Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-17

all the beings self-deliverei TO the rule o
unscrupulous malignity, with whom it ha.
been my fate to come professionally in con
tact, never knew one SO utterly fndisf
as this discomfited pilferer. Frenzied will
his imaginary wrongs, he formed the deter
mination to labor, even fit were for years
to ruin his victim. Nothing short of deatl
should divert him from this, the darling
object of his existence.
Animated by these diabolical passions
Cartright proceeded to his work. Harvey
he had too good reason to know, was il
debt to persons who had made him adran
ces; andoby means of artfully-concocted
anonymous letters, evidently written by
some one conversant With the matters OF
which he wrote, he succeeded in alarming
the harberdashei' creditors. The conse
quences were-demands of immediate pay
ment, and, in spite of the debtors expla
nations and promises, writs, heavy law ex
penses, ruinous sacrifices, and ultimate
bankruptcy. 1t may seem almost toe
marvellous for belief, but the story of this
terrible revenge and its consequences is nc
fiction. Every instance in my narrative is
true, and the whole may be found in hard
outline in the records of the courts with
which few years ago l was familiar.
The hnmiliated and distressed feelings oi
Harvey and his family may be left to the
imagination. When he found himself a
ruined man, l dare say his mental suffer
ings were sufficiently acute. Yet he did
not sit down in dispair. To re-establish
himself in business in England appeared
hopeless; but America presented itself as
scene where industry might find re-
ward; and by the kindness of some friends
he was enabled to make preparations tc
cmigrante with his wife and children. To.
wards the end of February he quilted Lon
don for one of the great seaports, where
he was to embark for Boston. On arriv-
ing there with his family, Mr.. Harvey took
up his abode ata principal hotel. This,
in man of straitened means, was doubt
less imprudent; but he afterwards attempt
ed to explain the Circumstance by saying,
that as the ship in which he bad engaged his
passage was to sail on the day after his ar
rival, he had preferred mourning slight
additional expense rather than that his
wife-who was now, with falling spirits,
nursing an infant-should be exposed to
coarse associations and personal discomfort.
In the expection, however, of being only
one night in the hotel, Harvey was unfor-
tunateIy disappointed. Ship-inasters, es-
pecially, those commanding emigrant YES
sells, were then, as now, habitual promise
breakers; and although each succeeding
sun was to light them on their way, it was
fully fortnight before the ship stood out
10 sea. By that time second and more
dire reverse had occurred in the fortunes oi
the luckless Harvey.
Cartwright, whose appetite for ven
geance was but whetted by his first sue
cess, had never lost sight of the move
ments of his victime; and now he had fol
lowed him to the place of his embarkation,
with an eager but underlined purpose Of
working him some further and more deadly
mischief Stealthily he hovered about the
house which sheltered the unconscious OBJ
jet of his malicious hate, plotting as he
afterwards confessed, the widest scheme
for satiating his revenge. Several times
he made excuses for calling at the hotel, in
the hope of observing the nature of the
premises, taking care, however, to avoid
being seen by Mr.. Harvey or his family
A fortnight passed away, and the day OF
departure of the emigrants arrived without
the slightest opportunity occurring for the
qualification of his purposes. The ship
was leaving her berth; most of the passen-
gers were on board; Mrs. Harvey and the
children, with nearly the whole of the lug
gage, were already safely in the vessel;
Mr.. Harvey only remained on shore to
purchase some triffing article, and to settle
his bill at the hotel on removing his last
trunk. Cartright had tracked him all day
be could not attack him in the street; and
he finally followed him to the hotel, in or
der to wreak his vengeance on him in his
private apartment, of the situation of which
he had informed himself
| Harvey entered the hotel first, and be-
fore Cartright came up he had gone down
a passage into the bar to settle the bill
which he had incurred for the last two
days. Not aware of this circumstance,
Cartwright, in the hustle which prevailed,
went up stairs to Mr.. Harvey's bedroom
and parlor, in neither of which, to his sur.
prise, did he find the occupant; and he
turned away discomfitted. Passing along
towards the chief staircase, he preceivcd .
room of which the door was open, and
that on the table there lay gold watch
and appendages. Nobody was in the
apartment: the gentleman who occupied
it had only few moments before gone to
his bei-chamber for brief space. Quick
as lightning a diabolical thought flashed
through the brain of the villain, who had
been baffled in his original intentions. He
recollected that he had seen a trunk in
Harvey's room, and that the keys hung il
the lcck. An inconceivably short space ol
time served for him TO seize the watch, tc
deposit it at the bottom of Harvey's trunk
and to quit the hotel by back stair, which
led by a short cut to the barber. The
whole transaction was done unpreceived
and the wretch at least departed unnoticed
Having finished his business at the bar
Mr.. Harvey repaired to his room, LOCKED
his trunk, which, being of small ant
handy size, he mounted it on his shoulder
and proceeded to leave the house by tn
back stair, in order to get as quickly as pos
sible to the vessel. Little reckoned be o
the interruption which was to be presented
to his departure. He had got as far a