Norfolk Virginian, March 8, 1889

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reprinted from Cape Charles Pioneer.Infrastructure -- Public : Towns

Cape Charles City is becoming more and more desirable every day. The influx of strangers who are constantly coming in proves it to be a place of some importance, being a complete thoroughfare, enroute from New York to Norfolk.

Across the Bay.

Moral -- MurderMoral -- Property crime

An Onancock letter in Richmond Dispatch of 7th, says:

Cornelius Annis, the young man who was desperately wounded one night last week in the house of Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, near Masonville, died of his wounds Monday morning. A coroner's inquest was held, lasting through two days. Fifteen witnesses were examined, among them John W. Taylor, the husband of the woman at whose house Annis was shot. Taylor has been strongly suspected of doing the shooting, but at the inquest he proved that he was elsewhere at the time the shooting occurred. In all the testimony before the inquest nothing was developed to connect any person with the shooting, and hence no arrests have been made. The verdict was that Annis died from gunshot wounds inflicted by some person unknown to the jury. Annis was buried yesterday.

Judge Gunter, of the Circuit court, has rendered a decision granting a new trial to Eugene W. Barnes, twice convicted of embezzlement in the County Court and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Barnes has been released from jail, and Judge Gunter excluded so much of the testimony on which Barnes was convicted that it is thought that Commonwealth's Attorney Fletcher will enter a nolle prosequi in the case.