Buncombe County NcArchives News.....JAMES CRAIG MURDER March 31, 1808
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Thurs., March 31, 1808, Raleigh Minerva March 31, 1808
    Asheville, Buncombe County, 25th March --
About 4 o’clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, the 15th inst., MR. JAMES CRAIG, 
who resided on Bull Creek, about eight miles from this town, being at his mill 
alone, heard his dogs barking at a small distance, as if they had brought a 
deer to bay; and discovered the dogs in a small thicket of laurel on the 
opposite bank—he turned with an intention of crossing the stream, but coming 
within 20 or 30 years of the noise, a gun was discharged from the thicket, the 
contents of which ( a leaden ball) entered his body a little below his ribs, 
and lodged just within the skin of his back. MR. CRAIG survived this unhappy 
circumstance about three hours; manifested a firm mind, and retained his 
senses to the last moment of his life; said he saw the man, who he supposed 
shot him, run off from the thicket, and fully believed the man to be a certain 
HENRY WEST, who lived within a small distance of the mill. In consequence of 
this information, WEST is apprehended, committed to jail, and will have his 
trial the first week in April next; as will also JOEL DENNIS for shooting and 
killing JOSEPH MOORE of this county, in June last.


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