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velec.r-*niCT** We have a few crimes by the last mails. Atrocities. thank heaven ! have been rather unfrequent of late. William McKinney, sen., has been convicted of the murder ot Kdmund A Phillio, in Rock Island county, Illinois, in June, 1843, and sentenced to be hanged on the 14th of July. Isaac McKinney and George Blacklock, (son and nephew) arrested at the same time with William McK., broke jail and escaped. A negro belonging to the estate, of Judge Robinson, deceased, of Fulton county, Missouri, made an attempt upon the life of his wife by cutting her throat, she bc-f ing asleep at the time; the wound was not considered mortal. The assassin was found the next day, sus-L-*-i-nrej. pended by the neck to the limb of a tree, a short dis-f tance from the house. The Ilenepin, Illinois, Herald ! of the 7th instant says that the farm house of Mr Jere-* niiah Strawn, a few miles southeast of that place, wTas* entered in the night by three men, masked and armed; . the family, consisting of eight persons, were aroused byI a noise in the lower part of the house, and on the circumstance being conveyed to Mr Strawn, he awoke J and behe’d a demon in human shape standing by the side of his bed, ready to take his life, if he moved a limb, while two others were searching the house for plunder. The burglars succeeded in getting about one hundred dollars, valuable watches, and one holster pistol, and, after strewing the bed clothing and furniture over the house, left very unceremoniously with their ill-gotten plunder. A man named Roark committed suicide in Winchester, Illinois, last week, by cutting his throat with a drawing knife, and stabbing himself three times in the breast with a pair of compasses. He had purchased some property, and it is supposed that anxiety of mind, in consequence of his inability to pay j for it, was the cause of the fatal act. B. Vaux, an old offender, has been sent to the Auburn prison for sixyears by the U. S. court, for robbing the mail at Westfield, N. Y. Daniel P. Powers, convicted of perjury m the same conrt, in having sworn to a false inventory in bankruptcy, was sentenced io the state prison for two years. On the night of Sunday, the 1st June, Mr John B. Vascocu, living a few miles from the town of Natchitoches, was shot in his own bed. One of his slaves has been taken into cusjody, and is now in jail, on the suspicion that he is the murderer.
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Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Jun 25, 1845
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