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Trial for murder — conviction of the prisoner. --The case of Joseph John McCarthy, indicted for the murder of his wife, Ellen McCarthy, on the night of the 6th of last November, was taken up and proceeded with in Judge Lyons's Court yesterday. From the evidence, it appeared there had been no eye-witness of the deed of blood, but the following facts were elicited during a protracted examination of a large number of witnesses: The accused, a shoemaker by trade, and withal a man of intemperate habits, lived with his wife, and a child of here by a former husband, in a room in the third story of one of the brick buildings on the northwest corner of Cary and 7th streets. Access to this room was only had by means of a flight of steps leading from a back yard to the second story of the house, on the outside, and thence by a stairway within the house. On the night of the tragedy, prisoner came home drunk, just as his wife was about starting out on a visit, and when she went down sta