Accomack County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Drummond, Mrs Was Murdered Near Pongoteague 1866
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Alexandria Gazette Wed Apr 18, 1866 Pg 1 1866

 MURDER AND LYNCH LAWIN ACCOMAC COUNTY VA.
   On Thursday evening of last week Mrs.
Drummond, resident of Accomac county, near
Pongoteague, was most brutally murdered by
a negro, who was recently in the army.
The Newtown Record says.
   He also attempted the murder of a colored
woman at the same time. His purpose was
robbery. He asked Mrs. Drummond for some 
money supposed to be in the house which she
refused to give him, whereupon he procured
an axe and burst her skull open and dragged
her to the stables. He then demanded of the
colored woman that she should say that the
horse kicked her mistress. She refused to
tell the falsehood, and he then struck her
with the axe in the same manner, and left
her for dead. The colored woman, though
dangerously wounded, revived sufficiently
to relate the above facts, and with srrict
attention being paid to her case, may
eventually recover. The citizens of
Pongoteague went in search of the author of
the fiendish act, and capturing him, at once
hung him to a limb of a tree.


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