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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Tragical affair in Lexington, S. C. (search)
Tragical affair in Lexington, S. C.
--The arrest of Martha Yarborough at Abbeville, 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 fathe xington 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 bridge, and proceeded to the Greenville depot, where she took passage and returned to Abbeville.
On her arrival here, it is said, she stated to the father of Margaret Frith that his daughter died at a private house in Columbia; at another time she died at a hospital in Columbia, then again that she was murdered by three negro men at