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Show IDyW. U.Telei-raph.) A BITTKH CHA11AC TEH OF fr'ISK. New York, 13. Tremaine spoke for fivo and a half hnnrt yesterday, in defence de-fence of Stokes. In the course of his remarks he said Stokes' shot was justifiable jus-tifiable on the ground that if ever a pistol shot was fired with a good effect, it was that fired by Stokes against Fisk. I do not want to justly murder, but in this case nothing is more justifiable. Fik in tho Grand Opera house, as in a castle, was as secure as tho bandits of Greece and Rome in their mountains, moun-tains, " Who was Fisk? He was the head of the 'Erie ring,' and to "his deathbed came the great chiefs of the Tammany riog. Ho established at the Opera house an armed castle. He had singing men and dancing women at his state dinners. Judges of courts and senators were his boon companions. He robbed a railroad. Ho had two establishments, one in Boston and the other in New York. He lived in regal splendour; and his companions attended on him as a monarch. His coachman had three servants under him. Giftedwilh a brain equal, it is boasted, to that of Daniel Webster, ho Drostituted those powers to the mere art of money getting. This man, with all his power, turned his engines against tho prisoner, had him arrested, and thought of murder. The prisoner lived under a sense of danger on account ac-count of apprehension, and in these circumstances those two met unex,- : pectcdly, and under this stross of fear the prisoner fired and Jas. Fisk died. |