Allegheny County PA Archives News.....Charlotte Jones Arrested May 13, 1857
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Raftsman's Journal. (Clearfield, Pa.) May 13, 1857
A horrible murder was perpetrated at, or near McKeesport, on the 1st of May. It
appears that an old man named Wilson, and an aged sister who resided with him, were
brutally murdered by some fiend or fiends in human guise, for the sake of
a few hundred dollars which they had laid up. Wilson had four stabs in his breast,
and a gash in his shoulder, and his sister, Mrs. McMaster, was found to have the
back part of her head literally mashed, her right temple broken in, her under jaw
broken, and her right hand and breast gashed with a knife, in a frightful way. A
niece, named Charlotte Jones, was arrested on suspicion. She has made three
different statements, from which it would seem that Henry Fife, her alleged husband,
and Monroe Stewart, are 4he perpetrators of the murder.
She also alleges that her brother, Wm. Jones, and a man named James Williams, are
the perpetrators of the White murder, committed a short time since in Washington
county.

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