CRIMINAL.
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The negro Joseph Alexander was Yesterday
convicted, in the city court, OF murder IN the
first degree, the punishment for which IS hang
ing.


The murder was one OF the most cruel on
record, killing his victim, black boy named
Washington Shepard, with an axe, and by
other meansy6y degrees, lasting several days,
and keeping the boy in torture the whole time.
There appears to have been no other motive
for the deed than to get Shepard's place as a
family servant, Alexander being an outdoor
laborer. Bait. Argus.