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A LICENTIOUS COMMUNITY.Statesville, N. C , May 1,1868.—To-day took place ooe of the most singular ezeoutiooi in the annals of crime, and under the moat extraordinary circumstances on record. A terrible crime was perpetrated, and a trial that baa not its equal even in the Kurdcll trial followed The evidence was entirely circumstantial. On the 28th May, 1866, a foul, inhuman murder was committed in the Western portion of Wilkes ooanty, in this Stntr, the victim being Laura Foster, a beautiful, but frail girl, who was decoyed from her father's house in Caldwell oounty to a place in Wilkee known as the Bates Place, and here brutally murdered. The body was then removed about half a mile from the scene of the murder, and was plaoed in a grave already prepared for it. Late in August of the same year the body was discovered, in a state of such decomposition that it was difficult to identify it. There was a deep gasb in the left breast just above the heart; the wound had evidently been ioflioted with a large knife or dagger, causing death instantaneously. It was also believed that the murdered woman was sitcienU. The disappearance of Laura excited no alarm for •everal days, aa it wasstppoeed she had gone off to get married or to visit some acquaintances in Watauga county ; but at length the opinion became general that she had been foully dealt with, and a general aetroh was instituted, without inocess at the time. The community in the
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Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser
Maitland, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Jul 25, 1868
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