Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-02-18

INC pIduii vi us own ACCOru, VIII pTOuuCc
images which the will has been powerless
to make 1t recall remembered distinctly
every particular OF the dream l had
striven in vain to recollect over night. 1t
was so vivid and clear that il impressed
mo had witnessed my fathers death in
every deed.
rose early, and went over to Spedmin.
ton to consult with DIR. Ross. told him
little or nothing of my experiences, tcel-
ing he would disbeleve in them, but CON
tented myself with minute inquiries as to
the nature and extent of the post. .mortem
examination in which he had assisted. DIR.
Ross entered at length into particulars, and
repeated that he was perfectly satisfied
death had resulted from paralysis. gather
ed from him, however, that DR.. Gryant had
performed nearly the whole of the practi.
cal part Of the post mortem himself, and |
that beyond generally satisfying himself |
of the truth of what his brother practi. |
toner demonstrated, DIR. Ross had made |
no thorough personal examination of his |
body.
Returning to Craukford, | called on Dr. |
Gryant. He had almost entirely recovered |
his sclrpossession with the daylight, but |
was still quiet and reserved. / found him |
employed at his surgery bell. He had |
taken out the bell.handle and bell.wire |
| went up stairs with him, to examine the |
bell itself, and found he had taken away
crank, bell wire, and all from that end, and |
there was in fact, no wire of any kind |
now attached to the bell. The bell hung, |
as it does at present, in corner, about
two inches either way from the wall, and
certainly he LEFT nothing attached to it
which could account for disturbing the
peace any more.
That night | was away from home
between 10 o'clock and . the next
morning. My business took me to the
catacombs of Crankford Church. But II
is fact that, Notwithstanding all COM
munication had been cut OIL from the
doctors bell, the bell still rang at IL o'clock
Md Bigbt, with the same monotonous
steady "toil rs before. 1t rang for nearly
minute, and then ceased. | found, on
my returning home, that Dr. Gryant had
| again raped at the door, nearly beside
himself l did not wonder then, for
kHeO 'chy.
The following day remained at home.
| had important business there, which led
me to lock myself in the dining.room for
Il great part 1.-THE day, and also to lock the
| dining room door when | had finished
| In the afternoon, among some old letters
in an escritoire, found a piece of paper
| on which the contents of my fathers
cashboX were specified Towards evening
| asccrtained from the housekeeper the
| precise position in which the cashboX was
found when my father died, and where the
loose gold and notes lay on the floor.
Doctor Ross spent that evening with me,
Eleven o'clock struck. pulled little
cord by the fireplace My father had been
accustomed by this cord to unlatch the
| D. I
set the front door ajar. Then | laid my
hand on the hook where the parrots cage
| had hung every night till now, kept it
| there with a gentle pressure, and waited.
| In q minute or two we heard Doctor
| Gryants door unlocked. He came to
ours, and finding it open, ran into the
| passage.
"This is some internal trick, Mr.. Nor
ley, and | lcW know the rights of 1t. Did
any one in this house ring my bell ?" His
lips were bloodless and quivering as he
spoke, his words quick and frightened.
"You shall know" | said, shutting the
door and locking it to prevent his retreat
"Some one in this house did ring your
bell. Have you forgotten who said,
Whenever you hear the bell ring in that
way, it is |, and want your" Come in,
Doctor Gryant; y0H iciW fRd my father in
the dining room :"
We forced him into the room, carried
him almost, but he was helpless as a child,
and would have fallen but for our support.
There we sat him face to face with his
crime. Everything was arranged as it
had been that night. The cash box was
there, and the loose fluttered notes, and
the gold on the floor and in the dead mans
hand And the dead man was lying there.
"Your post mOrtem examination was SUI
perficlal," | said, doctor Gryant; you
omitted to notice very important fact.
The deceased was attacked by paralysis,
it is true, but he died of murder, from the
minute puncture of a surgeons needle.
| find that the needle was inserted in the
open mouth of the patient and the throat
stabbed through to the spinal cord, so
deXtrously that it scarcely bled internally,
ard left no outward sign. And you,
| Doctor John Gryant, did this deed to
cover your robbery of e13, 200 from his
cash box That is what my father sum
mOned you lor-to hear this. And now,
what have you To say TO my father 2"
The mans face was fearful-hc gasped
and struggled to get free, but in vain.
His mouth was so parched he could
scarcely frame word, but covering his
face with his hands, and seeking to hide
it, be said
"I-I-I," and stopped.
A horrid, choking voice in the room
screached, "You killed him, John, Yessir.
1t was the parrot, which kept on repeat
ing the same words, and ! could not stop
it / never heard in my life sound SO
CHASTITY.
When he heard that, the murderer
shrieked and leaped from us-madl 1t
was with great difficulty he was secured
and bound hand and foot, to prevent his
iniuring himself
The Coroncr's commission was reopen
ed, and followed by formal trial. Doc
tor Gryant was sentenced to be confined
+ during Her MajestyG pleasure in Grim
inal asylum, where he soon died raVing
, mad. With the aid of my fathers memo
: randum recovered most of the gold, anC
all the notes, of which | had the numbers
: We found them in drawer in Doctor
r Gryant's surgery.
? Respecting the bell, as you will have
e guessed, 1t was put up originally by the
+ former owner of the large house, to ring
e Tor his butler in the smaller house, as al
Y unmistakable summons in case OF serious
' alarm at night. The hook in the dining
room, and a similar one in the bedroom
: above, used to have cords attached TO then
5 to pull. The principle on which the bel
e was struck was very simple-merely I
Y hammer, like pianoforte hammer, which
/ except in the act Of striking, was hiddeI
v at the back of the wainscot, and worked
|, through slit or mortice, which, being
e covered by cobwebs in dark corner, wa
not very apparent to so hurried an oh
4 server as guilty man. When either o
1 the hooks was pulled it threw a heavy
$ weight out of gear, allowing a smaller on'
4 to act on a pulley and work the bell-ham
n mer until the weight ran down. When th'
i hand was removed from the hook, thu
& larger weight again pulled the smaller ont
1 up into its position ready for use. TIL,
a parrots cage hung upon the hook nightly
/ at bedtime, had been the simple means 0
/, ringing the bell which DR., Gryant, in hi
v guilty conscience, believed TO have beer
Y tolled by tenant of the grave.
l THE annexed fish story is Maryland
i, production A man fishing in river II
q | fhat Eiata found fhat hia hook was at