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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Salem, bloodied women's apparel found in Great Pasture led to discovery of an Indian woman's body in a nearby swamp, killed by a blow to the head. Her Indian husband, seen with her the day before, was suspected, apprehended at Andover, and jailed after examination.
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The verdict of the Jury of Inquest was,--"She came by her death by a blow on the head; but by whom it was unknown." An Indian man, said to be her husband, who was seen travelling with her the day before, being suspected, he was pursued, and apprehended at Andover. On examination, circumstances appeared sufficiently strong to justify his confinement; and he was accordingly committed to jail in Salem.
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Salem
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On Wednesday Last
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she came by her death by a blow on the head; but by whom it was unknown. indian man committed to jail in salem.
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Several articles of women's apparel, besmeared with blood, were found in the Great Pasture at Salem, which occasioned a suspicion of the perpetration of murder. Search was accordingly made, and the body of an Indian woman found in a swamp, evidently dragged thither by some person unknown. The verdict of the Jury of Inquest was,--"She came by her death by a blow on the head; but by whom it was unknown." An Indian man, said to be her husband, who was seen travelling with her the day before, being suspected, he was pursued, and apprehended at Andover. On examination, circumstances appeared sufficiently strong to justify his confinement; and he was accordingly committed to jail in Salem.