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Show 1 KH.11 h:m:i Packard. Cruz Meld cm iiud II is o-1'wiiMiMru.l.ors o-1'wiiMiMru.l.ors A l-'ooIi?li Varu. Mobile, 1G. Wm. H. Weldon, who attempted to kill Gov. Packard, was soMt t Mobile lust October, recommended recom-mended by a member of the house of Claflin & Co., a wealthy dry gooda houae here. He was engaged by Pepper, aud remained until about ten days ago. After quitting he took to drink, anu probably on that account, ac-count, coupled with the love o( the matter, did t,ome wild things. Last Sunday he informed an acquaintance) that he Wiia Koine w kill himBulf, and had already secured a room at Man-dich's Man-dich's restauraat. Tho last seen of Weldon at Pepper & Co.'b was on the 13th at 11 a.m., when he called and received his settlement and bade the cashier goodbye. All who knew him here any his resolution must have been taken over the drinking table while here. An acquaintance says he haa not been iu a condition of responsibility for more than a week, New York, 16. A Herald New Orleans special says: When captured tho assassin only eaid: '"Well, I have tdiot a scoundrel anyhow." Ex-Governor Ex-Governor Hahn noticed Weldon previously pre-viously in the room as having a very strange, wild look, and thinks him to have either been insane or laboring under come unnatural excitement. Being interviewed as to who sent him there, Weldon replied: "Nobody." "No-body." He said he came from Philadelphia Phil-adelphia with the ambition to save his country, his purpose being to kill Packard aud Hayes. Afterwards a bottle of whiskey aud absinthe ware found in his pocket. His appearance, appear-ance, however, was not that of a dissipated dis-sipated person. i. ONE-LEGGED ACCOMPLICE. Thiilip Stern, a one-legged peddler residing at 13-4 Ninth street, has also been arrested as au accessory, and on being interviewed, stated that in the morning he hud gone to the saloon at 42 Toulouse utreet, and there saw a yeusg man, whom he described as Weldon, taking a drink. Weldon asked him if he had a six-shooter six-shooter pistol with him; Stern replied no. Whiie Stern wad wondering why Weldon, who wag 60 well dressed, should ask him to drink, the latter said: Do you know Packard? Stern I said he had heard of him, but had I not seen him. Weldon said: Way) a while and I'll fix him; I am going tn kill him. vmi'll bpr. At this Stum thinking it was a joke, laughed, when ! Weldon called to A ONE-ARMED 5IAN standing near, and asked him to take a drink. One-armed Huttle : consented, and Weldon asked him if he knew Packard. He eaid, yea. After taking a drink, the latter and Weldon went to the state house, fol- j lowed by Stern, who havinc only one j leg got there in time to be arrested. I Col. Loan said he believed Weldon to have been instigated to the deed by others, whom he would give away before morning, or else commit suicide. sui-cide. He thought he would commit suicide, because he appeared to have been under the influence of opium, or some sedative, and had already spoken of it, being much depressed aud uuable to sleep. There was no blood drawn by the bullet said to have been fired at Packard. Pack-ard. The result was only a slight bruise. Weldon claims to be a son of the Lutheran minister in Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Being asked the motive, he replied: "Ouly patriotism." He had only been in New Orleans twenty -four hours. |