The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-09-26
JOSH HARRlSOfpS SUEDE.
CCEhITTED TIE ACT IN FCRFUIK.
A Sad Ending.
tNorfolk Virginian-P Pilot, Sept 19th.)

Rather than to serve twenty year.
III the penitentiary for kidnapping
Kenneth Beasley, the seven year Ole
son of State Senator Beasley, of Cur
rltuck county, N. c., Joshua Harri.
son placed a pistol to his temple and
blew out his brains yesterday after
noon about 5 o'clock in his room at
the Gladstone hotel, while officers
were waiting in the lobby to arrest
him for the North Carolina author
tiles for being a fugitive from jus
tice.
The injured man was taken to St.
Vincent's Hospital, where he died at
$40 o'clock this morning.
The Supreme Court denied Harri-
son a new trial Tuesday. He was
out on 5000 bail.
LOCAL POLICE AFTER ACCUSED.
Five minutes after Chief Boush re-
ceived a telegram from Solicitor
Ward, Of WILLIAMSON, N. c., to ar
rest Harrison for being fugitive
from justice, detectives were detail
ed to find him. Detective Wright
went to the Gladstone hotel, when
ne soon learned that Harrison was
there.
Acting under instructions from
the solicitor to be careful and disarm
Harrison, as he had threatened to
commit suicide, the detective sent a
bell boy up to his room to tell him
he was wanted at the telephone.
Harrison told the bell boy that he
would not talk to anyone over the
phone. He sWore he would not leave
his room and no one could make him. ,
HOW He ESCAPED ARREST.
Before the bell boy got to the top
of the stairs on his way to the lobby |
a pistol shot rang out, and the lad
with one CT the clerks, rushed down
to tell the officer. Detective Wright,
who had been joined by Detective
Dozler, ran up to the room. Burst
ing in the door they found Harrison
lying full length on the bed with an
ugly bullet wound in the head, while
his brains were oozing out on the bed
chothing. He was half clad as if he
aad been sleeping.
The detectives searched for some
note or document that might throw
light on where the Rcasley boy was.
Not a line was found. No word to
lis relatives was left. If Harrison
lid kidnap and do away with the
title Beasley boy the world will new
sr know Of it from his lips. The
secret is buried with the dead man.
HARRISON OUT ON BAIL. {
Shortly after Harrison was dis
covered lying on the bed dying, De-
ective Wright notified Captain Ford
It the Central station, and he res
'onded promptly with the patrol wa
ron. DR.. Schenck was summoned,
nd after a hurried examination or
Iered the injured man rushed to the
.ospital. The weapon used was a 80
alibre pistol.
Harrison has been out of Jail on
'ail several weeks pending q decision
f the Supreme Court for new trial. /
Ie came to Norfolk yesterday and {
ad evidently been in the hotel but a I
hort time as his name appeared on +
he register the last one.
IRIS. HARRISON DECLARES j.
HUSBAND WAS MARTYR
It was sad scene enacted when i
Wright broke the news as !
emily as possible to Mrs. Maggie r
Iallop, 1872 Duke street, a daughter :,
Mr.. Harrison. The officer told },
Irs. Gallop and Mr.. Harrison's wife h
nat he had met with an accident.
he woman in a trembling voice in Y
uired what the trouble was.
When told that Mr.. Harrison had
not himself, she almost tainted, but
asped that she had expected some
ling would happen when a new ;.
,ial was denied by the courts. Mrs. y
ollop was then joined by her moth !.
:, the wife of the dead man, who I
eclared between her daughters and q
er own tears and sobs, that Mr.. d
arrison was innocent. Il
TRIES TO COMFORT DAUGHTER. ;,
Mrs. Harrison declared that her E.
nsband was asleep the night in Feb f.
larry, 1905, that Kenneth Beasley q,
as kidnapped and carried away. f.
he tried to comfort her daughter G
ith the assurance that her father a
as a martyr, having been innocent -
the crime for which he was con-
cted.
When Kenneth Beasley was kid J.
apped that night in February, 1905, - =
,spicion pointed to Joshua Harri- y
N. 1t was known that for long fl