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Source: Alexandria
Gazette, Alexandria, Virginia - Page 3
Dated: Dec. 6, 1843
A gentleman
from Belvidere, N. J., informs the New York
Tribune that Abner Parke, who resides
near New Hampton, Warren county, was
arrested on Thursday, 30th Nov., and was
taken to Belvidere to undergo an examination
on a charge for the murder of his brother
John Parke and the Castner family.
The manner and conversation of Parke
since the trial of Carter has been
such as to fasten suspicion upon him. |
Source: Spectator,
New York, New York - Page 4
Dated: June 11, 1845
Abner Parke
was put upon trial before the Court of
Oyer and Terminer in Warren
county, N. J., in Wednesday last, on an
indictment for the murder of the Castner
family, in company with Joseph Carter
and Peter Parke, now under sentence of
death for that crime. Chief Justice
Hornblower presides at the trial.
The jury is from Middlesex county., |
Source: Cincinnati
Daily Gazette, Cincinnati, OH - Vol. XVIII
Issue: 5435 Page 2
Dated: Jan. 27, 1845
THE WARREN
TRAGEDY, the public will be interested
to learn, ____ now likely to be fully
revealed. The trial of Peter Parke,
indicted as one of the actors in the
wholesale butchery, terminated at Belvidere
on Friday in a verdict of guilty. The
case was committed after a long and patient
interrogation? and full argument in a clear
and able charge by Judge Nevius, and
the jury was only out about five hours.
The verdict is, we hear, in perfect
accordance with public sentiment in Warren
county. Thus two of the murderers,
Joseph Carter, Jr. and Peter Parke,
his cousin, are identified and stand
committed. Abner Parke, either
the father or the uncle of Peter, was
tried immediately before on one indictment,
and acquitted by the jury, though
circumstances were strongly against him, in
consequence of an alibi insisted on
by some witnesses - his daughters, we
believe - from his own family. Since
that acquittal, farther testimony has been
obtained, and he has been brought up and
charged under one of the other indictments -
fortunately the Grand Jury found an
indictment against each of the prisoners for
each of the four persons murdered - so that
it is believed his participation in the
dreadful tragedy will yet be fully
established. He will be tried at the
February term - some three weeks hence -
Newark Daily Advertiser |
Source: Commercial
Advertiser, New York, New York - Vol. XLVIII
- Page 1
Dated June 7, 1845
Abner Parke
was put upon trial before the Court of
Oyer and Terminer in Warren County, N.
J., on Wednesday last, on an indictment for
the murder of the Castner family, in
company with Joseph Carter and Peter
Parke, now under sentence of death for
that crime. Chief Justice
Hornblower presides at the trial.
The jury is from Middlesex county. |
Source:
Newburyport Herald, Newburyport, Mass. -
Vol. XLIX Issue 34 Page 1
Dated July 11, 1845
Abner Parke,
who was acquitted on the second indictment
for being concerned in the the murder of the
Castner family in Warren County, was
admitted to bail on the rendition of the
verdict, and bound over to answer to answer
to the two remaining indictments, in the sum
of $5,000 on each of them with his brother
David Parke. He left Belvidere
for his home, on Sunday morning. The
Apollo says he "jested gaily and laughed
during Saturday afternoon, while the jury
were busy with the question of his guilt or
innocence of the fearful crime charged upon
him." |
Source: Times-Picayun
- New Orleans, Louisiana - Page 2
Dated: July 12, 1845
The
long-pending trial of Abner Parke, in
the Warren county (New Jersey) Circuit, on
the second indictment for being concerned in
murder of the Castner family,
terminated on Saturday night in a verdict of
acquittal. The trial lasted about four
weeks. He was once before tried for
the murder of one of the same family, and
acquitted after a trial of about the same
duration. Two or three other
indictments are still pending against him,
but we presume the fellow has been tried
enough - at least for the county, which has
to pay the expense. |
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