Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-07-02
The WalwOrth Murder.

The Walworth Murder.
The trial of Frank Walworth for the
murder of his father is slowly progress
ing in New York. Several letters writ
ten by the father to the mother were pro-
duced in court. 1t is well that they
were there produced. for thereby the
world learns how unjustifable was the
shooting of the father. If epistolatory
evidence is worth anything to prove the
sanity or insanity of an individual, then,
indeed, the letters of the father indicate
an unsound mind, and evidence that he
should have been domiciled in an insane
asylum. instead Of having been murder
ed. There is no chivalry in killing a
crazy parent. This is Que of the letters !:
PuBLIcArrox House OF CARLETON & Co.,
under Fifth-avenue HOTEL.
NEW YORK, Aug Is.
Listen to theee terrible words. They
will show you how keenly and fiercely
l feel the humiliation of Reuben H.
Walworth's will, and what a Scot, the
descendant Of King Malcolm. will do
when all has been taken from him -
Reuben II. Walworth always hated me
from my cradle. He always hated any
one who was high-spiritcd and would
speak out their thoughts. He always
liked crying hypocrites like Elisha Back
us aud Clarence Walworth. Although
he saw my ambitious spirit, he hated it,
because it would not toady to his favor
lite Yankees. Hence. from ny cradle be
prosecuted me and headed me off iu ev-
cry pursuit or speculation +; could not
please him in anything, because l would
not whine to him about his favorites !;
everything that l ever wrung from him,
even my pay in the Spike case. was
wrung from his fears. The only reason
that he did not omit my name from his
will altogether was that he respected my
talent, and hoped 1 would write his life.
He knew nobody else would.
But he has stung me into madness and
broken up my family by placing me in
the humiliating position of being under
trustee, and that trustee my brother. who
has neither ambition nor heart. From
his grave he glares at me and says, "Ha,
ha, you were always proud and high
spirited, but by my will l have put in
your side thorn for life you have no
dignity under it, and it will sting you to
your grave the only ones of my name
who have any dignity under my will are
your sons Frank and Tracy. who will
bear my name TO posterity."
Now, Ellen Harden, knowing that
am helpless under that will, if you will
persist in trying, year by year, to see
how much of that trust property you
can get out of me by threats of law. by
personal blandishments to my trustees.
or by any other means if you do not aud
will not see that ought to have some
thing for my entire life, whether he in
tended me to or not, then mark what will
be the finale of my vengeance upon that
dead scoundrel dog who has made me so
pitiable before men and before you.
will, and so help me the demon who
waith upon the persecuted. and the proud
spirited, and the revengeful-I will when
stripped by you of my property laud you
mean it at LAST, plunge my dagger into
Frank and Tracy's heart and cut off the
Walworth name forever G-d-him,
he has elevated them and degraded me,
and you gloat over it. have not one
single form or right under his will. This
has been the cause Of your despising and
abandoning me. With cold. calm pur-
pose you contemplate my eventual beg
gary and humiliation.
will kill your boys and defeat the
SC oundrel in his grave, and cut off his
name forever. Now, you just persecute
me about that property, and keep up this
thorn alive in my heart, by the Eternal
God 1 will kill them and you. too.-
Now you hunt my property any further,
you X l will gut your
boys. as we'll as YOU.
The . dead villain shan't
rob me of wife. children, aud property.
If can't have anything I'll have re.
venge. = l have lost already
nearly everything which makes life tol'
erable.
There is no signature 10 the letter.