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he declared that it was the rope with which the murder had been committed. In the spring following, when Perry and his mother and brother were tried for mur der, they all pleaded not guilty. Perry, when his confession was brought forward in evi dence against them, denied its truth, stating that he was then mad, and did not know what he said. The result of the trial was that they were all three found guilty of the murder of William Harrison. A few daye afterwards they were brought to Broadway Hill, in sight of Campden House. There they were all three executed, strongly deny ing their guilt. Now the most remarkable part of the history remains to be told. A few years after William Harrison himself returned to Campden. The account he gave of his ab sence was that as he was passing through Ebrington furzes some persons stopped him, flung a cloak over his head, fastened his wrists together, and then carried him across the country to the sea-coast. When they reached Deal, they sold him to a person for seven pounds. He was then put on board a vessel; there he remained at sea for six weeks. From thence he was transferred into a Turkish ship. When the vessel reached shore, he was sold to an aged phy sician at Smyrna, and remained there until his master's death. Then he ran away and concealed himself on board a ship, which took him to Lisbon. From thence he found his way to London. The account thus con cludes : " Many question the truth of this account Mr. Harrison gave of himself, be lieving that he never was out of England. That Mr. Harrison was absent from his employment for two years is certain; and if not carried away, as he affirms, no prob able reason can be given for his absence; he living plentifully and happily in the service of that honorable family to whom he had

been then related above fifty years, with the reputation of a just and faithful servant, can not reasonably be thought to have forsaken his wife, his children, and his stewardship, and leave behind him, as he then did, a con siderable sum of money in the house. We cannot, therefore, in charity but believe that Ml. Harrison was carried away; but by whom and by whose procurement is the question. Those who did rt he affirms never to have seen before. That he was spirited — that is, stolen — to be sent to the Plantations and there sold a slave, as some are said to have been, is noways probable, as he was an old and infirm man, and taken from the most inland part of the country; and if sold, as he appre hends he was, for seven pounds, would not recompense the trouble and charge of his conveyance to the seaside. Some, therefore, have had bad thoughts of his eldest son, not knowing whom else to suspect, and believe the hopes of his stewardship, which he after wards (by Lord Campden's favor) enjoyed, might induce him to wish his father re moved; and they are the more confirmed in this from his misbehavior in it. But, on the other side, it is hard to think that the son knew of his father's transportation, and con sequently of these unhappy persons' innocency as to the murder of him, and yet could prosecute them to the death as he did; and when condemned could be the occasion of their being conveyed above twenty miles to be hanged in chains where he might daily see them, and himself stand at the foot of the ladder when they were all executed, as he likewise did. These considerations, as they make it improbable that the son should be privy to his father's transportation, so they render the whole matter more dark and mys terious, which we must therefore leave unto Him who alone knoweth all things in His due time to reveal and bring to light."