The Recorder

ACCIDENT.

On Thursday, the 3d of March, Mr. Thomas Harrell left Charleston, on horseback. At four o'clock of the same day, he was seen at the Four Mile house, and soon after proceeded northwardly, on his journey. Nothing more was known or suspected of him, until the morning of Sunday, the 6th instant, when his horse was found fastened to a sapling about two hundred yards westward of the King-street road, and about the same distance to the northward of the avenue that leads down to Dr. Ramsay's farm.

This too led suspicions of a serious nature; the adjoining woods were searched, and on the 12th inst. his hat was found, torn behind, and burnt, as if a pistol had been discharged through it at a very short distance. The body was soon after, on the same day, found in a ditch covered over with pine tops, and about two hundred yards distance from the spot where his horse had been found, six days before. On examining the body, there appeared marks of shot having entered on the back of the head, a little above the neck, and shot were actually found on the opposite side. A deep incision was made in his neck, apparently with a knife, and with a view of cutting his throat. The body had altered very little, but there were large black spots on the side of his face and head; but whether from a blow or the incipient putrefaction of the body, could not be certainly ascertained.

Mr. Harrell was an honest, industrious, peaceable, worthy man. On the 13th of February, he had received 580 dollars, for work lately done on Mr. Gaillard's farm near Clement's Ferry. He had a short time before announced his intentions of visiting his father at the High Hills of Santee. Only 34 dollars were found in his trunk. Whether the money he lately received, was in his pockets, is not known by his friends.