Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-01
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A Whole Family Polsoned by a Human
'- Monster.
One Of the Most FerOoiOus Deeds on
Record.

We are indebted to Walker Wood, Esq,
who arrived from Somerville yesterday,
for the particulars of of the most cold
blooded and horrible affairs that we have
ever heard of-being the poisoning of an
entire family, consisting OF a father and
three children, by an assassin, whose sole
motive was evenge. The circumstances,
Some two years ago a very quiet, peace
able man, named Harrison Batly, living
some four or FIVE miles from Somerville,
killed a man (whose name it is thought
best not TO mention(, as 1t was proven on
trial, in self-defense. He was arrested,
examined and discharged, as entirely
i~ustifable; but a relative OF the man who
was killed made a vow TO revenge him,
and a few months ago was heard to swear
that 'neither Harrison Baily nor Ben.
Chambers IA witness who testified very
strongly in his favor, shout live 10 see
the 30th of June" =.
On SATURDAY. last, Mr.. Baily visited
Somerville to transact some business, ana
on returning home in the evening, saw
lying in the road, just before reaching his
place, a package neatly done up IN
white paper. He dismounted, picked
it up, and on unroIling 1t, dis
covered it to be a small porter
bottle full or nearly full OF hquor-look-
ing, to use his own words, "as If two or
three drinks had been taken out OF it."
On picking il up he noticed that 1t was
slightly imbedded in the loose earth OF
the road, as if il had fallen some distance,
and as be knew that his neighbor, Mr.. Nc
Fadden, had been in town, and had start
ed out just ahead of him, he concluded
that il was his private bottle which had
jolted out of his pocket, and determined
TO take il home and use it. He was
strengthened in this idea by learning, on
reaching home, that Mr.. McFadden had
passed by only a few minutes before,
and thai no one had passed since.
After resting, he opened the bottle, and
on tasting it, finding it to be what he
thought a very good article of whisky,
made a toddy of a portion of the contents.
His three little children, one a girl of
eleven years of age, and two boys, aged
respectively eight and four, erowdiDg
around him while he was doing so, after
he had made it he gave each OF them a
| sin. and drank off the balance himself.
That was a fatal draught! A few mo-
ments after drinking, each was seized
with a burning, gripping pain in the stom-
acb, which soon became alarming. Aid
was summoned, but came too late, and in
two short hours all four were stiff in
death.
The news was soon spread among his
~neighbors and created intense excite
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and the liquor found to be saturated with
strVehaiu. Mr.. Baily having ~recounted
how. and where he found the bottle, par
ties went to the spot and an examination
! revealed the fact that it had been thrown
into the road from a clump of thick I'M
dergrOwth, to and from which the party
who threw it, had t0Glked on his heels so
as % LedUe no track behind. Mr.. McFad-
den having been Intercepted, declared
that there was no bottle OF bundle in the
road when he passed by, some minutes
before, consequently it was thrown there
by some n who was watching for Baily,
and who intended that he should find
it and use it as he did.
The oath of the party spoken of above
was then remembered, and it, along with
various other things, directed suspicion
to him, and it was determined to arrest
him. When the officers went to look for
him, however, he was gone, and though
diligent search has been made, no traces
OF him have as yet bsen found.
The police and detectives in various To-
~caIlties bave been notified to keep a sharp
lookout for him. and he Will, no doubt,
be caught sooner or later. The wrath of
heaven is sure to oYertake the wretch
who could deliberately commit so great
and so monstrous a crime.
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