Secret Band of Brothers eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 285 pages of information about Secret Band of Brothers.

Secret Band of Brothers eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 285 pages of information about Secret Band of Brothers.
purport, it was evidently written for the purpose of sending to Ohio, for it stated that he dare not venture back, as the people would recognise him as the murderer of a certain officer who had made an attempt to arrest him.  The reader will also recollect that Wyatt, under the name of Newell, resided in Toledo in the commencement of 1844 until April 1st, 1844, when he left Toledo, and was not heard of until Mr. Stephens’ revelation.  I would say, in conclusion, so far as this statement may have a tendency to excite the citizens to their duties, relative to those mysterious murders, that I hope those concerned in ferreting out the particulars hereafter will not have a malignant feeling for any stranger who may come among them to assist, not for honour or profit, as, undoubtedly, so far as this mysterious affair is concerned, some of the principal workers have made the two latter-mentioned their object.  I believe this, so far, to be the most correct account of those mysterious murders, and if it is thought by any concerned that a more able report can be given, come out and do your duty.

    J. H. GREEN.

This article is introduced for several purposes—­all of which we consider of importance to substantiate the facts we have laid before them.  Those murders, near Perrysburgh, were committed by Wyatt and Head, his colleague, who is now in the State Prison at Auburn, New York.  After the controversy had taken place, I availed myself of the opportunity to search into facts concerning Wyatt, and found, in addition to those set forth in the preceding letter, the following:—­Wyatt, alias Robert Henry North, was hired as a stage-driver near Chillicothe, Ohio, in the latter part of 1838, but decamped in a short time afterwards with a horse belonging to another man, and made his way to Portsmouth, Ohio; where he was taken and carried back to Chillicothe, tried, and convicted to serve three years in the Ohio Penitentiary.  In 1841 he was released.  He then left for Missouri, where he again got into difficulty, which detained him until 1843.  He told me he was tried for his life in St. Louis, convicted, got a new trial, and was acquitted.  If he was, it was under a different name from any above mentioned, and the murder he was tried for must have been Major Floyd.  But I do not believe he was one of those tried, and acquitted, as he professed to be.  He then made his way across the country to Louisville, Kentucky.  From there to a town called Mount Gilead, in Ashland county, Ohio, where he went to work at the business of tailoring, a trade he had learned in the Ohio State Prison.  In a short time after he arrived there, he married a very respectable lady, with whom, for the short period they lived together, he led a very disagreeable life.  In the latter part of 1843, or the beginning of 1844, he left for Toledo, Ohio, where he hired out, and lived up to the time spoken of in the preceding letter, and where he committed the crimes referred to in the same.  After which,

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