Sussex County, New Jersey Crime News Stories

Sussex County, New Jersey
Crime News

Fatal Revenge
A man by the name of Price has been convicted in Sussex County, New Jersey of the crime of arson for burning the barn of Mr. Nicholas Reyerson, last winter. He was sentenced to undergo ten years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. Upwards of eighty witnesses were examined and the trial occupied the better part of five days. Price is a man of handsome property, and was led to the commission of the crime of which he has been convicted, by a spirit of revenge. ["Republican Compiler" (Gettysburg, PA), June 20 1827 - Submitted by Nancy Piper]