Record Data
Source citation
“Brutal Murder near Oswego,” New York Times, August 26, 1857, p. 5: 1.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Daily Times
Newspaper: Headline
Brutal Murder Near Oswego
Newspaper: Page(s)
5
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Meghan Fralinger, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Brutal Murder near Oswego.
OSWEGO, Tuesday, Aug. 25.
An [old?] gentleman named JOSHUA HIBBARD, formerly a drummer in the U.S. Service, living on a farm in the vicinity of this city, was most brutally murdered last evening by a man named DENIS SULLIVAN. SULLIVAN has been arrested. No cause has been assigned for the deed.