Research Topic

Crime & Murders

This topic appears in 122 indexed records between 1789 and 1964.
122 Indexed Records
1789 Earliest Record
1964 Latest Record
Harpers Ferry Strongest Location
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May 23, 2020

Harrott, Strother Convicted.

James Colston was found guilty of a misdemeanor, and was fined $50. Curtis Harrott, the young negro found guilty last week of concealing a quantity of brass and copper stolen from the Washington Building Lime Company […]
May 22, 2020

Drunk Ore Bank Employee Arrested over dynamite.

A man from the Virginia ore bank came to Shepherdstown last Friday and got pretty comfortably drunk. He bought some dynamite cartridges for use in the mine there, but he handled them rather too recklessly for […]
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 […]
May 22, 2020

Charles Sweeney caught with still near Bakerton

COUNTY MAN IS HELD FOR COURT.Charles L. Sweeney, Dargan, Caught With Still Near Bakerton. Charles L. Sweeney, Dargan section, who was arrested Tuesday by Federal agents for operation of a moonshine still across the Potomac near […]
May 22, 2020

Jerome Lewis, Arrested.

Harry Lapole and Jerome Lewis were held under $500 bond each for the action of the Federal grand jury by U. S. Commissioner Alexander Hagner in Hagerstown last Monday, on the charge act. Both men gave […]
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1890s 18 records
1830s 17 records
1900s 16 records
1850s 16 records
1860s 12 records
1910s 9 records