Cumberland County PA Archives News.....Murder in Cumberland County, Pa. February 1, 1843 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donald Buncie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008389 December 27, 2021, 2:57 am Jeffersonian Republican. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853: February 01, 1843 February 1, 1843 Henry Peters was last week convicted in Cumberland county of the murder of Harvey Gibbons, a black man. The jury brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree. Peters was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/newspapers/murderin880gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb