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The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The murder of Boyd. (search)
The murder of Boyd. --An account was given in a dispatch from Washington of the murder of a young man named Boyd, in that city. It is now stated (says the Alexandria Gazette,) that a squad of men from the Union regiment were sent to his house, (he being charged with being a secessionist,) and knocked and kicked at his door, (for the purpose of breaking it open, doubtless,) when he tired at them with a revolver, and they then fired at and killed him, he having closed the door after opening it to deliver his fire, and one of the bullets passing through the planks and entering his body. A coroner's Jury has rendered a verdict according to this statement. The squad have been arrested.