The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1873, Page 3

i) Mt ’ “ Ww rr rr ssssses—‘“Csi—C ‘ THE WALWORTH MURDER. The Story of a Member of the Bereaved Family. Scenes Beside Chancellor Wal- worth’s Coffin. A letter Written in Blood and Sanded with Powder. A Wife's Silent Agony—Another Life To Be Saved at the Expense of the Memory of ~ the Dead—Sad and Stern Facts which Must Come Out, The Walworth tragedy, which a few days ago startied the community to its depths, has not yet Jest any of its morbid interest for the public. Every little detail and surrounding of the horrible murder, the antecedents of the victim and his @layer, even everything that remotedly concerns the bereaved family, is discussed with that un- healthy gout which only a saticty of crime can pro- duce. The demeanor of the wretched prisoner, ‘the characteristics of the father and the sufferings vot the unfortunate mother are still subjects of all- absorbing interest in gossiping circles. ‘Tke rumor that young Frank H. Walworth would be indicted yesterday caused a Mutter of excite- ment among the loungers of the Court of General Sessions and a profound sensation among the members of the Walworth family who reside in this city. A HERALD reporter called on one of the lat- ter yesterday afternoon, who not only has taken a Prominent part in the obsequies of the murdered ‘man, but who has been most attentive to the be- reaved widow and her unfortunate son since the morning upon which the fatal shots were fired, It was the reporter’s intormant Who iaid the floral rogs upon the remains of Mansfield Tracy Wal- worth ON THURSDAY NIGHT LAST; ‘who was one of the four mourners at his funeral on Friday morning; who paid his last tribute to the dead in the shape of a magnificient wreath of im- ‘mortelles and tube roses; who accompanied the re- ‘Mains to the Hudson River Railroad depot, en route to Saratoga, and who had seen Mrs. Walworth off to attend the funeral of her husband by the Albany boat the previous evening. With this disinterested friend of the Walworth family the HeBaLD reporter had a long conversa- tion yesterday, in which he reluctantly stated many family affairs which have now unfortunately be- come of so much interest to the public that they are fit matters to be chronicled‘in the columns of a Mewspaper. The reporter felt the painfui nature of his duty as much as his informant did in baring the social cancer which has mortified to such a terrible extent, and as it can be of little interest to the public, and its mention a breach of confidence, the name of the informant is suppressed. It is ae to say that he is nearly conunected with, the family of the late Chancellor Walworth. The, reporter with difficulty introduced the object of his visit and remarked by way of preface that so ‘many persons naa sonnltd eS ae Wat wage lunged into print” on the Walworth tragedy that it was due in so much to the memory of the mur- q@ered man as well as to the unfortunate boy now awaiting his trial in the Tombs that the public should Know exactly the real circumstances of the case, “Well,” replied the gentleman, “I do not want + to say anything over my name. God knows it been mixed up too oiten in this matter.” ‘The re perter assured him that he would not make his name public, and he resumed :— “You know we have only one thought new, and-|. that it is to save the boy. A stray word may sacri~ fice another life, and our famiiy is depleted enough already. 1 understand that they intend indictin; Frank to-day, or at all events immediately; bat. tell you they MUST GO TO WORK QUICKLY if they want his mother’s testimony. If they delay Jong they won’t have an opportunity of caliing her to the stand. Iam glad to see the HERALD hag contradicted the statement that Mrs. Walworth did not propose to attend her husband’s funeral. She met the remains at the depot in Sarat y and attended the funeral, leaning on the arm of Father ace Walworth, the brother of her dead hus- 4 SHORT BURIAL SERVICE ‘Was read at the depot by the Rev. Mr. Newman, of the Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Dr. Backus, and atthe grave also, and this was the only religious service performed over Mansfield Tracy Walworth. Mrs. Walworth will be in town this afternoon. She ve orders to a trunk maker in Sixth avenne, on ursday evening, to make a trunk in which she could pack Frank’s clothes, and through & mistake it was only this morning that the trunk was sent to Saratoga. She may not get it ‘until after the hour for the starting of the train for New York, and if so she will not be here before to- morrow morning or perhaps to-morrow after- noon. “Now, Mr. ———,”’ asked the reporter, “I want to know your sincere impression of Frank’s state of eoun lask yeu what you think on the sub- ject: “My answer may surprise you. I have ridiculed the theory of insanity at all times. I do not be- lieve that'a man can shoot another down and then be allowed to plead insanity. I have always Isughed at the idea, Frank Walworth is no more insane than you are, and if you told him 60 he ‘Would laugh at yeu, too, And yet HE HAS NOT REALIZED what he has done. I have seen him to-day, and he still believes he has done a meritorious act. Of course there is not a member of his family who mpathizes with the crime he has committed. ir common feeling is one of horror, amd there is Rot one of us who would not yield up our own life ‘that this terrible thing should not have occurred. Nobody could have dreamed of its poor 4 You snould have seen Frank Walworth before th occurred. A more gentle creature never breathed than I saw him at the inquest on Friday last. I could not believe that I was looking upon the same boy 1 knew so well. You remember when Mr. Morehead ee that horrivle description of the murder; I thought he would have wilted and cried like a child, but you saw how unmoved he was. No, not even when his father's card, STAINED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD, ‘was shown him, did he betray any emotion, and I Warrant that everybody in court was horrttied. He grows more apathetic every day, and as this false stoical courage increases, his condition, tomy mind, becomes more critical. The reaction will come, however, some day, and wien it does come, and when he realizes what he has done, Frank ‘Walworth will be the most miserable man you ever aw on this earth. His nacure is such that should ever realize the enormity of his crime the effect will be simply terrible, and I pray to God for his own sake, as does every member of his family, that he may never realize it.” “Now, Mr. —-, to put an end once and for