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The morning journals , with whole leaded pages of evidence , and new diagrams of the house and fatal room ; and the enterprising illustrated weekly , with portraits of the deceased , the prisoner , his counsel , Tiffles , Patching -LRB- great hat and all -RRB- , Patty Minford , the coroner , the foreman of the jury , a full-page design of the murder , as it was supposed to have taken place , representing the infuriate Wilkeson , club in hand , standing over the prostrate body of the inventor , from whose forehead the gore was pouring in torrents -- all these delightful , provocatives of sensation had done their full and perfect work . At that moment , Marcus Wilkeson was known to the world of readers in New York and the whole country round about , as the murderer of Eliphalet Minford . On the second morning of the inquest an immense crowd of people were assembled in front of the house . They had been collecting since five A.M. , when a party of six Jerseymen , having sold off their stock of nocturnal cabbages at Washington Market , had taken position of vantage before the house , from which they and their wagons were afterward dislodged with great effort by a squad of police . Some butcher boys , also returning from their night 's work at market , were next on the ground , and selected adjacent awning posts and trees , as good points of observation . Mechanics and shop girls , going to their labor , recklessly postponed the duties of the day , and stopped to stare , awestricken , at the house . A knot of people in a street , is like a drift of wood in a river .