Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04
CRIMINAL Record.

THE MURDER OF HALSTED,
NEW YORK, July 3.-The coroner's Jury at
Newark, yesterday, brought in a verdict that
George Bolts did willfullY and feloniously kill
and murder General Oliver S. Halsted, Jr. by
shooting him in the left breast with a pistol,
Bolts was presentand an opportunity was given
him to make statement. He was visibIy af-
tected, and great beads of perspiration started
from his forehead. He seemed to realize his
position, but controlled himself, and answering
that he was somewhat ignorant and would like
to know il it made any difference whether he
made statement. Upon being informed to the
contrary he said, 81 guess I'll see the counsel
first Halsted tackled me first" He was then
remanded to the station honse and will be COM
mitted this morning to the county jail to await
trial on the charge of murder in the first DEGREE
Bolts is charcoal cart driver, fOrty-six years
old, and an Englshman.
Halsted was not shot through the heart as at
first reported, but the ball entered the nose
passed through the left nostril, thence to the
breast two inches below the breast bone. 1t
passed through the fat which surrounds the
heart, thence through the large vessel which
conveys the blood of the heart to the lungs
thence through the fat of the heart again and
through the left lung, when all traces of the ball
were lost. He lived thirty-five minutes. Hal
sted was ffty-t three years old. He graduated at
Princeton college in 1889. He was personal
friend of President Lincoln, also of Gen. Phil
Kearney, and to him Gen. Kearney wrote his
famous letter from Harrison's Landing, reflect
ing upon Gen. McClellan's action during the
seven days battle before Richmond. The Tri-
bune this morning says of him: No public
character was so well known in Washington as
he. He went everywhere, knew everybody and
cut large figure in social Jas well as political
life. There was nothing he did not know and
nothing he could not do. There were no bounds
to his ambition, and no limit to his glowing
imagination He was lavish in his expenditures
aud as generous as a prince when he had money
and when money failed him his credit was lib
orally beloved, The tragic end of his long and
eventful career will once more revive in the
memories of thousands of people who were in
Washington during the war many amusing
"reminiscences of one who was the best known
man of that time. HalSted leaves wife and
sixchildren, among whom are two sons twenty
five and twenty-five years old. He married in
1910 the daughter of Stephen Meeker, one of the
wealthiest citizens of Newark. This is the first
murder in Newark for four years.
NEWARK, Nd. July 3.-The grief of eX-Chan-
cellor Halstedon hearing of the murder of his
son pet Halsted yesterday, was intense and it
is hardly possible that he can survive. He was
last night incapable OF being consoled, and wan
dered from room to room of the house moaning
piteously
Bolts has employed Gen. Runyon as counsel.
The prisoners friends claim that he is worth
twenty thousand dollars, having realized from
fifty to one hundred dollars week from his bust
HeSs OH the Otner mana, IL is stated tnat he has
no real estate, and cannot have saved any large
amount of money, for the reason that he has
been neglecting his business and furnishing
twenty dollars week to Mrs. Wilson.
BOWEN NOT YET PARDoNED.
New YORK, July S.-The report that Bowen,
the bigamist, has been pardOned by the presi-
dent is premature. Attorney General Alderman
has given an opinion adverse to his pardon
OUTRAGE BY NEGROES.
AUGUSTA, Ga, July 3.-On Saturday last
twenty-five armed negroes went to the planta-
ton of Angus Red, in Barnwel county, South
Carolina, about twelve miles below Augusta, on
the Savannah river. Arriving at Reds resi-
dence, the party fired a volley into it, killing
Thomas A. Lowe, and seriously wounding Red
and his wife and mother After disarming Red
the negroes returned to Paul +. Hammonds
plantation, where deputy sheriff tried to arrest
them, but without success, as they refused to
disarm. The negroes, however, promised TO 20
" Aiken and stand an investigation One of
the parties implicated was arrested here this
evening. His version was that Red and Lowe
attempted to chastise a negro for stealing from
che premises of the former, but the negro
escaped from them, and returned with the
armed band, who did the shooting by way of
retaliation The affair causes uneasness and
alarm.
CHILD MURDER.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, July 3.-Mary Van GAS
beck, of the Ulster county poor house, was ar
rested last night for the murder of her chidtwo
months old, by poisoning it with laudanum.