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Show THE STOKES TRIAL. New York, 21. The evidence in the trial of Stokes to-day was to show that FUk carried a pistol, and that he had threatened io shoot Stokes, Jee F. Pitu, a former clerk in the Erie oflicea. Untitled to seeing Fisk with a pistol in his jxjeket. Adelaine Barke, , an old lady wlio washed for the Morse family, said she heard Fisk say to the yotmj.' ladiea while conversing, "I'll send him to a higher court than he ever wits before; the cur, I'll shoot him, sure's my name is Jim Fisk." A young lady said, " Oh, don't shoot him, or the gidlows may be your end." Fisk replied; " I'll shoot him, I'll wipe him nut. There was never a galluws made for Jim Fisk." On tho cross-examination the witness .'t ites that FiA k ssed both the young ladies. As soon as he entered the mom he was asked by the ladies what detained him, and he answered, Ptokes' prosecution, but he would wipe him out. He said, " I am pre-paied pre-paied for him." One ot the young Indies said, " Oh, you are jealous of the loss of a beauty." On the re-examination by Tremain, the witness said Fisk said, "I am prepared for him," and put his hand behind him; and also said, "I have a little rascal here." Judge Davis said, "A what?" Witness: "A liLtle rascal, your honor; s'poso he meant a pistol." J. A. Bines testifitrd that lie heard FLsk say he would shoot Stokes, and informed the latter the next morning of the threat, and heard Stokes say at the HulVmun House, he was afraid of his life. Mary Deanen heard Fisk say of Stokes, " I have got all the money he had out of him, and I'll wipe him out. There won't be a grease-spot left of him." |