Show IS DYING OF REMORSE tokes Who Killed James Fisk in Lat Last La t Stages of Senility Pittsburg Dispatch patch New York Edward S Stokes for formerly formerly formerly merly proprietor r of the Hoffman House Hoo e Known as the man who shot Jim aiss iek thirty years ago and who whoever whoever whoever ever since has bas lived in the shadow of the crime is seriously ly HI m at the home of his sister stater ter ia In this city Literally Stokes Stok tl lie it 1 dying of ot old did age etor for in iii his life Itte there then has been crowded so ao much shuck of sorrow W rr and tragedy and strife that the Ute yean jeans he hit k has lived do not begin to tome Ule me te lil his Mg Jt experience The face of Jim Fisk p has always been before him Since his release from prison in 1877 1817 18 7 he has b never neer slept In a dark room morn nor has hu he ever been alone at night Stokes life Ufe was wu as uneventful as the thee existence e ten e of any ordinary wealthy young man until at the age of 21 3 2 he be hemet hemet met Fisk FIk This meeting led to one of the most famous tragedies in this city Fisk with Jay Gould controlled the Erie railroad He found it 11 desirable in 1864 to cultivate Stokes as a com corn combination combination with Ills his oil business would be of great advantage to tl the railroad Fink Fisk was in the full flush of his glory when he took up young Stokes who was wan already getting to be a well wll known in th thA city He put him hm into the 1 J way of making money remarkably fast and for almost six years vents the two were fast friends Then Fisk isk began to suspect his friend of paying too fre tee frequent frequent quent visits to the house of ot Miss Josie Mansfield Fisk hired a detective and had his suspicions suspicious confirmed He was quick to act He attacked Stokes through the courts in m which he had in influence fluence On Jan 7 1871 Stokes was ar po arrested rested at a t the Hoffman House HOUM for embezzlement em embezzlement Stokes was waa at dinner with Miss Miu Mansfield when sews news sf et f move was brought to him He started out to for Fisk and aad an hour later he be shot shoe and mortally wounded the lat latter latter lattee ter tee in the Grand Central hotel Stokes was twice declared of murder in the first degree On thi the Uw third t trial the Ute verdict was manSlaughter and he was sentenced to four toR years yeats imprison imprisonment ment He was released in 1179 17 and aDd came out with hair hali as white as snow The life Ufe that is slipping away from tram Stokes is a burden that he will probably probably probably ably be glad to lay down 0 Somewhere in Europe the woman who made him a murderer is ts living in contentment and comfort comro I |