Murders (report of a conviction of Claus for the murder of Joe in Bergen County and a suspected case of poisoning in Newark)
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- NJS-SRC-01376
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- Article
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- TRENTON, July 15. MURDERS.
- Publication
- Trenton Federalist
- Place of Publication
- Trenton
- Date of Issue
- July 15, 1805
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TRENTON, July 15.
MURDERS.
A mulatto man has lately been committed to prison in Newark in this state, on suspicion of having poisoned his wife with arsenic. At Belville in Essex county, on the 23d ult. the body of a person by the name of Edward Keen, was found lifeless near a bridge at that place, and from the appearance of bruises, &c. he was supposed to have been murdered. The verdict of the coroner's inquest was "Murder by some unknown person."
At the last court of Oyer and Terminer held in the county of Bergen, a Negro man by the name of Claus was convicted of the crime of murder, committed on the body of a black man by the name of Joe, and received sentence of death, and was executed on Friday the 28th ult. - Language
- English
- Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson
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