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Show JAYCUUL-) AN3 E. S. STOKES Edward S. Stokes sleeps in the dissecting room of Ihe Sing Sing prison, and yet has plenty of air, as he does not close the windows. On Friday night two corpses wero at his feet, and his resl was bioken. He is niilicted with neihnia, )Uul the prison physicians s iy that his life would soon be ended were ht locked up in a cell. Mr. Charles W. Brooks will go lo Albany to-morrow lo argCio be-More be-More llie court of appeals tor the release uf Stokes. Tlio prisoner hopes to be free this week, Iu speaking speak-ing of wdiat ho may do when he secures se-cures his liberty, he says: "Some persons think i' would he prudent for me to go away from New Yo:k, on account ot Jay Oould's ruth.ins. There was a timoivhi'ti my life was in danger from these seoiindrelH. I didn't fear them then and I don't fear them now. They are notoriously cowards. They came to mo wilh queer stories, and then reoorted to Could and Fisk, alt that I said. The bullies were always ready to sell out lo the highest 'bidders. They so workut upon Imsi: s inmU with their falsely concocted stories thai he rea'ly believed I intended to altaeU him, and he armed himself. Il Fisk had been removed from ihe evil influences of Jay Could and his rullians, Fisk and I never would have been enemies. ene-mies. I'm gfting to slay iu New York city, attend quietly to my busi-ntss, busi-ntss, and shall 1:0 out of town when feel so inclined." Coder the sentence imposed b) Justice Neao Davie, Stokes' term wil expire on tho -Gin of October next llo has been in Sing Sing prison since November 1. 1S73. |