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News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1853 - "The Trial of Mary Ellen Thomas"

The Trial of Mary Ellen Thomas.

In another column, a brief notice appears of the conviction, in our Circuit Court, of Mary Ellen Thomas (free negro) of murder in the first degree. The murder was committed upon an infant about four months old, son of Mr. William T. Baer, near Sharpsburg in this county, and the facts in the case, as they were detailed by the witnesses, are thus stated by a Hagers-Town Correspondent of the Baltimore Clipper :—