The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-10-19
ton0l Arpublitan.
Details ora Horrible Double Tragedy
in virginia.

Details orn Horrible Double Tragedy
in Virginia.
' -turiay right Mrs Stewart a widow,
@. i.r. in Kent county, Virginia, was muir.
lc-,I and her body burned, together with her
dwelling. anI John Baker, her farm
manager, was also murdered and robbed Of FIVE
hurIrel dollars In gold. The Richmond
U'll~ has tho following additional particu.
lars
.u Saturday evening last John Baker q
c. .Y-gI man after coming from the woods
wher, he had 5eou cutting poles, stopped at
ME hor.ie7, On the land ofMrs Julia Stewart,
white widow " man, in tho county of New
Kent and Sh T.. ie ,ninr on the pen and rest.
ing on HE AK, was ,hot ~ IN behind BY some
me with gun carr e = rnio balls. lie
fell and afterwards tried 10 rise, but was
knockod down with the gun wiz. efficient force
to Dispatch him and break II Of tac breech, lie
was thea dragged to Mrs Stewa.s landing.
four hundred yards listnnt, and there STRIPPED
to ascertain, tits suFTuscd, whether he had
money about his person. His shirt wasp on
him hind part foremost, as II In hurry, and the
barrel OF the broken gun tied to his feet alto
which he was thrown in the river. His coat,
which had the holes made by the balls pass
nc through it, was not put on again but was
lett hanging on stake near the rivor bank
His body. owing to the light weight attached
to, il did not remain long under water. md
wa IrcorCrsd Sunday BY some colored men
b. new spread rapidly, aud soon nearly the
entire neighborhood, white and black, were
u ths ground.
No oae doubts that the object of the muir.
-g'er a kH'tng Baker was to get money, Of
WDich he was known to have a good deai Ia
iGc' : vas generally said BY persons In the
nSiGAoorhood that he had So 900 in gold srd
si'Eet though this may have been an exaRse.
''"n Of the amount possessed by him. liz
i". -" to carry a considerable sru
was also suppU..-
about his person IN.
=. Inc ,..y-s.oI was Of mixed negro ah-
ulru blood; had always conducted himself
with such marked proPriety that no colored
man in New Kent stood higher. lie owned q
farm, but rented ard worked a part Of the
land Of Mrs Stewart on which he lived, and
u 4 which be WAS murdered
The same evening, and near about the same
time Mrs stewart, referred to above, was
murdered, robbed, and then burned up in her
house which was distant but few hundred
yar.s r-om the place where Baker was shot.
4. ,'cluck Mi james W. Ames, Mr.. Tay-
I.r clerk. reached the place and found the
house Ia Names and about 10 fall in, and be
th.uEs ii hal been burning about an hour be.
go-c bis arrival. Ils saw 70 one in or around
the Lgu.e When the ruins were examined on
Sunday the bones Of person pronounced to
be female by the doctors present vero dis.
covered AMI there Is no doubt in the mind Of
arv one that thoy are the remains Of Mrs.
stewart, who "a sill mig.inr, and Of whom
nothing has been heard since Saturday night.
Tho Genls who murdered ker were also after
money, as it was known tha; she kept several
hundred dollars in srerie and greenbacks in
the house There has been no Oae living on
the Lace with her FIR some time past except
La.e- hcIce her n.vTlc!e-l were able to &C.
= IT, .sA iLCir ke'i'A purpose without any
--~ tg-al'e llIgor f. ll-cOysry