From the CheroEee .4dD0cale. MOST HORRID MURDERl
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On Tuesday night, 18th ulto, between the hours of and o'clock band of brutal and dastardly aSsaSsins entered the house of MT. Charles Thornton, near the Arkansas river, in Illinois district, and most cruelty murdered him while alone and in bed, by shooting him four times, innicting upon him seventeen stabs and cutting his throat from ear to ear. The perpetrators of this internal deed are Tom Sarr and Elias Starr, for whose apprehension and delivery to the authorities of this Nation Is offered a reward of one thousand dollars each and their associates

 The cause of this murder may be found in the fact that Mir Thornton was one oi the company ofCherokees who recently pursued, wounded and made prisoner, the late noto- rious Bean Sarr Mr. Thornton bore the reputation of brave and honest man. He was one of the signers of the Act of Union in lS40, on the part of that portion ot the s.Old Setlers,n who dssented from that en- tered into in 1887. between the '' Emgrant Cherokees" and the old Settlers,7 and serv- ed one session in 1S40, as member of the Council. When murdered he was alone, his wife having gone on a visit to their children who were attending school few miles from home. The circumstances attending this out rage, properly to characterize which we can not command language, have created the deep est feeling, and the officers are out endeavor- ing to find and bring to justice the perPetra- tors. They have made several arrests, among whom arc Elias Phillips and Dick Rogers and two women; Jimmy, Peter, and Betsy Thornton, the widow of the deceased's bro- ther, who are charged with being accessory to the murder, and one of whom has made important confessions.