The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-07-11
Desperate Shot by an Officer.
DOings of the Storm King.
Indian War Resumed.
MALwoRrH's sENTENcE.

wALwoRTH's SENTENCE
New York, July Drank Wal
worth, who shot his father and has
been convicted of murder in the
second degree, was sentenced this
morning to imprisonment for life.
Walworth was attended in court by
his mother, brother and sisters and
several of his relatives and friends.
His counsel, except Mr.. Beach, were
present. lie presented the demean-
or that characterized him through
out the trial, apparently wholly in
sensible to the position he occupies
in the estimation of the great body
of the people. He heard unmoved
his sentence to the state prison for
life, and at the close retired from
the court room accompanied by his
mother and the sheriffs officer.
Mr.. O'Connor is said to be en-
deavoring to induce the sheriff to
allow Walworth to remain in the
Tombs, in hopes that pardon from
the governor may save him from
the state prison.
Judge Davis, before passing sem
tence said, the one evidence in his
opinion justified verdict, and he
was not sure but it would have justi-
fed verdict of murder in the first
degree, although he could under
stand the motives which prompted
the Jury to return the verdict which
they did. He then adds: The duty
1 am to perform is doubly painful
by the fact that you belong TO a
family honored and distinguished,
both in the civil and military annals
| of your country. Your grandfather
OH one side was, as has been truly
said by your counsel, for a long
time chief justice of this great state,
and he left a record for purity and
integrity and for all private virtues
that adorn and elevate man second
to none who have attained so high
u position, and your grandfather on
your mothers side fell nobly fight
| ing for his country on the field OF
battle. His life was an honored
one, of which all his descendants
may well be proud. 1t is with grief
that / feel bound to express my sor-
row that the memory of these great
ance stors should not have restrained
you from the committal of the crime
| of which yoI are convicted. Your
poor mother had indeed cause to
regret her relations to the father in
whose blood you have stained your
hands. You undoubtedly had great
cause TO feel angry and ashamed at
the long course of outrages toward
her and his family, but bad as he
was you were not to be the avenger
of the wrongs he had done. His
| life was amenable to the laws of his
| Of oil hn
done anything to forfeit his life at
the hand of his own and eldest son.
Then l look back at that moment
when you constituted yourself his
executioner, and slew him in that
room, with no one present but your
self, / cannot but feel that death
must have been to him more honor
able than thousand deaths in any
other form. Called by you to your
presence apparently for the purpose
of a peaceful interview to settle
family difficulties, invited to seat
in your room, and apparently al
most instantly confronted with a
weapon of death.
What thoughts must have rushed
on him that moment when he found
that the person whom he expected
had come to him for the purpose of
a peaceful arrangement, had come
to kill him? What terrible thoughts
must have rushed on him when he
received the leaGen messenger of
death in his breast from his eldest
boy. ! shudder when think of it,
and l think you ought TO devote
your whole life TO a repentance such
as God only can know, for so hor-
rible q deed.
| Walworth on his way to the
tombs after sentence, remarked: 81
am glad l did not have to endure a
long lecture had anticipated Judge
Davis would infiict upon me. l
thoroughly understood my position
aud did not desire any instruction
in relation thereto. l simply wish
time to arrange my affairs and
shall then submit myself to my fate
with all the equinimity can com
mand." Upon being taken to his
cell he parted cheerfully with the
deputy sheriff, saying his was a case
which he thoroughly understood,
but did not blame the world for not
understanding.
OVER THE FALLS.
Chippewa, Canada, July "a
man, woman aud child went out on
Niagara river yesterday afternoon
and are supposed to have gone over
the falls, as pieces of boat were
picked up below tho falls this noon.
The young man was from Cincin-
natl and the girl with her young
brother from Toronto. The young
man and girl were to have been
married to-day, having procured a
license at Welland yesterday. Their
names have not yet been ascertained.
a FIGHT.
| Yesterday at Lawrencebnrg, Ind,
deputy sheriff Paul Truett was
knocked down by a desperate, Pete
Miller, whom he had arrested.
Truett fired shot, hitting Miller in
the small of the back. The ball
passed through, and was taken out
of the abdomen. 1t is thought Mil
Ter cannot live. He had just been
liberated from the Jacksonville PEN
itsntiary.
/ THE STORM KING.
| Cincinnati, july 5.-The like of
storms for the past three days has
seldom if ever been seen in the
states of Ohio aud Indiana. Hur-
ricanes and tornadoes, with floods
and rains, have followed each other
in rapid succession. Our city and
its immediate vicinity has escaped
the fury OF the storms, but the
country north of this parallel in In
diana aud Ohio has suffered severe
lY. Furious storms passed over 1t
on the ID. Sd and 4th insts. Tele-
graph wires have been generally
FRUSTRATED. At Springfield, Ohio.
it is reported that the telegraph
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