The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-04-13
Ay ELOQUENT MURDERER.
Printer Johnsoa's Speech Of FIny Years Age
Handed Dewn On Yellow PHrehmeas.

Printer Johnsea's Speech Of Frny Years Age
Handed Down On Yellow Parchment.
Chief Clerk John Sparks Of the General
Sessions. the Oldest court OF record In tho
United States. has probably been longer In
ONCE than any other living court official.
He takes a particular pride in the preservation
OF tho Court records. and an Indictment found
100 years ago Is rs accessible rs one presented
by the Grand Jury yesterday. He occasionally
finds notable matters OF record In the heavily
bound old books that were compiled BY his
predecessors OF a century or two ago.
Hero is o curiosity" he said yesterday.
pointing to yellowed parchment page In q
sheepskin- bound volume. Hero Is an official
report Of the most remarkable speech that WAS
over delivered. under like circumstances. In
this court Nowadays the business Of tho court
is 80 largo that the clerk has only time to make
Tho entry was an account Of the arraignment
Tor the murder Of Ursula Newman. otRerwisS o
Ursula Laatel, The date Of the entry was March
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neatly folded sheets Of yellow parchment. Ev.
cry word was In the same exquisite hand
erased Which tho nsmSs
OF INDICTED persons S, are hastily inserted The
and answer. The Coroner OF to-day makes only
q brief abstract OF the evidence taken
showed that Johnson was q VirsInian. Is
IL met Ursula Newman In fPhisdeph tsa AZ
years before: She kept the New England Hotel
there: He fell deeply In love With her, and
urged her to marry him. She said that ahe had
q husband. Mr.. Lattel, who had abandoned
her and gone to sea She had heard that no
He pleaded with her to marry him, and she
consented to live with him as his wife. A child
was born In Genesee county. in this State.
on Aug. !26. 1927. Tho mother returned to
Philadelphia without the child. and johnson
was diepleased. He begged her to marry him
and acknowledge the child a. their own. She
agreed to come to this city and marry him.
They opened g boarding house Mt as William
street. Then Mrs. Lattel or Newman. said the
become surety for $500 Tor hor brother In law.
Hoping to move her By the sight OF her child
ing OF tho Goth OF November, 1928. Mrs, Lattsl
wns greatly angered and refused to recognize
the infant. Then Johnson quilted the house
and drank frcely Mt the Broadway House. He
loaded pistol with ton bullets and. returning
to tho house. shot Mrs. Lattol In the right
breast. She died two days later.