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A frightful double murder was committed on New Year’s day near Wood bridge, six miles from New Haven, by an Insane man named Charles Sjuulford, agelt; 12G years. 11 is sopposed that he had been in the woods chopping, and as he emerged from them, armed with a*t axe, Enoch Sperry was riding past, when ho was immediately attacked and killed; his head was completely severed from the body* He was the father of X. IX Sperry, Secretary of State.— S iiutlbrd then went to the house of IchabodUmberfirld, a farmer, and killed him with his axe He was arrested and committed to jail, and appears to ben raving maniac. He is the nephew of Almeron Sandford, who was one of the * * Wkema ni tt-s’ ‘ arrest ed on suspicion of connection with the recent murder of Justus Mat-thews. Sandford has been two or three limes at the Insane Retreat Ho is continually muttering a senseless jargon, with occasional oaths.
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Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

Wheeling, West Virginia, US

Mon, Jan 07, 1856

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