The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-07
Walworth sent to Prison
for life.
Accidents on the Fourth.
Terrible Death of a Bal
loonist.
The Cholera Excitement
subsiding.
JEFF Davis in New York.
Accidents, Suicide, Murder.
Hanging etc., ETC..

New YORK, July 5.-Frank H. Wal !
worth, who shot LIS father, and was con
victed of murder in the second degree, |
was sentenced this morning to imprison- |
ment for life. He heard the sentence pro
nounced with apparent Indifference His |
relatives were present Judge Davis. |
before passing sentence, said that the
evidence in his opinion justified the YER
diet, and he was not sure but it would
have justified verdict of murder in the
first degree, although he could understand
the motives which prompted the jury to
render the verdict which they did He
then continued, "The duty I am to per
form is rendered doubly painful by the
fact that you belong to family honored
and distinguished, both in the civil and
military annals of your country. Your
grandfather on one hand was, as has been
truly said by your counsel, for long time
Chief Equity Judge of this great State,
and he left a record for purity and in
tegrity and for all private virtue that
adorn and elevate man second to none
who have attained so high a station and
your grandfather on your mothers side
fell nObly fighting for his country on the
field of battle, end left record which all
his descendants may well be proud OF. 1t
is with grief that | feel bound to express
my sorrow that the memory of those
great ancestors should not have restrained
you from the commission of such erin e
as that of which you are convicted. Your
poor mother had indeed cause TO regret
| her relations to the father you have slain.
You also undoubtedly had great cause to
/ feel not aggrieved merely, but ashamed
and indignant at the long course OF out
RACES toward her and her family, but bad
as he was, you were not to be the avenger
| of those wrongs. He had done nothing to
| forfeit his life, even to the laws OF his
country. and least Of all had he done any
thing to forfeit his life at the hands of his
/ own and eldest son. When look back upon
that moment, when you constituted your
! self his eXecutioner and slew him in that
room, with no one present but yourselves,
| cannot but feel that that death must have
been to him more horrible than thousand
deaths in any other form Called by You
to your presence, apparently for the pur-
pose of a peaceful interview, to settle
family difficulties, invited to a
seat in your room, and appa-
rently, at the most instantly confronted
with weapon OF death in his own son s
hands, what thoughts must have rushed
on him at that moment when he found
that the person whom he expected had
come to him for the purpose of peaceful
arrangements had come to kill him. What
thoughts, what terrible thoughts mus
have rushed upon him when he received
the leaden messenger of death in his bosom
from the hands of his eldest boy / shud
der when | think of it, and think yoI
ought to devote your whole life to repent
ance, such as God only can accept for St
horrible deed.
, Walworth, on his way to the tombs
4 after the sentence. said Il am glad
) did not have to endure the long lecture
, had anticipated Judge Davis would infic
, III on me- / thoroughly understand m
l position, and do not desire any instruction
: ia relation thereto / simply wish time t
b arrange my affairs and | shall then submit
n to my fate with all the equanimity can com
mand." Upon being taken to his cell h
: parted cheerfully with the Deputy Sheriff
d saying that his was case which he thOl
5 oughly understood, but did not blame tn
q world for not understanding
r
mature discharge of cannon at Buds
ILL.,, this morning, j. g. Rick and Eli
Shannon were seriously, and perhaps fata
r ly, injured. Both eyes Of the latter wer
blown out. Three other parties who's
names were not learned were slightly hur
|. MUsKEGoN, Mich, July A man wa
o instantly killed here to-day by the premi
ture discharge of cannon, the ramme
passing through his body. Two Other
e were wounded.
,, DETROIT, July 5.-Professor LaFor
e taine, of Brooklyn, Michigan, was instan
y ly killed at lonia, yesterday afternoon b
falling from balloon He had ascende
FIVE or six hundred feet when the balloo
; collapsed, the ropes passed from under tn
lie basket and the Professor came down hun
a dred feet from where he ascended, to th
horror of ten or twelve thousand spect;
lie tors
- MEMPHIS, July 5.-Only ten intermen
h to- day from all diseases, and two only frol
- cholera. All excitement in regard to
has ceased.
m NASHVILLE, July 5.--There were IA il
terments in this city to-day, four of whic
were from cholera
CINCINNATI, July 5.-Nine deaths fro
cholera were reported to the health off,
, to-day.
ANNAPOLIS, July 5.-Governor Viii
has signed the death warrant of jam
:? West, the negro convicted ef the murd
of of his paramour, fixing the day for his e,
ecution on August %.
C. BosToN, July 5.-In South Acto
t. Mass, yesterday, George Curtis, aged
f. years, took boy named Lane, years
he age, into the woods, and there beat hi
Y, with a club in a most shocking manne
f. Lane was soon discovered but died of
he injuries four hours after. The child d-mu
u derer fed, but was arrested last eveniI
D. in Cambridge.
of The wife of Albert Gilpatrick died su
rs denly last evening in Warwick stree
lie Highlands, and her husband has bee
u arrested, charged with beating her to deaf
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 5.-At Green
Z burg, Ind, yesterday, William A. Ode
;k holder, shot and killed George Lesur
ia The parties were brothers in-law and