, 1872-11-21

living in the same clearinghouse as O'Nei.
managed to get my children, three in number,
away from her, and they are now atmy house in
East Seventeenth street."
ssHaye YOU seen OrNeil since Your wife left
you :"
'' frequently. We have several times been
over the Erie Road in the same car"
sKETcH OF THE MURDERER AS GIVEN BIZ MRS.
HING AND HER FRIENDS.
According to all accounts Kings life seems to
have been q sufficiently adventurous one, and nc
cording to the story told BY tho friends Of Mrs.
King, It is invested with the highest romance of
crime. Born in Morristown, N. j., In 1889, ho
first distinguished himself by running away
from q school at Flushing at the age of IL.
One Of his schoolmates was son Of Thomas
Hunt, AN importer Of cloths and woollens Of this
city, who obtained for King employment
with his father. king. served Alr: Hunt
in various capacities till 1860, when he
went to San Francisco and, after acting as SUBJ
for himself as ship-broker, and did business
for number Of years between that city and
Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands. It was at
the latter place that, about the year 1868, he
first became acquainted with and married Mrs.
King, who wa5 a daughter Of sea Captain
named stott who had annassed handsome for
time in the Pacific trade. This fortune, after
he had become acquainted with his son-in-1aw' g
presumably bad disposition, he is reported to
have settled upon his daughter, only to be en-
his fathers, and she Was left widow. This
strange will of Stotts becoming known to King,
bad blood naturally arose between them, and
frequent quarrels we're the result. In one Of
these Captain Stott became 30 enragcd at his
son-in-law that he struck him. and on the Int
ters cautioning him not to do it again, repeated
the blow. At this King, it is alleged, drew q
pistol and fired, wounding Stott severely. Tho
Immediate consequences we're not fatal, and the
affair was hushed up, but stott died within a
year, AS some Of the physicians alleged, from the
effects Of the wound. Fearing perhaps that legal
proceedings would be taken against him King, tits
stated, left Honolulu and came to this city, where
he could not have remained long, for he turns
up shortly afterward at Liverpool England, in
his old business of shipping, agent. From here
$4,000 to Els, 900, tie account does not state
particularly which, belonging to the British
Bank Of North America and the London and San
Francisco Bank. From Paris he went to Ger
many, where after distinguishing himself, proba-
bly, at Baden-Baden, he returned to New York.
the same year he spent at Newport, boarding at
the rate Of $500 week. The following fall he
bought an expensive house on West Forty
sixth street, in which he lived during the win
to pick up knowledge Of the law, and so
ct this time became partner of Edwin
James. At this time he purchased q cottage at
Long Branch, and the following winter he rented
flat in the Stuyvesant building, on East
Eighteenth street. He afterwards rented the
Clarendon, On the same street, which he occu~
pied till August, 1870, when he went, with his
wife and family, who had accompanied him in
all his wanderings, to Turner's Station, Orange
County, in this State. In this place he formed
the acquaintance Of o'Neil, who was spending
every possible way, so the story goes, til
he learned that King syBtematically i'll
treated and beat his wife. From that moment
the friendship which had existed between them
ceased, and O'Neil devoted hinsef entirely to
freeing the peraecuted woman from her brutal
husband. In pursuance Of this intention, he in
yited her to live with him and his wife, and &C
cordingly the latter part Of the past summer
took up her quarters at his house on West Thir-
ty-aecond street. The rest is told in the history
of the assassination. It is only to be added that,
as if shooting his wife's father Was not enough,
King had repeatedly boosted Of having shot q
man in South Carolina, although the other cir
cunostances of his life in that State are not NEIL
toned. Also in reference to yesterdays tragedy
he has been known to have talked mysteri-
tapis," and he would soon do something that
would astonish people" In consequence OF
these threats O'Nel was often warned to take
care Of himself, but he affected to despise King,
and used no precautions. Yesterday morning as
he WAS leaving the Erie Office, on Twenty-tmro
street, IN order to go to the tr1al, ne loRed ose
the possibility Of Kings using desperate meas.
ures, and his words were: "I'm going to fix t oqt
that Sol - In proof of Kings dishonesty
at Liverpool, the fact Of his having been thr9Hn ~
into bankruptcy by the bank he is alleged TO
have defrnuded Is cited, and numerous ot9er
circumstances are brought forward by those ~ M
terested in Mrs. King to show his genera p'.a
character.
DOMESTIC M1sER1Es OF TIE ENG FAMILY. :.
Anna 7. King, in July last, comInenceu i;ot Ga.'
ted divorce, on the ground Of cruel treatment s On
e preme Court for the possession Of her three aee
children. This motion was heard 9eloEe @ ostitiGn yu
Barrett on the 30th Of August: n L. H11+; -
1868; that, with her husband, she came to TINS