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407 - H Nov. 28; ed:2/1 - The case of the three Ohioans, abducted by Virginia sheriffs from Ohio territory and jailed in a Virginia prison, rests now upon the question of boundary. If a satisfactory decision is not given in favor of the prisoners by the general court of Virginia, it will be appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court. "We are glad to learn that Mr. Vinton will attend the session of the Court at Richmond, and argue the case for the defendants." (2)
See also Crime & Criminals; Damage Suits
CRIME & CRIMINALS
408 H Jan. 11; adv: 2/4 - Found on the night of the 3d of January, on Bank st. in this city, in the possession of two thieves, 1 large brass kettle, 1 axe, marked on the pole with the letter U; also, 1 pair of black stockings.
The above named property is left by me at the mayor's office for the owner. Thos. Mckinstry, deputy marshal. (verbatim) (1)
409 - H Feb. 7; ed:3/1 - A bill providing severe punishment for criminal licentiousness is now before the legislature of New York, and if members are guided by public opinion and a desire for suppression of vice and immorality, the bill will become a law.
"The tragedies of blood enacted in the Eastern cities within a year or two past, growing out of the want of laws to punish adequately the crime of seduction, point forcibly to the necessity of severe penal enactments on the subject."
Public opinion has already more than half sanctioned the use of the knife and the pistol in the hands of the female avengers. - Interpose at once the shield of severe penal laws.
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 410 - 418
CRIME & CRIMINALS (Cont'd) 410 - H Feb. 25; ed:3/1 - Henry Thomas, alias Thomas Dean, who we under- stand, resided in this city some two years ago, was arrested recently in Lancaster, Pa. on a charge of burglary. Thomas has been identified as one of the four men accused of murdering Frederick Edwards in Rossbergh, O., on the 19th of November last. Governor Bartley has forwarded his req- uisition for the accused. (6)
411 - H Mar. 11:2/2,3 . In the court of Common Pleas Judge Hayward, the following case was disposed of on Mar. 8: State of Ohio versus William Sage, petit larceny. - He is charged with stealing three quilts, 16 plates, and one saw from the canal boat EDWIN FOREST, in Cleveland, the property of one Deming. The verdict was guilty. (2)
412 - H Mar. 11:2/2,3 - In the court of common pleas Judge Hayward, the following case was disposed of yesterday: H. B. Gilbert was found guilty of entering the residence of B. S. Welch of Cleveland and taking silver valued at four or five dollars.
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413 - H Mar. 12:3/3 - In the court of Common Pleas Judge Bissell, the following case was disposed of yesterday:
State versus B. Logan, grand larceny for stealing a trunk, carpet bag, overcoat, and a quantity of shirts and other articles - verdict, guilty. Value of property stolen, $56.
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414 - H Mar. 12:3/3 - In the court of Common Pleas Judge Bissell, the following case was disposed of yesterday:
State versus J. Haynes, assault and battery - defendant charged with having assaulted and beaten his wife, Hannah Haynes - verdict, guilty. (1)
415 - H Mar. 12:3/3 - In the court of Common Pleas, Judge Bissell, the following case was disposed of, Mar. 11: State versus A. Chamberlin; defendant charged with having cut a live chestnut tree on the premises of George B. Merwin - no defense set up - verdict, guilty. (1)
416 - H Apr. 16; ed:3/1 - The jury late on Apr. 12 returned a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to Mercy, in the case of Polly Bodine, ar- raigned for the murder of Mrs. Houseman. "The prisoner conducted her- self with great propriety and firmness during the protracted trial of twenty-two days, and received her sentence with apparent stoicism." (1)
417 - H Apr. 16:3/1 - That keen, indefatigable police officer, Mr. Mc- Kinstry, succeeded today in securing an old offender by the name of Peter Francisco, who broke jail at Norwalk on the 10th inst., to escape a trial for burglary. Francisco has a noted name for villainy in Canada as well as on this side of the lake. (verbatim) (1)
418 - H May 9:3/1 - The splendid new stock of crockery just opened by Huntington and Brooks was examined last night by a burglar. The crockery
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Abstracts 419 - 424
CRIME & CRIMINALS (Cont'd)
was removed from the crates without a piece being broken. It was not taken, however. A few dollars in change was abstracted. (2)
419 - H May 27:3/1 - The house of George Soren, 9 College place, was robbed on May 22 of a pocket-book containing $2,000 in bills and a large amount of acceptances, notes, drafts, etc.
One thousand six hundred dollars was recovered the next day on the premises of John Gelmartin, who was arrested with three others accused of being confederates.
