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The Lycoming Gazette (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
February 5 1822 Page 2
Robbery
On the night of the 20th inst. Between 11 and 12, the store of John &
William Tonkin, at Carpenter’s Landing, New Jersey, was forcibly entered
by three villains, who robbed it of almost every article of dry goods, amounting to three hundred dollars. A jar
of antimonial wine inadvertently left on the counter, was instrumental in discovering the goods, and detecting
the thieves. They mistook the anitmonial wine for a more enlivening beverage and one of them helped himself very
plentifully. While they were marching off with their bounty, the exercise of walking made the medicine operate,
and they had proceeded but a mile or so, when the one was taken so ill as to compel the other two to deposit their
plunder in the wood close to the road, to which they were tracked by the easing up of the sick man. We are happy
to state, nearly all the goods were recovered, and three persons supposed to have committed the robbery, safely
lodged in jail. One of them is said to be an old convict.
It has been ascertained, that these persons were in Jersey about the time of the robbery, that they had hired a
wagon a few miles from Carpenter’s Landing, in which they came to Kaighn’s Point, whence they crossed over to this
city; that they went to Arch street ferry, re-crossed to Camden; and whence to Woodbury, where they took up their
night’s lodging, and where they were apprehended on Tuesday morning.
It is said that the person who brought them to Kaighn’s Point, heard them joking to one of the companions about
the dose of antimonial wine and the tracks at the shore correspond with the size of their feet: one of the men
has an un (…?...)or long feet, being upwards of (…?...) – Frank. Gaz.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]
June 9 1824 - The supposed Murderers
Three men, named James Wellington, Abraham Boyce, and Charles Washington Labbe, supposed to be the murderers of
Mr. Bonsall, have been committed to prison in Woodbury, N.J. They are old convicts. Wellington was sentenced to
imprisonment for life in New York, but afterwards pardoned by the Governor on condition of his leaving the state.
Boyce is a large man, believed to be the same that wore a Wilmington stripe roundabout, on the night that the murder
was committed. A silver chain, answering to the description of that stolen from Mrs, Bonsall, was found on his
person. Wellington had clad himself in the clothes of Mr. Bonsall but when Mr. Haines, one of our high constables,
arrived at Woodbury, he appeared in different apparel. He denied having other garments in possession, but search
being made, the clothes of Mr. Bonsall were found stuffed in a stove pipe. – Freeman’s Journal. [Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), - Submitted by Nancy Piper]
February 22, 1882 - Mrs. Stacy Hazzleton, of Harrisonville, recently broke
one of her ankles, in the act of stepping over a child that was lying on the floor.
[Submitted by Shauna Williams]
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