Probable Murder

Yesterday morning some parties found the body of one Simon MITCHENOR, colored, lying under the large wheel at Johnson & Barbour’s mill near Auburn, in St. Mary’s township, with a large gash across his throat, and it is supposed that he had been murdered.

He was at the election at Auburn yesterday and voted and left there late in the afternoon, accompanied by two colored men.  Just before dark his nephew and another colored boy found his umbrella on a bridge near the place where his body was found this morning.

He was 47 years old, and was very quiet, industrious and inoffensive.  The Coroner was notified, and has gone out to investigate the case.

Source: Banner-enterprise (Raleigh, NC). 19 April 1883. Available at Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.