Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-02
THE GREELEY WILLS-CURIOUS
DISCLOSURES.

promise having been effected. We e0ndense
from the morning paper reports:
Olivia johnson testified that he knew Mr..
| Greeley 20 years. saw him oncs or twice,
| he said, Immediately preceding her (Mrs.
Greeley's death, also on the day following
! her death, at Alvin j. Johnson's residence;
/ saw Mr.. Greeley again on the day Of his
| wife's funeral; he met me on that occasion
| in manner which at once attracted my at
tention; be shook my hand and held it for
half an hour without speaking to me, and
when he did speak, he spoke entirely of
| himself as an utterly ruined man; he said
nothing to me about bis wife, but spoke Of
himself, his pecuniary affairs, and the Tri
buae; he reproached himself with having
| utterly destroyed il, and said that he was
utterly ruined; he seized my hand in pc
culiar manner, as he had never done be-
fore.
| The witness could not describes look his,
and his manner was peculiar:
There was a great deal of wildness in
bis appearance, which occasioned me APP
i prehension and alarm in regard to the state
| of his mind, and he remarked that he wish
ed he was dead ad of his wife; he said
| that more than once. 1t was
Il AAARAOOoOA 0kOA LuAbA At Sl1est OAAAO o1Nb
| Mr.. Greeley was deranged, that be was not
rational; this was the day Before Mrs. Gree
ley's funeral; be sgain talked to me the
next morning, aHd bis conversation was of
| the same kind, and it made the same i'm
preston on my mind; on Sunday preceding
the death of his wife, his conversation was
| Of the same tenor.
| On Nov. I3, at a meeting of the stock
4 E1Il - IL ,Fsl Ill 1,a1
| ined all OF them, but he did not know why
be had done it; he knew he had done it;
that everything he had done that afternoon
was wrong; he had been running US; Mr..
| Rocker was there at the time; be finally
| lost the thread Of his discourse, became in
| capable Of speaking, and sat down; the
| whole tenor Of his speech or remarks was
entirely different from his usual manner;
he said he had tried 10 write, but he found
| everything he did was wrong; there was no
fisrceness about him; be seemed full Of
| lamentation and sorrow; the whole express
| sion Of bis face was unusual and wild; my
| conviction at the time, the witness said.
was that Mr.. Greeley was deranged; 1
have no more doubt on that point than that
am here at this moment.
G. A. Runkle, one Of the Trustees of the
Tribune Association, testified that meet
| ing held in Mr.. Sinclair's house,
Mr.. Greeley said that he was a black
fraud; that he was tryil G to do right, as he
had always been trying to do, but he could
do nothing right that day; that everything
| he did was wrong; some Cne endeavored to
| convince him to the contrary, but it seemed
| to be of no use; he said that he had been
wrong all the time; everything he said sp-
peared to be repetition of those remarks;
he complained of pain in mis- head, put his
| hand up to his head and said it was hot;
there was vacant expression in
| his face; when he was told that the paper
was not ruined it made no impression upon
him, for he only repeated what he had said;
think all present said to him, "Alr. Gree
ley, you are Mistaken" 1 regarded Mr.
| Greeley as being out of his mind; he re-
marked to those present that if they wanted
the Tribune to prosper they had better get
| rid of him, that he was in their way.
Alvin J. johnson knew Mr.. Greeley since
1s49. The day after Mrs. Greeley's death
be went with him to Chappaqua. The
witness said:
Mr.. Greeley told me that I had said that
he must go-which had not; on the morn
ing of going away he called me up stairs;
| found him in strange state of mind he
had bis trunks and valises about the room;
be said he had been trying 10 pack up his
things, but could not do it, and asked me to
| assist him; began to put his clothing and
| other things in the trunks; he took some of
| them out again, and put them into other
| trunks, and said l did not understand what
he wanted; he said he was going away be-
| cause did not want him there; that when
he brought his trunks from DR.. Bayard's he
did not expect or wish to go away until he
was carried to Greenwood; got the i'm
| impfe ssion that be was not in his right
mind from that time.
The first thing that surprised him, how
ever, in his conduct, was prior to the Octo-
Der elections:
One Saturday, Just before his wife came
down, be appeared to be in great trouble
| and said be Wante to talk with me; that
he wanted 10 get rid Of the crowd there;
we went up to the barn; he then told me
that inasmuch as another" (AIrs. Greeley
would certainly die, he wanted 10 know
whether l had any objection to her coming
to my house; l told him should have to
| consult my wife first; he th seized hold
of me and trembled most violently; all the
time during Mrs. Greeley's sickness Mr.
| Greeley had a very bad turn, one day he
went to the barber's, and when he came
back he told my wife that the barber had
been throwing quantity of water upon
| him, that his clothes were so wet that he
could not 90 to church; l aftarward noticed
that his hands and face were covered with
perspiraion.
The day before Mrs. Greeley died, Miss
| Ida hired some apartments in the city for
| their accommodation. The witness said:
Mr.. Greeley told me to see the landlord,
and say that he (Mr. Greeley was ruined,
a bankrupt, and had not dollar where
with to pay the rent, and therefore should
not occupy the rooms; when my wife in
formed me that Mrs. Greeley was dying, l
sent word to Mr.. Greeley; he came, rushed
I'D to me, and said: "a. j., We are all ru-
ined; want yon to stand by me-" l re-
marked that Mrs. Greeley was cut of her
trouble, and he Immediately said: 81 don't
care about that, but we are utterly, utterly,
utterly ruined-all's gone!" 1 tried to pacify
him, but it was no use; l went to Chsppa
qua with Mr.. Greeley, Miss Ida, and Aunty
| IIampsob; Mr.. Greeley insisted that l
should not get ca age, as be had no mo-
ney to pay for it, but an express wagon;
1 WucH We SJb " S41appaiueh n4Ls OlCOlO1
insisted that l should take all his property,
and collect all the money could out of it;
he wanted us to take all bis Tribune stock
also-in fact everything; tried to get him
to work for the purpose of diverting his
mind from that subject, but all TO no pur.
pose. His mind appeared to be occupied
with his imagined bankruptcy. He Kept
up continual string of expressions about
it all the time; he wanted me to make up a
pool of the whole concern.
On Nov. 9, he said he wanted SAC, 900 to
get him out of trouble; that he had broken
open Mrs. Greeley's will, and that he would
be sent 10 the penitentiary for the offance.
He subsequently, said that he must have
$1,000 within ten minutes, which let him
have. Mr.. Taft was employed to draw up
an assignment of his six shares of the TTi-
5lae at s., 600 per share. After getting the
$1,000 he said he must have it stipulated in
the assignment that be should have the
balance of 600 at three days notice. ]
said was willing to do anything to relieve
Mr.. Greeley, but Mr.. Taft, observing the
p srticular manner OF Mr.. Greeley, said that
he was not in fit state to make such an
assignment, and thus the matter stood.
The case was finally adjourned to Feb. 8
English Statutes Ignored SIS Immoral
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. LIN the Court
of Common Pleas to-day, Judge Ludlow
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