crowd, and bore straight down through it, leaving a clear space
behind them, until they reached the point of disturbance, when they made
a charge upon the rowdies, some of whom drew pistols but were afraid to
use them; secured the leaders and principal bullies, and hurried them
off to secure lodgings in the Committee Rooms. The work was done in a
wonderfully short time and in the most skillful manner; and no further
disturbance occurred.

The punishments prescribed for offenders by the Committee being only
two, viz, death and banishment, and neither being applicable to the
cases of some of the numerous prisoners now in their hands, these were
discharged after being cautioned not again to offend. The rest, after
trial of each one in the mode prescribed, were sentenced to banishment;
were quietly embarked at night, and so "left their country for their
country's good."

Perfect quiet now seemed restored to the City. But soon the people were
again roused and horror-stricken by the deliberate murder of Dr.
Randal, a large land owner in various parts of the State, while quietly
conversing with the bar-keeper in the St. Nicholas Hotel, by one
Hetherington who, four years before had been tried for murder, but by
some means had escaped conviction. Several gentlemen were in the room at
the time, and were in considerable danger from the shots fired by him.
The alarm being given City Policemen who first arrived, arrested him;
but he was immediately taken from them by Vigilance Policemen, and at
once conveyed to the Committee Rooms. Two murderers, Hetherington and
Brace, were in due time tried the counsel whom they selected, were
procured; and the witnesses they named, obtained for them. They were
condemned, and some time after publicly executed in open day and in
presence of a great multitude in a public street in the lower part of
the City.

The case of Hopkins so dreadfully wounded by Judge Terry, was, for a
long time, considered desperate by the eminent surgeons and physicians
in constant attendance upon him. But after long hovering between life
and death; to the astonishment of all, he began slowly to recover,
until, at length, after many weeks of seclusion and intense suffering,
in the early part of August, he was able again to make his appearance
upon the streets. And now that his recovery was assured, the question as
to the disposition to be made of the author of his dreadful sufferings
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