It will serve to state the offence for which Casey was sentenced to State Prison in New York, before he left for California.  He had, the same as many other young men, taken up with a girl of loose character, whose chastity had been spoiled by another, and hired and furnished an apartment for her.  The two lived as man and wife — much as too many live in that same relation, for they quarreled and separated.  In his hot temper one day, he saw her upon the street, and instantly the thought flashed upon his mind that he would go to her apartment and have the furniture taken from it.  He still kept a key to the door.  He hired a wagon, and carried out his determination.  The landlady supposed it to be all right.  He had paid the rent in advance and she was that much the gainer.  He took the furniture to a second-hand furniture dealer, sold it and kept the money.  As he bought it, he felt that it was his to sell.  On the return of the girl, the landlady told her what had occurred.  In taking the furniture, he had also carried away some articles which belonged to the girl.  She hurried to the police Court, made charge against him, and he was arrested.  He made no defence and was convicted.  The sentence was eighteen months in Sing Sing prison.  He served his time and came to California.  This was the damning record which James King of William had threatened to publish in his Bulletin.  He did not publish the facts of the case; but only the fact of the indictment, the conviction, the sentence and imprisonment.  King had been told all this by a man who had been clerk to the District Attorney, and was cognizant of all the facts.  He was a prominent Broderick man, hated Casey for having left that wing of the party and joined the other wing, and adopted this means to blast him in reputation.  Casey was morbidly sensitive on the subject.  He had been apprised that King intended to publish the matter; and early in the afternoon of the day of the shooting he called upon Mr. King in his office, and warned him to desist from the publication.  King gave no heed to the warning; the matter appeared in the Bulletin that day.  Casey was exasperated to madness.  He armed himself, watched for King on Montgomery street, but he did not conceal himself.  It was King’s invariable custom to leave his office in the small one-story brick building which so long obstructed Merchant street on the east side of Montgomery, soon after the Bulletin was issued, walk to the cigar store on the north-west corner of Washington and Montgomery streets, and thence out Washington street homeward.  He usually wore a talma of coarse fabric, loose and reaching to his hips.  It was sleeveless, concealing his arms and hands.  As he came out of the cigar store, Casey hailed him.  The distance between the two was about forty feet.  Casey shouted to him, “Prepare yourself!” and fired.  King tottered and sunk upon the sidewalk.  He had frequently made notice in his paper that any whom he denounced in