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Meigs County Telegraph

Location

Pomeroy, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 21, 1857

Page

4

Ward sentenced to death for murder of his wife in Sylvania

The Ohio court sentenced J. M. Ward to death for the murder of his wife near Sylvania on February 4. The confession details a brutal, premeditated disposal of the body, with bones and flesh burned in a stove and boiler as investigators later uncovered. Ward wept in court and described a violent dispute that escalated with blows and the careful concealment of the crime.

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Fragmented Confession and 19th Century Scanned Rhetoric

Fragmentary OCR text recounts a violent confession about burning a trunk and disposing of remains, followed by notes on Catholic conversions of D Nichols and Mary Gove Nigholly amid “free love” controversies. It cites the Cincinnati Commercial and Telegraph excerpts, diverging into moral anecdotes, missionary tales, and provincial observations on decency, religion, and currency in the era.

Chicinnasti Father Oakley Nichola Mise Hopkins Free Love Yellow Springs Telegraph Atlantic M Hume Paris de. Nichola Jesus Christ Himslf Archbishop Purcell Cin. Com

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