THE EXECUTION OF HARRISON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5437, 29 March 1889, Page 3

THE EXECUTION OF HARRISON.

(Viixi.ui TlAittUsoN', who w.u found Guilty n ihc mutder of John Dug^.in at Elmore, was executed ou the lSlh at Sandhurst Gaol. Ilia conduct and general demeanour belied the assertion that he had shown callousness of the most hardened character since he was condemned. Harrison, who was 43 years of age, was of Cornish descent, but Victorian by birth. The hangman Johns adjusted the rope so xv-Al that death was instantaneous, the neck being broken. Harrison has been for some time pai-I -ispucted by the police of having been conn .1 with several murders, ami a statement made by him to his spiritual adviser, the Rev. J. Garlick, of All Saints Church of England, must bo regarded as of a sensational character. Mr Garlick told Harrison that for various reasons he was suspected of being the real murderer of a hawker named Murson at Deniliquin, about four years ago, and for which an Austalian named Cardini was executed. Harrison replied : I did not do it, but Cardini was hanged innocently. AN AUDACIOUS ADVENTURER, The arrest of the young foreigner Alfred Castcn, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment by the Prahran Melbourne Bench last week, led to some extraordinary disclosures. Casten, who has served for several offences committed in 1882-3, appears to have, during the last year, carried his head high amongst fashionable society in Tasmania. In Hobart he made the acquaintance of a clergyman's daughter, described as a beautiful and accomplished girl of 18, and ailing in love with her, he sought her hand. The young woman's father refused to consent to them being married, so the girl took a passage to Victoria and went to live with her married sister at Kcw. There she was, one <Uy about the end of September, joined by her lover, who took the earliest opp rtunity to elope with her and get married. According to the arrangement between them they ventured forth ou a stroll, but being auspicious of their movements the sister resolved upon accompanying them. The trio went to town, walked about for some time, and at length the lovers, to evade their escort, entered a hansom and drove off. The sister made a desperate attempt to enter the same hansom, and tore her dress in doing so, but was pushed off by the man who is now her brother-in-law. Calling another hansom she started off in pursuit, but in stopping to invoke the assistance of a constable, she lost sight of tho fleeing vehicle. The pair got married since, and lived at a house inTocrak, which was let to them furnished by Mrs Biown, but on the 25th January Casten sold the furniture and absconded to Sydney. He was apprehended in that city on 2oth ult. for stealing Mrs Brown's furniture, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment by the Prahran magistrate for the theft and obtaining money and goods by means of false cheques. Prior to leaving Tasmania, by skilfully imitating his mother-in-law's) handwriting, he succeeded in inducing an old servant of the family to forward him £10 during the absence of the woman's mistress from home, ou his representation that the latter required the money to buy shares. He and his wife then left behind them bills to the amount of £200, which the father has had to meet. When formerly in .Sydney he gained the reputation of being a skilled writer, and was known by the sobriquet of "Jim, the Penman." There aie four other charges pending against him for falso pre-