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July 8, 1728 On Wednesday Night last a very unhappy Accident happen'd in this Town, two young Gentlemen Merchants, viz. Mr. Henry Phillips, and Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge, who were very well belov'd here, unfortunately Quarrell'd, and fought a Duel on the Common, the latter was kill'd on the Spot, and was not found till the next Morning; and the former received two or three flight Wounds, and has since made his Escape. And on Saturday Night following the aforesaid Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge was decently Interr'd, his Corps was followed by his Honour the Lieut. Governour & Commander in Chief of this Province, the Honourable the Members of His Majesty's Council, living in this and the Neighbouring Towns, and likewise by a considerable number of Gentlemen. Boston Gazette - Monday July 1, to Monday July 8, 1728 Submitted & Transcribed by Nancy
Washell 1815 Data Boston, Jan.
31 Last night
Marchant, one of the men whose execution was to take place tomorrow for
the murders on board the schooner Fairy, destroyed himself in prison by
hanging himself with a hankerchief and a strip of his blanket to the
grates of the window of his cell. Boston, Feb. 2. The
Execution The remaining
culprit Colson, alias Curtis, the accomplice of Marchant, in the butchery
on board the schr. Fairy, was executed pursuant to sentence, yesterday at
about 11 o’clock. In the course of the delivery of the
Eulogy, Mr. King had roved in different parts of the Odeon, but the
fragments of his pocketbook were found in a spot he had not
visited. As Reed has been in the State Prison, the
(officers noticed him from time to time, and when they heard of the
robbery, Constables Andrews, Hosea, and Babbit kept the track of
him). As the collection turned off, he pursued
an irregular course towards Lindall Street, where they arrested him, and
searched him in his room. Nothing that belonged to Mr King was
found upon him; but two business letters, stolen from the hat of Mr A.R.
Holden, of the firm of Hancock, Holden & Adams. He said that he had
picked the letters up in a privy near the Odeon, but could not exactly
tell where. There was no doubt, from Mr. Holden's testimony, but that the
letters were stolen while he was sitting with his hat off, in the 2d
tier. Reed was committed for further
examination. We have no room to day for a long preachment upon the
incorrigible imprudence of carrying six thousand dollars into an assembly
of three thousand persons! [Barre Gazette - September 30,
1836, contributed by Frances Cooley] 1852 Data The trial of Charles H. Brewer, late
receiving teller at the Suffolk Bank, Boston, for embezzling nearly
$80,000 of the funds at that Institution, has been postponed to the May
term of the Municipal Court. [The New York Times - Apr 19, 1852, contributed by
Melissa]
1855 Data Arrest of a Post
Office Clerk Boston , Dec. 29 –
Joseph E. Spear, employed in the Boston post office, and who was
discharged by postmaster Baily some days since on suspicion of dishonesty,
was arrested this afternoon, charged with stealing from the
mail. Spear confesses his guilt, and has given up $900
which he had rifled from letters. He remains in custody
for examination. He has relatives in
Baltimore. [The Daily
Globe, Washington DC - Jan 1, 1855, contributed by Linda
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