ever to the sensational stories which have been told with regard tothe treatment of his wife by Mansfield Tracy Walworth and the aggravating circum- stances which led to this crime, may I ask what i know of your own personal knowledge to bi rue? There are so many conflicting stories abroad, and irom unauthorized sources, that I would like tw have your statement for the HERALD.” “It is a terrible thing, sir, to have to lay bare FAMILY SECRETS under such circumstances, and yet, as I told you, we must endeavor to save another life at the ex- pensé of the memory of the dead. I am charitable enough to suppose that Mansfeld Tracy Walworth ‘was insane on One subject—that of his affection for his wife. I believe that if he could be now asked if he loved his wife he would say that he did sin- cerely and with all his heart, The fact is, Mrs, Walworth was A HANDSOME WOMAN, OF REFINED TASTES. He had iow tendencies, notwithstanding his bril- fant genius, She lived with him as long as it was possible tor a woman to live with a man under Buch circumstances, and he only missed her when he lost her. He was proud of her as an employer is proud of a confidential clerk, whose value he does not appreciate until better prospects takes him sway from him. It galled Mansfield Tracy Wal- worth to the heart that this woman should have Jert him, and I think the separation cost bim his totellect.” “What do these sensational stories about his Maltreatment of his wife amount to ¢” “We have paid up Mr. Walworth’s bill in the house on Fourth avenue, where he resided immediately before his death. We have all his trunks here, in Which his letters and papers are sealed Gs We have there and in Saratoga letters which he has written to his wife, which I hope we may never be compelled to produce in open Court; bu! ‘we be compelled, we can, I think, show suc! AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES Ap this case that will startle the entire community. When Chancellor Walworth died he left his son, Mansfield Tracy Walworth, a simple annuity, an left the remainder of nis Property to be divided up for the support of hi ily, knowin the character of his son. will ol the Ohancellor’s made Mansfield wild with . He stood over the coffin of his own father in Saratoga and cursed the ty 8 he had been born, in should He called on God to aven; upas ti called it, and Diasphemed ine most horvitns manner. He said it should be the object of his life that his own father should not be easy in his gr: Of thie Mra, Dr. Backus, the sister of Mrs, W, worth, was @ witness, as Well as Other members of ‘ou should have seen it. He said to Frank, “I promise,” when he was askea if he Would promise not to insult his mother in his ab- sence. Mansfield Tracy Walworth always carriea @ pistol in the breas t of his coat, and Frank Walworth knew it. When he saw him make the metion he fired. I blame him, because I think he ought to have got away, and I think he could if he wished; bat the boy was aggravated beyond meastre. He never intended to shoot his father, and he made that statement of his to the Coroner against the wish of every ope of his relatives, ye WAS NOT CRAZY, but, reared as bé Das mn, with no recollection of a father’s love, bis earliest years associated with harsh treatment of his mother, his brothers and sisters and himself, so greata change has come over his gentle, trathful Dature that you would not ret ize him. I believe that this tragedy cost Mrs. Dr, Backus, Frank Walworth’s aunt, her mind. You have no earthly idea of its effect upon all of us, Mra. Walworth has aiways kept her rief to herself, and would allow no one to speak ul of Mansfield "Tracy Walworth in her presence. IN THE GRAND JURY ROOM. A Bill of Indictment Ordered Against Frank H. Walworth of Murder in the First Degree—The Case Not To Be Tried Before the Fall Term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Yesterday morning the Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer filed into their seats in their room in the County Court House at half-past ten o'clock. Shortly after meeting and while trans- acting some minor business the District Attorney sent into the jury room the papers relative to the Walworth case. The Grand Jury immediately gave the case its exclusive attention and the witnesses in the case were called. Among the witnesses examined were Dra. Childs, Fleming and Muiford, who attended to the murdered man immediately after the shooting ; Mr. Barrett, the hotel clerk, to whom Walworth surrendered himself; Mrs. Eliza Semms, with whom Mansfeld Tracy Walworth boarded immediately preceding his death; More- head, the boarder at the Sturtevant House, and the hail man, who was examined before the Coro- ner. All these were examined very fully by the foreman of the jury, and corroborated their testi- mony already given elsewhere, and their state- ments to the HERALD reporters on the day of the shooting. The examination of all these witnesses ae Rs take more than two hours in ail, aiter whic! THE SENTIMENT OF THE GRAND JURY was taken, and it was found that the jurymen were rage f in favor of an indictment for murder in the first degree against Frank H. Walworth. The bili was then ordered to be made out, The names of the members of the Grand Jury which ordered this bill run as follows:— Charles Patrick (foreman), Sam W. Millbank, 3 r Wright, Francis Endicott, Samuel Sproulls, William L. Vandervorst, Sylvester W. Comstock, 5 Clarkson, James T. Tailer, James A. Hearn, liam J. Blair, Courtlant Schuyler, Frederick Ward, Theodore Martin, Edmund D. Saxton, Jesse Oakley, George Hurst, Jonathan L. Hyde, Wil- ham 8. Corwin, Henry M. Laher, Elisha Brooks, Edward §, Snelling. This has decided the mere finding of the bill, The Grand Jury will come into the court room of Oyer and Terminer this morning and will deliver the bill to Justice Davis. It was being copied by the clerks in the District Attorney's office last even- ue @ and wii be @ very long document. HERaLp re] x had @ short conversation on the case with |” THE DI ATTORNEY YESTERDAY. ‘This gentle! id he believed that public sen- tament deciiedly i ot the prisoner of late, and t statement before the Coroner had done nothing to help him, but had rather in- jured his own case. The case of Frank H, Wal- worth would not be brought up before the Fall term of the Courts, the District Attorney thought, as the Courts were just about heap | now for the Summer vacation, he coul see no reason why the case should take precedence of others which were awaiting trial for months, and of whom the Tombs should be cleared betore new cases had a right to go