Newspaper: Agnes Bell, wife of William Bell May 8, 1830 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Antrim Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Clifton D. Cardin cliftondcardin@juno.com NEWSPAPER: AGNES BELL, WIFE OF WILLIAM BELL MAY 8, 1830 Agitator, Wellsborough Pennsylvania USA May 8, 1830 AFFADAVIT - I, Agnes Bell, aged thirty three years last August, a native of Belfast, in Ireland, wife of William Bell, now residing in the City of Boston, Massachusetts - Testify and say, - "That Christopher Greenwood, kept a public house, at said Belfast when I lived there, on the wharf at Lime-kiln Dock in that place, and my dwelling was so near, that I could see his house from my door. I was acquainted with Mr. Greenwood and with his wife and daughter, and have often been at his house. I always understood that he was a Free Mason, and that the Mason's met at his house. I will recollect the excitement abut the death of Mr. Miller. I saw his dead body myself - It was taken out of Limekiln Dock, the next day and after the King's birth day, and I think in the afternon. Many persons went to see it, I should think there might have been some hundreds, the body was wet and muddy, and lay on the wharf, as near as I can recollect, about opposite or nearly in front of Christpher Greenwood's hall door. There was considerable said about it at the time and there were various opinions and conjectures. It was the common talk, that Mister went to the Lodge the evening before, and that the tavern keeper, Mr. Greenwood, said that, "Miller come there and went away again." It was likewise the common talk, that Mr. Miller had a wife and children, and that his wife said, "that her husband went from home to go to the Lodge meeting the evening before." It was also reported at the time, or afterwards that, Mrs. Miller, was in the frequent habit of praying to God, that she might not die, until she knew who MURDERED her husband." Two persons were taken up on suspicion, with whom it was said he had had some difficulty, but were afterwards discharged for want of proof to convict them. The whole of this made a good deal of an impression on my mind at the time. I was then almost seventeen years old. I am sure of this from the circumstance, of my marriage, which was previous to Miller's death. Mr. Miller was buried by the Free Masons, who went in procesion in a long train, and in great style, said to be the largest funeral in Belfast for some time. I first came to this country near ten years ago - have visted Belfast once since, was at Chrisopher Greewood's the day before I last sailed for Boston, which was in July, 1825. Mr. Greenwood was then living at the same place at Limekiln Dock, and I have heard that he was living there last summer. I have conversed with a man from Belfast, now in Boston, who lately told me that the account of Mr. Miller's death was published in a Belfast Newspaper, and that he recollects seeing it headed, "Another Murder,' in large letters. But I was not in the habit of reading the Newspapers at that time, and of course did not see it in the paper. I have no recollection of seeing that Mr. Miller's throat was cut, or his body mangled. There was a large crowd of people about and considerable confusion at the time. AGNES BELL Boston, April 24, 1830.