Although convicted and sentenced to death Smith was pardoned and escorted to St. John by Sheriff Bates and placed on a schooner bound for Windsor, his former home. This was on August 30, 1815, more than a year after his arrest. Although he was within a few miles of the residence of his wife it does not appear that he even visited her, but after a short stay in Nova Scotia left the province and made his appearance in Maine. Occasional glimpses of his life in the United States are given by Sheriff Bates in his narrative, the most interesting of which occurred in Connecticut, where he gave the authorities about as much trouble as he did those of New Brunswick. During his career he was heard of at points so widely divergent as the Southern States and Upper Canada. The last information of him was in what is now the Province of Ontario nearly twenty years after he had quitted Kingston, where he was still plying his trade of theft. The story as told in subsequent pages by Sheriff Bates is unique in criminal annals and is worthy of careful perusal. THE PUBLISHER. HENRY MORE SMITH THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER CHAPTER I. The “Mysterious Stranger” Arrives at Windsor, N. S.—Obtains Employment, Professes Religion and Marries—Suspected of Theft he Leaves Nova Scotia, Comes to St. John, Returns to Nova Scotia and is Arrested there by the New Brunswick Authorities and Lodged in Kingston Jail. Henry More Smith, the noted individual who forms the subject of this narrative, made his first appearance among us in the year 1812. Previous to this, we have no information concerning him. Some time in the month of July, in that year, he appeared at Windsor, in Nova Scotia, looking for employment, and pretended to have emigrated lately from England. On being asked what his occupation was, he stated that he was a tailor; but could turn his hand to any kind of mechanical business or country employment. He was decently clothed, genteel in his appearance, and prepossessing in his manner, and seemed to understand himself very well. Although an entire stranger, he seemed to be acquainted with every part of the Province, but studiously avoided to enter into close intimacy with any person, associated with few, and carefully concealed all knowledge of the means by which he came to this country, and also of his origin and connections, keeping his previous life and history in entire obscurity.