Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1858 — Murder in Delphi. [ARTICLE]

Murder in Delphi.

We are in receipt of a communication from a reliable correspondent, in Delphi, Ind., “detailing the particulars of a brutal murder, committed early yesterday morning. The circumstances are abouf as follows; A inan by the name of Morrison moved into that part of Delphi, west of the canal, usually called West Delphi,. Morrison had living with him two women of, bad character. Two young men from Delphi, one of them very respectably connected, went to Morrison's at a late hour Monday night. They remained in the house sorpe time, and on getting ready to leave, they got into a quarrel with abouf some money matters. He finally ordered them to leave, whereupon pne of them struck him with a slung shot, followed by repeated blows from brick-bats, &c. Morrison died in a few minutes. The murderers fled and have not yet been taken, though the officers are in pursuit of them— Lafayette Journal.