Greene County, IL Crime News

Foul Murder
We learn from the Carrollton Gazette that a man by the name of Thos. Pierson murdered a companion by the name of Joshua Phelps. They were wood choppers on Macoupin Island. Pierson after murdering Phelps, placed him under the floor of the cabin which they both had occupied together and placed the straw bed over the place where the body lay concealed and actually slept on the bed for several nights after the murder. [Illinois State Chronicle (Decatur, Illinois) April 17 1856 - Submitted by Nancy Piper]

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