The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-11

In pronouncing judgment on Frank Wal
worth on Saturday, Judge Davis said: The
punishment of crime is fixed by statue, no
discretion is left to the court. 1t is severe,
but as the court deems your case it is none
to severe. 1t separates you from your
friends and your family and consigns you
for life to the state prison, from which
you probably can have no hope of escape.
unless, possibly, at some future day,
through executive clemency. The evidence
in your case, in my Judgment, fully JUS
titles the verdict which has been rendered
against you, and have fearful doubts that
it would not have justified a verdict of
murder in the first degree, for | cannot
conceive what motives you could have had
in preparing yourself as you did, with
pistol loaded, coming to New York, seek
ing an interview with your father and
almost Immediately shooting him down,
except upon the idea that you had DELHI
erately determined that his life should be
terminated by your hands hope how
ever, that the searcher of all hearts can
perceive from your conduct that you were
not animated by that premediation and de-
liberation which the statute now requires
to constitute the crime in the first degree,
After referring to the noble history of his
grand parents, Judge Davis continued
Your poor mother has indeed great cause
to regret her relations to the father whom
you had slain. You, also, undoubtedly
had great cause to feel not aggrieved mere
ly, but ashamed and indignant, at the long
course of outrages toward her and toward
his family; but, bad as he was, you We're
not to be the avenger of these wrongs. He
had done nothing to forfeit his life even to
the laws of his country, and least of all
had he done anything to forfeit his life at
the hand of his own and eldest son. When
| look back at that moment when you con-
stituted yourself his eXecutioner and slew
him in that room with no one present but
yourselves, | cannot but feel that the
death must have been more horrible than a
thousand deaths in any other form. Called
by you to your presence apparently for the
purpose of peaceful interview to settle
family difficulties, writes to and sent in
your room and apparently almost instantly
confronted with weapon of death in his
own sons hands? What thoughts must
have rushed upon him at that moment
when he found that the person whom he
expected had come to him for the purposes
of peaceful arrangement? What terrible
| thoughts must have rushed upon him when
he received the leaden messenger OF death
| in his bosom from the hands of his eldest
boy? / shudder when | think of it, and
think you ought to devote your whole life
to repentance such as God only can accept
for so horrible deed. The sentence of
the court is, that you be imprisoned in the
state prison at Sing Sing, at hard labor, for
the full time of your natural life. The
court then adjourned. The prisoner stood
the trying ordeal with firmness, without
moving a muscle of his features, and left
the court with his mother Immediately
after the Judge had concluded, Mr.
O'Conor, ii is said, is trying to induce the
Sheriff to leave WalwOrth in the Tombs
for few days, that he might apply for a
pardon to the Governor.