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Show Ferdinand Ward in Court. New Yobk, Oct. 22. An immense crowd of people filled the Court of Oyer and Terminer Termi-ner this morning, to listen to the proceedings proceed-ings in the trial of Ferdinand Ward. The latter was present in the custody of the ."Warden of the Ludlow-street jaiL His face was pale from his long confinement, but otherwise he appeared as well as usual. When the District Attorney called Ward's case, General Tracy, Ward's counsel, stated he desired to withdraw the plea of not guilty which his olient had entered. In presenting a demurrer, the General called the Jatten-tion Jatten-tion of the Court to the fifth count in the indictment. He said it was for the same offense as that charged in the first count, larceny and obtaining goods under false pretences. There were therefore two distinct dis-tinct crimes charged in different counts of the same indictment. Judge Barrett Bar-rett replied that if the two crimes were really but different aspects of the same facts, they could properly prop-erly be embraced under the same indictment. indict-ment. As the Court considered the crimes as different aspects of the same facts, the demurrer was overruled, and the prisoner called on to plead again, and his counsel changed his plea to not guilty. The work of obtaining a jury then commenced. |