From The Sun July 9 1841
(Baltimore Sun)
SHOCKING MURDER - The Delaware Republican states
that on the 30th ult., a man named Wm. Hearn, 76 years of age, murdered his son
Joseph Hearn, aged about 30, in Sussex county, in that State. It appears
that there had been some misunderstanding between the father and son, when it
is said, the son threatened to murder his father and mother, and burn the
house. The father it seems was apprehensive that these threats would be
executed; and after his son had retired to bed, deliberately took an axe, went
to the bed room of his son, and committed the heart-rending and unnatural deed,
by striking the unfortunate deceased five blows on the head. The
perpetrator has been committed to jail, at Georgetown, to await his trail,
which will take place in October next.
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