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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Tragical affair in Lexington, S. C. (search)
bbeville, S. C., for the murder of Margaret Frith, has been noticed. The deed seems to have been committed from a love of jewelry and finery on the part of the murderess. The Abbeville Press gives the following particulars of the horrible deed: Two young women, Margaret Frith, aged seventeen years, and Martha Yarborough, aged eighteen years, familiar associates, and both residing at the same house, (the father's of the former,) five miles from this place, went to Columbia on the 12th of December ult, and remained there a day or two, and then visited Augusta, and returned to Columbia on the 20th of the same month, (Sunday,) and visited the factory near Columbia. Notwithstanding the parties had sufficient means to defray expenses for lodgings, &c., in Columbia, on Sunday evening they crossed the Congarec river into Lexington District, and kindled a fire in a thicket, by which they spent the night. Martha Yarborough, early on the following morning, crossed the river at the bridg