The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-10
FATHER. IoU MIST DIE.
2he Eel! Denuncin,ic.i OF q H"l Tp0n His Faii'c:
The End OF the I'arriclt.
Frank II. Walworth has Just died a

The EEd Ol the larriciat-
Frank II. Wa!worth has Just died a
Saratoga, aged thirty-one.
! The young man descended from dis
tinguisEcd ancestry, and might have been
very prominent himself had it not bec1
! for cloud which oycrshadowed his life
His mother was 4 wonderfully beauti
ful woman at the time OF her marriage
but her husband was Il man OF dissolutt
habits, and was very cruel. The coming
Of the baby I" Fra:,k' did not work q re-
formation in the father Atlast divorce
was granted Mrs. Walworth, and she
moved from Saratoga to Kentucky.
In the course of time the divorced hus-
band, who was no other than Mansfield
Tracy Walworth, began to make fame
and fortune as a story writer.
In 1873 Mrs Walworth moved back
to Saratoga and established girls school.
Then her ex-husband began to poster heI
with notes, making improper proposals.
lie went farther, caused the poor woman
great annoyance, talked against the lcglt-
imacy Of Franks birth, and threatened
to kill both mother and son.
Frank WAS then nearing manhood.
He had looked upon his father as only
the tormentcr OF his mother, and when
by accident he discovered the real bur
den which was being heaped upon his
mother he grew desperate.
He went to New York, where his father
lived, sent him note to call at the Stur-
terant house and then waited in his room.
That was in June, 1873.
Just before dark his fathers card was
sent up. "Show the gentleman up, y
said the son.
The boy returned with the answer,
and Nh. Walworth walked quickly up to
his sons room, humming tune as he
did so. When he was admitted to the
room, the young man placed his back
against the door, and drawing his pistol,
presented it at his fathers breast.
For Heavens sake, what do you
mean ?"the father cried. s:Do you mean
to murder me? Think Of what YOU are
doing"
The son shuddered. 81 know you are
my father, he said; "but now you must
'sDie!" shrieked the father. "Have
you called me here to murder me-your
own father:'
eyes. May God have mercy on your
soul, father, but l have none. You have
threatened and insulted my mother.
The father sank on his knees and ap-
pealed for mercy and promised 70 leave
a,,, , 1n,a opl po,-a>. -, tarfa,.a with hrs
wife again.
stYou have liel before and you would
lie again-I can!ot believe you, was the
sons cold answer. "Father you must die.
Say your last prayer.
An instant later there was flash, an
other, and the father staggered back as
if struck by lightning. "My SON. he
breathed, gave gasp, and as three more
shots finished the work, the pallor Of
death overspread his features. He had
died at the hands Of him to whom be
had given life.
The young man gave himself up, and
was convicted of murder in tie second
degree. Ee was sentenced to life in
in Sing Sing, but in 1877
was pardoned out. About two years ago
he married Miss Corinne Bramlett, daugh
ter of the late Governor Bramlett, Of
Kentucky, who, with one child survives
him. He was grandson Of the late
Chancellor Reuben H. Walworth, his
maternal grandfather having been Col
onel John J. Hardin, Of Illinois, who
was killed at Buena Vista.