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t inltu- I The Ml’ruer or Col. Davlnport.—Thei t '• *® Chicago Democrat say*, that the names of roii* the Murderers of Col. Davenport are:— nerit jjirch, Sutton, Long, John Baxter and Aa-s Ij' ron Long. The Democrat says that Fox c of alias Sutton, another of the five-, has also larr^ keen apprehended. Long is a pupil of the on»’ celebrated villian, Brown, who was killed lath at Belleview, Iowa, some years since, when a gang of rascals resisted the authority of and the Sheriff. Long is about 23 years of age, M and Birch 28. The former is a desperate £,*”* villian, and has broken out of many of the me* frontier jails. Birch, Is now penitent and is afraid he will be lynched by the people of •'the Hock River—ho will probably torn State’s r of evidence: The officer's name, who appre-hendcd these murderers, is Bonxy, ami revest 'for- sides nt Montrose, Lee county, Iowa. lie : (Tic followed them 1 h rough Iowa,Missouri,south-*{£” ern part of Illinois, through Indiana, and the finally arrested them at Lower Sandusky, Ohio. He parsed himself ofT upon them as r9 0f one of the trade, and by that means became said acquainted with many of their plans. He in conjunction with them had planned to rob a wealthy farmer at Sandusky a short time s’ before he had them arrested* He deserves I the reward of $2,500 and w# hop* will r#« 5*. ceive it.Aarnn Long, another of the murderers was[*•_ apprehended near Galena last week. Butari- one of them are now at large.[, By the Galena Gazette, received Saturday evening, we learn that John Baxter, the fifth ’ murderer, was arrested at the house of his brother*in law, Berry Haney, near Madison,
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Quincy Whig
Quincy, Illinois, US
Wed, Oct 15, 1845
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