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jury retired on Thursday last to .consider its verdict. The Loader-Priee conspiracy was not exposed until yesterday. If ft verdicthad been given before yesterday, the exposurewould have been of no account, so far-as itaffected the trial just closed. We trust to be able to record to-day the fact that the jury is made aware that at least a part of the plaintiff’s case, as the public understood it on Thursday last, is based on fraud and perjury.In view of the use made of Loader and Price's affidavits in Court, the counsel for the plaintiff must prove that they have been “duped”—in order to avert a far moreserious charge. For the rest, we aresatisfied that before Loader and Price consent to go to State Prison, they will be able to make it clear that there is more knavery than folly in this ease from beginning to end. Where the folly was, all men can see, and all good men hope that where the kuavery is will be quite as apparent before many days.The American Victory at Dollymount*The news of the victory of the American Bifle Team at Dollymount yesterday cannot be said to have been unexpected. The shooting at Creedmoor in 1874 had, to connoisseurs who look beyond the score in estimate of the skill, revealed that in accuracy of aim, in quick estimate of wind power, and steadiness of nerve the American Bifle Team were superior to their antagonists. The practice shooting done in Ireland, before the shooting of yesterday, had led the Irish themselves to the same conclusion. Bo that neither the twenty-thousand assembled on the proudest bit ofInshland to see the shooting, the quarter million who heard the news in Dublin, nor the million and a half who shouted over it last evening, in New York and Brooklyn,were really astonished at the result.The Eagle yesterday stated that if the American Team should be beaten, it must be beaten by the best rifle shooting of the kind that the world has ever seen. The score justifies the prediction. At long range, no such deliberate rifle shooting as was yesterday doneby Dakin and Gilderslieve on the elope of Olontarf was ever recorded. The* total of the five marksmen has never been equaled. It surpassed all their past scores. It surpassed their Creedmoor score by 33 points. Another revelation which it made afforded still greater assurance of its superiority. Fulton and Bodine, when they left America, carried in their cartridge boxes the hope of America, while looking at the Creedmoor side, the fears centred around Dakin. The result yesterdayshowed that in the hour of real trial, themembers of our Team display among themselves an equality of nerve and eye that only fluctuates through accidents little understood by those non conversant with the requirements of great shooting at long range.In the shooting at Creedmoor, Fulton stood first. In the shooting at Dollymount, yesterday, .be stood but fourth. In the shooting at Creedmoor, Gilderslieve stood fourth and Da-kin last. In the shooting at Dollymount, Gilderslieve and Dakin. stood together at the head of all the shooting done, and at the head of all the rifle shooting ever recorded. Yale,who stood second, at Creedmoor, stands lastbut one at Dollymount. The meaning of all| this is, that the members of the American. Team are among themselves of little if anydifference of capacity; and whenever Fulton and Bodine are not at their best, Dakin and Gilderslieve, or Yale and either of them, are. The aggregate power not only remaining the same, but as exemplified by yesterday’s shooting, steadily increasing. .The victory of yesterday, therefore, is duenot to the powers of one or two members, but to the average powers of the whole. It is the Team, not any particular one or two members of it, that is continuously strong. At Wimbledon we may find Bodine, Yale,or Coleman ahead on the score. Bodine insisted here at the clubs, after the Creedmoor match, that Dakin was as good a shot as anyin the world. Fulton then stood first favorite. But yesterday vindicated the assertion of Bodine. And we have no doubt that Dakin last night said the same of Colemau, who may justify the assertion at the very next trial. The Irish Team yesterday fell below its
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York, US
Wed, Jun 30, 1875
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