on. The idea in having tried young ‘alworth like others in the Court of Oyer and ‘erminer, instead of the Court of General Sessions, was that the for- mer Was 80 much more expeditious, as in the Gen- era! Sessions the prisoner convicted of a capital offence had a right of appeal which could only exist in the other Court by Narereae a Stay of pro- ceedings, which was hard to get. Therefore, busi- Bess was much more expeditious in the Oyer and Terminer than elsewhere. The prisoner could not elect to be tried in any Court he pleased. He had to be tried in the Court in which he was indicted, and the District Attorney had the sole choice of where this should be. Counsel had nothine to say as to this at all. It was probable the case would come up for trial in October. DEERFOOT PARK. y Osborn the Winner of the 2:40 Purse. The proprietors of Deerfoot Park having offered a purse of $100, to be trotted yesterday, tor horses that never beat 2:40, there were entered for the event the following:—John Splan’s brown mare Mollie Parker, William Thoms’ bay gelding Lyman, J. 4. Philiips’ bay mare Fanny Osborn, E. H. Heard’s gray mare Butterfly, William Welsh’s chestnut mare Nelly, J. Teek’s chestnut mare Lady Fi Emma and A. L. Rogers’ biack gelding East- ern Star. of these Nelly was drawn, leaving six starters, In the pools be- fore the first heat the field wae the favorite, with Eastern Star and Mollie Barker nextin choice in the order named; but just before the start Osborn was made first choice, selling for $25, with the field for $20. Osborn won the first heat in 2:3834, when she was left out of the pools, and Lady ‘Emma was sold for second choice at odds of four to one over allthe rest. Osborn scored the second heat in 2: and the thira in 2:38, thus winning the race. e apnexed is @ summary of the day’s amusement, which was much enjoyed by the spectators :— DBERFOOT PaRK (FORMERLY HALL’s TRACK) NEAR Brooxtyn, L. 1, June 9, 1873.—Purse $100, for horses that never beat 2:40; mile heats, best three in five, in harness; $60 tothe first. $30 to the second and $10 to the third horse. Judges—Messrs. Xearney, Corr and McDonald, J. H. Phillips’ b. m. Fanny Osborn.. J. Teeks’ ch. m. Lady Emma. William Thoms’ b. g. Lyman John Splan’s br. m. Mollie Bai E. H. Heard’s g. m. Butterfly H. L. Rogers’ bik. g. Eastern William Welsh’s First heat.. i Second heat. § 36) Third heat.. 40 129 2:38 Alter the trot Mr. McMahon offered a purse for the jockeys on the track toruna mile. Four en- tered, and, amid considerable laughter, the mone; was handed over to a light-complexioned ‘ cullud | al called Ed, Myers, who landed a winner in 6:20, TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD PARK. Two trotting matches came off yesterday after- noon, the frst between J. L. Doty’s brown gelding Winfield (in harness) and D. Pfifer’s bay gelding Barney Kelly (to wagon), best three in five. Kelly was the favorite before the start at nearly five to one, yet Winfield beat him easily in three straight heats. The second match was between John Murphy’s sorrel gelding Jake and W. E. Weeks’ gray gelding Tom Wonder, mile heats, best three in five, in haruess. Jake was the favorite at five to four be- fore the start, He won the first and second heats easily, and the betting before the start for the third was six to one on him. Tom Wonder then won @ heat, and the betting changed a trifle. Jake won the fourth heat and the race. The following are the FLEeTwoop Park, June e. Mateb », June %— TROTTING, — Mate! 200, mile heats, best three in five. L, Doty’s bik. g. Winfield, in harness. 1 1 1 D. Pater's br. g. jarney Kelly, to wagon, 2 2 2 First he: 36 3 2 Second heat aia” Third heat.. Summing Up of the Evidence and Appeals to the Jury by Counsel for the State and for the Prisoner—The Theory of Self Defence and Insanity—Arge- ment Still Unfinished. Dover, Del., Jane 1, 1873. The fifth day ef the West murder trial still more general interest in this strange case, the session being attended by the élite of the town. The Assistant Attorney General ms argument, alluding to the claim by for the defence, that West's attempting to lemons in 4 ship chandler’s store and other of Prisoner's private actions are evidences of insan- ity. He asked the jary to remember West's Williamson's reading about the Webster-Park murder, and West's wild look when the sutyect was alluded to. It was impossible for % Son to disconnect West's crime with that of Wet ster, and gentlemen of the jury it was right um Wu Hamson’s office that West conceived tus hettwh purpose. The testimony shows ail the way through that West was *queer.” Yes, he wae queer, he was more than queer. BE WAS DEVILISn! The fact of West having had in his porsestion « human arm is commented op as an evidence of insanity, It is nothing unusual for metionl students to have in their porsesmop portions of the human frame. They desl in Suman anatomy. they cut itupand sawitep. They have mot the repugnance to such things that you and | woald have, Itis but another evidence of Wert's nerve and coolness that he went to his oifce in the darkness of the night and carved hie vietim from head to foot, all the time he was visiting among his friends and going to weddings. His les were ati theoutcroppings of an idle life, of an egotietic soul, Unursting for notortety and a desire to have people talking about him. Is there any better evidence of the estimation in whieh West has been held in Dover than the fact that the people entrusted thelr children to him to educate? Could @ man of un sound mind be an educator of children? He was selected by his own brother-in-law as guardian for his child, and his father, with a full knowledge of the facts of Weat’s “queerness,” went bis security, After deducing many other facts in West's life, his business operations and his daily life, and arguing therefrom that the prisoner is and always bas been a sane man, the Assistant te the District Attorney closed his argument, THE ARGUMENT FOR THE DEPENC Hon. Willard Saulsbury, counsel for We addressed the jury. He said:—Since God com- manded His servant Moses to write the law on Mount Sinai no man has been more persecuted than the young man at the bar. You, upon whom alone the responsibility of @ verdict rests, shall say whether he shail die or walk forth again among his fellow men, You have heard it will make little difference to Isaac C. West, #0 far as tue law is concerned, whether he lives or dies, Should he be acquitted the eongs of birds, the sunshine of June Gara or the foliage and beauties of nature will Bave little to commend to his admiring sense. You have heard that in