Wednesday, October 5, 2011

HARTFORD, March 28 [1862].

Daniel Webster Worden, of the State Prison at Witherfield, was assaulted last night by a refractory prisoner named Jerold Foote.  Foote had secreted a knife and stabbed Webster in the heart and abdomen.  Webster died at noon to-day.  He leaves a family.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 1

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