Donna - I may have found something on this - in the Wood Detective Agency. Records, 1865-1945 : Finding Aid. at the website of the Harvard Law School Library Scroll down till you get to this section - Series 4: Clippings of the Cases of James Rodney Wood Jr. 5-19 Brown, Annie D. Account of Her Murder by William Brown, 1918. Written by Paul Whelton. "True Detective Stories from the New England Police Annals" which were presented daily by the Boston Evening American and the Boston Sunday Advertiser. The names could be a coincidence, then again...... You may be able to find the newspaper articles elsewhere. Hope this is the one, Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Potter" <uriramfan@cox.net> To: <RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:31 PM Subject: [RIGENWEB] Murder in South County in early 1800s committed by Wm C Brown > In doing some research on the Peleg Brown family, I ran across an item in an old newspaper, the Rhode Island American of January 28, 1814. They had published a letter written by someone to a family member stationed at Fort Trumbull. The letter went into detail about how on the 27th of "December last" William C. Brown, son of Peleg Brown, had murdered a 4-5 year old child who lived with him. He killed the child because she was having trouble learning her alphabet. There was a description of a horrific crime, and then the writer added that the whole scene was witnessed by Brown's wife and "Baker and his wife" - none of whom did anything to stop the crime. > > I have been trying to find out the name of the little girl as well as any info on a trial, jail sentence, etc. There's a big gap in the births of children to William and his wife, Sally Kenyon, which may be accounted for by the fact that he could have been incarcerated, but I can find nothing else on the crime to support that. > > Have any of you South County history experts heard of this crime? Any info is appreciated. > Donna in RI > > > > ==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== > Visit RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > WorldConnect Project -- Connecting the World One GEDCOM at a Time > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > >

Lisa, I can only find links that say you must be student or faculty to look at these sites at Harvard Law School Library. Am I looking in the wrong place? Elaine Quoting Lisa Lepore <llepore@comcast.net>: > Donna - > > I may have found something on this - in the > Wood Detective Agency. Records, 1865-1945 : Finding Aid. > at the website of the Harvard Law School Library > > Scroll down till you get to this section - > > Series 4: Clippings of the Cases of James Rodney Wood Jr. > > 5-19 Brown, Annie D. Account of Her Murder by William Brown, 1918. > Written by Paul Whelton. > > "True Detective Stories from the New England Police Annals" which were > presented daily > by the Boston Evening American and the Boston Sunday Advertiser. > > The names could be a coincidence, then again...... > > You may be able to find the newspaper articles elsewhere. > > Hope this is the one, > Lisa > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna Potter" <uriramfan@cox.net> > To: <RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:31 PM > Subject: [RIGENWEB] Murder in South County in early 1800s committed by > Wm C Brown > > >> In doing some research on the Peleg Brown family, I ran across an > item in an old newspaper, the Rhode Island American of January 28, > 1814. They had published a letter written by someone to a family > member stationed at Fort Trumbull. The letter went into detail about > how on the 27th of "December last" William C. Brown, son of Peleg > Brown, had murdered a 4-5 year old child who lived with him. He killed > the child because she was having trouble learning her alphabet. There > was a description of a horrific crime, and then the writer added that > the whole scene was witnessed by Brown's wife and "Baker and his > wife" - none of whom did anything to stop the crime. >> >> I have been trying to find out the name of the little girl as well > as any info on a trial, jail sentence, etc. There's a big gap in the > births of children to William and his wife, Sally Kenyon, which may be > accounted for by the fact that he could have been incarcerated, but I > can find nothing else on the crime to support that. >> >> Have any of you South County history experts heard of this crime? > Any info is appreciated. >> Donna in RI >> >> >> >> ==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== >> Visit RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative: > http://www.rootsweb.com/ >> WorldConnect Project -- Connecting the World One GEDCOM at a Time >> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ >> >> > > > > ==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== > Kent County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~rikent/ > Search the RIGenWeb Pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/search.html > >

Elaine - It was so helpful of me to leave out the link to the collection, wasn't it? http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=oasis and this is the link to the collection http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=1741&histno=1 the collection is not on line, just the finding aids. I found the site by doing a search at google for Brown +murder +rhode island I think From what I can tell, the collection contains newspaper clippings that ran every day in the Boston Evening American and the Boston Sunday Advertiser newspapers. These newspapers are probably available on microfilm - check the Boston Public Library - I'm pretty sure they have all the available newspaper films. Anyway, I thought it was an interesting find for anyone interested in crimes of the old days. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: <elainedecker@frontiernet.net> > Lisa, > > I can only find links that say you must be student or faculty to look > at these sites at Harvard Law School Library. Am I looking in the > wrong place? > > Elaine > > Quoting Lisa Lepore <llepore@comcast.net>: > > > Donna - > > > > I may have found something on this - in the > > Wood Detective Agency. Records, 1865-1945 : Finding Aid. > > at the website of the Harvard Law School Library > > > > Scroll down till you get to this section - > > > > Series 4: Clippings of the Cases of James Rodney Wood Jr. > > > > 5-19 Brown, Annie D. Account of Her Murder by William Brown, 1918. > > Written by Paul Whelton. > > > > "True Detective Stories from the New England Police Annals" which were > > presented daily > > by the Boston Evening American and the Boston Sunday Advertiser. > > > > The names could be a coincidence, then again...... > > > > You may be able to find the newspaper articles elsewhere. > > > > Hope this is the one, > > Lisa > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Donna Potter" <uriramfan@cox.net> > > To: <RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:31 PM > > Subject: [RIGENWEB] Murder in South County in early 1800s committed by > > Wm C Brown > > > > > >> In doing some research on the Peleg Brown family, I ran across an > > item in an old newspaper, the Rhode Island American of January 28, > > 1814. They had published a letter written by someone to a family > > member stationed at Fort Trumbull. The letter went into detail about > > how on the 27th of "December last" William C. Brown, son of Peleg > > Brown, had murdered a 4-5 year old child who lived with him. He killed > > the child because she was having trouble learning her alphabet. There > > was a description of a horrific crime, and then the writer added that > > the whole scene was witnessed by Brown's wife and "Baker and his > > wife" - none of whom did anything to stop the crime. > >> > >> I have been trying to find out the name of the little girl as well > > as any info on a trial, jail sentence, etc. There's a big gap in the > > births of children to William and his wife, Sally Kenyon, which may be > > accounted for by the fact that he could have been incarcerated, but I > > can find nothing else on the crime to support that. > >> > >> Have any of you South County history experts heard of this crime? > > Any info is appreciated. > >> Donna in RI > >>