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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Frederick County, Philip Peeble murdered his wife and four young children with an axe at his mother's house, then attempted suicide by cutting his throat. He is imprisoned but not expected to survive. Reported from Baltimore on May 10.
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As an instance of the horrid cruelty human nature may be capable of when destitute of the restraining influence of the Almighty, we here insert the following account of a most horrid and unnatural murder, which has been just communicated to us -- after the magistrate has investigated the atrocious deed, we may be able to give our readers further particulars.
"On Saturday last Philip Peeble, of Frederick county, with his wife and four young children, the eldest but nine years of age, was at his mother's house, eighteen miles from Libertytown, when this unhappy man, frighted (as is supposed) by the spectre of Poverty, murdered all of them with an axe, and then cut his own throat, to put an end to a wretched existence.-- He is committed to prison, but not expected to live until sentence can be passed against him for his barbarous crime."
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Frederick County
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On Saturday Last
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wife and four young children murdered with an axe; philip peeble cut his own throat and is committed to prison but not expected to live
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Philip Peeble, with his wife and four young children (eldest nine years old), was at his mother's house eighteen miles from Libertytown when he murdered them with an axe, supposedly frightened by poverty, and then cut his own throat