The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-21


New Yark's Latest Trsgssy ,rs,e Story
OF q Career or CTfTne.
The murder of OMEN by james G. King
has created quite an excitement In New
York. Mra. King and her friends have
given reporter The following sketch Of the
murderer: Els s.F.. 49,
According to all accounts, Rings life seems
to have been sufficiently adventurous one,
and according to the story told by the friends
Of Mrs. King 1t Is invested with the highest
romaffce of crime. Born In Morristown, n.
j., in 1885, 1he first distinguished himself by
ruIhitg away from school at Flushing al
the age Of twelve. One Of his schoolmates
was q son OF Thomas Hunt, an irnporte: Of
cloths and woollens, of this city, who obtained
for King employment with his father. King
served Nfrs Hunt in various capacities till
1860; when he wef1t to San Francisco, and
after acting as subordinate in several estab-
lisbments, finally set up for himself as ship
broker, and did bt!siiiess for number of
years between that city and Honolulu, in the
Sandwich islands. ..~....
In was at the, Inter place that about the
year 1858 he first became acquainted with
and married Mrs. King. who was daughter
Of sea captain named Stott, who had
amassed handsome fortune in the Pacific
trade. This fortune; after be had become
acquainted with his son:in-law's presumably
bad disposition, he Is REPORTED to have set
tied upon his daughter, only to be enjoyed
aftet her husband had been gathered to his
fathers and she was left q widow. This
strange will of Stott's becoming known to
King, bad blood naturally arose between
themj and frequent quarrels were the fesult.
In one of these Captain Stott became so en-
ragged ut his g0n=in-iaw that he struck him,
and on the latter's catltioniug him not to do
it again repeated the blow. At this King.
it is alleged, drew pistol and fired, wound.
ing Stott severely. The immediate conse.
que1lces were not fatal, and the affair was
hrshed up. but Stott died within year, as
some Of the physicians alleged, from the
effects of the wound.
Fearing; perhaps; that legal proceedings
would be taken against tifi1, Ki1g, IL ia
stated, left Honolulu and came TO this city,
he turns up shortly afterwards at Liverpool,
England, in his old business of shipping
agent. From here is alleged to have gone
count does not state particularly which-be-
longing to the British Bank of North America
and the London and San Francisco Bank.
From Paris he went to Germany, when, after
distinguishing himself,-probablv at Baden.
Baden-he returned to New York. This was
in the spring Of 1867. The summer Of the
same gear he spent at Newport, boarding at
the rate Of three hundred dollars week.
The following fall hS bought an expensive
house on west Forty-siNth stfeett in which
he lived during the winter. During his tram
behring's be had continued to pickup know.
ledge of the law, did so ut this time became
partner of Edwin James. 1t this time he
purchased q cottage at Long Branch, and the
following winter he rented fiat in the Stuy-
yesant building on east Eighteenth street.
He afterwards rented the house OF K. {.
Christy, nearly opposite the Clarendon, on
the same street, which he occupied till Au-
gust, 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 the summer there.
O'Ncil befriended him in every possible Tav.
so the story goes, till he learned that King
systematically ill-treated and beat his wife.
From that moment the friendship that had
existed between them ceased, and U'Neil de-
voted himself entirely to freeing the perSc'
cuted woman from her brutal husband. In
pursuance of this intention, he invited her to
live with him and his wife, and accordingly
The latter part Of the past summer she took
up her quarters at his house, on west Thirty
second street. The rests told in the history
of the assassination. 1t is only to be added
that, as if shooting hi, Wife's father was not
enough, King had repeatedly boosted Of
having shot a man in South Carolina, al'
though the other circumstances of his life in
that State are not mentioned. Also, in refer
ence to yesterdays tragedy, he has been
known to have talked mysterously OF ian
other Jim Fisk affair being on tic tapis."
and che would soon do something that
would astonish people" In consequence OF
these threats O'Ncii 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 Twcnty-third street, in order
to go to the trial, he jokcd over the probabil.
ity of Kings using desperate measures, and
his words we're: II am goingto Tx out the
-.n In proof of Kings dishonesty al
Liverpool, the fact of his having been thrown
into bankruptcy by the bank he is alleged to
have delluudcd is cited, and numerous other
circumstances are brought forward by those
interested i'm Mrs. King to show his general
bad character. Such, then, is the highly
dramatic story of a career of crime Which
certainly, if true, has seldom been surpassed