On Wednesday Night last a very unhappy Accident happen'd in this Town, two young Gentlemen Merchants, viz. Mr. Henry Phillips, and Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge, who were very well belov'd here, unfortunately Quarrell'd, and fought a Duel on the Common, the latter was kill'd on the Spot, and was not found till the next Morning; and the former received two or three flight Wounds, and has since made his Escape.

And on Saturday Night following the aforesaid Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge was decently Interr'd, his Corps was followed by his Honour the Lieut. Governour & Commander in Chief of this Province, the Honourable the Members of His Majesty's Council, living in this and the Neighbouring Towns, and likewise by a considerable number of Gentlemen.

1815 Data

In Boston, F. Oberhart, a German confectioner, murdered in his shop between the hours of nine and ten in the evening. The perpetrators have not been discovered. A proclamation has been issued by the Governour, offering a reward of two hundred dollars for detection of the murders. [The North American Review, July 1815 - Sub. by K. Torp]

1822 Data

Lorenzo T. Hall, of Boston, lately convicted of publishing a libel on Amos Binney, Esq., in a paper called the Castigator, and sentenced to three months imprisonment, has been, at the present term of the Municipal Court, convicted of publishing in the same paper an obscene and demoralizing libel, and sentenced to imprisonment in the common gaol for the term of six months, from the espriation of the former sentence. – [Boston Daily Adv. reprinted in the Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) December 25 1822 Page 3, submitted by Nancy Piper]

1823 Data

A few days since, the Police Court, Boston, sentenced to imprisonment in the House of Correction, as a common vagrant and drunkard, an old man named Donald M’Donald, aged 101 years. He says he has two sons, both living on the river Hudson, now about 70 years of age, and another he supposes to be residing in Portsmouth, aged 48 years. He has just arrived in Boston from Alexandria in Virginia, whence he traveled on foot, and was on his way to Portsmouth, when he was apprehended as a common drunkard and committed to prison. [The Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, PA) 22 Oct 1823, Page 2, submitted by Nancy Piper]

1836 Data

Boston, September 30, 1836
Police Court, Boston
A Pocket Picked
An old offender, named John Reed, was brought upon suspicion of having stolen Daniel C King's pocket book, containing $6100.00, at the Odean, yesterday.

In the course of the delivery of the Eulogy, Mr. King had roved in different parts of the Odeon, but the fragments of his pocketbook were found in a spot he had not visited.

As Reed has been in the State Prison, the (officers noticed him from time to time, and when they heard of the robbery, Constables Andrews, Hosea, and Babbit kept the track of him).

As the collection turned off, he pursued an irregular course towards Lindall Street, where they arrested him, and searched him in his room.

Nothing that belonged to Mr King was found upon him; but two business letters, stolen from the hat of Mr A.R. Holden, of the firm of Hancock, Holden & Adams. He said that he had picked the letters up in a privy near the Odeon, but could not exactly tell where. There was no doubt, from Mr. Holden's testimony, but that the letters were stolen while he was sitting with his hat off, in the 2d tier.

Reed was committed for further examination. We have no room to day for a long preachment upon the incorrigible imprudence of carrying six thousand dollars into an assembly of three thousand persons!