OBIT: Patrick MAGLAUGHLIN, 1854, Blair County, PA

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ANOTHER MURDER IN BLAIR COUNTY. - The last number of the Hollidaysburg 
Standard gives an account of a murder perpetrated at a wedding party a 
short time since, at which there were present some forty Irishmen and 
three Americans.  A dispute arose over a game of "dominoes," and a 
general fight took place.  In the melee, an Irishman, named Patrick 
Maglaughlin, was stabbed, by whom it is not known.  An inquest was 
held, at which a mass of incongruous and contradictory testimony was 
offered, and it was thought best to arrest two Americans, named 
Hendrickson and Reed, who were committed to jail for a further hearing.

The Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, Pa., February 13, 1854