Montgomery County NcArchives News..... Montgomery Court House Arsonist October 24, 1843 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com January 28, 2008, 3:27 pm Oct. 24, 1843 Charlotte Journal October 24, 1843 ELIJAH SPENCER, COURT HOUSE ARSONIST Our readers recollect the arrest and confinement of ELIJAH and HERBERT SPENCER, (father and son) last Spring under a charge of burning the Montgomery Cout House, and their recent escape from the Jail of that County. We were favored a few days ago with the perusal of a letter from a gentleman in Tennessee to his brother in this place, stating that the old man, ELIJAH, in passing the neighborhood of the writer in his flight, was attacked suddenly with disease (fever, we believe) and died but a day or two before the date of the letter. It was understood and believed there that the young man, HERBERT, had passed through that section of country in his flight to Texas. -- Southern Citizen File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/montgomery/newspapers/montgome280nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb