SHOCKING MURDER BY NEGROES.
The Boston Courier froitf" Charleston details of the murder of MrV, Kennedy -Hear Salem, in Clarehdoa Countj. and JyntAing o!,. the .three., murderer*. x.Her hiisbaiKl, Thomas Kennedy,' left homo to visit* Charleston, They had { only biett married about a year. After he-'left the wife sat down to write a tetter" to .her mother. Two negroes, Vance '-Brandt/ aged,lß yearay and his,si.Bt<rc - 15 years, knew ..Kennedy -mterideJ visiting Charleston, and bettering he had considerable money in the -house, bad boon hanging about the-pvemis*B^iaten4-
Ifng to break in and rob them. They »d arranged with Joe Barnc%,a coloured *boy, aged 16 year?, engaged un the fc-pjace, toghre them the fiVnal 'wh n Mr. Kennedy left 'home. Vance, on ~ getting the signal, came- int*> the yaid and went to the window where .Mis. K.-nnedy was aittinjr. - He tried three - liraesto get in,-, and each time he was pushed out by- Mrs. .Kennedy, Finding that he was dutci mined- to g< t ir, the f/ont door- tan through was just •gbinfl:. through the gate when Vance snatched up a hoe lying in the yard, overtook .her at the gate;.and knocked-her down* He -said/ " I've been waiting to' kill you a long •time," and at ;that her struck * her two' more blows. Julia earae up with another hoe, and . .severed / her' head. ' When Mr, Kennedy, returned, about three hours , v afterwards, he found his 'wife ljing.outsid* the front gate, mutilated, iaJbf, .*ad stiff, her head almost sever.d in twain. A. jury declared a verdict, in the?highest degree, by unknown hands." Several coloured persons were arrested, but as rio clue to their guilt was obtained, they were promptly released,. ;.But the coloured boy, Joe Barnes, showed so much confusion when questioned as to" his whereabouts that only* few questions served to bring out his full hVn-rf character of the mnrileßlswakened" intense indignation, in the neighboured,: and a crowd of one bnndred%JidVfifty white men and fifty coloured men."assembled to punishthe murderers; examination established-the truth.bf the confession of Barnes. The negroes begged the whites to permit, them to take th,eprisoners and burn them alive.. This-waSrefused.'
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Temuka Leader, Issue 365, 19 March 1881, Page 2
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351SHOCKING MURDER BY NEGROES. Temuka Leader, Issue 365, 19 March 1881, Page 2
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