Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-01

of bravado and swagger, ready with the sword at the least proyocatfon, uttering terrible oaths against any who would gainSay him, and, in short, was everything that goes to make a typical bully. He was at this tirne enamored by a widow, Mrs Vanwicke, who at some time or an- other, had borrowed some money from l Dr. Clenche, which was never repaid. Later, she desired some more of this nec- essity, and once more asked the doctor, but this time was refused. Upon this, | she told Harrison, who was her confldant 1 in most of her business matters
 l This great hero" who was always ready to go to the assistance of the fair sex-providing they had plenty of money l went in a great hurry to the doctors | house and there confronted him. From what can be learned by the accounts, the doctor must have been rather tiulid
 man, and when Harrison laid his hand
 on his sword to threaten him, the doctor | quailed before him. until a Mir Johnson l confronted him. To Eut it in the words 1 of the counsel for the prosecution, ''the
 doctor desired MT Johnson to take the
 business (quarreD upon himself, and to
 act in his own name, he was so afraid of 1 the prisoner
 1 sions, Harrison had said that Dr. Clenche | was a rogue and deserved to have his | throat cut. On another occasion he vow ed that the doctor would not die in bed John Sikes, coachman, was then sworn
 he testified follows: That on the 4th
 of January two men stopped him in Fleet street and asked him to drive to the house of Dr. Clenche of Brownlow street. He
 did not know the doctor, but took the two
 to Brownlow street, where they badc him
 go and tell the doctor that some one was
 very sick and he was needed
 The doctor dressed and came along with
 him to the coach, where the men told him to drive to Leadenhall Market When tey got there one told him to drive faster
 and go to the Pye Tavern, outside Aldgate.
 There one of the men again put his head
 out of the window and told him to return
 10 Leadenhan gate. Here the same mys-
 terious parsonage, muffled in a, cloak, de
 sired him to go and buy two chickens in
 the market, giving him three shill:nsS and siXpence, which he did. Imagine his surprise when, upon his return with the
 chickens, he found the men gone, and the doctor in the coach as if asteet).
 However, upon closer examination, he
 found that the doctor was not asleep, but
 dead, with a handkerchief wrapped
 around a piece of coal and tied tightly t about his throat, which had strangled him . He could not identity the prisoner as f being positively one of the men in the ] coach, but he identified the handkerchief : which was also identified by maid, who
 was positive that it belonged to Harrison k because of it's coarse texture.
 : Another women, Mrs AshboI, swort : that the prisoner was one of the men whC
 were in the coach, for she had noticed . it come to the end of Brownlow stree = where she lived, and had watched tho : men, for she said that sine thought they
 would "bilk,'' or in modern language, gC n away without paying the coachman. An q other witness Andrew Boswell testified
 that he saw the coach as he was .sone s on an errand late at night, in the Leaden- r hall market, and hearing noise looked if into the coach and saw a still figure a whereupon one of the men, whom ht a thought was the rrisoner, cried "Damr # ee." and so he went home and told e Mrs Parker that two persons had cheated
 a coachman.
 a Harrison then tried to prove that h.
 was in Kings Head tavern, by many wit
 neSses including the landlord, the drawer
 and barnaids, but whether this evidence ,, was true or not the court ruled that it wa
 not good and that ''the people of tn s house were not of a good reputation" Finally, the prisoner was found guilty
 and on the last day of the sessions an e sentenced to death by the deputy recorde q of London He was executed on the 15t > of April, 1892, and died asserting hls in !. nocence to the last. Later a man name r. John Cole was tried as the accompllca Q l. Harrison, but the evidence was defective IT. and since then no more efforts have bee l. made to find the conl-anion of Harrison t. if there ever was one