Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-03-24
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sayH Hojlo! Simmons where have you
been ? Where are the others?' But az If
he was as ill-tempered as the rest, he
turned away without . word; and / was
Just about to catch hold of him, when one
of the men as was standing about touches
me on the shoulder, and says he, Robert
lPurrell, you are my prisoner Another
fellow caught hold Of my arm on the
other side. was pretty strong then,
gents, and I shook them both OF IN . mo-
ment but directly did that never
knew how it was done-I was handcufFed
5or! I says naturally enough. Only
murder. That's ALL says the first man |;
and then Simmons turns round and says,
He had nothing to do with it, mind
that Il know what I'm about, my fine
fellow, says the man again; bring it
along, he says. Hooked round, and there,
sure enough, his mates had found the
sack, and was a-carrying 1t into the beer
house. They took me ID as well, and in
the kitchen who should see but MOrrak
and his two companions, handcuffed like
l was. and looking more dead than live.
No one spoke, except Simmons who
walked 4nisty past me, and just wh!s.
pered, You are all right-teu the truth
l couldn't stand itany longer, 30 on the
chief of the lot coming in again where
was-he had gone somewhere with the
sack, / believed said, Governof,' ] said
for know civility d the best in such
cases. governor, I says, what have l
been doing, and who is murdered?
know our little game isn't exactly right
but still Here, bargee, he says, ] be-
lieve there isn't much against You, 60 you
may look for yourself I followed him
into room close by, and there was
couple of men laying out on . long table
the naked body they had just took out OF
the sack. II. turned me sick to see it, for
I never could bear to look at corpse !;
but the officer took it coolly enough, and
he pointed at it and says, Don't you know
him! Then I saw who it was, and
thought should have died that very
minute, for it was poor Mr.. Arrowley.
Yes, gentlemen, it was him what Il had
seen alive and well the night before, with
his poor, thin, good tempered face, and
his big, hollow eyes, and there he was,
murdered, gentlemen. Yes, he was
drownded by Steve Morrak, for Simmons
and another told US all about it. Steve
persuaded the poor fellow to go with them
to the public house, and sit and drink
until he was much the worse for his
liquOr--which was thing easy enough to
do with him, worse luck. Then he got
limiting to one and the other how they
could make up 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 them, he
wouldn't hear Of it, 80 at last he and Nor
rak had dreadful fight, and that was
how Steve's face was 30 bruised and cut
abOul 1913 y AfAaT tarWg
1.-THE landlord wouldn't have them in
the house again, 80 they went to stable,
where Simmons fell fast asleep; and II
the others hadn't stuck out against i'll
using a chum, he would have been killed
as well as Arr0wley; but they wouldn't
have it. Well, as we heard afterwards at
the trial, from one as turned kings evil
dence, they quietly dragged Arrowley
out. dare say Steve had given him
something to stupefy him-he was up to
all such games, heard-and as it was
pitch dark they carried him to q pond
" iEhout any one seeing them. Well, there
the courage Of the other two failed them,
and they wouldn't 60 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
c0wardice. 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 I have
just told YOU there we were all caught.
"Of course, we were taken of TO- Bow
street, and own I was terribly fright
ened at first; but the magistrate who
heard the case Jet me of on my own bail;
and, in fact, was called Is 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 muir.
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 of very
easy" 7oat r.
"And what about Simmons :" said, as
he finished, his narrative;s "he really
seems to have been a decent sort Of fel-
low" tt q 49,
"Well, yes, he was" said the barge.
man; che got . reward, and was going
over TO Swan River Ibelieve; but un-
lucky for him, having 90 much money, he
took to drink took to drink most fright
full, and he killed hisself in month
He died In Saint Bartlemy's; I went to
see him, but he didn't know ma I, dare
say he was sold to the doctors, the same
as he had sold . good many before; or
perhaps .hey got him for nothing, as he
died there, which would have aggravated
him q good deal If he could have known
it. Well, gentlemen, that's how / came
to know anything about the body snatch
ers, and how l came to leave them
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