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/ CouRr or OVER ASp TERaIINeR.-Bofore Judge Kent
and Aldermen Woodhul and Leonard.


TrtGl Of Peter Kane for WHrdU-The prisoner
tried Indictment charg.nr him with having, ou tie
night of the la July last caused The death OF Ca61rigr
wife of Tnomss Riley of 3G;h street scar OH Avenue, b
by abbpc her With s~ordcane in tho right breast aud
incting wound that Terminated her lio few minutes
aftcrward.


Kane, with his family it appeared, occupied the front
and bed Of tho second story OF the hou.e IN
36th street, while Riley with his wife and two children,
occupied the trout of the third story directly above
Or the night Of the lTih July, Kane became roa some
cause greatly excited and sailed out INTO the street VITA
Il sword i'll his hand, evidently bent mischief
With IA candle stick and smoo. .hug-ireu no broke the
windows Of porter houc oppoie also broke the WIN
dows of his residence snd those of other OF his neigh
bors and broke i'll the upper panel OF the trent ha door
of the house in which he and Riley resided. Ia tie store
of Mrs. Degan he attacked named Stevens stabbed
him the writ aud stempted fartscr violence hut was
prevented lie then attacked Ia the street ranes
Gengcn, aud struck hm with the cane on the neck


these and other exhibitions ofyoence he returned
into his where hiS Swordcane WAS taken from
him aud whore rs vile attempted TO Tctin AIM hu ne
recovered the sword aud left his apartment again
About tins hirs Riley who sitting with her next
door neirhhor ccnycrs ng at O'Clock night hcariug
her child cry The door OF her hcuc 10 enter IL but
M she approached, hauc who had stationed himself IN
the hall the behind the door thrust the sword Of
his through the aperture OF the broken out pannc
into the right breast oil My lIey between tnc eeohH
and third ribs penetrating the great aorta about halt an
inch above The valve ami producing i.t,l wound A.
ne stabbed ho said take that" cf,ed cut murder,
and exclaimed. Kane has stabbed me Prisoner then
ran up stairs anl Mrs Riley conveyed into the house
OF Mr. LawCr. ad dining whore IN feH minutes she eN-
pred AS Riley was Fastening up stairs to some
brandy to wash his wifas wound, he met Kane on the
stairs and said TO bn you mu dcrInr ian. YOU have
murdered ~l!s Have L. he replied, ard On beias
told that he had said " have .ihcr life yet TO take
and rushed upon Riley Who seized tho cane aud after
severe struggle broke the point of The so'd bent up the
blade, threw the prisoner down and disarmea him tic
was soon after arrested


The case was ably conducted and eoqucntly summed
up for the defence by James I. Brady and Josiah Merritt
E,qs anu by he District Attorney for the prosecution
Judge Kent charged the jury who retired ut o'clock
last evening. and y O'Clock returned Court with
verdict of NanaUgh,et IN the first degree with recon-
mendaton to the mercy Of the Court The prisoner
then remandcd for sentence