Alexandria Gazette

Fatal Occurrence.--An attempt was made, one night last week, to force an entrance into the dry goods store of Mr. Shriver, in Hanover, Penn., by boring a hole in the shutter so as to admit of the introduction of the hand to remove the bolt. A clerk, who slept in the store, hearing a noise, got up and loaded a gun, and at the moment the robber had succeeded in making room for his hand, and was about to draw the bolt, the clerk discharged his gun at the opening. The discharge, it appears, was made with fatal aim. On examination, shortly after, the lifeless body of a man was found immediately under the window. He had a wound in the head, which, it was evident, must have caused instant death. The deceased was an entire stranger, known to none of the inhabitants.--Mr. King, the clerk, immediately surrendered himself to the civil authorities. And the court being then in session at York, he was carried there for trial. He was tried, at once, on an indictment for manslaughter, and acquitted.