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420 - H June 6:2/1 - The drug store of Dr. Clarke was entered on Wed- nesday night by burglars, but nothing of much value stolen.
Last night the hardware store of Mr. Moore was entered, and $60 stolen.
The public and citizens should be on the watch for the adroit and daring robbers. (verbatim) (1)
421 - H June 7:2/1 - The burglars transferred their operations to Ohio City last night. Two dwelling houses were entered, the pockets of the owners examined, and a few dollars in change stolen. (verbatim) (1)
422 - H June 9:3/1 - The gang of villains now infesting our city have become so frequent and bold in their operations that we hear our citi- zens have generally determined on a resort to the efficacy of cold lead. For six nights in succession stores and dwellings have been broken open, and small amounts stolen. The store of Messrs. Alexander & Co. was en- tered on Saturday night and a dwelling house, and last night the store of Mr. Powell.
Occupants of buildings are arming themselves, and burglars may expect a warm reception from "six shooters" unless they suspend operations and leave forthwith. (verbatim) (2)
423 - H June 16; ed: 3/1 . We have been informed that there are a number of females in this city who go from house to house with divers tales to obtain clothing. Some ask to borrow a certain white dress for a pattern. Others ask to borrow articles of mourning, as they have lost friends. Still others go into houses and rob clothes presses and take away anything they can lay their thieving hands upon.
"These characters should be watched, and be detected. Let all be on their guard." (3)
424 - H July 1; adv: 3/3 - $100 Reward !!! The store of the subscriber was entered on Wednesday night and about $500 in money taken, as well as one elegant spy glass and one elegant pair of slippers of wrought colored work.
The above reward will be paid for either the money or the thief. Any information given will be suitably rewarded. G. W. Lyman, Akron, or Alexander Seymour and Company, Cleveland.
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Abstracts 425 - 430
CRIME & CRIMINALS (Cont'd) 425 - H July 14:3/1 - St. Mary's church in this city was entered by bur- glars on July 7, and robbed of one chalice, a ciborium, an ostensorium, two sets of girandoles, six small cassocks, and as many surplices.
The tabernacle, containing two of the sacred vessels, was carefully taken down from the altar, and so mechanically taken apart as to lead one to the belief that some person well acquainted with the church must have had a hand in the sacrilege.
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426 - H July 16; ed: 2/2 - The judges of the supreme court of New York have granted a new trial in the case of Polly Bodine. She will prob- ably go unwhipt of justice, a new trial being equivalent to an acquit- tal. (verbatim)
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427 - H July 22; ed:3/1 - The trial of Green at Troy for the murder of his wife closed last Saturday with a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to be hanged on the 10th of September next. No doubt can be entertained that he was guilty of as cold-blooded and remorseless murder as was ever perpetrated. (verbatim) (1)
428 - H July 23; ed:3/2 - It has been rumored that Henrietta Blanchard, who shot a man in New Orleans recently, has died from poison self-admin- istered. The latest reports, however, are that she is definitely alive. "It was the offspring of some one who thinking the story had not suffi- cient romance about it threw in the 'death' to finish the scene." (2)
429 - H July 25; ed:3/2 . After 12 days devoted to the examination of testimony and its exposition by counsel, the trial of Green has termin- ated in the verdict of guilty, and the sentence of the highest penalty of the law was passed upon the accused. The crime for which the pris- oner has been convicted was that of murdering his young wife the first week of their honeymoon by giving her arsenic in her food. He was about 22 years of age, wealthy, and well educated, and his wife about 18 years old, without fortune or position in society, but of good character.
"Yet, as if the murder of a young, innocent and unprotected girl, by the husband, to whose love she had but a few days before been consecrated, through such cruel tortures, by such cowardice and malignity, were not suf - ficiently revolting, it seems that a new horror is lent to the tragedy by the suspicion that the mother of the brutal young man had instigated him to the deed." (4)
430 - H Aug. 11:2/4 - Stolen from a buggy wagon, hitched in front of Anson Haydn's on the 9th inst., between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, a black beaver cloth cloak, lined with brown cassimere. Said cloak had wings or sleeves. Whoever will detect the said thief and return the cloak to said Anson Haydn, shall receive a reward of $5. H. A. Haydn. (verbatim) (1)
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Abstracts 431 - 436
CRIME & CRIMINALS (Cont'd) 431 - H Aug. 14:3/1 . John Wiliis, alias Jon Van Horn, was arrested by officers Mckinstry and Bliss on the charge of breaking into and enter- ing the store of N. and R. Docksteader of this city and stealing a quan- tity of caps and hats on Aug. 9. The defendant was examined before Esquire Barr, and held to bail in $500 for his appearance at the next term of court; but not being able to obtain the bail, he was committed for trial.
