Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-03-27
Foul murder in North Carolina.

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Foul Murder in North Carolina.
The murder and robbery of James l..
Shaw, the waggoner and tobacco trader,
has caused degree of feeling and excite
ment to be manifested, hitherto unknown
to the people of Columbus county. A cor
respondent of the Wilmington On. O.
JonrnoIfurhishes the following particulars !:
Mr.. Shaw was young man about twen-
ty-four years and three months of age-he
was Just setting forth in the world, with
fair prospects before him in his line of bus
mess; he was born in Alamancc, formerly
a portion of Orange county. His untimey
and dreadful death will be saddening tale
TO reach his family, relations and numerous
friends in the land of his birth. Mr. Shaw
leaves q father, now living in Virginia /;
one brother, who reached this place while
the Coroncr's inquest was being held over
the dead body one sisterin Almance ceun-
ty !; one sister in Tennessee; three sisters
in Virginia, and a large circle of warm
friends, who are thus called upon to9mourn
his fatcful death. He had been trading in
this ond the adjoining counties for some
years past, and in all his business transac-
tions, had shown himself to be gentleman,
and made friends of all with whom he dealt.
The manner of his mysterious disappear
dncc and the discovery OF his death, las for
the past two weeks been thoroughly invcsti-
gated. The facts brought to lightby the
juryof inquest, and the ciyizens generally,
who have shown much interest in fcrreting
out the murdercrs, have implicated one
whitcman, BythcT Mitchell, aud three free
negroes, Henry Patrick, Joshua Freeman
and Eli Jacobs, who have been committed
to JUL, and will be put on trial for the Of
fence We forbear an, expression Of opin-
ion. ~
The circumstances connected with this
tragicali deed, the blacklist in the catalogue
Of crime are briefly these: 80 Mr.. Shaw
was trading in that portion of the county
knownas the Green swamp country, and
while travelling there, stopped by solicita-
ton, at the honse,of Mitchell, on the night
ofthe 18th Of last February, and from the
fact, and circumstances deposed to, was
murdered and robbed that night From
the vonnds on the head he must have been
struck three blows with tho poll of an axe
blood was found in BlitchelEs yard, buried
some three feet underground. On the
thirteenth day aftsr the murder is alleged
to have been committed, the bodyswa
found on an Island in Green Swamp, about
two miles from Mitchell's 8 house. The spot
selected by9tlte foul perpetrators of this
crime, las the last resting place of poor
Shaw, Is, dreadful to eoDtemplate lit isin
a secretand almost inaccessible retreat, in
one of ethe most terrible swamps in our
State. In this dismal hiding, with nought
but the wilds of the wilderness, and the
howlings'of rspacions animalB around him,
Shaw was secreted one foot under the cold
aad-muddy earth. In this lonesome grave,
the guilty felons supposed he would lie
forever, while they would be secure, with
their iHsgotten booty Shaw's money, tile
only cause for which be ceagd have beer
murdered. It is due to the good eitizess
Of this county to,say, that they have tea
with commendable activity in unrae ehng
the mystery whiob hung asonnd tn dread
fnl crimej they hayo shown a .Sserg7ipar ipi
sion that the guilty should Rse'lspt ts
Justice.
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