The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19
H TANEYS CRIME.
TIE FATHER OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE
AND HIS FLIG hit.

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ProtsGo or Tansy-The Details sr the AnAir.
GARLAND, Nd, juno 12.-since THE SUN
published the old tale Of Michael Tansy, father
" Chief Justice fancy, numbering young Ma
ruder at n time still unknown, bu. probably
leforo 1915, q variety Of knowledge has been
EUuvrTUuJco to che Baltimore newspapers by old
people and descendants. having the general
moral that murder will out" The fact Of the
murder has been confirmed amply. Such
ihanRes have taken place in Maryland and in
Baltimore, tho newspaper press has become so
much moro liberal and competitive in the city.
hat this case could not DO slurred over at pros.
mt, as was perhaps designed.
Thefact is that Chief Justice TanOy was never
popular in tho State whore he deserted the Fed
Iral party and assailed the Republican party,
md his bred Scott decision was the starting
point In his Independent career. For that gra-
uitous 0ssSy against the rights Of people of
bolor the defeated rump Of the pro-slavory bar
lecreed him q statue at Annapolis. They re-
posed their own cause In his law. Teacklo
Wallis. who was an old Wing and led the
fraudulent attempt to carry Maryland out Of
HE Union in 1861 ct TRney's home town Of
Frederick, was tho man who started the statue
project. Robert Garrett was induced to set up
copy Of the same statue In Baltimore. Sam
sol Tyler, who Is guilty Of concealing the skele-
ton In the closet, wrote Taney's life to dovetail
IN with the autobiography which the Chief Jus
lice himself furnished. both intending to bury
the ola crime. as Mr.. Germans candidate for
mayor of Baltimore, Henry Williams, has said.
The spirit Of Tyler's life lie acrimonious. He
declares William II. Seward "a bad man."
Sneors at Justice BENJAMIN Curtis. who tore
Taney's historical preredents to pieces, de-
nounccs the Wisconsin court which sent tho
bred Scott case up to Washington. and while
thus scattering imputations and puerile assev-
Grafton, was confident that he had old Michael
Tanoy forever out Of sight. Like Lady
Clorinda Wildairs, in the Lady Of Quality"
whit deolaimed compoSedly while she had q
dead man under the sofa, these e~ulogists did
not notice the one hand that stuck out, and
this was q hand that held Michael Taney's re-
pudiated note for $1,000 given to Col. Sothoron,
Q neighbor. In escaping, Michael fancy
crossed the Patuxent to Sothoron's and bor-
rowcd this money and died in Virginia at no
great distance from where his son, Roger B.
fancy, was practicing law. In the mountains
and recesses of Loudon county. probably part
Of q days ride from Roger Taney's house. old
Michael died the felon's death. 1t almost ap-
pears that tho future Chief Justice sent for the
black servant who attended bis fathers exile
been honestly related By the two literary; con:
federates We might have a passage OF real
Probably Taney saw his dismal father once or
more as he lay concealed In that indefinite
period. Many curious things now come to
@inS z Francis s n 'n scots Rs4 t q Frs ID isia 0Ia
was the brother.in:law of fancy who told Pres
Violont hands upon the United States Bank,
law or no law, II only the power was given him.
E bant T mas jju at q a. F OneS at Fr %S1i Rsv Sh sGsG de- :
En abolitl0niss: Neither Of the lerce acts Of his
Of the wife q William I. Barry, Gen. Jackson:
Justice Of the repudieting and illegal New
Court. of Kentucky. Of which Francis P. Blair
Kendall, ali aniti:ciey mon. would seem to have
chad eSSrr an Of u JSorsan'S Hdmi GS whion they 'o0h
honor to Nj. sothorcn, but Michael! SIS son,
Roger. v1s in good s iTeupstapSe and .s gould
Hence tho son OF sothOron, who lived to 1885.
kept tho memory Of this murder alive and dc.
'h Ny n pTe@is SSW Was II That tho conduct of Rogo.
in the bred Scott. decision. rosembiod hi
fathers paroxySp of homicidel fury, -.
lished in the Baltimore Daily Ne,rs about Judg,
Taney's conduct during the Baltimore bank riot!
Sab 5isSS; Il Of T Mic ialifd rs SHs p n sas eafrst'Vo
"Mr. Thomas 8. Hodson Of Baltimore writeI
to US as follows:
sothoron Of 81. Mary's county, who Is nov
dead. While there the Colonel related to TIT
Judge fancy lived in Calvert county. on thu
north bank Of the Patuxent, just opposite thu
nSS's house fancy made a statement Which
some gentleman ct the table questioned, where
SSSn n TSp SSyad tool Hs g 9 Fssn m drSm hi h EOS S6st am;
Sothoron's father. borrowed from him $1,000
across the Potomac River into Virginia, whenc
he never returned to his native State. He fur
ther stated that that note was still an heirloom
II also stated that during the riots in Balti
burned by tho mob. Judge fancy was com
pletely carried out of himself by, the excite
ment Of the OCCASION ana that CO.. Sothoron.
character that during tho riots he himself say
Judge fancy asSaulting and beating people i
lawfully than any Of the rest Of the crowd.
This has been twelve or moro years ago, an
gentlemen who were with mo may remembe
moro particularly ana DO able to tell the stor
family doubtless know the names of the partie
and all the particulars. and for the truth OF hi
f tSry p &c hot RI blood ssIG aaa IL in fSsi N; T. sRRSTS; {
Of the fancy family. father and SON"
The matter above 1S sT ! have =, ,E. kkn nD~I o!
give different versions Of the MURDER.
tBrooke) family even defends the murder. HI
vcrsiop ensembles that OF James HupgerforC
WlO lnlpuLcu Olu fancy . CTlW0 10 Jealousy
Q young man who intercepted Taney's fondnel
for n young girl.
'"The girl" says Hungerford, a Baltimoreal
saw on one side youth, good looks, and Chico
full manners. and on the other side age. hone
ness, and a gloomy bearing. and preferred Il
bachelor to the widower. Old Tlernay Tame
was q widower considerably advanced In yea
living with q maiden sister. who kept house II
him and his three Rrown-up sons. They We
remarkable for sternness and strength OF cha
acter as well as for violent passions and haught
neBs of demeanor."
Hungerford's narrative was that on a pa
tioular day a party gathered at Taney's hons
aud Magruder, 26 years old, received the smil
OF o young woman whom fancy intended
marry, and this wrought up to phronsy the jef
Gus nature already maddened by a rejection
fancy, with a dubious smile. invited MaRruder
stay behind with him while tho other peou
stroilod in the late afternoon TO the Patuxc
River side. He then stabbed Magruder to |
heart and rode away on his heetost horse.
An old negro body servant soon disappenrG
and no other person ministered to tho da
refugee, Taney's retreat was commnnicat
through ono of his sons to the negro. This mi
have been Roger fancy.
In their first amazement Mt the publi"ati
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