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Show (isy V. I'. Toloffrajih.) STOKES AND TWEED. New York, . Tho counsel in the Stokes case, in tho event of failure to obtain a new trial from judge Board-man, Board-man, will apply for a stay of proceedings proceed-ings and thereby secure a rovijW of tho cusc by tho full bench of tho supremo court, and on failuro there will go to the court ot appeals. Tweed last evening said his trial was merely a political one, and that they would never get a jury to convict him. Ho was tired of the business. A juryman jury-man says they all pledged thcmselvcB to divulge nothing occurring in the jury room. From forty to fifty ballot ings were had. Nothing was learned, upon an interview with several of the jurors, to show that any were influenced influenc-ed by improper motives. Tremaino, counsel for tho prosecution, Bays the panel of jurors from which the jury .elected was prepared, was in the interest of tho defendant. One juror was a bummer, provioYd with a now suit of clothes and procured for this trial. Another boasted be would make money if an tbn jury. Another had served in the Vimii.U prison for violating vio-lating the revenue laws, Lhounh he had been pardoned. These things were not discovered til! after tho jury was sworn. Judge Davis this morning refused re-fused the motion for an immed ate retrial of Tweed. There was local doubt about continuing the term. The regular terra commenced on Mondny and tho case would bo brought on by giving the usual notice |