The defendant arrived in this city from Buffalo by the steamboat WISCONSIN, and, it is said, stole on the same day a cloak from Mr. Haydn's buggy. The cloak can be had at the marshal's office in this city.
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432 - H Aug. 15; ed: 3/1 - Peter Jones of Rochester, N. Y., was robbed of $300 in a New York brothel on July 23, and has raised quite a stir about it.
"We publish the above not that we have any sympathy for Peter Jones, but to give notoriety to Peter, and pass him round for an ass in three respects: first, for visiting a brothel - second, for going there with $600 . and lastly, for telling of it."
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433 - H Aug. 21:3/1 - A man calling himself Bullet was arrested this morning and committed to jail. He had been stopping at most of the city hotels for some time past, and, it is alleged, committed depredations as opportunity offered. A bunch of skeleton keys, a cold chisel, and various keys pilfered from our citizens were also secured. Bullet was about to leave on the CHESAPEAKE when nabbed. (1)
434 - H Aug. 27; ed: 2/3 - Justice Taylor of New York has furnished the authorities with a detailed statement showing the number of persons brought before him during the last six months, and their offenses and nationalities. The report also embodies the percentage of occurrence of various types of crimes.
"Before efficient legislation can be had to prevent, or even to re- duce the quantity of crime, we must be furnished with accurate informa- tion respecting it, and one important step will be the acquisition of such statistics as this deduced from Mr. Taylor's statement." (4)
435 H Sept. 3:3/1 - The following persons were convicted of burglary and larceny by the court of common pleas during its late session, and were sentenced to the penitentiary for three years each: John Mills, Joseph Richardson, Daniel Cameson, and Benjamin Spencer. (1)
436 - H Sept. 3:3/1 - During its recent session, the court of common pleas found George Daniels guilty of grand larceny and sentenced him to serve five years in the penitentiary.
The following persons were found guilty of petit larceny and sentenced as indicated: Edmund Taylor $100 and costs; Mastin Carlin and Joseph Foster. ten days on bread and water; Ann Herley, six dollars and costs; John Wilcox, $25 and costs and 30 days on bread and water. (2)
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 437 - 444
CRIME & CRIMINALS (Cont'd) 437 . H Sept. 3:3/1 - Phillip Barnel was convicted of incest and sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary by the court of common pleas during its recent session. (1)
438 . HI Sept. 3:3/1 . William Mahoney was found guilty of stabbing during the recent term of the court of common pleas, and sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary.
The following persons were found guilty of assault and battery and sen- tenced as indicated: Hiram Tuttle, five dollars and costs; Spencer S. Fuller, $25 and costs; Edward Butcher, ten dollars and costs; Michael Benser, five dollars and costs; and William Lagougue, $150 and costs. (1)
439 - H Sept. 8; ed:3/1 - O'Blenis, whom our readers will remember was charged with having murdered young Coombs by riding up to him and shoot- ing him down in open day, has been tried at Point Coupee, but the jury could not agree, and he was bailed in $15,000.
"The murder was as plain, direct and open, with malice and without cause, as ever was committed."
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440 - H Sept. 22:3/2 . Buffalo police have arrested and are holding Drs. William Waterman and Delas W. Hovey on the charge of grave robbing, fol- lowing the discovery of the bodies of two females, a colored person, and a child in their rooms in that city. It appears the bodies were intended for the Willoughby institution, and were to be shipped to Cleveland via Canada. Both men are westerners, but - whether of Cleveland it is as yet unknown.
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441 - H Sept. 24:3/1 - Clothed for the Season . Constable Smith arrested a man today calling himself Paine, having in his possession a lot of sto- len clothing and on his person four coats! three of them over-coats - rather a surplusage even for this raw equinoctial. The coats are in pos- session of Officer Smith. (verbatim) (1)
442 - H Sept. 27; adv:2/5 - Five dollars Reward !!! I will pay the above reward for apprehension and conviction of the scoundrels who at about 2 o'clock this morning attempted to break into my premises and, failing to do so, stoned and broke my windows.
A part of the party were recognized and they may save themselves from exposure by coming forward and paying damages, Sc. E. M. Segur. (1)
443 - H Oct. 20; adv:2/6 - Thieves! Thieves! A couple of men, one tall, shabbily dressed, and feinting a limp, and the other, well dressed in black, entered my house on Oct. 16 and made away with Aikens' BRITISH POETS, a large octavo volume, bound in Turkish morocco. A reward for whomever catches the scamps. William Strong.
