Wilmington journal., 1873-07-04
From the Richmond Dispatch.
FEn n WA IxUnrfua SIsriauZ

tllc IueSUlOH Oh Tile l1n1SSlDll1Gy OI
the letters offered in evidences, should
be published:
Mr.. OConor replied, averring that
while the letters were nominally con-
tingent, they were not so in reality.
He said: eff I don't see my children. -
But they had the instant proof that up
to the time of the separation he had
shown no paternal love for any of his
children. He had never taken them
to church-never to any place of
amusement. He had shown no interest
in them. As to the money he was
deprived of, there was none. He had
no money except what the shrewd
chancellor had so left that the decree
could not reach it. And yet all these
earlier letters are about money, money,
not the alimoney, but the money COM
ing by his fathers will, which he knew
she cOuld.not release from her children.
He knew SO, he wrote so. She releas-
ed him from all she could. Up to 1872
he was allowed to receive all-$S925.
She was then advised that she could
not yield her children's third, and Mr..
Walworth at once yielded to the claim.
She never claimed her own third.
We give the following account of
Fridays trial, the telegraphic account
Of which in our Saturdays paper was
very imperfect.
Mr.. O'Conor read the following let
ter:
MANSFIELD TRACY wALWORTH' SLETTER-
REFERENCE TO HIS FATHERS WILL.
"Pu6iicatiOp House Of Carleton q,
Co., uadcr the Fifth AUenrc Hotel,
NetO York, August 13-Listen to
these terrible words. They will show
you how keenly and fiercelv feel the
humiliation of Reuben Ii. Walworth' s
will, and what Scott, the defendant
of King Malcolm, will do when all is
taken from him. Reuben Fl. Wal
worth always hated me from my
cradle. He always liked cringing
hypocrites, like Eliza Backus and
Clarence Walworth. Although he saw
my ambitious spirit. he hated it be-
cause it did not toady to his favorite
Yankees. Hence from my cradle he
prosecuted ,me and headed me off in
every pursuit on speculation. L
could not please him in anything be-
cause / would not whine to him about
his favorites. Everything that l ever
wrrlng from him, even my pay in the
Spoke case, was wrung from his fears.
The only reason that he did not omit
my name from his will altogether was
that he respected my talents and hoped
[ would write his life. He knew no.
body else would. But he has stung
me into madness and broken up my
family by placing me in the humiliat
ing position of being under a trustee,
and that trustee my brother, who has
neither ambition nor heart. From his
grave he glances at me and says "Ha!
ha You were always proud and high
spirited, but by my Will L have put in
your side thorn for life. You have
no dignity under it, and it will sting
you to your grave. The only ones of
my name who have any dignity under
mywl1 areyour sons Frank and Tracy,
who will bear my name to pcsterity" +"
Now, Ellen Hardin, knowing that am
helpless under that will, ii you will
persist in trying, year by year, to see
how much of that trlst-property you
can get out of me by threats of law,
by personal Establishments to my trus-
tees, or by any other means if YOU
doubt and will not see that ought TO
have something for my entire life,
whether he intended me to ornot, then
mark what will be the finale of my
vengeance upon that dead scoundrel
dog who has made me so pitable before
men and before you. I willard so
help me the demons who wait upon
the persecuted and the prond-spirited
and the revengeful-I will, when strip
ped by you of my property, and you
mean it at last, plunge my dagger into
Franks and Tracy's heart and cut off
the Walworth name forever. God
d-n him, he has elevated them and
degraded me, and you gloat over it
I have not one single firm right under
his will. This you believe, and this
has been the cause of your despisinp
and abandoning me. With cold, calm
beggary and humiliation. / will kill
your boys and defeat the ID scoun-
drel in his grave, and cut off his ID
name forever"
Addressed, without q signature, to
Mrs. Ellen H. Walworth, Saratoga
Springs, n. Y
tened to with the deepest attention.
and caused profound sensation. 1t
was evident that the sentiment of the
gan to turn in favor of the mother and
the son, particularly III favor of the
latter, who was on trial for his life for
an act which, In moment of passion
or at 4 moment when he might have
deemed his own life in jeopardy, he
perpetrated. The last meeting of the
father and son must ever remain a
mystery except in so far as the prison
er's statement may be accepted, that
his father, after the few words that
passed between them, put his hand to
his breast, which act induced the son
to believe that he purposed drawing a
pistol on him then and there, and that
he then fired in self-defence. The
mother and son sat apparently unaf-
fected during the reading
The defence seeking to prove insani-
ty and irresponsibility in the youth at
the time of killing his father, after
some debate with the Court they were
allowed to proceed.
Mrs. Walworth being recalled, Mr..
O'Connor asked whether any acts of
personal violence had been committed
upon her by her husband while they
resided at Fifty-second street in 1871
Witness replied TO this and other
lucSlioilS us lOlpWS.. -. | =
My son was called in on that occur
renee it was about ?. NJ; it was
about ten days previous to the separa-
ton; l had been subjected to physical
violence, which compelled me to
scream; my scream brought i'll Frank;
he did not leave Inc till midday of next
day. my husband Re NAMED in the room
until next InorninG. | notiaed in Frank
a repetition of the peclliarities had
noticed fonr months before, when l
first indicated to Frank that his father
had used personal violence to me. II
showed severe lruise on my arm he
showed extreme pallor, and L noticed
a pinched look on his features, ex-
pressing severe suffering, both mental
and physical it alarmed me so much
that L did not, on his account, after
wards tell him ; he was very quiet, and
simLisz sai9,
s.iHls MpsF MOI be-;
on this occasion, in January. as soon |
as L myself recovered, [ noticed the |
same symptoms. When lie came in he |
had his hand on his fathers shoulder. |