Aiken County ScArchives News.....Murder in Augusta September 16, 1884
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The Aiken Recorder September 16, 1884
Murder in Augusta.
William Vales, an aged and worthy citizen who had been employed as night watchman 
by the Augusta and Summerville Street Railroad Company for twelve years, was 
horribly murdered at Augusta last Thursday night. He was knocked in the head with 
a pick-axe, his clothing saturated with kerosense oil, and then set on fire. The 
object was theft. Thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents was stolen from the cash 
drawer of the company. The deceased was over sixty years of age and leaves a 
family of sons and daughters to morn his loss. The murderer is not known, but 
several arrests have been made.

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