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Republican Herald
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Horrific massacre at Mr. Smithes' house on Ford Creek, Aiken S.C., where 13 people including his family and German emigrants were murdered, the house burned, and valuables stolen. $10,000 reward offered; suspect a lurking white man.
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DREADFUL OUTRAGE.—The Aiken S. C. Telegraph of the 30th October, records one of the most horrid butcheries of which we have ever read. The house of a Mr. Smithes, on Ford Creek, was forcibly entered at night, the inmates, thirteen persons, murdered, lady destroyed by fire with the bodies of the victims.—valuable articles stolen, and then the house destroyed.
These were, Mr. Smithes, his wife, and five children, and six German emigrants, who had stopped for the night, on their way to some of the upper districts. Suspicion rests on a white man, who had been dodging about for some days.
A reward of ten thousand dollars is offered for the discovery of the murderer.
Mr. Smithos is represented to have been a wealthy, intelligent, and honest man, and was for several years a member of the State Legislature.
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Ford Creek, Aiken S. C.
Event Date
30th October
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thirteen persons murdered including mr. smithes, his wife, five children, and six german emigrants; lady destroyed by fire with the bodies of the victims; valuable articles stolen; house destroyed; reward of ten thousand dollars offered for the discovery of the murderer.
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The house of Mr. Smithes on Ford Creek was forcibly entered at night; inmates murdered; suspicion rests on a white man who had been dodging about for some days; Mr. Smithos was a wealthy, intelligent, and honest man, and a former member of the State Legislature.