The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-06-07
SAD FATE OF DANIEL wEBsTERs
GRANDSON.
From the Boston Traveller, May 49,

From the Boston Traveller May 1877
A pitable sight is presented in the
accident ward of the City Hospital
to-day. Lying upon low cot bed
stead, with his sacred body COM
pletely swathed in bandages, is the
descendant of one of the greatest
statesmen which the world ever pro-
duced A man of high culture and
good education, with thoughts and
impulses of the highest order, has
allowed himself to be dragged grad
uaIly downward, step by step, until,
By his habits of dissipation, he has
brought upon himself certain death.
Daniel Webster Appleton, is
grandson of the great statesman
whose name he bore, and is only
twenty-six years of age. He was at
one time engaged in the study of law,
in the course of which he became
acquainted with large number of
young associates who enticed him
away from work, and into the prac-
tice of vice in many forms. Com
mencing with the hotel bar rooms
he descended to groggeries and
brothels, until, finally, he was one
of the lowest of the low drunkards
who walk the streets of this city.
Times without number he has been
picked up in helpless state of in
toxication by the police and taken TO
the station-house, where, in consid-
Grafton of his family, he was regis
tered only as "disorderly," and dis
charged without being brought into
the court. Efforts were frequently
and persistently made by his friends
to effect a reformation, but although
he would promise to do better, his
moral nature was too weak to ena-
BILE him to carry out his good inten-
tons, and he would soon relapse
into a state of sottishness. So de.
graded did he become that he would
stand on the street corners when III
asemi-imbecile condition from drink
and solicit money from the passers'
, by with which to secure the means
, of gratifying his appetite. Last
: September he married a young lady
in Southbridge, and obtained small
farm there on which he set up house
keeping, with the avowed declara-
ton to reform. But reformation
was impossible. Two months after
bis marriage he was again an inmate
of police-station, and last evening
he met with injuries which will
probably result in his death. He
got off from a train on the Old Col
ony Railroad at Nepodsst station,
and was too drunk to stand upon the
platform, falling helplessly on his
face. He was lifted up by officer
Stephen Moulton, who took him III
custody and locked him in a small
wooden building which is used as a
station house in that locality. Be
fore turning the key, however, the
usual search was made of Appleton's
person, and it is presumed that his
pockets were empty. Had such
been the fact there would have been
no necessity for writing this para
graph. Unfortunately, a match was
left in one pocket. and after the Off
Ger had gone away, the prisoner
laid down on his bed, lighted his
pipe and began to smoke, throwing
the match on the floor. 1t fell on a
pile of straw which became ignited,
and the flames slowly spread to the
bed where the unfortunate man was
then in drunken slumber. The
smoke soon began to pour through
the windows, attracting the atten>
ton of people outside and the fire
was soon extinguished. Tho fire.
men entered the building and ,broke
open the door Of Appleton's cell,
finding him in horrible eondi-
ton.
His clothing was nearly all burned
off from his body and with the ex-
ception of a small speck on his
breast, was literally covered with
blisters. He promtly removed TO
the City Hospital, where the physi-
clans ascertained that notwithstand-
ing the fearful ordeal through which
he had passed, he was still intoxi-
Gated. An examination developed
the fact that the burns were only of
superficial character, there being no
evidence of internal injury, but that
they were so extensive that it would
be almost impossible for the patient
to survive. His system is in pros
trate condition from the use ofintox-
icating liquor, which will probably
incapacitate him from recovering
from the shock.
VELPEAU, the French surgeon,
had two hospital patients whose bus.