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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ervice, and then obtained employment at the Confederate States Laboratory, at which place he was engaged up to the time of his disappearance. On Thursday or Friday last he was paid off, receiving three hundred and twenty dollars. From that time till Saturday afternoon he was somewhat under the influence of liquor, but was considered by his friends to be drunk. Saturday evening at five o'clock was the last time he was seen by any of his acquaintances, and the most plausible supposition is, that some time during that night he was murdered, robbed and thrown into the dock. A jury of inquest was held over the body at twelve o'clock yesterday, under the superintendence of Justice Charles E. Wortham, assisted by High Constable George A. Freeman. Several witnesses were examined, but none of their testimony threw any light upon the affair, and the verdict of the jury, therefore, was, that the deceased came to his death by violence inflicted by some person or persons unknown to them.