November 10, 2025

Shipley, Riot Due to Intoxication

While in a fit of intoxication, Robert Shipley, an employee of the Virginia Ore Bank, four miles up the Potomac River from Harper’s Ferry, created a miniature riot on Sunday afternoon. Using a heavy piece of […]
May 22, 2020

Howard Man Sent To Prison

Charlestown, W. Va., Oct. 22 — In the Circuit Court here yesterday Judge Faulkner sentenced John Shipley to 18 months in the West Virginia Penitentiary for committing a felonious assult on John Moore, superintendent of the […]