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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], A fiend to be triedȔthe McNeil murder. (search)
It was this fellow Strachan who, while acting as Provost-Marshal at Palmyra, had an unaccountable influence over Col. McNeill. He got drunk with McNeill, and got McNeill drunk whenever he saw proper, or whenever he had an object to accomplish.McNeill, and got McNeill drunk whenever he saw proper, or whenever he had an object to accomplish. It was this fellow Strachan that induced McNeill to issue the order by which ten men against whom no crime was charged were sentenced to be shot in cold blood. In this transaction Strachan got himself into a serious scrape, for which he was a fewMcNeill drunk whenever he saw proper, or whenever he had an object to accomplish. It was this fellow Strachan that induced McNeill to issue the order by which ten men against whom no crime was charged were sentenced to be shot in cold blood. In this transaction Strachan got himself into a serious scrape, for which he was a few days since indicted by the grand jury of Marion county. We give the facts as briefly and plainly as possible, just as they have been stated to us by some of the best citizens of Palmyra.--On the morning appointed for the shooting of those ten McNeill to issue the order by which ten men against whom no crime was charged were sentenced to be shot in cold blood. In this transaction Strachan got himself into a serious scrape, for which he was a few days since indicted by the grand jury of Marion county. We give the facts as briefly and plainly as possible, just as they have been stated to us by some of the best citizens of Palmyra.--On the morning appointed for the shooting of those ten men, the wife of one of the men thus condemned to be shot came to Palmyra with six little children — called upon Strachan — told him that her husband was condemned to be shot that day and that these were her children — that if her husband should be <