An account of a dreadful and barbarous murder, committed on the body of Richard Taylor, a shoemaker in his 79th year, near the village of Lumley, in the county of Durham, by cruelly beating his head til it was almost flat, and his brains were scattered about the ground, and robbing him of some silver, on Saturday night last, the 21st day of February, 1836, with an account of the apprehension of two men who travel the country as shipwrecked sailors, named Richard Gardner and George Graham, at a lodging-house in Chesterle-Street on suspicion of being the perpetrators of this horrid act

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by William Stephenson