The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-06

DLA'h CHAPTER or tkIMF--MoDrO
E"qurer-We learn that on last Monda
evening, near dark, a negro attempted t
outrage the person o. Jane Helms. a youn.
woman, who. with her mothers family
lives on the lands of Hr. Andrew Fowler
some three miles North OF here. Her erie
tor help brought a son Of MIR. Fowler's ant
the mIscreant seeing he was defeated IA h
purpose, fed after making an effort with hi
knife TO her throat, making a cash of abour
two inches on one side OF the neck. The
negro escaped and has rot been seen since.
lie was a stanger to her but she thinks she
THINKS could identify hlm---Joseph Nc
Neeiy had a tenant named y. 81. Bowers.
Quarrel over division OF crop. McNeely
started to the house for his gun. Bowers
shot young McNeely in the leg. Young
Mac took away the gun and banged Bowers
over the head. Mrs. Bowers banged Mac
with a fence rail. Old man McNeely APP
pears and commands the peace. All parties
arrested. Compromise. Bowers skips over
into South Carolina.-Geo Hagler and
Dock Hlnson lit" at a corn-husking. Hin
son whipped. Hagler slipped up behind
HIM, and shot him, and fed. The wound is
not deemed serious. The Winston Seati-
mel says that Lace Norman, clerk of Surrv
court, has been indicted for various crooked
ness In office, and was convicted at the late
term for belnglng absent from his Office
Monday, and for taking administrators
bonds with insufficient security, and on Mon
day Judge Gilmer removed him from office
and appointed Columbus Hampton in his
place. The same paper says: On Monday
OF Surry court a officially occurred between
Armstrong Nations and William Linthicum,
when Nations shot Linthcum, one ball pass
ing near lis heart. Nations is now In Jail
awaiting the result of the wounds, with IN
ro,, III - T.l,o, 10 ha xjo,.J
on $500 bail, when Dr.. Hollingsworth, the
attending physician, pronounces Linthicum
out of danger
The Goldsboro Messenger gives this: A
negro, named Drue Whitley, was lodged in
jail at Snow Hill, last week, charged with
stealing a lot of cotton from MIR. Franklin
Harrell's gin.-A white tramp, giving his
name as Kelly, was lodged in Jail Saturday
charged with mule stealing. |The Ashe-
vile Journal says the house ofJohn Erwin,
of HendersonvilIe was robbed of S30.-
James NJ. Wade, a white man, was conyic-
ted in the Federal CourJ at Statesville of
Obtaining money from a negro by, passing
himself off as a Deputy Marshal, and sentenc-
ed to the penitentiary for eighteen months.
Concord Register: On Wednesday night
as some negroes were going from a cotton
picking at Leroy Gray's a quarrel was star
ted, and JOhn Sloop attacked Sol. Cannon
with a knife, inficting a terrible cash IN his
left breast. Cannon is IN a critical condI-
ton.
By Telegraph to tie Herald.
HILLsBORO, n. c., Oct. 81, 1S79.-To-
day the same rude but substantial gallows
which ended the earthly career OF Davis, An
drews and Carlton in May last was made the
means of launching into eternity the soul OF
Robert Boswell, the most savagely brutal
1870 ,rIo ovor IorI-ana1 tho doors Of tho
Orange county jail.
Boswell was "a married man, his wife being
known by the name Of Nancy Blackwell. and
thew. with their two children, lived In a
small house near the North Carolina Rail
road, about two miles west OF the town OF
Durham. They did not live very pcaceably
together, though the woman bore a good
character and was Of a quiet and peaceable
disposition.
Some time in the spring Of 1877 Boswell
transferred his affections to a vile female
creature of his race named Rebecca Ann
LYON. the wife of Ned Lyon. They unlaw-
fully cohabited together, and desiring to be-
come man and wife Boswell actually proposed
to Ned Lyons to swap wives, and Rebecca
readily seconded the proposition, which Lyon
Indignantly declined. After Lyon rejection
ofthis degrading proposition Boswell and the
woman deliberately planned the death of
Ned Lyon and Nancy Blackwell, 50 that no
obstacle would be in the way Of the lawful
marriage Of the two fends. In accordance
with this arrangement Rebecca, in July,
1877, poisoned her hu Ih;nh a ~ putting ar
on = table for him to drink. The arsenic was
purchased for her by Boswell in Raleigh.
LYON died suddenly, and was buried near
where he had lived. Shortly after the death
of Lyon Boswell went to Raleigh and was
employed on jeff Fishers farm near that
city. On the evening Of the DIST of August
following he came home, remained with his
wife and children a short While, and then
went to the house Of Rebecca Lyon, where
he remained until near the hour Of eleven
o'clock, and during that time he and the wo-
man laid their plans for the murder of Nancy
Blackwell and her two little children. The
house in which the woman Lyon lived was
nearly half a mile from Bosvell's house, and