People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Ars in Hides a Murder. [ARTICLE]

Ars in Hides a Murder.

Raleigh, N.-C., March 7. —By a slight fire vhis h occurred in the Long hotel at Rockingham yesterday morning, a drunken n an named George Gardner was suffocated. At the time it was believed that his careless handling of a. coal oil lamp caused the fire, but subsequent developments indicate a strong •probability that the unfortunate man was mare; red and robbed, and the fire started to prevent discovery of tho crime, lie is known to have had a large sum of money which can not be found.