Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-09
THIRsTING FOE HER BLOOD.


MuFderOus Attack Upon Lady by
Crazy Grandson of Ex-PresideBt
LsarFisOn-Her Refusal 10 Marry
Him the Cause.
Cincinnati Commercial, october4.l
On Tuesday morning William
Henry Harrison, grandson of ex-
President Harrison, made a furious
assault on the person of Miss Mary
Moore, daughter of Major j. II.
Moore, of Boone county, KY,
about seventeen miles below this
city. The parties are neighbors,
occupying adjoining farms. Har-
rison lost his wife about a year
since, and lately he had been pay
ing some attention to Miss Moore,
with a view to matrimony. She
rejected his suit, and gave him no
encouragement-in fact, informed
him in plain terms that she would
not marry him. On Tuesday morn
ing, knowing that the father of
Miss Moore was away from home,
Harrison called on her, and renewed
his propositions Of marriage, with
the same result that attended his
previous offers. He then cried ont Z:
"Pm crazy! Pm crazy" and, draw
ing from his pocket a large Jack
knife, he struck at his deienseless
victim. 'The fist thrust took effect
III Miss Moore's left breast, produc-
ing a wound about three inches in
length and about two inches deep.
The second cut took effect on the
left side Of the face, cutting the
cheek open, third in the right hand,
with which Miss Moore attempted
to wrest the knife from the infu-
rated man, and a fourth and fifth
in the neck, one of them barely
missing the jugular vein. Miss
Moore finally escaped to a room
occupied by her crippled brother,
and, after locking the door, sank to
the floor exhausted from the loss of
blood. Harrison then left the
place, and, going to his own home,
remarked to his son and daughter
in-law that Mary Moore had refused
to marry him, and that he had
killed her, After remaining in the
house for few minutes, he again
yelled out, 81 am crazy!' and, run
ming outinto the yard jumped into
a cistern, in which there was about
four feet Of water. He was rescued
by his sons, and put under guard.
Harrison is also a grandson, on
his mothers side, of General Pike,
on whose old place he now resides.
There is no question in the minds
of those who knew him and his an
tecedents well, of his insanity. His
mother was insane at the time OF
his birth, and died insane. He was
very much attached to his wife,
and her death subjected him to the
deepest melancholy. Six months
ago DR.. Hughes, Of Cleves, pre-
scribCd for him for insomnia, and
warned him at that time that if he
did not seek change of scene and
surrounding, his tottering mind
must soon entirely fail him. The
idea Of his insanity is so generally
accepted, that even Miss Moore
stated yesterday that she did not
want him arrested or harmed; that
she considered that she had q
chance for recovery, aud that she
could not consider him responsible
for what had occurred. Harrison
was taken over to Burlington by
some of his friends mot under an,
rest, however), and he appeared to
be quite rational yesterday. He
claimed that he had no recollection
whatever of the dreadful deed he
had porpetrated, Miss Mooro's
father was greatly excited over the
affair, and demanded Harrison'i
arrest. If he shall see proper tc
swear out warrant the arrest vii
be made. The lady is in critical
condition, but her physicians think
she may possibly rally and recover,
SOthern's Latest Practical Joke.