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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
of Mr. Lincoln. Letters from Presidents Buchanan and Pierce were discovered. They showed no small obsequiousness towards the mighty Jeff. Counterfeit Confederate money — Revolutions of a murderer. David S. Shearer, the murderer of M. T. W. Taylor, near Kenosha, Wis., has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life in the State Prison at Waupan, at which institution he was delivered on Friday last. The Milwaukee Sentinel says: Shearer gave his profession, when asked by the entry clerk at Waupan, as a professional gambler. He scouts the idea of having killed Taylor, alleging that with his knowledge of counterfeiting money, &c., he could do better than to kill a man for and dollars. He also stated that the evidence against him on the trial was such that, had he been a juror, he would have convicted his own brother, and that the jury who tried him could find no other verdict than that of guilty. Before his conviction Shearer was sent for by Gen. Rosec