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iron the Gincdinnati Enauirer. OCT, 81 l.. -.
The people Of Boone County, Ken,
lucky, who live along the river nearly
opposite North Bend, iap sight of, the
tomb, of Harrison, and, only about Is
miles from this city, were appalled, yes
terday morning at the intelligence that
William Henry Harrison,s a son Of the
late Symmes Harrison, and a grandson
of a President of the United States, had
entered the residence Of. Maj. John H.
More-ja and stabbed to death Miss Mary
More, the only daughter now living at
home. The news had hardly besunto
travel before anxious neighbors began
hurrying to Maj. More's home, all be-
lieving the report to be some hideously
coniured lie, all. confidently expecting
to have their beliefs confirmed, and yet
all curious to ascertain what could have
given the report its origin. Their hor-
ron, therefore, a scarcely be imagined
when, on arriving at the scene. they
found Miss More ~Welteringin her blood,
which was flowing from nearly a dozen
wounds, and found that, Harrison had
indeed been her murderer.
! The circumstances, sOifarsas could be
learned by u reporter yesterday after
noon, are ubstantially- these: Some
thing over agar ago the wife of az 4
sn." \ w. H. HARRISON, ~s'o".h
who is now about 40 years of age, died.
leaving to his care three sons and one
daughter, the daughter being only about
ten years of age. The loss of his wife
weighed very heavily upon him, and the
responsibility of rearing his only daugh-
ter seemed greater than he dared to
assume; at, least SO he had given his
friends reason to infer. Addedto this
a heavy mortgage onshisafarm, which,
by the BY, Joins Maj. More's,had
troubled him d good deal; but. instead
of applying himself to lifting his mort
gage, he had allowed his place To run
down, had travelled about considerably,
and recently had taken to drinking ruin
freely. He has repeatedly told his near
nelghbors that he believed he was going
crazy, and that his wife's tombstone
was constantly before His eyes. He said
that If he went to Cincinnati and start
ed toireuurn, so soon as he would get
within two miles of home this same
| CHASTITY specter of a m~arble-stone would
rise up before him and accompany him
the rest of the distance. lHafrisonS
three sons live with him., and the old
lest, named Pike, has q wife, who has
acted as the lady of the house. This
whole family had been pestered with
the queer notions of the father, but no
member of it ever suspected him of
being at all vicious. On the contrary,
he was regarded as an exceedingly
HARMLESS MAN,
one of the neighbors even remarkino
yesterday that, if he had been called
upont to point out the most i~noffensive
man in the community, he would have
pointed out William II. Harrison :;
:" butt" added the neighbsr, 81 haven't
known SO much about him of late as
formerly, because have, een him but
Harrison had always been onintimate
terms with Maj. More's family; indeed,
his wife was a niece of the Majors wife,
and the two were married under the
very roof where the terrible tragedy &C.
Cured yesterday. In the early part of
the summer Harrison began to visit at
Maj. More's a trife ofteaer than usual,
and it was soon suspected that he had
designs on Miss More, who, though a
~ine-looking and very intelligent woman
OF IS or 40, had, like many other most
estimable ladies all over the land, re-
jected opportunities of marriage that
she might remain by her father, whose
years are now almost four-score, and
whose wife has been long dead. Har-
rison had received no encouragement,
and was never, by , word ! or
look, given. to understand that his
feelings were reciprocated, or that his
attentions were agreeable. A little over
a month since he took his daughter to
a relative in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
where he endeavored to secure for her
a home, but failed. He then returned
with her, very much discouraged, and
last week at the big Democratic demon
stration at Aurora, Indiana, was seen
there to be very much under the weather
and the influence of drink. He had
conceived an idea that Miss More's
father was his bitter enemy, and when
that gentleman was atT home he rarely
came to the house. Last Monday morn
ing Maj. More came up to Cincinnati
and to Covington, where he stopped
with his son-in-law, Mr.. Joseph Canada,
Z we'll known citizen of the latter city.
Monday night, and in fact nearly all
day Monday, Harrison, availing himself
of the Majors absence, hung around
the old More homestead. During the
day he obtained an intimation that Maj.
More would be home Monday evening,
and it was during that evening that his
hellish ambition was first developed.
AT the time the train from Cincinnati
was due he was seen to be armed and
LURKING NEAR A HAY-sTACK,
which stands hard by the path which
the Major would have to traverse in go
ing from his ferry-hoat landing to his
house. After being seen, he quickly
disappeared, and was not again seen