The New York herald., 1871-12-16
A PARRICIDR HANGED.
Execution of John Ware at Cam
den, N. j., Yesterday.
DIES WITH A CURSE ON HIS LIPS.
A Confession by the Murderer Ex-
Onerating His Mother.
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CAMDEN, n. j., Dec 10, 1871.
The majesty OF the law has been once more vindl-
Gated, ana the victim thereof has paid the awful
penalty Of his most unnatural crime.
The excitement caused by the murder Is yet un-
abatcd In the quiet little hamlet known az Berlin
Gross Roads, and the story OF the deed Is sti told
with bated breath and nervous maginings.
The crime for which Ware died was the
murder OF his father, ABOUT sixteen months ago.
The unnagging devotion Of his counsel LED many to
believe not thirst for reputation alone was the In
centve, but an mistaken belief In the hereditary
insanity Of his clients family, and the Injustice OF
the extreme sentence OF the law In this particular
case There is every indication Of hereditary in.
sanity In the Ware family, but this was question
not deemed within the province OF an uneducated
jury ana they convicted the man on the evidence as
they neard IT, The strongest argument OF the prose-
cutting oflcer was the evidence OF one Sands,
who swore positively that Ware had made
repeated threats against his fathers hfe This
alone led the Judge aud jury to believe that the
murder was premeditated, and, though executed
In moment OF passion. was the result Of o de.
uberate purpose. MI. Scovel maintained that Sands
evidence was perjury from beginning to end, and
Ware told mo more than once that he never
made . threat against his father, but, on the con-
trary, a gooa feeling had existed between them mp
to the day OF the murder, aud this Is the case in
few WORDS.
THE DEED WAS COMMITTED
In the heat OF passion, about sixteen months snce
and the murderer ned to Camden, where ne was
arrested while trying to cross the ferry from Cam.
den to Philadelphia. On being accused OF
the crime he frankly admitted 1t and was
locked up In the Camden County Jail to
await his trial, which In due course OF
time was called. The important witnesses against
Ware were Patience Ware his sister, married to
George Wnliamson; Mary Ann Champion, and O
man named Sands. It seems that she and her hus
band resided with Mr.. and Mrs. Ware, and that on
the morning OF the murder-August l8, 1S7o-0d
man Ware had gone to q nelghborng store 10
get some nour. While the Old man was absent q
quarrel arose between Patience and her mother
about milkpan, and John arose and struck his
sister in the face upon which her husband arose to
defend MS wife, and Jonn went fOr'' him Also but
Williamson was too much for him. Having polished
on John, Williamson took his wife aud children aud
tance when John seized o gun anu fred at them.
Old man Ware was met on his way home, but Pa
tience never saw him alive again.
MANY ANN CHAMPION
swore to the killing OF Mr.. Ware. From her win
dow, in the upper part Of the house, she saw John
double load In 1t, and Kill them BOTH" At this juno
the old man returned and stood still in the mid.
the front yard with the gun in mis- hands. the old
gentleman told MIN TO 60 In the house and put up
I'M shoot you aSs old man said why SJn Jonn IN
yoU wouLD'r SHOOT YOUR POOR OLD FATHER,
would youp' and repeated MS request to go In and
giving him some money made the demand but was
choppIng wood. John grew very angry AZ this and,
repeating the unnatural threat, rested the gun on
the fence and fred. The old man
John TOOK his pocKetb0ok out OF the pocket, looked
At ana money and cried out ''Snpt np hls -- ON