News of the Week.
News of the Week.

News of the Week.

    ... Tis obtained to the mysterious murder [outr]age and [Adali]ne Bever, near Mohrsville, Berks county.--The Gazette informs us that the body was again disinterred for the purpose of allowing a thorough re-examination to be made. The coroner concluded his duties on Wednesday last. From the testimony of the physicians, we learn that the wound in the neck of the murdered girl was two inches broad and three quarters of an inch deep. No other marks of violence were found upon her body. Only two-thirds of the throat, and a small vein, were cut through, so that, in the opinion of the physicians, it must have taken two hours to bleed to death from this wound. This fact has led to the supposition that she might have died of suffocation. The county commissioners, as an inducement to extraordiary [sic] efforts, have very properly offered a reward of $500 for the apprehension of the murderer, or for such information as will lead to his detection. Miss Baver was a beautiful girl, and respectably connected. Her parents were David and Catharine Baver, and she was born in Bern township, on the 15th of May, 1838. She was therefore, nineteen years, three months, and twenty two days old at the time of her death.


Source:

Unknown, "News of the Week," Erie Observer, Erie, Pa., Saturday, October 31, 1857, Page 2.

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