Show HOW THE BODY OP OF BEN HARRISON 18 FATHER WAS FOUND special to the X N Y world xoi laj cincinnati june jane 27 the nomination of gen ged ben ben barrison Harr isop has set the tongues of all of the antiquarian gossips to wagging and everything c con necked with the family history from old Tippecanoe Tippe canoes ls da day to ao the present is recalled and repeated including the most moat novel and ghastly incident that ot of the stealing of the body of gen bens lather father from the family graveyard at I 1 north bend and its subsequent finding in the well of a medical college in in this city john scott harrison Harria oB the nominees father was a son of resident willi william am henry harrison he lived at north bend about twenty five miles below the indiana fineou the not hot very large or productive farm that was all ai his famous father left him except his name the 1110 log 4 cabin which became so famous in the hard bard cider tippecanoe and tyler too campaign of 1840 it was not a cabin la in the sense in which it was used in the cam campaign but a very comfortable old fashioned roomy two story house bouse flanked with porches and shaded by a row of magnificent ent locust treesa number of which still stand to mark the spot where the old aid home destroyed by fire about thirty years ago stood the real cabin part of the structure was an old log house bouse of early date against which the general bad built his more pretentious mansion when after his bis distinguished early career as warrior warnor J and statesman he be settled down in comparative poverty to make a living out of his farm the cabin proper its logs logo concealed by weather beardin boarding was used as a kitchen here lived aj and died gen bens father john scott harrison a kindly lovable man MAD of scholarly habits babits and artistic tastes that his limited income did not always en able pirn pim to fulia gratify lie he lived the life of cf a gentleman farmer respected by all of his bis acquaintances and loved by all the children and dogs of the neighborhood he was a man of not dot very great force of character devoid of ambition for distinction and particularly ticul arly averse to the pursuit of practical politics and to mixing himself up in the contentions and squabbles of the perio er dand yet the fates nad had fixed upon ti him to be a figurehead figure head heal in one of the bitterest political contests ever fought in the state the leaders of the party of that queer amalgamation of the Know and free known as the ameri can part ot which was afterwards born the republican part yat the philadelphia convention of ISM 1806 in casting about for a candidate for congress CoD gress in the second ohio district hit uldon neon scott harrison and without an effort on his bis part almost without his knowledge while the plan was batch hatching teg he was nominated and elected old pap taylor editor of the evening times the organ oraan ora an of radical kno enoth inglem and candidate for mayor on the american city ticket against jas gas J faron by whom he was defeated was credited at the time with the di discovery scovey and resurrection of the son of old tippecanoe and probably deserved the distinction mr harrison served one term in congress achieving no distinction and aaen returned to pastoral pursuits at north bend his regular hault habit serene temperament and pleasant surroundings gave him length ot of years and he became the patriarch qt of the place bat to the end of his bis days his bis chief die distinction lon was that 0 of being the son SOB ot his bis fatherland fat herand berand as such his bis erect form and flowing white beard were pointed out to the with the old eld locust trees the site of the cabin and the tomb on the hill bill rss as one of the sights to tie be seen at north bend suddenly he be was stricken with a mysterious disease wt bahmed bailed the skill of the doctors which in a comparative short time carried him off the fun funera er al services weve held at the little church ch ach in the old village of cleves hard b by and the body was interred in the oad id family burying ground on the rounded summit of the bold promontory that marks the bend in the ohio that gives the place its name either because the family feared that the peculiar character of the malady to which he be succumbed would make his bis body tempting to the medical fraternity or the general tear fear engendered by the pre prevalence of body snatching in the vicinity of cincinnati at the ti meetra precautions were taken to preserve the grave from desecration it was made unusually deep was walled and cement ed and a huge slab blab of stone placed midway between the metal casket and the surface and guards were nightly stationed in the graveyard in spite of theae precautions however a few days day s later the gho ghouls U I 1 9 tunnelled tunnel ellea led the brick work pried the bettone partly out of place and stole w body how this great work was accomplished the knowledge of the guards was a mystery they were suspected and curo ar d but nothing came of it by a curious us coincidence abut about t abe he same time but before the desecration of tb harrison grave had bad been discovered another grave in the vicinity had been beef robbed and some of the harrison family were among the party of citi citizens zenis who bad ha gone to cincinnati to employ detectives and search for the missing bowd body while alls engaged in the work news of the disappearance disappear anoe of ef mr Harri soaB bod body y reached them and their efforts to disc ekr the ghoulish marauders and recover the bodies were redoubled col tom Snell taker theu then chief of police was appealed t to and consented to take the case in hand his first meave was to go all through the medical colleges with a drag net bel himself taking charge of that drawn through the ohio collise on sixth street near vine one of the oldest and most prominent in the west the building was searched from cellar to soot roof the stiffs in the pickling vats fished out and examined one by one the half carved subjects subjection son on the tables in dissecting room scrutinized but without finding a trace of the bodies from north bend and the search was about to be aban abandoned dOLed when it occurred to col to take a look in the well or chute by which subjects and other neavy bodies were raised to the upper floor by means of a windlass ile he found the rope tautaua tau taud tand in the bare hope that the object of their search might be at the other end of it laid hold of the arms of the windlass and began to haul up no slowly the weight at the end of the rope approached pro ached the surface and the face of the janitor who had conducted the searching party over the building grew paler and paler when the object reached the surface of the floor it was discovered to be a corpse with the loop of the rope about the neck throwing back the remnants of the shroud that fell over the face the horrified searchers saw the face of a venerable man with white flowing beard gen ben harrisons brother and nephew among the party and as soon as the brother caught st sight ht of the partially concealed face he be advanced trembling and ale pae bud and when the full truth was revealed rev eared by the removal of the tattered remnant of the shroud shouting my god that is father tell fell back in a swoon col at once once placed the janitor under arrest the body was removed to an undertakers and again prepared tor for the crave gen ben harrison who alter after the funeral had returned to indianapolis was telegraphed to as aa soon as the discovery was made and used all haste baste to reach cincinnati arriving a few hours after the body had been found he bent every energy to the detection and punishment of the perpetrators of the crime but without result some others besides the janitor were arrested there was some talk of indicting inducting indic ting the faculty the few facts gathered a were laid before the grand jury fury but nothing came of it ir and to this day nobody knows the history of the journey of john scott harrisons body from its peaceful peace fal grave at north bend to the end of the rope in the horrible well of the ohio medical College where it lavound |