James Craig
Birth: unknown
Death: Mar. 15, 1808
Asheville
Buncombe County
North Carolina, USA
COMMUNICATION.
Ashville, (Buncombe) 25th March.
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday the 15th inst. Mr. James Craig, who resided on Bull creek, about 8 miles from this town, being at his mill alone, heard his dogs barking at a small distance, as if they had brought a deer to bay ; and walking a few yards down the creek, he discovered the dogs in a small thicket of laurel on the opposite bank—he turned with an intention of crossing the stream, but coming within 20 or 30 yards of the noise, a gun was discharged from the thicket, the contents of which (a leaden ball) entered his body a little below his ribs, and lodged just within the skin of his back. Mr. Craig survived this unhappy circumstance about three hours ; manifested a firm mind, and retained his senses to the last moment of his life; said he saw the man who he supposed shot him, run off from the thicket, and fully believed the man to be a certain Henry West, who lived within a small distance of the mill. In consequence of this information, West is apprehended, committed to jail, and will have his trial the first week in April next; as will also Joel Dennis, for shooting and killing Joseph Moore of this county, in June last.
—The Minerva newspaper (Raleigh, North Carolina), Thursday, April 7, 1808, p. 3.
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