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Burglars Enter Home. Blunt Husband Fights Shadows
Mrs Blunt wakes to burglars and watches her husband descend with a revolver and lamp. He pursues a robber through the house, shoots at a reflection in a mantel mirror, and breaks the mirror while a frightened cat ruins the moment. The next morning the wife returns the pistol to a peddler. In a separate event at a church fair in Hightstown, Obidiah Miner is fatally shot during an altercation between Moses Taylor and Charles Wormsley over a bid for a cake. Taylor fled and a $100 reward is offered for his capture.
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Mrs. Blunt
Mr. Blunt
Susan
Jock
Blunt
Obidiah Miner
Hightstown
Moses Taylor
Taylor
Charles Wormsley
Mount Olivet Baptist Church
Sam
Wormsley
Miner
Brandt and
Norris
Clark
Common Council
Shangle & Hunt