FATALLY SHOT-
We heard a rumor upon the streets yesterday that Geo. De Haven of Barry, Pike county, was shot and killed one day last week while near the Illinois river en route home. We could gather no further particulars. ( Quincy Whig 13 May 1872 page 4 ) Particulars of the Killings of George Dehaven We stated a few days ago that a young man named George Dehaven, of Barry, Illinois, had been killed while en route home from the Illinois river; but it will appear from the folloiwng, taken from the Pike County Democrat, that he came to his death while upon a shebang boat just above Florence on the Illinois river: "George Dehaven, of Barry, who was born and raised in that town, was killed upon a shebang-boat, lying just above Florence on the Illinois river, on the night of May 3d, by Peter B. Ford, as shown by the evidence of witnesses, upon the examination of Elisha N. Ford, who was charged with the offence, but acquitted upon trial. Upon that trial, Mollie Frieze and another woman, who were following their disreputable business upon the boat 'on' which Dehaven was killed testified that Dehaven, Henry Schaffner and a man by the name of Tack, came to the boat kept by the two Ford's, and after chatting and drinking awhile Tack hauling his coat and declaring he was the best man on the boat, made an attack on Elisha Ford. At the same time Dehaven sprang at Peter B. Ford with brass knuckles in one hand and a cocked revolver in the other, pointed at Peter's breast. Peter knocked the revolver one side and instantly shot Dehaven, who died in about twenty minutes. This was about twelve o'clock at night. Such is the story told by the women and Schaffner as to the killing. Peter Ford immediately fled the country. Elisha dropped the boat down to the shore opposite Montezuma. On Saturday he and the two women were arrested, and by a change of venue, they were tried separately before Esquires Lidddel and Hudson. Upon the trial he was most ably defended by J. F. Greathouse, Esq., of this place, and there being no evidence to implicate him in the killing, was discharged. The women were of course set free, after hearing the testimony. An inquest was held upon the body of Dehaven by Esquire Sanderson, of Detroit, on Friday, and he was buried temporarily on the river bank, from whence he was removed by his friends on Saturday to Barry." (Quincy Daily Whig 17 December 1872 page 1)