The Press., 1912-06-19
JOHN WARREN PARDoNED.

years for numbering his young wife in Wilmington, was pardoned by the state board last Saturday. He will leave the prison to-day or tomorrow. War ren, in an interview with a reporter of the Hartford Courant, stated in |part as follows:-
 1T don't remember exactly" he said, the date of my birth, but l know I was 2l years old when came down here in 1859, but I came of a long-liv family. I've got four brothers alive now, Joel, Levi, Alonzo and Joseph, and sister, Mrs. Lyman Marsh of Windham. My brothers all live around Eagleville, and I'm going up to Joel's when leave here. I'm going to take a vacation and harness up an old horse and drive around the country little. I want to see how it looks. You know I've been away a long time. After that I expect to go to work, for my health is good now, and father lived to be 87 and mother outlived him for good many years I don't remember the date when either of them died, but it was since I have been down here'
 Warren asked about the trolley fac ilities to Stafford Springs, showing a good deal of interest in that borough, and said that he had never ridden in a trolley car. "I've been in an auto mobile, though,'' he said proudly, and Warden Garner explained that he had taken Warren on a brief trip through Wethersfield Warren re- turned to questions as to Rockville, Willimantic and Stafford Springs, es- pecially the latter, and told the war den of the flood that washed out the center of the place ia few years ago. ;" When, at the close of the interview, the reporter spoke of the garden, War ren grew enthusiastic. It is evident that Warren will leave the flowers and the garden, which have been un- der his care, to the ''next man" with some regret. .....
  ing the third week in June, 1859. He had, less than year earlier, mar ried. a girl about 17 years old, much against his wishes and to avoid arrest He discovered later that he had been deceived and also that he was in love with another woman, and these two faot6Fs led. to the crime which the board of pardons says he has expiated. June, 1859, was a drouthy month and little stream not far from Warren s home in Wilmington had ceased to run, though pools of water stood in places along it's bed.~ One Sunday afternoon Warren and his wife strolled along the ibank of the stream, and he suggested that they wade in one of the pools. He went back of his wife, threw her, face downward, in one of the pools and then held her head under water until she drowned. He secreted the body in swamp not far away and said that his wife had gone away for visit. For some reason the com munity became suspicious and began a search which ended almost simul- taneously with the disappearance of Warren and the discovery of the body. He was found in Belchertown, Mass. ], arrested, taken to jail and held for trial the following December. A jury had been selected and the trial was ready to begin when the states at torney accepted plea of guilty to murder in the second degree, much to the surprise of everyone. Warren was sentenced to life imprisonment and was taken to Wethersfield, where, in August, 1886, he made an attempt to escape, but did not get out of the prison yard. Since then he had been model prisoner, but in the past decade various attempts have been made to secure his release.
 Warren also stated that the name of the state's attorney for Holland county was Bill, and that couple of years after I came here I was in the hos pital all summer and he came down and looked at me. The warden said that something would have to be done or would die He might as we'll die here as anywhere else, '' said Bill. I was mad and I said, ''You tell that old brute that I ain't going to die, !" and began to get we'll. A pretty speech that was for him to makel
 The following in regard to the Warren murder is from the Hartford Times A most interesting story is told by the Presbreys of Mansfield, and it was story quite current at the time. It is about as follows: Philo Presbrey, formerly of Mansfield, was driving in that vicinity, having with him two young ladies, one of whom afterwards became bis wife. None of them knew of the disappearance of Mrs. Warren; in fact, the murder was not then known. As the party drove ai6ng a rough road just at twilight they saw a woman walking directly in front of the horse, and Mir. Pres ,U1OJ AlOA6O OO 0NOAO over the woman. Suddenly the woman, if it was woman, turnedi in to the thick growth of the woods. As soon as they arrived at their destina- tion, short distance away, they each told their strange story, describing, as far as possible, the person and clothing in detail, when their friends immediately recognized the descrip- tion as that of Mrs. Warren. The place where the apparition appeared proved to be near where the body then lay, and from where Warren moved it, as he afterwards admitted. All parties to the story were reliable, and were never able to explain the situation.
 Lathrop Manning, one of the select men of Wilmington, turned out with seventy five others and made thor oySoI coa,o1, x1R AI,o ,11,av,, iOee, old f1o1dc