The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Murder.

--A dreadful murder was committed on Thursday night last, about 9 o'clock, near Pamplin's Depot, in Appomattox Co., Va. Mr. Wm. B. Moxley left his house, about two miles from the depot, accompanied in his buggy by a lady, to meet the down train. After putting the lady in the car he started home, and nothing was heard of him till the next morning, when some persons found his horse and buggy standing at the gate of a neighboring plantation, with a plentiful sprinkling of blood in it. A search was instantly instituted, and the body of Mr. Moxley was found in the road, where he had fallen from the buggy, at no great distance off. The traces of blood were followed to within one mile of the depot, where no doubt the deed was perpetrated. His head was beaten in by a club, which was found. His money, some eighty or one hundred dollars, was taken, and his shoes and stockings were gone. Mr. Moxley was an estimable citizen, about thirty years old, and leaves a wife and children.