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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Homicide in a house of ill fame. --Yesterday afternoon about four o'clock Benjamin Delarus was accidentally shot and killed by a companies named Joseph Johnson, in a house of ill fame kept by Catherine Blankinship of Twenty-first, between Main and Cary streets. The evidence at the inquest, given by Mary Vanderlip, Eliza Logan, and other inmates, showed that the two men entered the house very good friends and sent out for some whiskey.--They had not been in there more than ten minutes befoe army, but was not in the service long be deserted. Only the day before the was arrested for absence from his company; but by some means, succeeded in making his escape from his place of confinement. Johnson was in the habit of going to Mrs. Blankinship's house, but none of the inmates had ever seen the deceased before the evening proceeding the accident. Information of the shooting being lodged at the lower station-house, officers Granger and Crone forthwith started in search of the m