BURNED TO DEATH; FOUL PLAY IS SEEN.Charred Body of Negro Found in Ashes of Shanty. Special Dispatch to The Star.HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 5.– The burning to death of a negro known as “Babe” Carter in his […]
STABBED IN A JEALOUS RAGE.Negress Used Carving Knife on Woman with Probably Fatal Effect.Special to The Washington Post. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Oct. 9.— Saturday night during a cake-walk and dance at Engles Switch, near Bakerton, […]
Charged with Forgery.Special to The Washington Post. Charlestown, W. Va., Aug. 16.— A warrant has been issued for the arrest of R. G. Ramey, alias Martin, and Henson, residing near Bakerton, this county. It is charged […]
Sentenced To Penitentiary For Undetermined Period (Special to the News) Luray, Oct. 8.– For having tied his feet and hands together with ropes and wires after shooting him five times, W. D. Gray of Sperrysville, near […]
ATTACKED BY A NEGRO. Henry Brown, colored, was arrested in Martinsburg, W. Va. Friday night on information furnished by the officials of Page county, Va., for an alleged attempt to criminally assault Mrs. William Shiffler, a […]
Convict Rappahannock Man on Murder Charge.William Gray is Given Prison Term. [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] SHENANDOAH, VA., Oct. 5 – William Gray, charged with the murder last June of Ralph Beckwith, both men said to be […]
ASSAULTED BY A NEGRO.Young School Teacher in Jefferson County the Victim. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., June 27. A most horrible assault case occurred here this afternoon on the River Road, near Peachers Mill, about two miles […]
THE DEVILISH DEED OF A COLORED GIRL.— About three years ago Mr. Jesse A. Engle, the teacher of the public school at Bakerton, W. Va., built himself a handsome dwelling house on a beautiful site overlooking […]
E. M. Miskimmon, a druggist of Harper’s Ferry, was arrested and tried today on a warrant sworn out before Justice O. F. Gallaher by Mr. S. W. Bratt, superintendent of the Washington Building Lime Company of […]
Shot By Bad Negro. Charles Gray, a well-known Baltimore and Ohio fireman, running on the Millville limestone train was shot and mortally wounded in front of the Baltimore and Ohio station at Weverton late Saturday night, […]
Stole A Countryman’s Hat. “While I do not know about his identity,” said a man who had noticed the supposed murder. “I did believe there was something wrong about him. His actions indicated that there was […]
Federal Prisoners. Captain Dawson, the U. S. deputy Marshal left here on last Saturday with a number of prisoners for Wheeling for the federal court. One was Nick Carter, No. 3, an Italian from the quarries […]
Murderer of Fireman Gray Landed In Hagerstown Jail. James Ellis, alias “Nigger Jim” Semple, who shot and killed Fireman Charles Gray at Weverton Saturday night, was captured at Bakerton, Jefferson county, Tuesday, and returned to Sheriff […]
Circuit Court Starts in Jefferson County[…]William R. Hoak, for a breaking and entering theft of items valued at $992.80 from Martin D. Welsh Jr. at Bakerton in September.
THE HEARING AT HAGERSTOWN– DETAILS OF THE CRIME, ETC.[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.] HAGERSTOWN, MD., June 27, 1877.– James Gardner and J. W. Grove, who are in the county jail at this place on suspicion of […]
COUNTY COURT.– Redman Burke, who stabbed Phillip Engle, of Harper’s Ferry, on the 4th of July last, had a hearing on Monday and Tuesday last, before an Examining Court. He was remanded to jail to undergo […]
FATAL AFFRAY AT HARPERS FERRY — Patrick Hagan Shot and Instantly Killed by Capt. George Chambers.– This community was startled on Monday evening last by the intelligence that Patrick Hagan, an Irish citizen of our neighboring […]
C. L. Halpin, alias Carmony, was convicted in the Circuit Court at Hagerstown Tuesday of stealing a horse and buggy belonging to Wm. Kreps. Halpin hired the horse and buggy from Kreps and did not return. […]