his youth he was remark- able fer peace, good order and quiet, and he had been consistent throughout all bis life until this unfortunate occurrence is brought up inst him. No Man ever jumped with single bound from the Dlatform of honor to the depths of sin, to the lowest grade of his species, gI dely the State te produce a case in which a man has suddeniy With one bound from morality to villany. Was he devilish ? Did he tell devilish lies, as the Christian Deputy Attorney General has told you? Is Isaac West @ cruel, malicious, depraved man, with no regard to social duty, Hard-hearted and severe ? Shave not brought his aged mother, strickengwife or unconscious babe to excite yeur sympathies. [At the mention of his wife and family West burst into tears and did not look up for some time.) ‘There sits in that dock one on whom ail their love is centered. They are anxiously inquiring in their own minds, What will that jury do? You have heard what the insane poet, Cowper, wrote when he recetved his mother’s picture. How like in feei- ing was the heart of Isaac C. West! He leaves this piace on, Joot to go to his mother, -wiom he had reamed was ill, He waits not for the care, but starts off on foot and walks seventy miles, and passes two nights in the fieide, with not but Inother earth beneath and the canopy of heaven above him. Was this a hard-hearted man’ have told 7 1 would show that the prisoner, i he kilied Henry Turner, did itin self-defence, and further, thatin jaw be was not responsibie, being at the time,an insane man. I propose to show you that the alleged confession made by West was never made, but there was @ statement made—the one we have seen bein, words putin his mouth and written by another. ‘The Attorney General proposes to rely on the fact of finding the body of “Cooch” Turner in one place and the members, hands, head, feet, &c.,in ap- other, and that was enough, in his estimation, to convict the prisoner at the bar. How aid they know it was the body of ‘“Cooch” Turner, unless told by Isaac C. West? It might have been Joe Turner’s body. The State has ciaimed that the making of the diagram which led to a discover; of Turner’s head was an evidence of sanity. I shall show you that insane men have made better speeches, written better and painted better than sane man. I deny that the State could even have rotten a clue without Isaac C. West’s aid. A per- fect, wall of defence may, in any case, be built up by a detail of the facts and circumstances wing & relevancy to the case; but no one fact of itself does 80, though it may tend todo so. We must have a collection of facts; we must go step by step; we ed forge each link into a chain which capuot be roken ! ‘WEST'S STATEMENT, voluntarily and of his own free will, revurns to Dover, and tells every one where he is coming. He makes a statement. He need never have opened his lps. No one could have told whether that body was “Cooch” Turner's or the body of a subject, which be might have pro- cured trom Philadelphia. No jury in the world wouid have been invited to try Isaac C. West on a charge of murder. “He lied devilishly,” we are told. It may be he did. He lied about everythin, except what would hang him. (Laughter.) nevertheless stamp the alleged confession as ap impudent public falsehood, not intentional, perhaps, but a falsehood in fact. He is al- Jeged to have struck this man. Why? Because the man (Turber) demanded his money and at- tacked bim when it was refused. You are asked to believe him guilty of killing the man Turner, put not en the ground of self-defence. Oh, no; that would not agree with the proposed vengeance of the prosecutors. You may be on a lonely road at night and may be sotpped hy a robber, who de- mands your post or your life. You have no iron bar, but yon may have a pistol, and you shoot him down. No human eye sees you; yet the sentiment of mankind and the Jaws of God endorse you. Sup- pose, then, this young man killed the negro Turner ; suppose he skinned him and cut off his head and limbs! Yon are not trying this man for CUTTING OFF THE NEGROR’S LIMBS. You are trying Isaac C. West for killing Henry, alias "Cooch” Turner, with malice aforethought. Isaac West told of this before any one else knew it. He meets the very requirement of the law b; being the first one to tell of it. He gives the first evidence. 1 ask you to apply your minds to the defence of not guilty, because the act was per- formed in seifdeience. The contrary has not been Isaac ©. West proven. We claim it to be as clear a case of self- defence as was ever presented for the con. sideration of a jury. If a known crazy man be walking the streets and attacks him may not he defend himself? and will he notin all probability avail himself of the first weapon that he can reach? He therefore acts on the defensive, and he is known of all men to be insane, Crime,is never committed by a sane man Without a motiv sane man does nothing without a motive. I challenge the Attorney Gen- eral to assign a motive for the slaying of Henry, alias “Cooch” Turner. Consult your own judg- ments, hearts and consciences, and tell me if the prisoner liad any other motive in slaying this man save to protect hig own Jife. This was his motive, if he had one. It was a God-given gift, wher 9 alike si @ person to man and the brutes. You will remember on the 2d of December a negro went down the street, and West said, ‘‘There goes that drunken Joe Turner.” it was Henry Turner, but West did not even know it was Henry or Cooch Turner. He called him Joe Turner, He did not even know the man who is alleged to have been murdered by West. To con- stitute murder a killing must be done by & person having malice in his heart. What reason could the prisoner at the bar have for entertaining malice against 4A MAN HE DID NOT KNOW. Had you ever malice he a heart against 9 man you did not kuow? @ prosecution could not prove the prisoner could make any money by kill- ing ‘‘Ceoch’ Turner. They could not prove that the prisoner at the bar had anything against “Cooch” Turner, yet they could assign a motive of their own manufacture, and they have not proved their case. THE INSURANCE, They tell you he had his jife insured, Yes, he had, tor $25,000, Why should he kill “Gooch” Tarner to get that $25,000? Was the money in ‘Cooch’s” pocket? Ah! they tell you be intended to make “Gooch” Turner personate himself and be buried for himself, and then he would get the insurance money. How would he get it? Would he resent himself at the insurance office and ask for he money? The insurance officers could not have ome that money to any one but his administratrix— is