Westmoreland County PA Archives News.....Affray in Westmoreland County August 27, 1856
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Democrat And Sentinel: (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866: August 27, 1856 August 27, 1856
A serious affray occurred on Thursday evening at the farm of Mr. Thomas Kennedy, in
Westmoreland county. A girl by the name of Taylor eloped with a man named Osborne,
and went to a shanty owned by John Dennis, where they were taken in. The father
followed her, and armed with a butcher knife, entered the shanty, and threatened to
kill her. Dennis interfered, upon which he attacked him with the knife; the latter
then, in self-defence, seized a hatchet and striking Taylor, fractured his skull.
Dennis went to Blairsville to give himself up; but as the offense was perpetrated in
another county, the magistrates there would take no part in the matter, and Dennis
was permitted to go at large.



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