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Horrible.—Tho Weston Democrat gim an account of a horrible occurrence which recently took 1*141*0 in Braxton county, near tho Lewis county line. Mrs. llobinson, aged 9£, lived with her son-fn-law, Benjamin Posey. Posey is a J. P., and loyal. lie did not like having the old lady about the house, and his abuses drove her from the house on Saturday, Oth ult., to seek shelter at a neighbor's, a couple miles away. She never reached her destination, and her IhkIv was found in a mountain path. She had been frozen to death, and her bt-.lv feasted upon by hogs! Her arms had been torn off and could not Ik* found—her breast and face eaten off—and the body otherwise lacerated. Tho neighbors turned cut and Judge Lynch came near having another case on lib- hands.
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Charles Town Virginia Free Press
Charles Town, West Virginia, US
Thu, Feb 04, 1869
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