wife. Does any one suppose that the insurance companies would have paid without being well assured that Isaac C, West was dead? Would they have paid it unless it was judicially deter- mined that he was really dead? Where is Isaac ©. West all this time? Hiding and skniking for ali the years the claim would be fought by the companies, in all i otee ae, Sup- pose after many years it was paid over and to his wife, Sne must then have taken it to him and her- self hown again to the embraces of @ fraudulent connect this innocent wife with this son in Secona—The kiting must be done by a person of nd ery an are nein he ingot Pourth— The malice afore- most be with thought, expreas or the principal actors im theyt: 5 joune! cited & number of huthoritien from MAs- orta in support “defence imaanity, occu- remainder of the day, and at six e’clock @ recess until Monday next, Approaching the End. Dover, Del, Juue 9, 1873. Senator Sawivbury finished his argument in the | West marder trai at eight o'clock this evening. Attorney General will open the final argument the “tate te-morrow morning. The Judge will then deliver bis charge im the aiternoon. THE CONNILTY CRIME. Sickening Matricide in the City of Bingham- ton How an Oid Lady Used To Be Stoned Verdict of the Jury—Her Daughter Locked m= = (Jail. Prronamron, N. Y., Jone 4, 1873. ‘The brict Gespatehes im regard to the Connt!ty tragedy im thie city give very little idea of the | Bendiehness of the crime. The particulars in ae- tal are as follows, Kosa Conmiity, aged seventy years, was a widow lady, ving with Ber daughter, who is the wife of | Mr. Thomas Comming, of Erie street, near the Scale Works, On Monday might last the old lady died. Nothing Was thought of her death, as she was very oid, Ne burial permit was asked from the authori. Wes, and before the remains were interred CERTAIN CIRCUMFT ANCES came to light which induced the Coroner to visit the Rouse of Conming, accompanied by two physicians. On the 24th of May Dr. G. A. Thayer, of this city, | was called by Mr. Conning to attend a sick woman At his house. The physictan went to the house. He found Mrs, Countity lying in an insensibie con. dition va a loung:, “He made an examination of the sick person, aad found her literally covered with broises trom her w rT feet, | Upon the back of the bead there was a contusion three inches =. The Dreast was badly Giscolored, and along bruises, bg such an apusual exbibition, Dr. ‘Thayer inquired who the woman was, Mrs. Von- ning #aid #he could pot vell her name, but the oid woman was 4 TRAM? who made periodical visits thereabout; she had ‘no relatives. Mrs. Conning said tha‘ he woman was deranged. They had locked 8 bedroom oP. etaire the before she had climbed ou of the window and tailen to the ground below, receiving injuries seen ises. Superinvendent of the Poor hg we notified of the case by Dr. Tanger: He went to Conning’s sa}oon and made a, as tw the old | woman's cendition. Conning she Was gett better, and suggested to the Supertatendent his visit to her be delayed @ day or two, Dr, Thayer called twice after his Orst visit. on his last call he learned that instead of the old i being 4 ‘Tawp she was the aged mother of THY OLD LADY DYING, Dr. Thayer informed the authorities Of the etate he found her in, and hence the examination betore the burial. He testitiea which was concluded Th 5 marks on the od Woman's throat were undoubt- edly finger marks, gud the other bi made by some 4 Mr. H. Under- hui, Who was call o Goumings to help lay 4 Connilty out, testified that Mrs. Conping said mother hac of erysipelas. The wito that the deceased stayed, a few weeks before, ail night at her house, HER DAUGHTER REFUSING TO LET BER IN. Bridget Mack, Bridget Murphy and others stated that Copning and ber children were im the habit of treating the deceased most brutally, pounding her with clut, Knocking her down with stones and other weapous, Mrs. Conning had been known to send her mother out in the yard to hang ont clothes and then send one of ber children out to stone her, knock her down and pound her, Mrs. Conning herself often beat ber old mother til! she could not stand, and then . THREW HER OUT DOORS. This treatment was not occasional, but a com Mon thing. Oid Mrs, Connilty had many tim een forced sleep in the house in the severest weather, She was afraid to ge to the newbbors, as her daughter tnreateved to Kill ber if she did, The neighbors had many times geen the old lady run from the house with biood streaming from her face, followed by a troop of children stoning and ciub- bing her, and her unnatural daughter urging them On, With terrible oaths, to kill “the old stramp.” ‘Phe evidence eticited provoked the most INTENSE INDIGNATION ‘ainst the brutal daughter, It appeared that . Connilty was @ quiet, inoffensive old lady, bat her daughter was the terror of the whole tm borhood, The verdict of the jury was that Mrs. Connilty came to her death by imjurtes inflicted by Mra. | Conning. Tne latter was once lodged in jail, She took with her aeix weeks old child and a sick enild under two years. She is much addicted to drink, and is a powerfully built woman, of not un- attractive features. Her busband keeps & saloon on Washington street. Old Mrs. Connilty had in the savings bank $200, saved from a pension paid her by the government, she having had a son killed in the late war. Con- ning drew the money from the bank 4 lew days since, on authority purporting to come from U deceased, THE NATIONAL GAME, The White Stockings Whip the Atlantics, About fiiteen hundred persons assembled on the Union grounds yesterday afternoon to see the White Stockings polish off the Atiantics, when they should have been beaten by a score of ave to nothing. Through the most stupid errors on the part of the Atlantics the visitors got iu four runs im the second innings, when they should have been blanked with the nimost ease. Good batting secured three runs for the Atiantics in tie inomng. y | Tue Whites” put on another unearned ran i wwe ) third inniy, but the Atiantics failed to alter their firures until the fifth imniog, when they got im three runs of good, safe batting. Hrrors by Per. guson, Dehiman and Pearce permitted the “Whites” to score three more runs ia the sixth inning, thus obtaining a bali which resulted in their winning the gaine by @ score of chi tw seven. The foliowing is the score :— WHITE STOCKING. Players. KAT. PAB, | Players Cuthberh LY 0°06 10 0 Pearce. «% Hood, 20....9 9 Baht Bardo jalone, c.... 4 Boy; Meyerle, 3b... 1 112 6 0 Barlow, c TEC! poms ergusoa,Sb vin, 23613 0 Remsen, éf Mack, Ib.....2 1 215 1 0 Paboy dettlein,p... 1 1 10 2 2 Dehiman,ib Totals.....8 7102719 8 Totals, INN UNGS. Clubs, It, 20. Sd th GA, Oth, White Stocking... 