Bertie County NcArchives News.....Modlin, Nathaniel Murder 1886
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Richmond Dispatch., April 27, 1886, Image 4 1886
Richmond Dispatch., April 27, 1886, Image 4

News of a shocking murder comes here from Bertie county, N.C. Three days ago the
body of an old farmer named Nathaniel Modlin, living near Powellsville, who
mysteriously disappeared on the 9th of April, was found buried in the woods near
his home.  An examination of the body showed that the man had been hanged, and
the skull was fractured in two places. Suspicion pointed to W.B. Styron, the
stepson of Modlin, as the murdered and he was arrested and lodged in jail at
Windsor. At the coroner's inquest the evidence was very damaging against Stryron.

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