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Three were hanged for the "murder” of a man who
was not dead
No
wonder
they called
it
THE CAMPDEN WONDER
BRIAN
OSBORNE
tells another of the world's strangest stories
N
O long ago a ques
Ton in the House of
mon
asked there had not been a recurrence of the
Wonder. Th Campden Home Secretary replied that he was satisfied that there has not.
The occasion of This i question, which may wil live baffled many Ml's was an inquiry into the case of the Riflington Street mur. derers, Evans and Christie, both of whom were hanged on their own confession of of the unassisterl mursker the same person.
In this case there is no doubt that Justler was done, Stranger and kujud was a
Cape Joan Perry and her two sons, verbre which became a cousi England,
Is of Caroline
aci still remembered locally as the Campden Wonder.
Bille town of Chipping Campden, on the foothills of The Colswolds, is today quieter and lets lmportant than 124071 It was the scene of these markable events.
re-
In 1660 s principal building was Campten House, then
now, largely in ruin.
حدة
It was the property ut the Viscountess Campden
in
it
He hul set out, he said, 0711 he the Charringworth road but was afraid of the dark and, un weling 14 man named Reer, returned
with him to Chipping Campden. There he ሃገር Pearce, in whose company ho found confidence to go a second
le
towards Charringworth. But, again losing courage, ho turted back, and went to sleep
hen-house.
110 well
found him setting upon Harel- son, and his mother slurking by.
Jutu Perry then, 90 be claimed, begged his brother not Lu KIL him; bul Richard strangled Harrison, then took the money and threw it to his nother.
ahat, a comb and a pair of bands stained with blood.
With them
John stated that he then left them, and did not know how money, but mounted me behind
one of the .. the
and fastened they actually disposed of At midnight he awoke and body. He returned wards my wrists, together with some→
!owards again set out on his errand; but, Chipping Campden, met Pearce thing that had a spring lock to when a mist rose, stopped and on
on the way, and thenceforward IL" lay under a hedge. At daybreak did as he had said in his trst
be journeyed for Charringworth. statement: except that, after several days to Deal in Kent, There met Edward
Plasterer, leaving the hen-house, he found where he was taken aboard a who told h te had been Harrison's hat, comb and bands, vessel. Harrison told Sir Thomas called on by Harrison of the
cut them with his, knife and that he heard them mention previous afternoon and that he throw them down in the road. the sum of seven pounds, and had paid him his rell
But no trace of the body was it might be ussumed that this is the sum they were paid for his impressment. His wounds were dressed and the ship put
NO
far as they • Condemned
JOHN was kept in custody, and to sea
Reed, Pearce, Plaisterer and found. Harrison's son all corroborated Perry's story were concerned in it. Almost movement of Perry's was accounted for by apparently in- dependent witnesses. Had Perry
ald
wortel
stuck to his story, he one might think, have stood good chance of being discharged by the magistrate or, al any rate, acquitted at Assize.
• Statement DERHY, fearing apparently that the magistrate did not believe his account, then declared that he would tell the truth but only to a certain member of the local Beach, Sir Thomas Overbury, William
that lived her steward,
Peary disclosed
his Harrison. On August 16, 1000, mother, Joan Perry, and his Harrison
been went
to collect brother Oul
had and was scen going to- urging him to join in killing and wards Charringworth, about two robbing the agent by waylaying in on his return from collect- ing rents.
miles away.
As he did not return as soon as he was expected his wife sent her servant, John Perry, at about 8 or 9 p.m., to find out what bud becoine of him. Neither Harrison nor Perry re- turned that night.
• Suspicion
4
THE next morning Mrs Harri- son sent her son to look for them. At about 5 am, the Воп mot Perry on the Charringworth roud, who cald that he had talled to find his master. To- gether they inquired at ton, between Chippl
and Charringworth, where they were told that Harrison had collected rents, and was last seen walking in the direction of his home.
