Halifax County NcArchives News.....Robert Shepherd Apprehended May 18, 1819
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Tuesday, May 18, 1819  Edenton Gazette May 18, 1819
  -- This man was yesterday arrested in the neighborhood of Nashville, and 
committed to jail here. [ROBERT] SHEPHERD is charged with the murder of a 
negro man slave, in Halifax County, North Carolina. The proclamation of the 
Governor of that State, offering a reward of $100 for the apprehension has 
been published in the Whig. -- This man appears to be an old offender against 
the laws of humanity and justice, as he is described as carrying in his left 
hand the letter (M), which he is no doubt compelled to hold, for the 
commission of Manslaughter, at a former period. Nature, it seems, has 
contracted two of his fingers on his hand, perhaps to conceal from the world 
this brand of infamy; and it was to have been hoped that the letter (M) would 
have served him as a perpetual memento against the commission of future crimes.
-- NASH. WHIG

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