HORRIBLE MURDER =
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ExtraH of a letter TO a gentleman in
Richmond, dated Halifax, January 70.


Z" There happened in this county
few days fince, the mott brutal mur-
der ever known. The murderer is
i'll the hands of the law, and is to
undergo an examination this day
1t is in proof that Willis Williams,
a young man late from Kentucky, in
character of bortc trader, did in O.
pen day, with Pelcax beat out the
brains Of a young man named John
Dixon, the itore keeper Of LiPfoomb,
Ragland & Co. in the fore houfe Of
the fame after which he robbed the
trunks, of the houfe, and t5ok out
of them money and bank notes to
the amount of 1900 or 2ooo dollars !;
after which he lecked the door, leav-
ing the dead body alone in the houft,
threw away or fecreted the key, con-
ceaIed the axe in the ncighboring
woods, and concealed the hIver to the
amount Of one hundred dollars, to
gether with the merchants private
papers, in hollow tree, all of which
were found"