Meanwhile, near the road be tween Ebrington and Chipping
But
• Mystery
WH
HAT arɑ wo to ninke of this
atury?
Richard and their mother About six weeks later the
pru- were arrested, the latter
vessel was captured by Turks and Harrison and his fellows testing their innocence and up- braiding John as a bar.
sold were
into alavery, Ha spent two years with a physt- John stuck to his story.
At Gloucester
Assizce, six clan near Symrna, then escaped ths later, all pleaded not to England via Portugal,
including John, who, confronted with his confession, declared tout he was "them what he mad, and knew not said."
The three were condemned to
It gives us a strange picture be hanged in chains, and, of the times if indeed innocent within a few days, wero strung people were regularly kidnap up upon Broadway Hill, which ped in the middle of England. overlooks Chipping Campden. And it is dimcult to Bellove that into a man could be forcibly carried Some years afterwards the little market town,
Gloucester- dusty all the way from walked William shire to the Kentish coast with and on foot,
out anyone preventing it Harrison.
The tale he told Was as
It may well be that in those
old strange as the events which led troubled imes the
agent That evening, he said, when up to it. Sir Thomas Overbury, know some local secret which it worthwhile for someono Mrs Harrison bade him search who seems to have
Kome rooks his universal confidant of the town, it w
member of his master, for his brother Richard with him, and wrote it all down-alas, without Lady Campden's family to pay.
hun Harrison comment they sighted William
keup out of the way for Thomus related that a while, retuming. John Perry then (so
to Harrison sald he told Sir Thomas)
returning from Char- But the behaviour of John followed ringworth with £23 in rents, Perry Richard that it he
will remain a mystery who гала unul the graves give up their hin he might have his money, met a horseman and he in the meantime would sword into big side. Two other dead. Was it plain spite or some
men appeared and Harrison re- masochistic hallucination walk a turn in the folds."
After taking a walk round he cloved a second wound, in the made him draw upon went back to his brother, and thigh. "They did not take my his appalling end?
Mcburd
that
himself:
Coddlers Get More Colds
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
London, lod by Air-Commodore Thomas muggled
time.
ona
Into
the country
Campden were found a hat and CANUFFLING or sneezing Macdonald--divided their nien under cliplomatic scal-at any a comb, much hacked and cut, and a pair of bands stained with this morning? Feel you blood.
The hat was recognised as the have a cold coming on? No noed to try to hide it from One William Harrison was wear-
when he left Campden the wife. For no amount of after yourself" "looking Hous
Suspicion
John could have saved you. tell проп Porry, who knew the route by Indeed, mollycoddling may
hu master would return and the amount of money which tend to bring on colde,
ing
ho would have on his person, Experts who tried to protect Perry's fallure to return that more than 200 R.A.F, mon at-a night to Campden House, after station in Southern England so short as expedition, made his against colds, sore throats, and
obvious.
was arrested and
15.15.
At the
His rubeoquent bonavicité nyár, stagón, they
A local magis elaborate anti-colds- ·
the
•He
mont to
manrocada
into two groups.
months For six susczy
And there is nothing. Customs officers can do about it.
For group slept in dormitories kept as germ-free as possible.
The air the group breathed when a courier is in charge of was sterilised with ultra-violet diplomalle freight they get no lamps. The foor was oiled to chance to X-ray it or test t koop down dust-scattered germs, with atom-rag detectors..
A second group. Wie fooled into believing that similar pre said there is still no restriction A Foreign: Omoo spokesman cautions were being taken.. But
on the size or weight of crates these precautions were inkes
which embossies may bring into, All men were examined re- Britainhey are immune from gularly and he records of the search by international agrop-
menti two groups compared.
Homille more than 12 of the mallycokidled, man caught So the power of cold chuch week compared with tons of TNT can be packed in
percent of the unprotected; one sabotage weapon.
percent
10,000,000
~~ROME SMUGGLING
And, an t-bomb, could be
HYDROGEN bomb
snuggled into London in phala
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