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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrest of a Governor. (search)
mington and Weldon Railroad, whereby two members of the Town Guard, named George W. Duval and John Donahoe, were almost instantly killed by desperate runaway negro known as Bill Wanet. It would she guard went there last night for the purpose of arresting him.--The three were G. W. Duval, John Donahoe and Nicholas Carr. Carr knocked at the door, when the negro jumped out of the window in his night clothes, and the three took after him, Donahoe and Duval somewhat ahead. After jumping over a fence into a corn patch he was stopped by another fence over which he could not jump, thus enablin with him. When they attempted to arrest him, he turned, cutting fiercely with a knife, killing Donahoe instantly and wounding Duval so severely that he also died almost instantly. Donahoe was stabbDonahoe was stabbed twice in the right side and Duval twice in the left. Carr coming up knocked the negro down twice with his club when the fellow clinched in upon him cutting away, but fortunately only through