On January 17 the Cora jury announced its inability to agree. The trial
ended minus a conviction.
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Ned McGowan, James P. Casey, Sheriff Scannell and his aid, Billy
Mulligan, had frequent conferences in the offices of Casey's _Sunday
Times_. Broderick held more or less aloof from his political
subordinates these troublous days. But Charley Duane, former chief
engineer of the fire department, was their frequent consort. The _Sunday
Times_ concentrated its fire chiefly on James King of William. It was
his biting, unstudied verbiage that struck "The Federal Brigade" on
the raw.
Early in May the _Times_ accused Thomas King, the _Bulletin_ editor's
brother, of scheming by illegal means to gain the office that
Richardson's death had left vacant.
To this imputation, the _Bulletin_ made a sharp reply. Among other items
calculated to enrage his foe appeared the following:
"The fact that Casey has been an inmate of Sing Sing prison
in New York is no offense against the laws of this State; nor
is the fact of his having stuffed himself through the ballot
box, as elected to the Board of Supervisors from a district
where it is said he was not even a candidate, any
justification why Mr.
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