friday last. I aib a dealer in Charcmal,- and have lived here last time for 12 , years rind have been .a Watchinriir siiide last ' Odtobef.I have not been crilled on or applied to by any of prisoner’s friends. My only motive under. Heaven is tri tell the truth, -without any.feeling on the mutter. Miss Stevens^ room is separated from Heleri’s by a (bid plaster partitiun. Miss Stevens;- who I am told is since dead, said she liliew thd pril'sbrt of Frank Rivers, who was supposed to be the murderer ; Noble nor Brink had not arrived there when the conversation took place, ‘ • - :[The Miss Stevens above named, rupfi}-red a blood vessel on the night riffef the'murder, and died about a week ago.]Rosina Townsend recalled arid cross Examined by Mr. Maxwell. £ know Sarah Dtmscomhe. I have heard heri state that P rank Rivers, (supposed to be the prisoner) was at my house on Thursday and i think I saw him there but cannot'say-positive;:,! She sard, so since she was examined here on the trial. I did see him at my bouse on lYe'rf-nepday or Thursday before the mffider ' but am not sure which. I believe I have not be-W sworn for certainty that u was on Thursday. Mr. Maxwell here referred to her evidence as given when she was fir-tex^ ammed on the trial', and it stood1 fini's ^ ‘’the' (person) was there on the Thnrsdtty niohi before the murder” the court however had ' * n, m oncertairi state; uamEly, either \S ednesday or Thursday, but though it way Thufsday.. E.Vamirmtion resum'e'd. 1 Miss; S)eypns died a weekgo last VVednesdav after the mutder, iind died at Mrs. Galhmh--^ WaS 6x801 ined here the other day AJiss Stevens used the adjoining 6om tlereii s. No-man to my kriowfedgri hriWGUffirta atnriri __......if/, .. ‘ .committed suicide since the murdEr who’Wasra iho houds lhat ..;sht, (Mr/ Aha* 'ob!MC'“pt. M,7MoS'r sh“W fawrted on Mr, Phentx for such frequent improper and tmpert.neiit .oterruptions and the court sm-pnrted Mr. Maxwell.) I have udrheafd of any such qccurreuce. Re examined by Mr. Phenix* I did read tn theripper of prisoner’s head being shaved but ljradhe oretiminamcdit to you iH,d .Mr Maxwcl that I had serin a bald place on h.s head. 1 here ivasa liox ofpaprirs'hririd-ff6, morning-which! had a few days before seen jh her room. J gave the watch chain arid'a' rim* tothe coroner qr one of the officers'that rimr-mng I newer told any writribmri,, I 'did nut sec the ace of Frank Rivers wliom [ ]et inthat night. I do nut know Foter Coffier m Wdlchman, by name I never told imv watchman as to my knowledge' of Frank Rtvers difiereat to what I liave' 'siaVed on my cxam.natiori, no,- ib-it I (liricriverriii the light on the floor in the entry.; ; - g J11V. Justice Lowndi; wiW-'fteiT foc'-illeil and in answer to (ptesticinri from Mr,: ' | £ man states-,-1 took tlirioxdritirintiohs o fit. spi iownsend and SaaikDunWcomh. ’ Mr n . asked what the Justice recollected llosi-n.t .Townsend to have sakl its tlt;i h’nmk Riv-Sedand t ' ^#'?henix ob-JCUed and urged reference to be iriade to he dcposittqn. Mr, R. explained tlriu at the investigation alluded to there Were no depos.uongaken, only an affidavit, which af-bdavit Mr, Thcntx suhmitud was the proper evidence. The ruling of the eom t.owiag to the low tone m which Judge Edwards de-bvered it,Vvas not heard at the reporter’s tq-, kj'ridi Dunsconibo said positively lhat Robinson Was thufe on Thursday, arid Mrs.
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