0° 4 1 0 Atiantic..........0 8 0 0 RUKS KARNED BACT INNING, Clubs, Ia, dd. Sd. Ath. White Stocking..9 9 0 0 Atantic. .... o.3 9 6 3 Umpire—M) of the Resolute ¢ errors=White Siockings, eight times; Atlantic, three times. Base Ball Notes. The Bostons play the Mutuals to-day on the Vaion grounds, Te-morrow the Bostons and Resolutes fight it out on the Union. PROSPECT PARK PAIR GROUNDS. Opening Day of the Spring Meeting. The Spring meeting of the Prospect Park Fair Grounds Association will be inaugurated to-day un- der favorable auspices, and continue on Thursday, the 12th, and Monday, the 16th inst, On the pro- gramme ior the amusement of visitors this after- noon, is, first, the purse of $2,000, for horses that have never beaten 2:22, mile heats, best three jm five, in harn for which are entered Peter Manee’s bay stallion William H. Allen, William H. Crawiord’s bay gelaing J. W. Conley (formerly Beppo) and Alden Goldsmith's bay inare Hun- tress. Following this trot there will be a runoing Tace, mile heats, best two in three, purse of $300, for ‘which there will come to the post Thomas Jones’ bay filly —~, by Beacon, dam Maiden, and E, V. Bork’s black gelding Jevel, by Mickey Free, ‘The races wili commence at three o'clock promptly. The track can be reached by the Coney Island cars, ie Smith street, north side of Fulton lerry, Brook- | Stand to testify in his orn behal!. | these facts. ‘The man, after leaving her in the care THE ISLES OF SHOALS BUTCHERY. —_. Trial of the Alleged Murderer, Wagner, at Alfred, Me. Intense Excitement and Great Crush to Witness the Trial—Resume of the Awful Tragedy and the Evidence Against the Accused. ALFRED, Me., June 9, 1873. There ia great excitement here to-day over the trial of Louis H. F, Wagner, the alleged murderer of Mrs, Anethe Methia Christenson and Miss Karen Christenson, at Smutty Nose Island, one of the Tales of Shoals, on a bitter cold night, in March last. ‘The tragedy, it will be remembered, was one most revoiting in every particular, and the accused, after he was arrested, barely escaped lynch- ing by an infuriated mob, in Portsmouth, N. H, The victims, who were half sis- ters; two men named Christenson, one the husband of Anethe Methia, the other the brother of Karen, and Jobn C. Houtvet and his wife, lived together on Smutty Nose Island, the men following the vocation of fishermen. Wagner had previous to the time of the murder lived with them for about five months, and very naturally had become familiar with the affairs of the family. The fact that a sum of money, about five hundred dollars, | was in the house, it is alleged, became known to him. On the evening of March 5 Houtvet and the two Christensons repaired to Portsmouth and met Wagner there, who at that time was boarding in Portsmouth with one Mrs. Johnson and her daugh- ter, They communicated to him the fact that they intended to bait trolls that night, which necessi- tated their absence from home all night. Houtvet took supper with Wagner that evening, and asked ‘him to assist him in baiting trolls, which Wagner promised to do, when they separated, Houtvet went to his shop and, preparing for the night’s work, waited for Wagner's arrival untii it was too late to wait longer, and set out without Wagner. About .eleven o'clock that night, after the three women had retired, footsteps were heard in the house treading softly around the bedroom, Mrs. Houtvet, supposing it was her husband, said in a joking manner, “Jobn you need not walk so soft,” nobody 18 alraid of you.” Failing to find as much money as he anticipated, a scumMe ensued, re- suluipg in 818 KILLING THE CHRISTENSON WOMEN with an axe, which he had procured on the prem- ises, belonging to Houtvet. Mrs, Houtvet was strack by Wagner witha chair, but succeeded in making her escape from the house by jumping through a window. She fled for her life, followed by a little dog. She hid in the snow, being clad in nothing except her night apparel. She held her dog all night, fearing that he might give the alarm. She did not dare to stir wath about eight o'clock in the morning, when, | almost frozen to death, she cantiousiy lifted her | head above the surface of the snow; and, when she became satisfied of Wagner’s departure, she succeeded im giving an alarm to the neighooring island (Star's Isiand), and was rescued by a man from that island, who came to her assistance. She told him that Wagner had killed the women, nar- rating to tim cirepmstances. He conveyed her to his house, telling his family to do ali they could for her, It was at frst feared that both her legs would have to be amputated, but she is now apie to Walk, and will be at the triai to testify to of bis tamily at Star island, aroused bis neigh- bors, ana A separes to SCENE OF THE MURDER, finding the bodies of the women horribly muti- | lated and the foors and walis of the house coverea and spattered with food, showing that a terrible | etruggie for life must have been made on the part of the women, After having seen that the report was true, and not touching the bodies, the party at once started to Portsmouth, meeting the Christensons and | Houtvet about halfway between Portsmouth and Star Island, Returning home they informed the men of the horrible events of the night, turned | back and accompanied them to thelr home, now rendered suddenly and tragically desolate. AS on the former inspection, 80 a8 at tlis one, the bodies were allowed to remain precisely as «is- covered, The whole party then proceeded to Portsmouth | informed the authorities of the murder. The City Marshai at once went to Boston, and ina few hours Wagner was arrested, having in the meantime shaved his whiskers. A’ womau named Mrs, Campbeii, hearing the report, informed the authorities that she saw 4 man land at New- castle in a derry, push ito toseaand fee to th woods near by, Which added proof to the alrea marked evidence against Wagner. It was stated that the derry was stoien the night of March 6. On | the following Sunday au officer and Mrs. Johnson, the woman with whom he was boarding on Marek 6, found a shirt in a vault covered with biged and taro into three pieces. Mrs. Jounson Will testify that she had washed the same shirt, and ber daughter will also testify that sne iron: It, and also that she took it from a bureau drawer and gave it to Wagner the Sunday previous to the murder, She sewed up 4 buttonhole in the shirt at his request on t jay of the murder, and knows it to be identical with the one found in the vauit