Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-10-09
EVENING STAR.
mONDAY............O October 8, lS7O.
The Harrison Tragedy.
MISS MORRIS TERRIBLE conRAT wrr,s A



trorn the Oacinnati EnQairer, October Isl
IL Al me early part OF the summer Harrison
began TO visit At Major More,s oftener tasn
Ssd a.s Sna IL WAS soon suspected thss be
nsa Designs on Miss More. Harrison had
seosiNe9 no encouragement, and ives never
oy wofo or look given To understand that his
tIons 80, ness reci procatsd or that his stsen-
tons were agreeable. He had concely we'd an
Idea tnat Miss More's father was his bitter
enemy, ard when that gentleman Was hone
ne rarely came to The house. Last Monsay
morning MAJOR More came up 70 Cinciun All
and Covtngton. Monday night. ana In 1sct
nearly all day Monday, Harrison availins
himself OF the Majors absence, hung around
obtained IN intimstion that Major Nore
would be home Monday evening, and IL vas
during that evening that his hellish ana Of :.
tion was first developed.
He slipped into the sitting-room unan-
nounced, found Mary there, and, &c is cup
posed, made some proposition OF marriage
70 her, which she rejected. He had been Ia
yelling: "Im crazy! I'm crazy!" whisked
out formidable jsckknife with q BLAZE as
mick as razor, and dashed 1t his victim
hls nrst lunge resulted 10 Q ghastly wound
10 tne breast, just 70 the left OF the breast
Done. he struck again for the heart aud
snother wound was made In the left breast.
rom Just over the heart Tnen he lunged
again, this time for his victims throat aud
oloody slit down the LEFT temple was all he
sbe In,I pn nh' lhen again, aud . wound In
the Ielt cheek was made. By this time Mary
caught the knife blade In her hand. but her
assassin Grew IL through, and the hand, with
every niger wounded, was helpless Again.
with uplified blade, he sprsng for her throat
only TO plunge bis ugly weapon into her len
arm, which she raised for defense and still
again and again until i've gaping wounds
were bleeding In her arm, and still the
demon followed.
Harrison walked deliberately ont of the
house and towards his own home. Arriving
mere he told his boys that he had killed
Mary More-"She wouldn't marry me, and n
killed her"-and that he was now going n
XIII himself. He then took his own rife IN
MS hands as IL TO shoot himself, when his
son Plke seized 10. A struggle ensuei, but
flke discovering that this rifle, too had no
cap, ceased struggling. Harrison made the
discovery, or pretended 70, about the same
yell, "Tm crazy! I'm crazyI" ran to the
cletern and jumped in. The cisteru con.
tafned only about four feet OF water and the
superstition is that Harrison knew IL, for
mad he been bent on suicide the Ohio river
WOULD nave answered every purpose, aud
cred around In the cisteru O few minutes,
keeping up his cry OF "I'm cracy," until his
sons nshed him out; then he maize dive for
small medicine chest In the house. saying
he was going to poison himself, but when
our reporter left last evening he was still
alive and trying to devise some other means
or self-destruction.
The room In which the deadly scuffie oc-
CURED was still a. IL was left in the morn
Ing, Presented horrible appearance. The
mating on the floor was stained with
blotches OF blood, and the door where the
nercest struggle had occurred W as all stained
over with the crimson fluid, as were the doors
room clear across the kitchen the struggling
wOmRn's could be traced in blood.