The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-06-27

very uneasy. My trip will determine any ques-
ton in regard to my going to Europe or any
where else. will be heartily sorry if l shall
have caused you any trouble or expense.
Affectionately your nephew,
tSigned,) f. H. WALwoRTH.
The Fathers Letter.
May 80 o'clock in the morning Prepare
yourself for the inevitable. am getting over
my wasting fever and shall be out Of my room
in few days. am going to call upon my
children; my heart is starving for their caress;
make the interview when l come just his easy
and pleasant as possibe caunot stay from
them much longer. will see them peaceably
if | can, or with a tragedy if must Their
little faces haunt me, as they are mine. Pop
ish cruelty must bend to the demand of faith
er's heart. or Walworth's name goes out in
blood. Keep Frank Walworth out of my way;
you have taught him to hate me, and his pres
ence or obstruction in any way will only excite
fatal evaporation. want to see my little
girls and come away peaceaby Beware that
you do not in any way arouse the frenzy which
you have known to exist since you left me
There is reasonable way to deal with me. I
shall have my rights under that decree with no
further legal delay or expense 1 have conced-
ed promptly every right to you under decree,
now am going to see my children and you
shall not bring them up to hate their loving
father. Eliza Backus has written to me that
you will do it if you can from your associations
with them, and then l shall shoot you and my
self on those door steps, for 1 have nothing
further to live for.
Do right Ellen Harden, and you will lind me
prompt to do right am a broken hearted
desperate. Save this letter for lawyers and
courts if you please. God if my lawyer now,
not that remorseless, brutal God that you and
Eliza Backus, and c. A. Walcott worship, but
God that planted love for my little girls in my
heart and that says to the bereft tiger "kill."
Oh, you wretch, that kept Inc two years from
the little hands and hearts that love me. Your
only excuse was my poverty and misfortune.
Should my children refuse to speak to me in
the streets of Saratoga, L shall say to myself
that she is teaching them all to hate q broken
hearted father. All is lost, and tragedy must
come, when know from the conduct of the
little girls that you have taught them to hate
me. That moment two pistol shots will ring
about that house, one Staying you and the other
myself. l know that you have no personal
fear no more than have, but we both must die
when that discovery reaches reaches my brain,
that you have estranged my young children
from me. If my little girls do not love me,
then my life is valueless and shall die with
feeling of luxury and rest, but you will have to
attend me to the spirit land; the God
of justice demands it, but if you do
right under that decree all may be well, but now
my heart is agonized for my little children. If
you had common sense, you would know how
to appreciate the danger.
(Slgned), MANSFIELD TRACY WALwoRTH.
Judge laws IN lengthy opinion, excluded
the letter. The court then adjourned.
A G de of Honor EizzIe.
H. w. Gray. a Wall street broker, and Rich
ard Hecksher, son of Broadway coal dealer,
are reported to have fought duel ON Saturday
in Canada, opposite Rouse's Point, at ten PAGES
with hair triggers. Gray missed Hecksher.--
The latter then fred his pistol in the air, and
they both returned with their seconds to New
York. Gray was the challenger.
Various Matters.
The Tribune says that representatives from
all parts of the State are expected to be present
at the Liberal Republican conference hee to-
day.
Without money, and in despair, Henry Giest,
young photographer, put bullet through his
heart in Forsyth street yesterday.
1t is now thought that all of Mayor Have
myers nominees for police commissioners will
be rejected
The President of the Atlantic Bank, Mr.
Southworth, appeared in Court to-day to refute
the rumor set afioat yesterday of his having
absonded.