The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-02
"A REAL MYSTERY.
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amined before the JuStlccS duu MoiO W
ing taken back to Campden. Richard
who was behind the other prisoners
"pulling clout out of his pocket, drop
ned a ball of inkle (tape)." One OF the
guards picked it up, upon which klcn-
ard asked him for it, saying it was his
<yifa's hair-lace. The officer, however,
,,ndid the tape, and finding there was a
slin.knot at one end of it, went and
showed it to John, who was some dis
s.nce in front, and knew nothing OF the
zane having been dropped and picked
Inn. But on being shown it, and asked
whether he knew it, John shook his
cad, and said, Eyes, to his sorrow, for
that was the string his brother strangled
lis master with" This circumstance
,he officer swore in evidence at the trial
.Jobp now made further statement
that he had assisted his mother and
brother i'm the commission Of a burglary
(Which had been effected year previous
* in his masters house, the perpetrators
of which had never been discovered
They were all three committed for trial
ON both charges, and indicted al the
,,ext assizes. They pleaded guilty to The
burglary, and as it was the year o1 me
Restoration, they begged the benefit OF
his Maiesty's gracious pardon and act OF
oblivion, which was granted them. The
iudge refused to try them for the muir
der, rs the body had not been found.
.Iahn It this time still persisted in his
,tcr,. md said he was afraid to eat III
,rj,ol.. for his mother and brother had
:,trrupted to poison him.
AT The following assizes, though the
bodv had not been found, the prisoners
ryere arraigned on the charge of murder,
and pleaded not guilty. When Johns
confession vas put in evidence, he said
that at the -ime he made it he was mad,
and did not know what he was saying
They were all three found guilty aud
condemned to death. As Joan Perry was
snnposed to be witch, and to have east
= .nell over her sons, she was executed
first. that they, relieved of the spell 10y
her death, might make a full cOnicsSi.'n
of their guilt The plan, however, did
not succeed. For Richard maintained
to the last that he was innocent, and
,,rged his brother to confess the trui ..
But John, in logged and surly manner,
declared that he knew nothing of his
naster's death, nor what had become OF
him, "but they might hereafter possibly
hear"
More than two years had passed since
the execution of Joan Perry and her two
sons, when Mr.. Harrison reappeared III
London and gave the following account
of his adventures
On the afternoon of Thursday, the 10th
of August, he went to Carringworth to
collect some rents due to Lady Campden
1t was harvest time, and the tenants
were in the fields, and as it was late be-
fore thew returned, he was detained
there till the close of the evening. He
had expected to collect considera-
bic sum of money, but only received 23!.
On his way home, in narrow part Of the
road by Burlington Furzes, he was met
nv q horseman, who said, cart thou
there 2" Fearful of being ridden over,
Inc struck the horse over the nose with
his cane, ON which the horseman drew
his sword and wounded him. Two more
,nen then came up and seized him
They did not take his money, but put
him on horseback behind one of the men,
with his arms drawn round the mans
middle, and his wrists fastened with
something which had a spring lock-
They rode of, and after going some dis
lance stopped by a hay stack, and took
his money. After resting for a few hours
they put him again on horseback, and
placing quantity of money in his peck
cts, started again. They rode all the
next day, and at sunset they came to q
low house on the heath. The woman of
the house, observing Mr.. Harrison's con-
.iition, asked if it was dead man they
had with them. The men told her it
was friend whom they were taking to
a chirugeon; on which the woman SAID
they had better make haste, or their
friend would die, They started the next
morning, and after riding all Saturday
a. I'd the greater part of the next day, at
three or four on Sunday evening they
came to q place by the sea side called
Deal" Here they laid Mr.. Harrison on
the ground, and while one stayed and
watched him the others went aside and
talked to man, whose name he after
wards ascsrtained was Wrenshaw. He
heard them bargaining, aud the sum of
81 mentioned, when Wrenshaw said he
was afraid that he (pointing to Mr.. Har-
,ison) would die before he could be got
on board. Soon afterwards he was put
into o boat, and taken on board ship,
where his wounds were dressed. He had
been about six weeks on board, and was
''indiferently recovered Of his wounds
and weakness" having been kept below
oil the time, when the master came one
0ay and told him and the others who
were with him, that three Turkish ships
were in sight. They all offered to fight
the Turks, but the captain declined their
offer and left them. Soon afterwards
they were called on deck, and found two
Turkish ships lying alongside On board
one Of these ships they were taken, and
kept there in dark hole for some time.
but for how long Mr. Harrison could not
tell. At length they were put on shore,
and taken two days journey into the
country, and there placed i'll a great
house or prison, where they remained four
DAYS and half at the end of that time
eight men came to view them who seem
Cd to be officers, and examined them as
to what trades or callings they were of |
On being examined Mr.. Harrison said
that he had some knowledge of physic,
upon which he was chosen by a grave |
physician, eighty-seven years of age.
who lived near Smyrna, "who had form. |
erly been in England, and knew Crow.
land in Lincolnshire, which he preferred
before all other places in England
His master employed him to Keep the
still-house. and gave him silver bowl
double gut. When Mr.. Harrison had
been in ms service nearly two ve,rs bis