Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

"I'M CRAZY! TN CRAzY!"
whisked out b. formidablei iackaknife.
with a blade as thick as a razor. and
dashed rat ibis Victim. II As,man of at
least ordinary physical strength, he
would have 500 oyerpowed the unof-
tending Object of his rage, had Miss
More not been Ia very vigorous woman
and capable of fighting him off like a
tigress at bay. But there were tre-
mendous odds against her, and she
screamed for help. Harrison's first
lunge resulted in a aghlastly wound in
the LEFT breast, just to the left OF the
br~east-bone. He-stFuek again for the
heart, and another wound was made in
theileft'breast, and still again another
wound spurted blood from just over the
heart. Then he fdhged again, this
time for his victims throat, and a
bloody slit down the left temple was
all he accomplished; then again, and a
wound in the left cheek. BY this time
Mary caught the knife-b1ade iii her
hand, but the assassin drew it through.
and the hand, with every finger wound
ed, was helpless Again, with uplifted
blade, he sprang for her throat, only
to plunge his ugly weapon into er,left
arm, which she raised for defense /; and
still again and again, until .aiarns~B
IL FIVE GAPING WOUNDS ~slissgs.s
were bleeding in her arm, and still the
demonsfollowed. But by this time, with
desperate effort, the struggling woman
had reached a door leading into the
kitchen, and thence to Williams room.
Through this door She reeled, and to
her brothers room, closely followed by
Harrison. - Her screams had startled
her crippled brother, but in an anguish
of alarm he was compelled to- wait. He
had sent a small colored boy who at
tends him to ascertain the cause of his
sisters cries, and the boy had Just re-
ported. The time between the report
and his sisters Keeling through the door
into his room was but a moment. It
seemed an eternity. AS Mary entered
Williams room she slammed the door,
and while Harrison halted a moment
before Through his fear of William
she locked it. Meantime William
had reached for his revolver, which he
has always kept within a convenient
distance of his bed, and made it ready
for Harrison's entrance. The latter,
however, had no notion of entering.
Believing that he had wounded Mary
More to- death, he took down a rifle,
(which was hanging in the kitchen, with
the avowed purpose of "a. az.
BLOWING OUT HIS BRAINS, sr
but the rifle, though loaded, had no
cap on it. Then he called for a cap,
and William told him to come in and
get it. He'd give him a cap. While
this conversation wasgoing on, through
loss of blood, Mary had tainted and was
lying across a lounge unconscious.
Then some of the farm-hands began
coming in, and Harrison walked DELHI
erately ont of the house and towards his
WI home. Arriving there he told his
boys that he had killed Mary More
"she wouldn't marry me, and / killed
her." and that he was now going TO kill
himself. He then took his own rifle in
his hands, as If to shoot himself, when
his son Pike seized it. A struggle en-
sued, but Pike, discovering that this
rifle too had no cap, ceased struggling.
Harrison. made the discovery, or pre-
tended to, about the same time, dropped
the rifle, and with the same yell, ..
"I'M CRAZY! I'M CRAzY!" o..
ran to the cistern and jumped in. The
cistern contained only about four feet
of water, and the superstition is that
Harrison knew it, for had he been bent
on suicide the Ohio River would have
answered every purpose, and that was
only a few rods away. He foundered
around in the cistern a few minutes,
keeping up his cry of "I'm crazy"
until his sons fshed him out then he
made a dive for a 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. of
self-destruction. He was placed under
a watch last night, and this morning
will be taken to the Burlington Jail.
Soon after the tragedy a messenger
was dispatched to Covington for Major
More, and last evening the Major and
Mr.. and Mrs. Canada arrived home.
3. THE ROOM Ha'
in which the deadly scuffie occurred was
still as it was left in the. morning, and
presented a horrible appearance. The
blotches of blood, and the door where
the fercest struggle had occurred was
all stained ver with the. crimson fluid,
as were the doors in William More's
room. From the sitting-room clear
across the kitchen the struggling wom-
ans course could be traced in blood,
and she, still bleeding, though her
wounds had been dressed, was lying
very weak on a bed that had been i'm
provised in the kitchen for the occasion.
Drs. Terrill and Crisler had but just
left, and they probed to a depth of three
inches, and onethey did not probe al
all. Her loss of blood had been terri
BILE, enough to kill a person of ordinary
strength, and her sufferings at times
was almost unbearable. It will be by
the smallest chance in the world that
she RECEIVERS. e -t.-
Harrison, last evening, evinced no
concern whatever over the occurrence.
1t is generally believed that he has
rather overdone the matter in attempt