OLD OLD Vandeveer, Lally Killing and McKisson, Forbes killing
" The Shepherdstown Register "
Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, WV.
Frid., Oct. 10, 1884
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At Uniontown, Pa., Saturday night Wm. Vandeveer stabbed and killed Chas. Lally.Vandeveer boasted he could whip ten men in ten minutes, and when Lally laughingly said he thought not, Vandeveer stabbed him to the heart.
At Edenburg, Pa., last Saturday, Gusta McKisson, wife of Silas McKisson, got her husband to load a shotgun, and, going to a field where Patrick Forbes was at work, she discharged the weapon at him, inflicting fatal wounds.The murder was the result of an old family fued.The woman was arrested.