Wi er, Z arrested at Boston, was brought to Portsmouth and incarcerated there until the | question of jurisdiction could be settled, Ox March | 1k he was conveyed to + , the Sherif’ and Mar- | shai with the uli@ost dill ty restraining the mob from killing him while on the way irom tne jail to the depot. On March 18 he was examined before Justice Alexander Dennett,at South E and immediately conveyed to jail im Po Where he Was confined untii April 29, a# the vew jail at Alfred Was then ip a stale of non-completion. Tt was completed on 20, and Wagner that day was conveyed from “i to Alfred, where he | bas been and is DoW cont THE TRIAL if the theme Of conversation in neighboring towns. and creates @ general interest. The hotls are filled to overflowing, We jorors being boarded at | the jail, and many of the private residences im Alfred being called into reyuiition io wecommo- dave boarders during the trial. There are seventy ave jorors drawn irom whom to chose twelve who are wuprejudiced and have not formed an opinion, The trial wii be presided over by Juc . G Barrows, Attorney General Plarsted County Attorney @. C. Yeatou appoer in bel: the state, Menars. K.P. Tapiey, of Saco, and Max | Fischacheo, of lioston, appear lor the defence. The number of Withesses Jot the prosecution is very large, prominent among whom are Mrs, Houtvelt onc the man who rescued her, toe two Chrysien- sons, Mr. Houtveit, Mrs. Johnson and her daugiter ond Mra. © bell. The length of the trial is, of course, a maticr of ancertamty, It te not as vet | decided whether Wagver uimees! will be put on the The laws such tes of the State authorme and permit timony to be , with the rather excep. tional featare { if such evidence be not sven by the person charged with ¢ ° t @ failure to avail himself of the privilege to testify in his own bebail #hall be argued and con strued agasmet hum. It will be remembered Unet at the preiminary examination at Werwtek Wagner did testify, but nothing which would have weight ainst him Was elicited. tt will require evidence of the most indisputable character to overriae that Which will be produced agaunst him. There will probably be bo delay arising from the question of ; janedictrop. aghet, ance hr confinement. a been in good spirits. ‘He is of ratner fine appe: ance, being about twenty seven years old gud of easy addrems, The Sheri? has stretly forbidden ehy one to converse with Bim, and thus far lus ordere have beew carried oat THE SWIMMING SEASON. ~< Ww the Billews Brneath «| ing Senchine—Sis Natatores Test | the Temperature of the East Riv Cartent=—The First Swimming Match of the Season—Decision Reserved for Anet w 4 The athe, pabtic and private, and favorite swim Wing resorts along the Hast River are now simort all i Order and Weil petromiaed, not onlf by the “great unwashed,” who go to mellow their crusted ante after the wearying totl of their daily life, but also by those Who, being too Much at ease, feel the overpowering heat and al! the lasmtade it Uccasions to ap ipsupportabie extent, THE PUBLIC BATHS are, however, too mach ireqauented to aford sum- cient enjoyment to those who can pay for bathing and swimming and learcing to swim. Henee it is thst there are four uvexceptionable baths on the East River side. Each one is excelling the others in accommodation and beauty of structure. Some, itmay be objected, are too close to ferries and wharves, and receive the offal and surplus garbage from the surroundings into their basins; but, in general, the water is exceedingly clear abd clean. One of these bathe i that af the foot of Fifty. | fifth street and Rast River, whe VIkeT SWIMMING MATCH was inaugurated yesterday between six natatorial athletes of the neighborhood, under t of Mr. Paul Callow, the swinmung mas Datatorium if sitnated beneath an | | j | <=> Clift of ragged brown sandstone, It two apartment»—one jor the ladies ana the other opposite sex, The Bast hiver current plays A — throngh ft continoally ana keeps water ex- ba sy clean. bee The aing was intended to the proficiency of the mers, thon each hed staked #9, total iso rock trio, as the money to be won. A small boat was rowed out, and this the oars- man kept paddling in the centre of the river. The fan w studded the rocks and sat behind the balcony of the Summer garden. Alter some necessary pre- paratory arrapgements the six young men ap peared on the edge of the river ready (or a plunges . Callow acted as umpire and gave THE STARTING WORD, lash went ,the six brawny-shouldered athletes into the stream, and alter swimming under and through water side by side for about twenty yards, separated in diferent direction, according to each one’s knowledge of the current, The following are the na of those who engaged in the feat:—William Kelley, John Brown, William Healy, Wiliam Allen, Mi Sullivan and Edward Royston. The tidal current, which was then pushing swiftly up the stream, bore along two of the former three and one of the lat- tera considerable distance above the stakeboat, where the little fag was waving. The remaining three were stronger, and apparently better able te FIGHT THEIR WAY directly across the strong wav The passin; ferryboats would often raise such spray am billows as to place them out of sight, but they would rise with each billow and were fast gaining the turning mark, after at waste of strength. The former three, who we the antics of the current, went out gently with it to the centre of the river, and swam down with less difficulty on the inner eddies. As soon as all had turned the boat the umpire led the way back to the natatorium. Healy and Brown were ahead coming back until within about toirty yards of the bank, when activity and training seemed to give place to strength, and the other four compet- itors closed in upon them within ten or fifteen yards of the bank. Ali six struggled menfully af terwards and reached the natatorium alinost simul. taneously, eliciting from the excited spectators ROUNDS OF APPLAUSE by shouting and clapping of hands, ‘The HEKALD reporter asked if the temperature Was suitable, and the swimmers pronounced the water a little cold, pnt not SBaurseanly, so, The, umpire would not give his decision until another test is made across the river to Blackwell’® Island and back again, which was fixed upon to be made on the 2ist Instant, with the other prize matches. The swimmers were, however, not satis- fled, and referred the decision fo Mr. W. Wolff, on@ of the best experts in the lay He pronounced the match so closely contested that it would be ime possible to decide ib favor of either party. There will be three matches on the 