The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

On the 3d Inst. came on before the Honorable the Superior Court, in this Town, in the Presence of a great Concourse of People, the Trial of John Tolford of Chester, for the Murder of Mr. Thomas Wells, of the same Place, in Dec. last, when it was clearly proved he shot Wells dead on the Spot with a loaded Musket; but it also appearing by a number of Witnesses, he was at the Time disordered in his Senses, he was acquitted: - It is hop'd and expected, that this will be a sufficient Warning, and that the Friends of the above Mr. Tolford, and the Friends of all other disordered Persons will take proper Care of them in Time, particularly keep Guns, &c. out of his and their Way.