| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"A John Macrae book" -- T.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-319) and index. |
| Contents |
A haunted house -- Room 267 -- Another sentimental murder -- Early life of Chancellor -- Spa and courtroom: the Chancellor in his world -- The two brothers -- Hardins and Walworths -- Sorrows and joys of married life -- Civil wars -- The disinherited -- The look of a wild beast -- Frank is sick -- The last warning -- The trial, first week: "Idiocy as a profession" -- The trial, second week: "The obnoxious man has been laid to rest" -- Sentence and removal -- The prisoner -- The maniac's dream -- Ellen's book -- The hermit. |
| Summary |
Documents the 1873 case in which eighteen-year-old Frank Walworth shot and killed his father in the Sturtevant House hotel, tracing how the Walworth family rose to prominence in the New York aristocracy before succumbing to decades of corruption and mental illness. |
| Subject |
Walworth, Mansfield Tracy, 1830-1873.
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Walworth, Mansfield Tracy, 1830-1873 -- Family.
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Walworth, Frank H. (Francis Hardin), 1853-1886.
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Walworth, Clara Grant, 1886-
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Families -- New York (State) -- Saratoga Springs -- Biography.
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Mental illness -- New York (State) -- Saratoga Springs -- History -- 19th century.
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Parricide -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
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Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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Social change -- New York (State) -- Saratoga Springs -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780805081152 hardcover |
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0805081151 hardcover |
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