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Staunton Spectator, And General Advertiser Domestic News March 2, 1837

Staunton, Virginia

Cautionary note: graphic violence

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On Jan. 3, Phoebe Howell of Wilmington, N.C., was brutally murdered by her son Needham Howell, who beat her with a brick and kicked her face; he fled and has not been found.

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