Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-04-20

this discounted pilferer Frenzied with
his imaginary wrongs, he formed the de-
termination TO labor, even il it were for
years, to ruin his victim. Nothing short
OF death should divert him from this
darling object of his existence.
Animated by these diabolicaI passions.
Cartwright proceeded 10 bis work.
Harvey, he had a good reason to know
was in debt to persons who had made
him advances; aud by means of artfulIy
concocted anonymous letters, evidently
written by some one conversant with the
matters on which he wrote, he succeeded
in alarming the haberdasher's creditors
The consequences werc-demands OF i'm
mediate payment, and, in spite Of the
debtors explanations and promises,
writs, heavy law expenses, ruiuous sacri-
fees, and ultimate bankruptcy. 1t may
seem almost too marvellous for belief,
but the story of this terrible revenge
and its consequnces is no fiction. Ev-
cry incident in my narrative is true, and
the whole may be found in hard outline
in the records of the courts with which
few years ago was familiar.
The humiliated and distressed feelings
of Harvey aud his family may be left to
the Imagination. When he found him.
self ruined man, dare say his mental
sufferngs were sufficiently acute. Yet
he did not sit down in dispair TO re-
establish himself in business in England
appeared hopeless; but America pre-
sented itself as scene where industry
might find a reward and by the kind.
ness of some friends, he was enabled to
make preparations to emigrate with his
vile and children. Towards the end of
February he Quilted London for one of
the great seapOrts, where be was TO en-
bark for Boston. On arriving there with
his family, MIR. Harvey took up his
abode at a principal hotel. This, in a
man of Strengthened means, was doubt
less imprudent; hut he afterwards At
tempted to explaiu the circumstance by
saying, that as the ship in whi;h he had
engaged his passage was to sail OIL the
day after his arrival, he had preferred
incurring slight additional expense
rather than that his wite-who was now,
with falling spirits, nursing an Infant -
should be exposed to coarse associai ions
and personal discomfort. In the exppcta-
ton, however, of being only one night
in the hotel, Harvey was unfortunately
disappointed. Ship.masters, especially
those commanding emigrant vessels,
were then, as now, habitual promise
breakers and although each succeeding
sun was to light them on their way, il
was fully fortnight before the shir
stoo don't to sea. BY that time a second
and more dire reverse had occurred in
the fortunes of the luckless Harvey.
Cartwright. whose appetite for ven
geance was but whetted by his first sue
cess, had never lost sight of the move
ments of his victim; and now he had
followed him TO the place of his embark
alton, with an eager but underlined pur-
pose of working him some further and
more deadly mischief. Stealthily he
hovered about the house which sheltered
the unconscious object of his malicious
hate, plotting, as he afterwards confess
ed, the widest schemes for satialing his
revenge. Several times he made excuses
for calling at the hotel, in the hope of
observing the nature of tho premises,
taking care, however, to avoid being
seen by Mr.. Harvey or his family. A
fortnight passed away, and the day of
the departure of the emigrants arrived
without the slightest opportunity occur
ring for the qualification of his purposes
The ship was leaving her berth; most
OF the passengers were on board; Mrs.
Harvey and the children, with nearly
the whole of the luggage, were already
safely In the vessel; Mr.. Harvey only
remained on shore to purchase some
triflng article, and TO settle his bill at
the hotel on removing his last trunk.
Cartwright had tracked him all day; he
could not attack him in the street; and
he finally followed him to the hotel, in
order TO wreak his vengeance on him in
his private apartment, of the situation
OF which he had informed himself.
Harvey entered the hotel first, and be-
fore Cartwright came up, he had gone
down passage into the bar to settle the
bill which he had incurred for the last
two days. Not aware of this circum-
stance, Cartwright, in the hustle which
prevailed, went up stairs TO Mr.. Harvey's
bedroom and parlor, in neither of which,
to his surprise, did he find the occupant,
and he turned away discomtited. Pass
ing along toward the chief staircase, he
perceived a room of which the door was
open, and that on the sable there lay a
gold watch and appendages. Nobody
was in the. apartment; the gentleman
who occupied it had only moment be-
fore gone 10 his bed-chamber for brief
space. Quick as lightning diabolical
thought flashed through the brain OF the
villain, who had been baffied in his orig
inal intentions. He recollected that he
had seen a trunk in Harvey's room, and
that the keys were in the lock. An in
conceivably short space of time served
for him to seize the watch, to deposit it
at the bottom of Haryey's trunk, and to
leave the hotel by back stair, which
led by a short cut TO the harbor. The
whole transaction was done uhperceived,
and the wretch at least departed unno-
ticed. e'''
Having finished his business at the
bar, Mr.. Harvey repaired to his room,
locked his trunk, which being OF a
small and handy size, he mounted on his
shoulder and proceeded to leave the
house by the back stair, in order to get
it as quickly as possible to the vessel.
Iittla racked he of the interruption