Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-03-18

to the public house, and sit and drink
until he was much the worse for his
! liquor--which was q thing easy enough to
do with him, worse luck. Then he got
limiting TO one and the other how they
could make mp for their disappointment,
and no one would ever be the wiser, or
make any inquiry after Arrowley, if he
was missed; but though Simmons had
had most TO drink of any of thcm, he
wouldn't hear of it, so at last he and Nor
rak had a dreadful fight, and that was
how Stevo's face was so bruised and cut
abouL
"The landlord wouldn't have them in
the house again, so they went to a stable,
where Simmons fell fast asleep; and If
the others hadn't stuck out against i'll
using q chum, he would have been killed
as we'll as Arrowley but they wouldn't
have It, Wen, as we heard afterwards at
the trial, from one as turned kings evi.
| dence, they quietly dragged Arrowley
out / dare say Steve had given him
something to stupefy him-he was up to
all such games, l heard-and as Il was
| pitch dark they carried him 10 pond
without any one seeing them. Well, there
the courage of the other two failed them,
and they wouldn't go any further; but
] Morrak would have killed his brother, |
do believe, for half the grudge he owed
this poor insensible fellow, and so he held
his head in the water until he was dead,
and swore horribly at the others for their
cowardice Then they took the body into
the stable, and all laid down and went to
sleep; but Simmons woke pretty early,
and suspected something was wrong. SO
he reused the men he was most friendly
with, and found out pretty nearly how
! matters stood, and then set OF and
walked right into London. The others
thought he had only gone away in the
sulks, but he had made up his mind what
to do; he went straight to the officers,
and took them to the regular place where
he knew we should meet, and, as l have
just told you, there we were all caught.
"Of course, we were taken off to Bow
street, and ] own l was terribly fright
ened at first; but the magistrate who
heard the case let me off on my own bail
and, in fact, | was called as a witness at
the Old Bailey. Morrak was hung for
the murder, as every one thought he
would be, for they used to hang men in
those days for good deal less than mur.
der. One of the party was sent to the
hulks which was some kind of ships they
used to keep somewhere, and the party
what turned kings evidence got off very
easy"
"And what about Simmons ?" l said, as
he finished his narrative; che really
seems to have been decent sort of fel
low"
"Wcll, yes, he was" said the barge.
man; "he got a reward, and was going
over to Swan River believe; but, un-
lucky for him, having so much money, he
took to drink took to drink most fright.
full, and he killed hisself in month.
He died in Saint Bartlemy's; | went to
see him, but he didn't know me. l dare
say he was sold to the doctors, the same
as he had sold good many before; or
perhaps they got him for nothing, as he
died there, which would have aggravated
him good deal if he oould have known
it. Well, gentlemen, that's how came
to know anything about the body snatch
ers, and how l came to leave them.-
CasSerS Magazine.