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BNL.772.030
30 Jul 1772:22,23 (3491)
Williamsburgh, (in Virginia) July 2. The governor has
issued his proclamation, and offered a reward of fifty
pounds, for apprehending one Nicholas Curlett, lately a
tavernkeeper in Winchester, who on the 27th of May last,
barbarously murdered Mr. Jeremiah Beall, a merchant, of that
place, by firing thro' his door at him with a rifle. it
seems Mr. Beall, and some others, had been merrymaking that
day, and in the evening, hearing a fiddle at Curlett's
Tavern, they proposed joining the company there, but upon
their coming were refused admittance by Curlett, who shut
the door upon them. They persisting in their resolution to
enter the house, Curlett went thro' his back door to a
neighbour's for powder and ball, and upon his return,
finding them still at the door, instantly fired. The ball
entered on one side of the forehead of a young man, Mr.
Beall's store-keeper, which has been since extracted, and it
is thought he will recover. Mr. Beall received his mortal
wound by a splinter from the door.
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