The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-17
II IS A BURIED SECRET.
No One Knows What Almy'S Rela-
lions With Christie Warden Were.
THE TERRIBLE INHERITANCE
Left by the Murderer In an Unknown
son-He Was ek,ce Married Under tho
Name OF Atwood-The Marriage n
Romantic One

CONCORD, N. H., May H.-Almy's ex-
scution was the quickest that ever took
place In this state, and many think II was
unnecessarily abrupt. Almy was given no
ckance to talk while being conducted from
the matron's room. He called for the
chaplain, but Mr.. wilkins had left his
side for a minute, and what he wanted
will never be known. The law says thar
q murderer has the chance to make q
speech on the scaffold, but the sheriff put
the moose around his neck and adjusted
the black cap without a econd's hesita-
ton.
Almy's body lies on a hemlock board In
the receiving Office. The chaplain was
uncommunicative, but said that religious
services would be held today.
Warden Goliath informed the reporters
that he had no news, and that no one but
himself would know where the body
would be buried, excepting those who per
formed the services
DIR. Mary Walker
arrived yesterday afternoon. The governor
and the railroads were the especial objects
of her wrath. The former would not grant
a respite in response to her telegram, and
the railroads ran such poorly constructed
engines. She said IL the locomotive had
held together she would have saved Almy.
AS usual, she asserted, the wrong man had
been hanged, and averred that Almy had
talked with her and would AVE been
here to save Abbott's neck.
Missing Links Supplied.
Frank G. Almy, or George II. Abbott,
was once married under the name of
Frank G. Atwood, and has a child alive to-
day; but his wife is dead. This statement
was made by Amy himself within a week.
Thus the interregnum of two years prior
TO his arrival at the Warden homestead is
practically cleared up, and an interesting
bit of history is connected with the late
George III. Abbott.
1t was for the living child that Abbott
maintained secrecy so long; and when he
conflded the fact about his marriage to a
certain person, he said his endeavor to
conceal his real identity as Abbott was be-
cause there might be some doubling per-
son who might not believe he was Abbott,
and thus without his acknowledgment it
could not be absolutely proven that he was
the anne.
His Marriage
was a romantic one: and he described IL as
similar to the Oklahoma boom-''all lone
with~-a rush" They lived happily to-
gether, but his stealing propensities were
the same as when a boy; and, although he
got into numerous scrapes, his wife died
without the knowledge of her husbands
crimes. 1t is not known except to one per-
son where the boy is; hut Almy said he
was in good hand and where he thought
no living person could communicate to
- 1t fuslo~f. -..-f,l z~s.~A M HanAxvn
From hints dropped by Almy 1t is sup
posed that a family in an out Of the way
place in lower California is bringing up
the boy.
1t was Immediately after the death Of
his wife that Abbott, alias Atwood, alias
Amy, struck east and appeared in
Grafton county. He maintained that he
had cieverly covered up his trail and that
rible end of his father.
The Exact Relations
between Almy and Christie Warden, It Is
said, died with the murderer, and will
never be revealed by the one to whom the
disclosures were made.
John Adams Smith, who left Plymouth
fifteen years & for the west, was a pecu-
liar character, so Almy's counsel, Mr..
Burleigh, said yesterday; and when Smith
left he said he would write how he got
along. He was absent years before he
wrote; but at last q gentleman who re-
Gently moved away from that town re-
ceived a letter from him.
He wrote that he had once lived a merry
life and had come across a few eastern
people in his wanderings. He mentioned
a man who had told him he came from
Vermont and gave his name Frank G. At
wood. Another letter came a year after
ward, in which he wrote that he had seen
Atwood again, but expected that he would
not see him again right away, as Atwood
told him he was going toward New Mex
leo to see a young lady whom he had met
O few months before.
The next letter to the Plymouth man
from Smith read like this: Atwood has
gone and is married probably by this time,
as ] heard he was making arrangements for
the wedding ceremony"
Coming, as does this story, with the
statement of a responsible man, who says
Almy made this statement since confue-