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MURDER.It becomes our melaucholly duty to record the murder of an estimable young man named Daniel iMcCaskill, late anoverseer in the employment of Col. Richard Singleton, on one of his plantations in tins District. He had visited Columbia on Monday the IStli inst., on business, and returned the same evening to a neighbor’s house in Lexington District, in the vicinity of the plantation, whero j he remained during the night. In tlie I j morning, after an early breakfast, he loft ! for the ferry where he usually crossed the . Conguree; and from that time nothing 1 • was heard of luni until Saturday evening ! last, when his body was found in live riv.| er, about ten miles below this place, bear-1 i tng evident marks that violence had i»cen i used to cause his death. He was se-i verely bruised on the breast and shoulder,1 j and a severe wound had lieen inflicted on I his neck, —supposed to have heeft done j with a haldiel or ax,— which h *d com-j plftfly severed the tendon**, and even ; left an indentation of the vertebra. His i horse had been previously found, and his• saddle, coat, waistcoat, boo**, and watch• weic discovered on ^a'urday, about forty
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Farmers Gazette and Cheraw Advertiser
Cheraw, South Carolina, US
Tue, Aug 02, 1842
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