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Murder in Alabama.

--A correspondent from Perdido Mills, Florida, writes that an atrocious murder was perpetrated over the Perdido river, in Baldwin county, Alabama, on Tuesday, the 17th. The writer gives the particulars as follows:

‘ On Monday a man named Wm. McLeod went to the house of Joseph Bates and insulted Mr. Bates by a somewhat indiscriminate abuse of him and the neighbors generally. He left the house after Bates had in retaliation for the abuse received, bestowed on him many opprobrious epithets. On Tuesday afternoon, having armed himself with a double-barrel shot gun, which he borrowed, he went near Bates's house in company with a brother-in-law, (McMillan,) who having occasion, as is said, for a little ar, was going into the house to procure it, when he was requested by McLeod to de Bates to come out, as he wished to talk to him. Bates went out near to McLeod, some hundred and fifty feet from the house, when the latter demanded why certain names had been applied to him the day before. A quarrel followed, during which Bates took a maul, when McLeod ordered him to go to the house. Bates was fifty or more feet from his antagonist, when the latter, taking deliberate aim, exploded, fruitlessly, one of the gun-caps. The other barrel unfortunately went off, lodging forty-five buck-shot within the space of a man's hand, near the region of Bates's heart.

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The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. September 27, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Murder in Alabama.