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444 - H Oct. 21:3/1 - John and Aaron Long and Granville Young have been sentenced to be hung on the 29th of this month for the murder and robbery
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Abstracts 445 - 450
CRIME & CRIMINALS (Cont'd)
of Col. Davenport in his own house on the 4th of July last. (verbatim) (1)
445 - H Nov. 3; ed:3/1 - Murder in Boston. . Mrs. Bickford, a prostitute, had her throat cut by one of her visitors named Tirrell. The murderer set fire to the room, made his escape, and had not been caught at the last account. The long and minute notices of the murder in the Eastern journals pay but a poor compliment to the taste of readers. (verbatim)
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446 - H Nov. 21; adv:3/2 - I have made another haul of stolen goods for which I want to find the owners. Erastus Smith, constable. (verbatim)
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447 - H Nov. 25; ed:2/1 - Trial of Polly Bodine. The criminal court of New York has been for several days trying to obtain a jury for the trial of Mrs. Bodine, charged with murder. Some 3,200 extra jurors have been summoned in her case, and at the latest accounts but nine jurors had been obtained. The court, in despair of filling the panel, would probably change the venue. Expense of case to the city $225 per day. The sheriff has fine picking, the fee for summoning each talesman being 25 cents. (verbatim)
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448 - H Dec. 6:2/2 - Coroner Camp was called upon the evening of the fourth instant to hold an inquest on the body of a female infant, sup- posed to be but a few days old, found on the beach of the lake east of Johnson's run. Verdict of the jury was that the child came to its death by being frozen, supposed to be (sic) thrown out upon the beach soon after birth. Physicians have examined said child and decided it was perfectly healthy, and they have no doubt it was frozen to death. (verbatim) (2)
449 - H Dec. 13; ed:3/1 - A bill has been introduced into the legisla- ture making the second offense of petit larceny a penitentiary crime. This bill, if passed, will be an important amendment to the criminal laws of this state.
"So far as Cuyahoga county is concerned this amendment is of great moment."
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450 - H Dec. 18:3/2 - Stolen Goods. - Officer Smith has made a fresh haul for which he desires owners. (verbatim) (1)
See also Capital Punishment; Commutations & Pardons; Courts; Forgeries; Penal & Corrective Institutions
CURRENCY. See Money
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 451 - 456
DAMAGE SUITS
451 - H Feb. 20:3/3 - In the court of common pleas Judge Bissell, the fol-
lowing case was on trial yesterday: Wheeler Bartram versus Charles D. Brayton. This was an action in the case for mal-practice in the treat- ment of a felon on the plaintiff's hand. The examination of witnesses was not finished till dark, and the case was put over till the next day. (2)
452 - H Feb. 22:3/4 - In the court of common pleas Judge Bissell, the following cases were disposed of today: David Throup versus S. Stewart, replevin suit brought for 50 cords of wood, decision rendered in favor of plaintiff.
F. W. Bingham, administrator, versus M. Sherman, action in assumpsit on a promissory note. Defense claimed an agreement whereby the amount due on the note was to be paid in grind-stones. Judgment rendered for the defendant.
Weiss versus Bostwick, - replevin - motion to quash the writ on the ground of insufficiency in the affidavit. It appeared that the name of the defendant was substituted for that of the plaintiff in the body of the affidavit. Motion granted, and the writ quashed at the costs of the clerk.
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453 - H Mar. 1:3/2 . Judge Bissell ruled in favor of S. Skidmore, the defendant, in common pleas court on Feb. 28 in a case in which William Bugg sued to collect on two promissory notes in the amounts of $55.45 and $84.81. The defense was a failure of consideration.
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454 - H Mar. 3:3/3 - In the court of common pleas Judge Bissell, the following case was disposed of, Mar. 1: Firemen's Insurance company versus Bank of Cleveland. - It appeared that on the 12th of Feb. 1842, the plaintiff had $2,613.41 on deposit with the bank, and about this time the bank failed. The plaintiff was notified to call and receive the amount of its deposit. The plaintiff took a draft on Thurbur, Avery and company, Rochester, for the deposit amount. The company failed, and the draft was protested for non-payment, and the plaintiff made an arrangement with Thurbur, Avery and company, whereby it received $1,820.80 in compound for the draft.
Verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $1,117.97. (6)
455 - H July 1; ed: 3/1 - Miss Louisa Fenzell recently recovered of John Aughinbaugh, $1,850 for breach of marriage promise, at the Marion county common pleas court.
