Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-05
...-r From the Troy Times
The Career of Former Troy Editor
Preacher, Maniac, Murderer
He Dies in u Warehouse.

year 1910 was the eultor OF Tue iioy |
Wing. We had missed sight Of him for
several years, and now learn through
correspondent of the Syracuse Courier
that he has been dead for nearly two
years, dying in warehouse in Toledo,
Ohio, after having been refused admit
tance to the house of relative to whom
he had applied for shelter. fuckers
career was one of great vicissitude.-
Born in Marion, Wayne county, of res
pectable Baptist parents, he learned the
printing trade and assisted in setting the
type of the first Mormon bible that was
issued from the Palmyra Sentinel. He
soon after embraced religion, and receiv-
ed license from the Congregationalists
to preach. Tucker was always most
unstable creature. In little while he
left the Congregationalists and became a
Baptist, saying that the Baptists needed
to be reformed and he intended to reform
them. He was settled as a clergyman in
Pulaski, Oswego county, and subsequent
ly in Clockville. Madison county; but
falling to reform the Baptists be left them
and joined the "church of Peterboro,
under the agis of Gerrit Smith, and
soon afterwards left the pulpit to become
the editor of the Syracuse Star. Mr..
Tucker was nan of real ability, and
under his management the Star grew to
be leading journal. He next became
lecturer for the Masons and Odd Eel
lows, and then in 1S4S the editor of the
| Whig in this city. Ie remained in Troy
about one year, when he was appointed
Assistant Clerk in the State Senate, and
took up his residence in Albany. In the
course of his travels and changes he be-
came addicted to the use of opium and
liquor, and embracing infdel sentiments
lost his standing in all the churches with
which he had been connected. The cell
ebrated revivalist, Rev. Jabez Swan, who
was then preaching in Albany, recon-
verted the erratic preacher, and he was
sent to minister in the colored Baptist
church at the capital.
He next went to Vincent, Penn,
where he preached for three years; but
was compelled to leave the place on ac-
count of his intemperance He struck
out for New York, where was at once ar
rested on the charge of stealing trunk
the porter having by mistake removed
the wrong trunk, which was very similar
to Mr.. fuckers, to the hotel. r. ,
Thompson, formerly of this city. wai
then publishing the Brooklyn Advertiser
and quite accidentally stumbled upor
Mr.. Tucker in the Tombs. They hat
known each other in Troy, and Mr.
Thompson engaged Mr.. Tucker to be
come the editor of hispaper in Brooklyi
This was in the Know-Nothing, Angel
Gabriel-riot times. The Advertiser wa
Know-Nothing organ, and fuckers de
nunciation of Catholics and foreigner
was so wild and infammatory as only Il
be accounted for upon the suppositior
that he was insane. He had the mos
extravagant notions of the power of tn
paper, and believed that all the Iris
people of Brooklyn, led by the pries
were plotting to destroy his life. 1t wa
while connected with the Advertiser tha
the most eventful incident in his caree
occurred The maniac became a mul
derer-imbrued his hands In the bloc
of his own child and nearly killed HI
wife, faithful, excellent woman. TIL
murder was most heart-rending affair
and the correspondent of the Syracus
Courier, so faithfully recalls the particr
lars of the tragedy that we copy his az
count below:
That very night, on his way to h
boarding place, he bought parasol ft
his wife and a toy for his little boy. A
ter tea he invited his wife to walk wit
him, giving as reason that he wf
afraid to walk the streets alone. Sh
consented, and every Irishman they m,
he cursed in an undertone, yet lou
enough to be heard by several person
His wife demonstrated. She told hi
that if he did not stop swearing at pc
pie she would not walk with him. i
then drew revolver from his pocket :
she screamed and ran from him. III
/, 90 demon then took possession of him. II
. lown wife he believed to be in league wit
, the Irish. He hastened to drug stor
took out his revolver, and pointing it
the druggist exclaimed, Give me drc
of that" The druggist lodged, al
wanted to know what it meant. He r
$ piled, 81 ask your pardon, / thought
r was a bottle" He then took a sma
r bottle from his pocket, and ordered Il
0 trembling druggist to fill it with brand
J. The druggist complied, and when tt
4 bottle or phial was half filed, Tuck
4 snatched it from his hand and ran OF
!. Going to his room, he found that his wi
n had not returned. This strengthened b