the bedding and some clothes before making his escape. He returned
to Hocking County where he displayed the bonds to his half-brother
and to a woman who promptly turned him in and gave evidence against
him at his trial for the $1,000 reward that had been offered for his
capture. The evidence against him was so conclusive that his attor-
ney's only defense was one of insanity and ,EK& while they BS SM
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cliant was mentally deficient, the Jury, after a two weeks trial,
returned £* a verdict that he was not only guilty by sane as wel]
and he was sentenced to die. He was hanged in an open area between
a recently constructed Jail in which he had been the first prisoner
and the court house at Chillicothe on June Big LOL.
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BOWSHER, Perry
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Bowsher, a/white man, was a resident of Hocking Co., Ohio. On the
night of Oct. 26, 1877, he and another man whose identity Was never
ascertained went to the toll-gate house ‘on the Columbus turnpike
road about six miles north of Chillicothe 9 Ohio. While his companion
waited on the outside, Bowsher entered the house through the kitchen
door and passed through the room where the elderly gatekeepers »
and Mrs. Edmund McVey were sleeping into the front room which he
began ransacking for moneys ir. McVey was awakened by the noise of
a desk being pryed open and rushed into the room where BSowsher shot
and killed him, Mrs, McVey then went into the room and began begging
for mercy but Bowsher Shot her twice and she fell dead in an arm
chair in the front room, A young girl named Alice Dean who was
Sleeping in another room of the house crept under her .bed and re-
mained there while Bowser ransacked the rest of the house » including
her room. After he had taken four United States bonds totalling
ee and around #30 in cash, he went into the kitchen and proceeded
O prepare and eata meal, Whi : : ee ong
i ae from the house and alerted wef eo eine AptSe Bonchor haa
finished eating, he returned to the Sleeping rooms and set fire to
BOWSHER, Perry
Young
Bowsher, a/white man, was a resident of Hocking Co., Ohio. On the
night of Oct. 26, 1877, he and another man whose identity was never
ascertained went to the toll-gate house ‘on the Columbus turnpike
road about six miles north of Chillicothe » Ohio. While his companion
waited on the outside, Bowsher entered the house through the kitchen
door and passed through the room where the elderly gatekeepers, Mr,
and Mrs, Edmund McVey were sleeping into the front room which he
began ransacking for money. Mr. MeVey was awakened by the noise of
a desk being pryed open and rushed into the room where Bowsher shot
and killed hin, Mrs, McVey then went into the room and began begging
for mercy but Bowsher shot her twice and she fell dead in an arm
chair in the front room, A young girl named Alice Dean who was
sleeping in another room of the house crept under her bed and re-
mained there while Bowser ransacked the rest of the house, including
her room. After he had taken four United States bonds totalling
Spee ee waters ete into the kitchen and proceeded
Slipped from the house and alerted neighbors iets Bowsher had
finished eating, he returned to the Sleeping rooms and set fire to
BOWSHER, Perry
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Boweher, 8/vhite man, was a resident of Hocking Cos, Ohio.
night of me 2%, 187, he and another man whose identity was never
ascertained went to the toll-gate house ‘on the Coluibus turnpike
POGOe art tor he had taken four United States bonds totallii
$800 and around $30 in cash, he went into the kitchen and proceeded
to prepare and eat a meal, while he was doing this, Miss Dean
slipped from the house and alerted neignborse® £245? Bowsher had
finished eating, he returned to the Sleeping rooms and set fire to
par ecg he while Bowser ransacked the rest of the house, including
ing
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