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
was one of the most difficult imaginable.
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