The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-27
4 REpENrANr WIFE KILLED.
A Drunken seducer Wandering his Victim,
and then killing Himseif-A Father saw
ing his Sons BODY from Cremation.


SKowuEGAN, Me-, oct. AIN the town
OF Mercer on Friday last, Mrs. Mary Walton was
killed by Greenleaf Tracy, and he then killed
himself. On the Norridgewock road, about
three miles from the village, lives james T..
Tracy, farmer in moderate circuu stances,
owning ninety acres Of land, and Occupying a
e.story house. lie Is the father Of o hume
rous family, several Of his children having
grown up to manhood. One Of the boys, Green
leaf Tracy, was also married and the father
Of six children. He was thirty-lvc years OF age,
aud hiswife, peaccable, wcll-behayed woman,
has worked In a cotton factory at Lewiston for
three or four years past, while her children have
been supported by her husbands relatives. I'M
I'll within four years, Grcenleat Tracy was
sober, Industrious young man, living happily
with his wife, and 1t was not until he took his
abode near the Walton House that change was
noticed: The Walton lIso + IN neld short
d thn from ,ne "neye farmer or nSmI,s
means. about nf,y years old. His wife was about
forty three years old. They had lived together
Tor twenty years, aud TWO boys hau oeen porn To
them.
Mrs. waton.who was pretty. tidy, simple, and
trusting, WIS frequently visited 10y Tracy but
Mr.. Walton's suspicious were not aroused until
one dav In the fall his wife and Tracy were
missing. Two weeks later they returned, and
the husband received lis wife "a though no
thing had happened. Twice afterward Mrs.
Walton md Tracy disappeared. and the last
time they were absent fer year Walton OBJ
tanned a divorce, hut when his wife rcappe red
In his house about two weeks ago, he received
her tlly and promised To FORGET the past.
She seemed to TO penitent, and said that She
would not again desert her home. The husband
also exacted promise that she would not see
Tracy again, and she wrote to Tracy that he
must not see her again.
After the receipt Of this letter Tracy refused
TO eat and could not sleep. On Friday morning
he drove hts fathers horses to the neighboring
town 81 Smthneld. and after buy ing pint Of
rum, tried to borrow revolver, but failed He
then borrowed n double-harielled shotgun and
returned to his fathers house. The father np-
prehensive that the son was bent on mischief,
demanded the weapon, but Greenleaf refused
10 give up. lie went tO the Walton house at
about ii o'clock, and, calling Mrs. Walton to the
door, asked her to go with him. She refused
and tried to dlssuade him. say Inc, " For God's
sake, for the sake of my boy that Is dead, and
the living one, don't fire." lie then shot her in
the breast. She fell dead on the SPOT.
Toe murderer ran few PAGES, .opped, turned
around and looked ut the body. lie smiled
then he turned again and ran into the woods
Soon afterward three or four wild wells and the
report OF q gun were heard, and the neighbors
found Tracy opthe ground. half resting against
the tree. dead. In their indignation some II
the nechbors proposed that the body be burned
where 1t lay, and they began 70 gather tagots for
the purpose; tut Iracy's aged father arrived
and dssuadcd them, and they bore the corpse
to the fathers house.