Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-15
A MURDERER HUNG.

Jersey, for the murder of his father,
seems to have possessed many brutal at
tributes. The execution created no small
excitement, owing to the celebrity be-
slowed on the murderer by the local
journals, and the fact that he had hung,
Mahomet-like, between life and death in
the argumentative coffin of law for
months past. Adjudged to die at last by
the final mandate of justice, he died to-
day, fearing nothing, admitting nothing,
defying everything, a blasphemous
wretch, cursing at the verge of eternity.
The story of the murder is thus told by |
newspaper correspondent: Near the
village of Long-a-Coming, lived the
Ware family. The old man, John A.
Ware, his wife, his son and murderer,
John Ware, and his daughter, Patience
Ware. The family was not especially
distinguished for advanced intelligence
or elevated character. The folks in the
vicinity and neigh bors used to say that
the old man used to beat the old woman
and the old woman returned the compli-
ment, both being drunk at such time,
and the only decent one in the lot was
the daughter Patience Ware, married to
decent man named George Williamson
The son John Ware. was logged, igno-
rant, and brutal The smallest trace of
refinement was wanting i'll him, and he
was noted for his despicable animal pro-
pensities and passions. His mind was
always bent on something low and in
human, and his actions the natural re-
suit of whatever little of mind he had left
himself were of a similar character.
Patience Ware, the daughter, and her
husband, George Williamson, were liv-
ing with the old man at his residence,
near Long Coming. On the 10th of
August, 1870, John Ware, the murderer,
had quarrel with his brother-in-law.
He slapped his sister in the face, and
the brother-in-law interfered. William
son went out of the place and up the
Cross Keys Road. There was an old
gun, broken-down musket, standing in
one corner of the kitchen. John Ware
caught it up and fired at his brother-in-
law. The shot missed, and John went
on his way. He passed by the elder
Ware, the latter going toward the house.
As he passed he said to him: ''John is
frantic, and fired at me just now, and
the old man Ware said: Hes damn
ed scoundrel Williamson went on,
and in five minutes heard shot He
could see nothing, but his heart told
him there had been murder. He went
back and found that John Ware had
brutally murdered his father.
In the Ware residence there lived al
so woman named Mary Ann Champi-
on or White She was the housekeeper,
and her character was none of the best
She was looking out of second-story
window. She saw the old man Ware
coming along in the middle of the road
and reach the house. John Ware was
In tho front yeerti, tho sur, his hand.
The old man called out, $50 into the
house, John, and put up the gun" Ware
made no reply, except to level the gun
and aim it at the father The old man
said, "You wouldn't shoot your old faith
er, john Give me some money quick, .
) replied the son. The old man laughed,
and said that when the son should have
finished chopping wood he would pay
him. John Ware then said "You-
old grey-haired of a, I'll shoot
you" and leaning the gun On post, fir
ed it. The buckshot entered old Ware S
brain, and he fell dead. The parricide
, rifed his pockets of Sl60 and fed away.
The alarm was spread and officers put
upon the track of Ware. That night he
| was seen in store at Glendale, and from
there traced to Camden. Just as he was
) entering the ferry-boat at Camden fol-
Philadelphia he was arrested. On his
person was found S22 in currency. $40
, in bills, and S. counterfeit note
8 DEATH OF GEN. HALLEcK.-Gen. Hen
ry w. Halleck, senior major general Of
the army, died at his home in Louisville
Ky, last Wednesday night, of congestion
3 of the brain He was born near Utica
g N. Y, in 1914, graduated at West Point
in 1889, served as first lieutenant in the
Mexican war, and afterwards resigned
his commission and removed to San Fran.
cisco, where he practiced law for seyera
years Early in the war of the rebel
lion he was appointed major general, ant
commanded in person at the siege of Cor
NTH. For nearly two years Q662-4,
he was general-in-chief of the army, re
firing from that position when the It'll,
Of lieutenant general was bestowed upol
Grant. He has been Ill for some time
and his death was not unexpected.
: Gen Sherman has been the recipien
), of an exceedingly hearty and fatterinE
n reception in Spain. The King and thu
i highest officers of the Government no
e only expressed themselves kindly TOWARD
S the General. but used the most amicabl