Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-12
Ehe WaIworth Parrfcide.
THE INQUEsr AND yERDIgT-THE MURDER
Frs STATEMENT.


Coroner Young and District Attorney
Phelps were ready to commence the in
auest il the case of Mansfield Tracy
WalwOrth at the Twenty-ninth Precinct
Station house at haifspast ten a m,
Friday, the Jurors having arrived pune
tnallv, hut the prisoner was not brought
. from the Tombs till past noon, when he
was accompanied by Charles O'Conor,
Miles Beach, and eK-Judge Garvin. The
prisoner was dressed in a light summer
suit. and appeared totally upeoncerned
as he stepped from the. carriage with
Sergeants Mullin and Heating In the
room where the investigation was held
there were but few persons besides re
porters, and the prisoner was seated be-
side Mr.. O'Conor, his other counsel TAX
inc seats behind him. Coroner Young
onened the proceedings with briaf adj
dress. and then called Eliza Simms, who
testified that she lived in Fourth avenue,
between Fifty-fourth and FIfty-ftth
streets Mansfield Z. WalwOrth had oc
cupied rooms there for two years pre-
| vious to his death; he LETT the house be-
tween one and two o'clock on Monday
afternoon; witness had no idea as to the
! time of his return; gentleman called
1 durino his absence (here witness pointed
out tho prisoner) and inquired for Mr.
Walworth; ne i0,G witness to ask Mr..
Walworth to call at toe Sturteyant
! House. as his son wished to see aim !;
Mrs. Simms asked the visitor TO Write a
note ana 3eaye it with her; she left the
note on Mr. Waiworth.s table; at fifteen
I minutes past five on Tuesda. morning
she heard Mr.. Walworth leave the mouse
there the note found on Mr., wal
| worths body was identified as the one
left in her care) she first heard Oh MT.
Walworth' death on Tuesday afternoon !;
his sons manner during the Visit to her
house was calm and collected.
Josiah Moorehead, boarder at the
Sturteyant House, was not acquainted
| with the late Mr.. Walworth, nor with
his sopy about six o'clock on 'luesqay
morning he heard q knock at an adJa-
cent door, accompanied bY the remark,
"Here Is a card for yol sir, he then
thought he heard door opening twice,
and after the second time he heard -four
shots fired, followed by cries of ''mur-
der" after the first three shots; a door
was then apparently closed and some
person raa through the entry; the shots
were fired at short Intervals; went int
the hall, but saw no one save the house
keeper: about ten minutes subsequently,
entered the room No. 26T and saw q
body living on the floor with the feet to.
ward tie door, and the head resting
against wasl,sisld;. the head moved
three times while witness vas looking
into the room; in the meantime physl'
clans had been sent for; thought the cry
of tsnurder' denoted terror; heard nc
/ loud talking IN the room whence the
shots proceeded, and 81 the first report
thought that a quarrel had taAep place
between the servants. 60,
| Chas. III. poolittle, the steward OF the
Sturteyant House, said = About SIX
o'clock on Tuesday morning he -hearp
| several shots fired on the second moor ID
such quick succession that he could no'
tell how many were fired went into the
back room and found all right, ano
then ran to the Office, as he heard the
bells of the enunciator in the hallway
ring furiously somebody told him that
the bell of. No. 267 rang furiousiy; he
told TIE clerk that there was a. dlstur
ance up stairs he did NOT know where
the shooting took PLACE but he smeiiec
Epowder went back to e6T and looked
In lust far enough to see the body o. i.lf
deceased lying on the floor; Wnen ut
went back to the Office the clerk tolc
him that Young .Walworth had Shot 'nls
father, at this time Waiworth, the prls
oner, was standing atthe desk reading {