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Oyer and Terminer—.Tnd eres Allison andLudlow.''HOMICIDE. CASE... ■; '.v'-WThe ease of Patrick Fanagan, charged with the munler of Thomas Williamson, a discharged soldier, on the evening of the 19th of November last, was on trial all day yesterday and the day before.' The murder was committed at the house di the deceased, in Me gilt on Js court, running from Kater street, below Bi oad, in the Third ward. It appears that during Williamson’s absence the defendant became intimate with his wife, and waa a frequent Visitor at his house. On Williamson’s! return',- and these facts becoming known to him, he became very violent, and his wife had him arrested on her affidavit, alleging fear of her life, and in default of bail he was committed to prison. Upon his release he went to his home, and finding Williamson there, it is alleged that a struggle ensued between, them, in which the-; defendant stabbed him with a pocket-knife, inflicting a most horrible wound, death ensuing almost immediately. Fanagan fled, but was arrested soon after, and his clothes found to be completely besmeared with blood. The defence set up was that the wound, was inflicted in self-defence, in. an attack made onthe defendant by Williamson, who had threatened to take his life. On trial.
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Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jan 23, 1863
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