Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-11


afterward heard four pistol shots fired
in quick succession, and accompanied by
cries of Murder" The noise seemed
to come from the hallway, or room near
my own. dressed myself partly and
ran ont into the hallway. 1 found the
steward and night watchman standing in
the doorway of No. 267, and l saw the
body of the murdered man upon the
floor. l know nothing further Of the
murder.
When the news of the death of Mans
field Tracy Walworth was communica-
ted to Chief Justice Barbour, of the
Superior Coart. he Immediately adjourn
cd the Court. which he was then hold
ing. A reporter called at bis residence
and obtained statements essentially as
/ follows f
Judge Barbour was the son of ;ster
of Chancellor Walworih, and conse-
quently cousin of the deceased. He
had not acted as counsel for the wife in
the divorce suit, and had not taken
sides in the long and bitter quarrel which
had excited between abe wife and her
husband. A divorce was obtained in
her favor, some years ago, on the ground
of cruelty and personal violence, the
husband having struck her, bitten one Of
her fingers to the bone, and in other
ways brntally treated her. Though he
did not take sides in the Gnarrel, he
would state that the relatives Of the de
ceased generally took sides with the wife
against the husband, including two broth
ers at Albany, one of whom was Ro-
man Catholic clergyman. The wife was
a daughter of General Hardin, of Hi
nois, military man of prominence in
the Mexican war, he having especially
distinguished himself at Buena Vista.
After General Hardin death, his wife
was married to Chancellor Walworth,
being his second wife, so that the dcceas-
ed had married the daughter Of his step
mother. The old Walworih place, at
Saratoga, was left to the Chancellor's
second wife, and her daughter, the de-
ceased's wife, opened a boarding school
at the place. The murdered mans later
ill-treatment of his wife was in the form
of threats. insults, annoying references
in the public press, etc. Thus, he had
threatened to take house adjoining his
wife's school, and to occupy it with a
mistress, to the illrepute of the school
and of the wife. He had inserted no
tice in The Home Journal to the follow
ing effect There exists at Saratoga a
young ladies' school. named after the
celebrated author, Mansfield Tracy Wal
worth. 1t is kept by Mrs.-lIardin
fher maiden name) Mr. Walworti, has
presented tue institution with rare COL
lection of shells and fossils (things which
he did not OWN. These effusions in
print had certain appearance Of decen-
cy but were either slanderous OF herwise
intensely annoying. He had also made
threats Of violence.
AS to the lad, his uncle, the Roman
Catholic clergyman, being about to sail
for Europe, had offered to take him with
him, aud the boy had agreed to go, pro-
vided he coold settle up satisfactorily a
matter in New York. He accordingly
came to this city and went to his fathers
residence. but not finding him in left a
note, asking to see him at the Sturtevant
House. His father received the note and
went to the hotel at about 6:3O A. NJ. yes
terday, before, indeed, the night watch
had been relieved. Word was sent to
the son that his father had arrived, and
the son asked to have him sent to his
room. The sons purpose was to get his
father to promise not to molest his mother
during his absence. While they were
talking together the son saw his father
make a movement toward his pocket,
which led him to suppose that his father
was drawing pistol, and this seemed
the more like, since his father had go
often made threats of violence He ac-
cordingly drew revolver, which he had
loaded for safety in case of an emergen.
cy, and fired His father continuing to
advance he shot second time and as
he still advanced and put his hand on
the boys shoulder, he fired the third
time. This, the Judge said, was the
boys story. from which it would appear
that he acted in self defence. He would
seem to have thought, too, that he shot
only three times, though the reports re-
presented that there were four.
Morris Phillips, of the Home Journal,
who was friend of the deceased, and to
whom "Warwick" was dedicated, made
statements essentially as follows: The
deceased was born about the year 1880,
probably at Albany, and was son of
ex- Chancellor Walworth. He was edu-
Gated for the legal profession. and after
being admitted to the bar, practised in
his fathers office. He soon. however,
began to turn his attention to literature,
and did his first writing for the Home