Camden County NJ Archives News.....Hatch, Wm. J. - Murder at Camden, N. J. March 29, 1856
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West-Jersey Pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1851-1884: March 29, 1856 March 29, 1856
On Sunday morning last, a party of three men the correct names of whom are Jacob
Lenairs, Augustus Arnable Courcier and Adolph De Lasaule, crossed the Delaware, with
guns and dog, for the purpose of gunning; while trespassing on the farm of Mr. Wm.
J. Hatch, he ordered them to leave the premises and took a gun from one of the
party; while in the attempt of seizing the gun of another of the trespassers, he was
shot through the head, causing instant death. The murderers were arrested and
committed.
On Monday morning witnesses were examined, and the Coroners Jury gave a verdict
that Wm. J. Hatch came to his death from wounds received by the discharge of a gun,
in the hands of Jacob Lenairs, on Sunday morning, March 25, that Augustus Arnable
Courcier, was accessory to the act, and that Adolph De Lasaule be held as a
witness.
Mr. H. was a respectable and wealthy citizen of Camden, and a member of the Common
Council of that city. The murderers were under the influence of liquor when they
committed the awful deed.

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