Gates County NcArchives News.....Robert Riddick Murdered March 21, 1820
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Tuesday,March 21, 1820, Edenton Gazette March 21, 1820
   SHOCKING MURDER -- On Wednesday morning, the 8th inst., as MR. ROBERT 
RIDDICK, a respectable inhabitant of Gates County, was employed some small 
distance from his house at work, he was shot, as is believed by a gang of 
runaways, who at present infest that County. MR. RIDDICK, as we are credibly 
informed, received upwards of 40 buckshot in his breast as he sat at work and 
expired in a very short time after, without being able to give any account of 
the perpetrators of this shocking and inhuman murder.
   It is believed by the Jury of Inquest which sat on the body, that more than 
one gun was shot at him, as it is unusual, and absolutely dangerous, to fire 
as many shot as he received in his body, from one gun at the same moment. He 
is, alas! an inhabitant of the tomb, and the perpetrators of this hellish 
crime are yet roaming at large --. It gives us pleasure, however, to state 
that the Colonel of that County has ordered out the militia, to scour the 
woods and pocasins in search of the cowardly and sanquinary monsters. We feel 
confident from the known activity of the citizens of that County, they will 
soon be brought to justice.

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