The Sandusky Clarion, Sandusky, Ohio, 2 Dec 1826 p3
From the Marietta Gazette.
Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated Rome, October 17, 1826.
Sir – On the 10th instant, a man by the name of Solomon Henry, in company with several others, went over Ohio into Virginia: he became intoxicated, and his company was under the necessity of leaving him in the road, a short distance from a house.
The next morning, he was found dead at or near where he had left. A coroner’s inquest was held on his body, and eleven of the jury signed a verdict “that he died a natural death.”
Several respectable and intelligent citizens of Ohio attended and were unanimous in the opinion that he was murdered, as he had several wounds on his head. One on the back of his hand, all appearing to have been made with a pitchfork or other sharp pointed instrument. A considerable quantity of blood, supposed to be two gallons, flowed from his wounds and had coagulated on the ground, which is believed never to happen with blood that flows from a person that dies a natural death.
Mr. Henry was from the state of New York and had been a resident of Rome Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, for some time.
Since writing the above, the body of Henry was taken up, and another jury summoned – his wounds examined by two physicians; the instrument had not penetrated any of the bones of the head. The jury gave a verdict to this effect – “that he came to his death by the will of God and an unknown agency.”
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