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Murders

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
August
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Long Braxch, Aug. 7. A murder was committed last night in fhe roar oí the Moninoutb House in this place. Fistol shots and cries of murder were heard. A club be smeared with blood nnd hair wae fouuc on the beach, and t lie body has evi dently been conveyed out' to soa n a boat which. had been pulled down to the surf. Clotted bïood and hair ..was found on the sail and sides oí the boat Who the murderer or the viethn was is a tny6tery. New York, Aug. 7. On Sunday, July '29th, in YorkRhire, Cattaraugns county, the wife of Jas. Wheat was foudd dead. Her husband was declared guilty of murder by the Coroncr's jury. On Wednesday hö was conveyod to jail in Eiliottville, and yesterday he diselosed to thoneighbors who visited him the fact that his father and mother assisted hin:, the father 6trangling the vietim with a handkerchicf. The deceased was enciente, - Great exoitement prevails. Fort Smitii, Ark., Aug. 7. A man named Solomon Nellis, emploed in the office of the Overland Mail Oornpany, and fonnerly from Utica, N. Y., was shot last uight by a Cherokee Indian. The wound is necessarily mortal. The afFair grew out oí a disturbance at the St. Charles Hotel. Much fieling exists againpt the murderer, and may result in suniinary punishmunt.