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Phenix Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
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William Malicole murdered Thomas Hughes by stabbing him in the heart at Stony Run, Warwick County, on January 1st, following a prior altercation over a horsewhip. An inquest confirmed the cause of death, and a reward was offered for Malicole's apprehension, but he fled and has not been arrested.
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On Friday, the 1st day of January, at Stony Run in Warwick-county, was committed, in the presence of a large concourse of persons, a murder, which, for enormity and height of crime, has rarely if ever attracted our notice, attended with circumstances the most aggravating and horrid. On the Thursday previous to the day on which this transaction occurred, Mr. William Malicole, of the county of Surry, rode up with a large loaded horse whip to Mr. Thomas Hughes, on the main county road, near the residence of Mr. Augustine Moore, and after exchanging a few words with said Hughes relative to his (Malicole's) marriage with the sister of Hughes, he endeavored to horsewhip him, in which he succeeded in part only, for after using the whip, twice, Hughes wrested it from him and gave him one or two blows in return, and so walked off, taking with him the whip which was afterwards ascertained to be the property of Thomas Malicole, Esq. William Malicole, meanwhile, went in search of a gun, but Hughes awaited not his return. They thus parted with mutual threats, and on Friday Mr. Hughes attempted to use the same whip in the same way on Malicole that had been practised on him by the latter, but a few days before; on this occasion Malicole ran, and Hughes became the pursuer; but unfortunately fell, which Malicole perceiving, turned and ran up to him, and as he was in the act of rising, plunged, with savage barbarity, a large dirk immediately through his left lung, into the heart, having previously armed himself for the purpose—and fearing the interposition of the law, he speedily mounted a horse provided for him by his brother Robert Malicole, and made off in presence of many officers of the peace. R. D. Brown, Esq. ordered an inquest over the body, who brought in "that the deceased came by his death by a stab from the hands of William Malicole." Whereupon Mr. Brown offered a reward for his apprehension, in which he was joined by some other highminded citizens but he has not been arrested up to this time.
Norfolk Herald.
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Stony Run In Warwick County
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Friday, The 1st Day Of January
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thomas hughes died from a stab wound to the heart inflicted by william malicole; inquest confirmed cause of death; reward offered for malicole's apprehension, but he fled and has not been arrested.
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William Malicole stabbed Thomas Hughes in the heart with a dirk after Hughes pursued him with a whip during a confrontation at Stony Run, following a prior altercation where Malicole had attempted to whip Hughes over a marriage-related dispute. Malicole fled on a horse provided by his brother.