The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Brunswick, July 22. A trooper who had got a furlough to go to see his father put up lately at the Kiewitzdam inn: At midnight some people assaulted the door of his room, threatening him instant death if he refused to open it. The trooper got out of his bed, and laying hold of his sabre, wounded one of the assailants in the arm; upon which three others ran away. Going down to the kitchen he found the land-lady and the maid-servant lying with their throats cut, and the landlord bound hand and foot. When he went to his father's house, he was told that his father had received a wound in his arm with a sabre, and going up to the bed-side he found him to be the very man he had wounded the preceding night. He expressed his horror and surprise in such a manner, that the affair reached the ears of a magistrate who ordered the father and his accomplices to be seized.