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Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Feb 15, 1826
Kentucky
Another shocking murder has been committed in Kentucky at Harrodsburg. Mr. Wm. Harrison of that place, it is stated in the Frankfort Argus, was shot on the 2d ultimo while sitting in front of Mr. Rire’s tavern. The shot came from the store of Mr. J. Head, but who did it no one pretends to know. Harrison it seems a few days previous had twice discharged a pistol at a Mr. Chinn of that place, the first shot missing and the second but scarcely wounding him. It does not appear however, that Mr. Chinn was the murderer of Harrison as he was not in Mr. Head’s store but in another at the time the foul deed was perpetrated. [Submitted by Nancy Piper; May 2010]

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Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 22, 1826
At a late term of Mercer Circuit Court in Kentucky, an action for slander in which Miss Matilda Bohen was Plaintiff and James Cardwell, Defendant was tried. The jury after hearing the evidence and arguments of counsel, returned a verdict for Three Thousand Dollars in damages. [Submitted by Nancy Piper; October 2010]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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