Harford County, MD Crime News

Baltimore, Jan. 22.
Murder
The body of an elderly man, well dressed, was found on Friday last, near Deer Creek, three miles from Belle-Air, Hartford county. It was evident that he had been murdered several days before; having marks of great violence on his head and neck, and a ball had passed through his body. The deceased had no papers about him which discovered his name or residence; but one paper shows that he purchased something in Lancaster; it was so much torn and defaced as to be scarcely legible in any part. His shirt was marked with (W.W.). He had on a brown coat, good cloth, breeches nearly same color, toitinette jacket and boots and spurs. The friends of the deceased may be satisfied of his decent interment, &c by applying to John Johnson, or William Heats, in said county. [The Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, February 6, 1811 - submitted by Nancy Piper]

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