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NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, Nou ahs ieee Chhy
NATIONAT, POLICE GAZETTE, Danuary 19, 1867 (1)
28, 1866, when he was ease at Stafford Court aces
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, ees aly 1866 (1)
NATIONAT, POLICE GAZETTE, Danuary 19, 1867 (1)
28, 1666, when he was hanged at Stafford Court House.
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, Nov, 2h, 1866 (11)
NATIONAT. POLICE GAZETTE, Danuary 19, 1867 (1)
ROBERTSON, John G,
Robertwon, a 2h-year-old white man, had a bad reputation, being sus-
pected of having committed a number of burglaries and thefts as well
as having killed his cousin for his bounty money during the Civil
War. On the evening of August 26, 1866, he went to the home of an
elderly couple named Limerick a few miles from Stafford Court House,
Va., and lured the old man outside where he split his skull with an
axe, Leaving the body by the roadside, he went into the house and
killed Mrs, Limerick in a similar manner and ransacked the house,
stealing #800 from a trunk, He then set fire to the house and fled
to Fredericksburg, crossing a ferry. The bodies were discovered the
next morning and Robertson, who had been married only two weeks pre-
viously, was suspected when it was learned that he had been seen near
the Limerick home on the afternoon of the murder, They ferry opera-
tor was questioned and he admitted taking Robertson across the river
and said that Robertson had requested that he say nothing about his
having been a fare on the night of the murders, When arrested,
Robertson confessed to having killed and robbed the Limericks and to
a number of other thefts and robberies though he denied that he had
killed his cousin during the Ware Convicted and sentenced to be
hanged on Nove 16, he was granted a Gubernatorial respite until Dece
ROBERTSON. John G,
Robertwon, a 2lj-year-old white man, had a bad reputation, being sus-
pected of having committed a number of burglaries and thefts as well
as having killed his cousin for his bounty money during the Civil
War. On the evening of August 26, 1866, he went to the home of an
elderly couple named Limerick a few miles from Stafford Court House,
Va.e, and lured the old man outside where he split his skull with an
axe, Leaving the body by the roadside, he went into the house and
killed Mrs, Limerick in a similar manner and ransacked the house,
stealing $800 from a trunk, He then set fire to the house and fled
to Fredericksburg, crossing a ferry. The bodies were discovered the
next morning and Robertson, who had been married only two weeks pre-
viously, was suspected when it was learned that he had been seen near
the Limerick home on the afternoon of the mrder, They ferry opera-
tor was questioned and he admitted taking Robertson across the river
and said that Robertson had requested that he say nothing about his
having been a fare on the night of the murders, When arrested,
Robertson confessed to having killed and robbed the Limericks and to
a number of other thefts and robberies though he denied that he had
killed his cousin during the War. Convicted and sentenced to be
hanged on Nove 16, he was granted a Gubernatorial respite until Dece
ROBERTSON, John G,
Robertwon, a 2li-year-old white man, had a bad reputation, being sus-
z mo)
On the evening of August 26, 1866, he went to the home of an
elderly couple named Limerick a few miles from Stafford Court House,
Va,, and lured the old man outside where he split his skull with an
axe. Leaving the body by the roadside, he went into the house and
killed Mrs, Limerick in a similar manner and ransacked the house,
stealing #800 from a trunk, He then set fire to the house and fled
to Fredericksburg, crossing a ferry, The bodies were discovered the
next morning and Robertson, who had been married only two weeks pre-
viously, was suspected when it was learned that he had been seen near
the Limerick home on the afternoon of the mrder, They ferry opera-
or was questioned and he admitted taking Robertson across the river
and said that Robertson had requested that he say nothing about his
having been a fare on the night of the mrders, rested,
Robertson confessed to having killed and robbed the Limericks and to
a number of other thefts and robberies though he denied that he had
killed his cousin during the War. Convicted and sentenced to be
hanged on Nov, 16, he was granted a Gubernatorial respite until Dece
