Danbury Times

MURDER. A most brutal murder was committed a few days since, near Petersburg, Boone county, Ky. A young man by the name of Jorden Miller, and his father, were engaged in digging a well, when a quarrel ensued between them about the payment of some money which the old man said his son owed him. The young man, who was at the time in the well, told his father to draw him up and he would pay him; as soon as he reached the surface, he threatened to take the life of his father, who immediately started and ran-he was pursued and overtaken by his son, who struck him with a club, on the back part of the head, which fractured the skull, and of which he died in a few minutes. When discovered, which was shortly after, the young man was sitting upon the ground holding the head of his murdered father, and appeared fully sensible of the horrid deed he had just perpetrated. He was arrested, taken before a magistrate, and committed to Burlington jail, where he is now awaiting his trial.--Warsaw (Ky) Patriot.