We learn that Mr. Turner Smith was found dead on the 3rd instant near his house in the neighborhood 
of Bostick's Mills, Richmond County.The body bore marks of violence--the head badly bruised. There 
was reason to suspect a man named Thomas Robinson of the killing; and the Jury of Inquest found 
against him.

Robinson was an old man, perhaps 60 years of age, had been all his life an idiot, and had a guardian. 
It is supposed that he committed suicide soon after the murder, as his body was found, shockingly 
defaced, about a week after the murder, hanging by a grape vine to a tree. There were appearances of 
his having made several efforts, by cutting his throat and hanging, to destroy himself, before he 
finally succeeded.

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