A DESPERATE NEGRO.--TWO GUARDS SLAIN.<b>--We learn that about eleven o'clock last night a most atrocious outrage was committed in the North Eastern part of town, north of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, whereby two members of the Town Guard, named George W. Duval and John Donahoe, were almost instantly killed by a desperate runaway negro, known as Bill Wanet. It would seem that the fellow has been runaway for some three years, having been purchased about that time by Dr. T. B. Carr, to whom he now belongs. There being reason to suppose that he was harbored by a negro woman belonging to Alfred Martin, Esq. [Esquire], occupying a small house or kitchen in the part of town already referred to, three of the guard went there last night for the purpose of arresting him. The three were G. W. Duval, John Donahoe and Nicholas Carr. Carr knocked at the door, when the negro jumped out of the window in his night clothes, and the three took after him, Donahoe and Duval somewhat ahead. After jumping over a fence into a corn patch he was stopped by another fence over over which he could not jump, thus enabling the guard to get up with him. When they attempted to arrest him, he turned, cutting fiercely with a knife, killing Donahoe instantly and wounding Duval so severely that he also died almost instantly. Donahoe was stabbed twice in the right side and Duval twice in the left. Carr coming up knocked the negro down twice with his club, when the fellow clinched in upon him cutting away, but fortunately only through Carr's clothes. In the tussle they both got down and Carr having lost his club, could not hope to hold on to a desperate and powerful fellow, armed as the negro was, so that the latter got away. He must bear the marks of the severe blows he got twice from Carr's club, and once from Duval's. He must be still lurking about, and no doubt will be promptly arrested. Dr. Carr has outlawed him. --Wilmington Journal, 17th.
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| Name | Role in document |
|---|---|
| Wilmington Journal | Placing Ad |
| Bill Wanet | Slave |
| Dr. T. B. Carr | Slaveholder |
