Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-14
From our Special Correspondent
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
STOKES AND WHAT HE Is TRYING TO Do-MRs.
WALwoRTH-THE REAL STORY OF HER
LYFE-CossIP OF THE DAY.
STOKES.
The Court Of Appeals having unanimously
decreed new trial for Stokes the next step
on the part of Stokes counsel will be an effort
to have him bailed. 1t is doubtful if this mo-
! ton will be listened to- In the event Of this
failing it is not proposed to bnsh his trial,
| though Stokes clamors for it a. once. When
| the trial does come up his counsel says the
effect of this decision will enable Stokes to
offer in evidence vast amount of testimony
which tends to establish the hostility of Fisk
toward him, and serves to show the dire char
acter Of the threats which Fisk made against
him, such evidence, the Court holding, tending
to throw light on the ARRAY which Stokes says
took place between him and Fisk on the stair
case of the Grand Central Hotel at the time
of the shooting. With the evidence which
they are thus enabled to use, and additional
evidence which counsel can command, they
They also think that they can eradicate the
popular impression that Stokes lay in wait for
Fisk.
The changes which imprisonment have made
in Stokes are very marked. The raven hair
has become gray, the rounded cheeks have
| fallen in, the skin is sallow and wrnkled, and
his hands are long and bony. His voice
sounds like the voice of a man who has just
escaped the clutch Of deadly disease, and
to whom speaking is a pleasant effort.
| Mrs. WALwoRTH
Who was made widow by the crime of her
son, though separated for years from her hus-
band, has the profoundest sympathies of the
community, while the evidence of the mate
badness of the husband is overwhelming, the
excellent qualities Of the wife are admitted.
In less than year after marriage all the evil
qualities of Walworth's character manifested
themselves. He was idle and disolute, and
often intoxicated. While pursuing this course,
he, with his wife joined the Catholic church.
He yielded to the wishes Of his father and
commenced the study of law, and she fondly
hoped that happiness was to dawn upon her.
The old leaven was too strong to be overcome.
About three years after his marriage an out
rage committed by him had the effect of driv-
| ing him from Sarotoga. In the dead of night
in half drunken condition he scaled the wall
Of garden leading to young ladies board
ing school endeaving to gain entrance through
the window into the sleeping apartment of one
the girls. He was discovered and compelled
to leave his home. At the death of his father
the only remaining tic between them was
snapped, and she availed herself of the only
form of divorce which the Catholic church
permits and became nominally free. Mrs.
Walworth went South and spent some time
amid the scenes of her happy childhood. She
proceeded from Kentucky to Washington,
and, through the influence of friends procured
position as clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment, where she remained for two years, and
then came to this city, and for a time strug-
gled against adversely by keeping boarding
house on 2Srd Street. The attempt was fail
ure and she finally assumed the head of
ladies' seminary at the old Walworth home
stead. Since she went to Saratoga the old
persecution was revived by Walworth, and he
addressed her letters containg destinations of
the most insulting character
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.
The Supreme Court sustains the constitu-
tionality of the Habitual Criminal Act. There.
for fn ipfu Of
thieves in your section.
Under the auspices of the Children's Aid
Society, GO children, chiefly newsboys and
bootblacks. started for Western Iowa, in
charge of an agent, to work with farmers.
At the sale Of boxes for the Founding Asy-
lum benefit at the Academy Of Music, Prosce-
mum box X brought $500, Mr.. Albert Weber
being the purchaser. The remaining prosce-
mum boxes brought from $50 to $40 each,
making total of about 50, 900. The stock
holders boxes brought about $2j each, realiz-
ing over $1,000. The total sale amounted to
over $4,000.
Samuel J. Clemens, better known as Mark
Twain, brought suit in the Supreme Court,
against Benjamin A. Suck. to restrain him
from publishing book bearing the name of
Mark Twain as the author. lie does not sue
under the Copyright Law, but claims that UNI
der the Trademark Law he has given mer
camille value to the name of "Mark Twain"
which he alone has the right to use, even to
his own compositions. He therefore asks a
permanent injunction for the future and dam.
ages for the past.
And young Walworth is to be gagged and
tested as to his sanity. Crowds of clergymen
and medical experts on insanity besiege his
cell, and if he is not already crazy he soon
will be. b.
MAINE CENTRAL.
We are informed that on Tuesday the pa.
pers leasing tho Maine Central and all its