2ist instant, the first between six ladies, the secend betwee twelve men and the third between ten boys, he match of yesterday will also be contested on that day and a decision rendered, The prizes and stakes for the others are net yet fixed, Matches*will also take place at the foot of Sixty-sixth street and East River about the same date, under the direction of Mr. Charies Heyse, and also at the natatoriums, Broome street and Bast River, where new bathe are being constructed, YACHTING, RIS The Eighth Annual Regatta of the Ate lantic Yacht Club. The eighth annual regatta of the Atlantic Yacht Clab will be sailed to-morrow over their regular regatta course, The Regatta Committee this year are:—Messrs. Edward Arnoid, T. Lawrence Mar- cullus, William B, Davenport, B. BE. Valentine and Sidney W. Knowles. The following programme of the regatta has been tssued:— RULES AND REGULATIONS. The yachts of the fleet satling in this regatta shail be classitied as follows:—Schooners, first class sloops (cabin sloops over forty-four feet water line), second class sloops (cabin stoops of forty-four feet and under, water line), and tmrd class sloopa (open boats). Ail yachts (except schooners) will start from an anchorage oif Bay Ridge, and shall be anchored in their respective clusses in lines, 100 yards apart; first class sloops tn advance, second and third class sloops in the rear to northward, in the order of classification. All —~ intending to sailin this regatta shall be at anchor in line, with jibs down, feo at nine o'clock A. M. One of more members of the Regatta Committee, with the judges, will be at the anchorage at a quarter to nine A. M., to superin- tend the placing of the yachta. The choice o1 posi- tion will be given to yachts in the order of their arrival; but all yachts must be at least one hue dred fect apart. Schooners will be started fying, 4s licreinatter provided. All sioops may slip the! cables on starting, ain ‘The numbvars Which Will beassigned the diferent yachts wlil be foandgeparated, Owners and cap- tains will take notice of tils, and see that they are placed suficiently far apart—say about twelve ine! Oo make them distinguishable at a dis- tance. ‘The number ts to be placed about the cen. tre of the mainsail, above the reef points. Yachts will ‘ly the Club flag at the main peak dur- ing the regutta. Messrs. William McMonnies, William H. Douglas bee ‘thomas J. Nortnali are hereby appointed juag The signal for starting will be given by the Re- gatta Committee on the guests’ steamer, the Ma genta, and will be as follows ‘Avtwenty minutes atter ten A. M. first whistle, for preparation and for schooners to approach the starting point. Three minutes (more or less, ac- cording to wind) thereafter second wiustie, for schooners to start. An interval of ten minntes will be allowed the schooners to cross the line Auy scheoner that may ior, marked by two flagboats, not cross the line within the time allowed will be After a sufictent interval (in the aia« cretion of the Regatta Comimittee) third whistle, ruled out, for sloops to siart. Careful attention to thia manner of starting (from which there will be 20 deviation, is particularly requested, to prevent confusion or error on the part of the yachts, ‘The course will be, for schooners aiid first class sloops, from the anchorage down through the Nar- rows, to and around the stakeboat at Sonthwest Spit (on buoy $'4) ; thence to and around lightship, rounding the same from the southward; thence home, going to southward and westward of beacon on Komer Shoal. For second class sloops the same course, to and around stakeboat at South- West Spit on buoy 844); thence to and around @ stakeboat ne: uoy in Gedney Channel, round- ing the sawe from the southward; thence home, passing to the westwara of beacon on Romer Sho: For third class sloopa, same course, to and rr ound stakeboat on Southwest Spit (on buoy Sha); thence home, RESTRICTIONS. All yachts to pass between Forts Lafayette and Ricumond, to the eastward of buoys 11, 13 ry on West Bank, both going and return- ‘ound stakeboat at Southwest Spit by the ‘ard and southward, and at home stake be- a the two stakeboats marking the line, The home time will be taken as the yachts cross the line between the two stakeboats. Ii one yacht of the feet shall sail the race in eight hours it Will be considered @ race for every class. Allowance ts based upon length only, to be ascer- tamed by adding actual length on water line ta actual length over al, dividing the total by two, the result to be the length on which allowance is to be caiculat The ratio is fixed as per scale herewith. No fractions but quarter, half and ever feet will be calculated. Distance of courses upom which the allowance will be calculated will be:— For schooners und first class sloops, forty miles; second class sioops, thirty-twomiles; third class sioops, twenty-iour miles, hale 17 of te “Kegatta and Sailing Regulations’? of the Club, 60 far as it applies to schooners and: first class sloops, is suspended for this regatta, bat . applies in ruil force to all other classes of late, Violations of these spectal regulations, or the “Regatta and Sailing Kegulations” of the Club, by any yacht sailing in the regatta, may be considered uificient cause for the judges to rule such yacht out of the regatta, or as not entitled to any as 4 competing yacht. The club has engaged the steamer Magenta for the use of members and their guests, and the Juages’ steamer will leave Martin’s dock, Brook} at 5:30 A.M. on Tuesday. The following yachts Will probably compete for the prizes: SCHOONBRS. 8, Creame Commodore J. R. Marwe. W. Voorn: S.A. Thayer FIRST CLASS SLOOPS, T. W, Cooper. . L, Livingstone, SBCOND CLASS SLOOPS. Heary Vail W. A. Camming ..- T. i. Rhodes Alert | Anna Barbara Frewohis. Daphne THIRD CLASS SLOOPS, .¥. B, Livingston. ©. . Wills. «+ SLO The Brooklyn Yacht Club. The members of the Brooklyn Yacht Clab met last evening at their rooms in Court street and made the Gna) arrangements for their on Tuesday. About thirty yachts are ente! and they auticipate a magnificent regatta, Yachting Notes. Yacht Sea Drift, N.Y.Y.C. (formerly Mr. Major’s), aud yackt Viking, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Sands, passed Whitestone yesterday on a cruise eastward. Yacut Ariadve, Mr. Sprague, from Millstown Coeek for New York, arrived at Whitestone yesters day jorenoon, ‘THE RIVER'S PREY, There were 900 dead bodies found floating in the- river about the docks of Brooklyn, and conveyed * to the Morgue, curing the past twelve m The verdict in most of these cases Was death by. drowuiug. i } {