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Murder - - Murder. - - One of the most thoroughly heartless and brutal murders was brought to light yesterday by which we have ever been shocked. Upon information having been lodged with him, by a person of whose name we are not cognizant, Coroner Crane summoned a jury and proceeded to Mount Mora Cemetery to disinter and examine the body of a negro girl who had been buried at 9 o’clock the same day.
We are informed that the body was literally covered from head to foot with marks of cruelty. There were stripes which had healed, were healing, which were beginning to suppurate, which were in the height of suppuration, and others again fresh as it they had been inflicted the day previous. A more horrible spectacle it is difficult to imagine.
She was the property of Mr. Wash (Milton H. Wash), who had attended to the interment.
The jury could come to but one conclusion, to-wit: that death was superinduced from external injuries inflicted by Mrs. Wash (Mary J. Wash nee’ Bryan) and an Irishman, name unknown. The parties have absconded and are now at large. The officers, however, are in hot pursuit, and we will no doubt be able, in a day or two, to chronicle their arrest.
This is one of the most shocking events that has ever occurred in our community and we are glad to have it in our power to do the South the justice of stating that one of the parties implicated was born and raised in a Free State, and that the other is a foreigner.
(Researcher's note: Slave traders Milton H. Wash and F. M. (Francis M.) Wright, brother of Mary J. Wash, were enslavers that operated in Platte County, Missouri. Milton H. Wash was the Buchanan County Clerk, Assessor, and City Register.)Date(s) of Creation
9/23/1859
