The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-21 00:00:00

GENTLEMEN'S SUMMER

CLOTHING.

P. L. MACTAGGART,

24 and 26, BOLD-STREET.

SUMMER COATS

SUMMER OVERCOATS.

SUMMER WATERPROOFS.

SUMMER DRESSING GOWNS.

SUMMER DRESSING COATS,

DOVE AND THE WIZARD.-HARRISON'S

REPLY.

In a letter to the leeds Mercury, Harrison accuses Dove
of having put forth a scandalous, unsatisfactory, and impu-
dent statement against him. The criminal's villanous habit
of lying, be says, has evidently followed him to the prison
and the scaffold, and not one-tenth of his statement is true.
" I have uniformly wished him to behave well to his wife,
and to go home and use kind and conciliating language to
her, and she would then meet him with a smile. I have
been the means of lifting up out of a sick bed numbers who
are living in and about Leeds, and who would be glad to
meet any of my traducers in court to prove that I have
cured men of the dropsy and other complaints which the
faculty, numbers of them, had abandoned as incurable; and
as you, gentlemen, for my credit, and equally honourable to
yourselves as public instructors, declare that I, Henry Har-
rison would have been 'horrified' at the very thought of
Dove resorting to poison to get rid of his wife—a most
amiable and lovely woman, too good for Such a wretch as
him, who has, I am sure, died with a lie in his mouth, and
lived in the midst of sinful dissipation and folly. I always
told Dove that he never would be happy with his wife until
she should bring him some children, and that it would be
much better that he should separate from ber!fhe could not
live agreeable with her; that it was no credit to him to be
continually tormenting a woman who could not yield him
those blessings which nature forbad her to give, viz., a half
dozen children, which he, Dove, pretended to long for."
Harrison then condemns the public belief in Dove's " made-
up tales," and the "mad doctors," "charmed" and "bound
with a spell." He then proceeds :—" Both I and Hard
castle declare, upon our honour, that that tale about the
' five coopers' being thrown about the barn to put a ' spell'
upon King, and thereby cause him to re-let the farm to
Dove, was a pure burlesque upon the simpleton, made out
by some wag in the neighbourhood, who found Duve but
too credulous to believe anything or anybody who could
play upon his foolish imagination and 'selfish propensities.'
God help any man who may have ' dealings' with such an
'evil one' as the late profligate William Dove. I lost
pounds by him in time and money, and he would never owe
that he was under any obligations for advice, either from
me or any one alse. I trust that no such men as Dove
will ever enter my door again to ask me for either advice or
assistance under any such domestic troubles as brought
Dove to the gallows. The more I am known the less
influence will the press have in putting me down. It may
have a contrary effeet ! What I have done professional y
cannot ba depreciated. by the gentlmen of the press, because
the recipients of relief administered by my skill will never
cease to express their gratitude for what I have done for
them, while they live ! Only last night, and on Saturday
night, the subject was canvascedo overee, and "my favoursentto by
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for the press a something which will alter your opinion,
and the opinion of those of the London press as
well, I hope, and somethins which will prove to my
countrymen that Henry Harrison is and will continue to
be not an impostor, but a real benefactor of his species
Then comes the postscript. Dove declares that "be had
not seen me from January to the 6th of March ;" and then
be says " that be met me in my warehouse opposite my
honse, and that was in February," and there " I promised
to make him some belladonna r How any reliance can be
placed upon such statements is, to me, and to hundreds in
Leeds, a complete mystery ! Gentlemen, I solemnly declare
that I never saw Dove from the first week in January to
the 6th of March, as he says, so that you see Dove convicts
himself! And surely, gentlemen, aft,r such statements,
and many others of the sae kind, you, on calm reflection,'
will see that I am an injured man until they are refuted,
and your well knownimpartiality will do that in a case of
this nature. I never had any occasion to advertise, as the
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taking away her life ! He said be was muddled' in his
brain before giving her that deadly poison ! !"