The New Hampshire Gazette

Edinburgh, April 28. We are informed of an accident which happened last week near Stratton mill, attended with the most tragical circumstances. Two boys belonging to a butcher, being at play together, the oldest brother told the younger he would show him the way how his Father kill'd sheep, and immediately seiz'd him by the head, thrust a knife into his throat. The boy shrieking, the mother, who was rocking the cradle with another young one in it, run hastily to see what was the matter. The boy seeing his mother, conscious of his guilt, ran away with all speed, and jumping the mill dam, tumbled in, and was forced down by the water under the mill wheel, where he was crushed to pieces. And to complete the catastrophe, the unhappy mother returning home, found the cradle overturn'd, and the infant smother'd.