Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-07-29
The Fcndon TRACED i.
A MANS APOLOGY FOR NUMBERING HIS
ENTIRE FAMILY.

ENTIRE FAMILY.
Further details Of the London tragedy
have been published, from which it APP
pears that Duggan's ill-health and dread
of approaching want-he having been
notified by his employer that his services
were no longer required the cause
of his terrible crime. The following let
ter to his brother gives a reflex to his
feelings, and states the causes Of the
/ tragedy in full:
10 HosIER LANE, SMITHF1ELD,
G. f., June 21, 1869.
DEAR BROTHER You are aware of
Mr. Adams harsh and hard course Of
action when he heard my lungs were
affected, which ended in his giving me
one months notice to leave his employ,
knowing (as | told him had no means
Of livelihood but the one week. wages |
left with him. His bearing and language
/ have been thoroughly tyrannical from the
/ first moment he heard that | was struck
down, and have been continued up to the
last, and the cause of it all is that he has
made a miscalculation in me- He had
E Itthclitu it iidIi a SpOir Souliti SCI NAt'
able article in me, and when he discovered
his mistake he was furious, and showed
/ his ANNOYANCE as only n hard selfish, mar
row minded man could do. After the
month expired, he then allowed me, after
great deal of solicitation, to remain in
the house, which is his, week longer,
while | looked for work and place to
live in, which | had no opportunity OF
doing before. | have tried hard to obtain
| either or both. but can find no lodging Or
/ home, for when they know ! am out of
work and can give no reference, they de-
cline altogether | asked Mr. Adams il
he would allow me to name him as q
reference. He said he would have moth
ing to do in the matter, as be might have
to pay. / asked him what he thought !
could do. He said | could get place
-omew here if | liked, and that | must be
out Of his house at the expiration OF The
week, or he would put my things into the
. lane | appealed tn him far SOM. e.n-ii-
/ Grafton for my wife and little ones the
eldest he knew was far gone in consump-
ton. had also asked him if it were
possible that he could 90 to such extremcc
after my being between four and five
years in his employ, and the long charac-
ter he had with me, and up to the time
of my health partially failing had de-
voted my whole energy in forwarding his
interest He took no notice of that, but
said he would not be trifed with, and I'M
less l was out of his house he would dc
as he had said, 50 not to deceive myself in
the matter.
So we have to face the alternative OF
starving in the streets, the workhouse, OF
, death We prefer the latter We might
have been able to surmount the Difficult
ties. possibly, if MIR. Adams had acted
less unfeelingly but be has shown soant
mercy, and if the same is meted out to
him in his extremity, it will ge hard
with him, for the blood Of me and mine
is on his hands, and will cling to bin and
his. Il is better to meet death We
have, than wait till it comes through
want, privation and misery, and IT would
come with equal certainty for me, Emma
and all the children are far from strong
and must have quickly succumhed. We
are strongly attached to each other, and
separation alone would be As bad n death
and we love the children too dearly te
condemn them to utter wretchedhess and
want. It Is agony of mind almost beyond
endurance to think that the alternative Is
so terrible that we cannot shield il from
one or the other. Break the news gently
to mother Tell her it is, under the cir
cumst4nces, the best course--far better
than the degradation and want and dis
ease before us, which must have ended in
the same way after all our sufferings
Prusc acid was the thing used. Pray
undertake the funerals, if you can.
trust you will have enough of things Il
pay expenses. Oh the horror OF this
! night May it Is visited upon the mar
who forced it [ can write no more.
am nearly mad So, an eternal farewell
to You all, and may God bless you
; Farewell forever
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
that Walter James Duggan and Emm;
Duggan murdered their children, ant
afterwards destroyed themselves, while il
an unsound state of mind"
Three Persons Perish From Thirst
A correspondent of the Salt Lake Tele
graph, writing from st. Thomas, Pal
Yute county, Arizona, June 20, gives tn
following mournful particulars of tn
death Of three persons on the desert:
Brother James Davidson, with his wifi
and son, the latter a boy ABOUT II year
Of age, left st. Thomas on the 9th o
June, intending to travel to st. George il
company with President Erastur Snow
and Elder Joseph w. Young, but failet
to connect with them, as these brethren
j went on ahead, not knowing of thei
D coming. The family then started alone
t though unaequainted with the country
: and about the middle of the forty-mil
, desert, on the new road that leads to 81
9 George, their carriage broke down. 1t i
Q supposed that the old gentleman, VIII
d was rather feeble, was unable to fix it. up
e and sent his son, with one horse and
a keg, for water. They were within fv
miles of the Coquay Wash, where Their
is water little off the road. which tn
s boy looked for, but failed to find. Fl
then started for the Beaver Dam Well
% miles off, but when he got within hal
: a mile of it he must have fallen off tn
J, horse exhausted, as his body was fount
Q two days after. The horse went .on t
{ the we'll, where there were two men from
: st. George cleaning it out. They tie'
], him mp, and thought no more about it TO
Q day and two nights, when, as they wer
4 taking their mules to feed, they foam,
the body of the boy, which they buried