Posts Tagged ‘Skinner’s Eddy’

July 1896 HACKED TO DEATH. Benj. Carter Murdered in Cold Blood at Skinner’s Eddy. THE MURDERER ARRESTED “JUMBO,” A FRENCHMAN, DID THE AWFUL DEED WITH A POCKET KNIFE—THE BODY FRIGHTFULLY GASHED—SUMMARY JUSTICE IN WYOMING COUNTY. A great deal of excitement was occasioned in the quiet little village of Skinner’s Eddy, in Wyoming county, late on…