The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-09
! was very close 10 Mr.. COniad's head when I
the shot Was fired -. 81 |


cry OF her daughter that she had hurt Mr.
Conrad. She went 10 her room. and saw
her son-in-law dead In bed. Her daughter,
grief was most violent. She was not ra
tlonal. She had known her 10 threaten tc
commit suicide on account OF her life OF
pain, and when questioned by witness said
that she was sitting up in bed nourishing
her pistol and endeavoring to make up her
mind 10 Kill herself when it exploded and
put the bullet through MIR. Conrad's head.
Leonetto Cipriani testified that he had
found the pistol on the foot OF the bed.
| Neither he nor any other member OF the
family had any idea that Mrs. Conrad had
, II in her possession.
! The pistol was shown, and was found to
, be rather old and rusty. Mr.. Conrad had
40 pistol, nor did he ever sleep with one
under his pillow.
b. l.. Stansiield. the Oversecr OF the
place, who was called in just after the oc-
currence; Jacob Giest and Joshua Tracey
testified 10 facts that went TO prove The
loving relations between Mr.. and Mrs.
Conrad, and to certain details that occurred
after the tragedy.
The verdict was rendered as follows ::
Lawrence Lewis Conrad came TO his death
at Montmorenci. in Worthington's Valley,
Thirteenth district OF Baltimore county,
from pistol-Shot wound, according TO the
evidence, inflicted by his wife, Minnie
Howard Conrad, between the hours OF II
and l O'Clock; and, further. this jury be-
lieyes that the death was from accidental
causes"
This verdict seemed TO afford cOnsidera-
BILE satisfaction among those in the city and
county who were interested, especially as
the unfortunate wife is supposed to be at
deaths door. None Of Mr.. Conrad's init
mate friends were in town, but II is eX-
pected that they will arrive in time for the
funeral. which takes place at II O'Clock
from st. Johns Protestant Episcopal
church Or. Rich, in the ncighborhood.
The tragedy was all the more shocking
from being unexpected. The relations be-
tween the husband and wife have always
been most devoted. lie would always put
himself out TO do herthe most trivial favor.
and she appeared TO he most unhappy when
he was not by. She was fOrty-onc years
old. and her sickness has before this as.
sumed alarming symptoms, and at one time
she was in hospital. She is now 4 MEM
Der Of and . pewhOlder in DR.. Kirkus's
church. Her fathers sister was the moth
er of Edward Hanson, who recently
killed Mr.. Charles II. White in fit OF in
sanity. and her fathers first cousin was Mr..
John Toley Johns, who committed suicide
about two years ago.
The WOrthington family is very old
one. Several brothers emlgrated from
England before the Revolution, and John
Toley Worthington settled on vast estate
granted him in this spot. A monument in
the yard bears an inscription sacred to his
memory, and saying that be was born in
1860 and died in 1888. Mrs. COnrad's sis
ter, Miss Sallie Worthington, married
Count Cipriani, Of Italy, nearly thirty
years ago. She met him when abroad. and
he came TO America TO marry her. They
hld one son. LeOnetto Ciprani, who, when
being educated. spent six months with his
father, now a senator in the Italian Cham
Der Of Deputies, and SIX months in this
country. He has for some time lived with
his mothers family at the old homestead.
Lawrence Lewis Conrad was fine-look-
ing man, about fOrty-four years old. He
wore only a mOustache, which was blonde,
and his clear gray eye was pleasant and
kindly. His legal business in this city was
principally in trust estates, and his pro-
perry he invested well. His wife was also
rich. His particular friends here were
Richard NJ. Nenable, Skipwith Wilmer. and
Joseph Packard. At one time these four
had offices together on the corner
OF COurtland and Lexington streets. Mr..
Conrad comes OF ilIuStrious ancestors. He
was born in Pass Christian, Miss, in 1883.
and was educated at the University OF Nir-
ginia, where he graduated in 1853 in law.
He practccd law in New Orleans until the
war broke out Upon entering the Con-
federate service he rose from the ranks to
be a captain on General Buckncr's staff.
I'm 1865 he came to Baltimore. where he has
lived ever since, as he married Miss Worth
ington two years afterward.
His father was Charles VI. Conrad. a Nir-
gilman. and a native Of Winchester. He
went to Louisiana years before the war,
and was soon well known in that State.
He was sent 10 Congress, and was appoint
ed Secretary OF State under President Fill
more. In 1861 he was sent TO the Pr0vi-
sional Congress in Montgomery, and du-
ring the late war was a member OF the
Confederate Congress. In 1873 he died.
His wife was the granddaughter OF
Lawrence Lewis, a nephew OF George
Washington. The deceased was also
COUSIN OF George Washington Parke Gus
It's Lee, of Arlington, and Of Bernard Car
ter and Edmund Law Rogers, OF this city.
He leaves a brother in New Orleans and
two COUSINS, Holmes Conrad and Dr.. Con-
rad, in Winchester, Va.
At one time Mr. Conrad started an eve
ming paper, called The Times, in coniunc-
ton with Major Venable. Captain Frank
7. Clark, skipwith Wilmer, and Innes
Randolph. The paper succeeded, but
difference in politics between the founders
caused its death. Mr.. Conrad ran for the
Legislature once. and was m active worker
for the new Judge independent ticket last
foil