Giusseppi Tocco, 29, is indicted for first-degree murder. Witnesses testify that, on July 31, 1906, a fight broke out among fish peddlers at the Fulton market on South Street. Detectives assigned to the market testify that Salvatore Germanco fired a pistol, wounding Salvatore Caradonna. A crowd chased the gunman along Front Street, catching him near Peck Slip. As police held Germanco under arrest, a second man, Giusseppi Tocco, approached and plunged a knife into the breast of Germanco, killing him instantly. The jury found the defendant guilty of first-degree murder.

Alexander Devoe is indicted for murder in the first degree. In January 1907 Devoe shoots and kills James (Lefty) Boyle, a petty thief, after an argument between the two men during a crap game. Two years earlier, in 1905, Boyle had accused members of the police force of corruption, claiming that the police had granted him immunity in exchange for a share of his proceeds from burglaries. At the time of the murder Boyle had been working as an informer for the District Attorney. During the trial Devoe changes his plea to guilty of murder in the second degree.