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Kent County, Delaware Crime News
We have an account from Kent County upon Delaware, of a most barbarous murder committed there near Duck Creek,
by one Henry Smith on the body of William Half-penny, for asking him for money due to said
Half-penny, the said Smith stabbed him was his knife.
[Philadelphia, May 25, 1732; Paper: The American Weekly Mercury - Submitted
by Debbie Personette]
We hear from Dover in Kent County on Delaware, that one William Turner, a noted robber, store-breaker and horse stealer, was lately taken there and carried into
Maryland where --- reward had been offered for apprehending him; which was accordingly paid. [Philadelphia --- From March 21, to March 30, 1737, 8; Paper: The Pennsylvania Gazette]
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