"Verdicts in such cases remind one of diamond cement for broken china - better buy a new article." (1)
456 - H July 3; adv: 4/5 - All persons interested will take notice that Truman P. Handy on the 29th day of May, A. D. 1845, sued out a writ of attachment from the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county in the state of Ohio, against Levi Bliss for the sum of $2,208.40, which writ has been served and returned. Attest: F. Whittlesey, clerk com. pleas. H. Foot, pl'ffs att'y. (verbatim)
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Abstracts 457 - 400
DANCING
457 - H July 8:2/1 - In a letter to the editor, "Katrina" says: "The good taste which in a lady or gentleman is seen in the arrangement of dress, is by the silent looker on at an evening party or ball, observed frequently to disappear when a selection is made of a comnagnon de promenade. Harmony would certainly be conceded as invisible in a drawing room furnished with gilded drapery hangings, stiff high backed chairs, after the style of the 16th century interspersed with the low luxurious lounge of more recent date; and surely good taste forbids the association of a Lilliputian gentleman and an Amazonian lady.
"It may be amusing, but as the tall lady and the little gentleman can- not easily adapt the length of their respective paces to each other, is not violence done to harmony detrimental to the beauty of the scene, whether in the graceful meetings of a 'social, ' or a more public crowded pave!"
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458 - H Nov. 19; adv:2/6 - Dancing Academy. Messrs. Leland and Ballou would inform the citizens of Cleveland that they will open an Academy for dancing, at the American House, to commence Dec. 1, 1845. They will teach the most fashionable dances, viz: Waltzes, Waltz Quadrilles, Gallopades, Spanish Quadrilles, and so forth.
Terms - $6 for a Gentleman and a Lady, $3 for 12 lessons. Juvenile classes meet afternoons.
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DEAFNESS
459 - H Feb. 15; ed:3/1,2 . The deaf and dumb asylum is the oldest in- stitution of the state, and has enjoyed uninterrupted prosperity during the 18 years of its existence. The number of pupils is increasing yearly. Unless additions are made to the buildings, a part of future applicants must be rejected.
In addition to a thorough education, male pupils are taught a mechanical trade, and females are instructed in sewing, knitting, drawing, and in some of the lighter labors of the family. Attempts to teach mutes to articulate have proved signal failures, and the American system of instruction by signs has proved as signally useful. Hubbell is the present superintendent.
Ten or 12 years ago, a bill passed the U. S. Senate, granting a township of land to the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio institutions for the deaf and dumb, the only ones then in existence that had not been endowed by the gen- eral government. The bill was not acted on in the house for want of time, and since then the subject has been suffered to rest.
"Another effort should be made and now is a favorable opportunity to secure aid from the General Government. The Western Deaf and Dumb have strong claims, for while the General Government sets apart school sections for the education of speaking children, no provision is made for a class of the Providence-stricken who have high and holy claims on public and private charity."
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460 - H Aug. 21; ed:3/1 - We trust our citizens will repair to the Second Presbyterian church this evening to hear H. N. Hubbell, principal of the
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Abstracts 461 - 465
DEAFNESS (Cont'd)
Ohio Deaf and Dumb asylum and see an exhibition of the wonderful language of signs by his accomplished pupils.
'Mr. Hubbell is the good foster-father of this Institution, whose life and whole energies are devoted to the benefit of the afflicted in our midst, and his name will ever be held in grateful remembrance by the hundreds of mutes to whom he has opened up a new existence of beauty and usefulness, where erst all was black, dark and cheerless." (4)
DEATHS
461 - II Jan. 15:2/4 . Died in Dover, on the 9th inst., of Consumption, Mrs. Lucy E., wife of Mr. Josiah Hurst and daughter of the late Nathan Bassett, formerly of Dover, aged 28 years.
She died in the fullest hopes of a blessed immortality. Thou art gone to the grave but we will not deplore thee, Since Christ was the ransom, thy guardian, thy guide, He gave thee, he took thee, and soon will restore thee, For death has no sting since the Saviour has died. (verbatim) (1)
462 - H Jan. 15:2/4 - Died at Newburgh, on the 6th inst., Dr. Horace Filley, aged 35 years. His scientific medical attainments and success in practice during the last 15 years, has endeared his memory to a large circle of friends. His loss will be much lamented.
Editors of New Haven and Pittsburgh papers please copy the above. (verbatim)
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463 - H Apr. 7:2/4 - Died, on Sunday, the 6th inst., Charles, son of Mr. J. S. Phillips.
Herein we have a melancholy instance of the uncertainty of life, as the youth, here spoken of left his fathers house in the enjoyment of health, and in less than an hour was brought back a corpse, having fallen in a fit, (as supposed) in a small mud puddle and was smothered.
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