The Metcalfe Society - Murder Most Horrid

Missouri's fallen Heroes

METCALF, Horace - Deputy - U.S. Marshall
Died: Aug. 18, 1874
Metcalf journeyed to Wright County to arrest a suspect but was killed at the suspect's home.

Miner's Revolt

[Friday June 1 1906(?)]
By 2 P.M., miners gathered in Ronquillo to march. All sources agreed that they wore their best Sunday suits. They carried banners reading " Ocho horas, cinco pesos", and carried Mexican flags. Two thousand joined them at the Oversight mine and at Buenavista, another 200 joined them at the concentrator, and 1,000 more joined them at the smelter. The marchers then went to the lumberyard, run by the brothers George and Will Metcalf. While George Metcalf had the responsibility of moving miners from their temporary shacks to good company houses as they were built, he was still disliked for his arrogance. Leaders of the marchers demanded to talk to the workers at the lumberyard. George had Will turn a firehose on the marchers, soaking them, as well as their banners, suits, and flags. After initial surprise, miners with candlesticks for seeing as they worked underground rushed and killed George Metcalf. Shots from the lumberyard drove off miners who attempted to kill Will. The miners set fire to the lumberyard.

Nineteenth-Century American Murder Cases [ View Source ]

Trial of John Metcalf Thurston, Convicted of the Murder of Anson Garrison, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Tioga Co., October Term, 1851. Thurston split his brother-in-law's head open with an axe. The defense was "homicidal insanity," and several of the defendant's relatives and former servants were called to attest to his peculiar moods and masturbatory habits. Noted alienists John S. Butler and Charles H. Nichols testified for the defense.

The Rebellion in Wicklow - Fusilade at Dunlavin

In the August of '98, some yeomen passed through Donard and went to Kilbelet, to the house of Mr John Metcalf, known by the soubriquet of "the Bully." He was descended of a respectable Yorkshire family, a scion of which settled near Donard abont a century before. Metcalf, learning his danger, fled up the side of Church Mountain. He was pursued and murdered on the mearings of the townland of Woodenboley. His assassins were two brothers who had been previously in his employment, and owing to some disagreement about their work, they left him. Taking to illicit courses, they were soon after convicted of sheep-stealing and condemned to the rope, but with the alternative of joining the army, which latter they availed themselves of to live, as it appears, for the commission of deeper crimes, for which they were allowed to go unpunished.

THE WATERGATE PLANE CRASH [ View Full Article ]

... Also getting on Flight 553 was a reputed "hit-man", pursuing Mrs. Hunt and others, and going under the "cover" of being a top Narcotics official with DALE (Drug Abuse Law Enforcement). He used the name Harold R. Metcalf. He is an unusual "narc"; he worked directly for Nixon. Metcalf told the pilot he was packing a gun, and so Metcalf was assigned seat B-17, near the stewardesses' jump seat and also near the food galley and the rear door of the plane. After the crash, he walked out of the cracked open fuselage of the pancaked plane wearing a jumpsuit.

A former Military Intelligence investigator, who used his credentials to get into the crash site, identified the person posing as "Harold Metcalf" as an overseas CIA parachute spy. (Investigator's testimony at re-opened N.T.S.B. hearings, 6/14/73). Also see Metcalf's statement about being a "narc" and his gun on the plane. (N.T.S.B. Docket SA-435, Exhibit 6- B, p. 17, surviving passenger statements). Metcalf evidently supervised certain foul play, possibly cyanide, directed at certain passengers, but he didn't know of the over all sabotage plan. One of our staff investigators confronted Metcalf about a week after the crash.

(a) Metcalf, supposedly a government narcotics bigshot, knows nothings about dope.
(b) in response to our question, "Did you know the plane was sabotaged?", he blurted out half a sentence, "It was not supposed to....", turning purple, he then left the room. Evidently, he was a double cut-out, an espionage term for an operative to be himself eliminated by someone else. His survival was an oversight. (N.T.S.B. testimony, 6/13-14/73).

The Eastern Post & City Chronicle Saturday, 13 October 1888 [Jack the Ripper Murders] [ View Source ]

THE HOME SECRETARY SYMPATHISES WITH WHITECHAPEL

In reply to the resolution of the Whitechapel Vestry, passed at their last meeting, which was duly reported in the last edition of the EASTERN POST, the following letter has been received by Mr. Metcalfe, the vestry clerk:- A 49301-37.

Sir, - I am directed by the Secretary of State of the Home Department to acknowledge your letter of the 4th inst., forwarding a copy of a resolution passed at a vestry meeting of the parish of Whitechapel, expressing the views of that vestry as to the recent murders in East London, and urging that the police authorities should use their utmost endeavours to capture the criminal. I have to state that Mr. Matthews, the Home Secretary, fully shares the feelings of the vestry with regard to these murders, and that he has given most stringent directions, and that the police have instructions to exercise any and every power they are possessed of, even to the use of an amount of discretion which has not previously been permitted, in dealing with suspected persons with the object of securing the arrest of the criminal.

At a personal conference with the commissioners of police the whole of the difficulties in connection with the recent East End murders have been very fully discussed, and I am instructed to say that it is the wish of the right hon. gentleman, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to assure the Whitechapel Vestry that he will take every care that no effort is spared on the part of the police of the metropolis in bringing the offender to justice.

I am, Sir, yours obediently,
E. LEIGH PEMBERTON.
Mr. Metcalf,
Vestry Clerk,
Whitechapel.

This letter will be read at the next meeting of the vestry. In the meantime Mr. Metcalfe has, we are informed, communicated with the various members of the vestry.