Source: Daily National
Intelligencer (Washington (DC), District of Columbus) Vol.
XXIX Issue: 8805 Page: 3
Dated: May 6, 1841
MURDER - A horrible murder was committed near
Centreville, Georgia, about the middle of April, by a man named
B. W. Murdock, who some three years since kept an oyster
cellar in New York. It seems that, in company with his
victim, whose name was Thurmond and who assisted
him in the enterprise, he ran away from his creditors in Athens,
Georgia. When they arrived near Centreville, they encamped
for the night, and have the horrible deed was perpetrated, for
the sake of about $100 which Thurmond had with him.
The body was found burned near a log, Murdock pursued,
and a bloody hatchet found in his trunk, the blade also covered
with clay similar to that where the grave wsa dug. He has
been committed for trial.- -
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MARRIAGE:
On Tuesday last, at Hampstead,
Stafford county, Virginia, by the Rev. Mr. MAGUIRE, JOHN
POTTS, Esq., of Washington City, to Miss LOUISA E. ROSE,
daughter of the late Capt. ALEXANDER F. ROSE.
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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. - On Monday, the 19th ult. (says
the Bridgeport Standard) two men, Andrew Taylor and
Burton Fairchild, were engaged in blasting rocks in the
vicinity of Hawleysville, in Newtown, and after charging a rock,
were in the act of drawing a spindle, which was of copper,
when the charge exploded with terrible effect. Mr.
Taylor was carried 24 feet and fell a mangled and lifeless
corpse. Mr. Fairchild lingered until Friday and
expired, leaving a wife and family to lament his loss. |
