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Title
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Joel Mitchell - MS-CHIMB1
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Identifier
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MS-CHIMB1
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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"Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849" Woodville Republican
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Date
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November 24, 1827
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Trade
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Chimney Builder
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gender
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Male
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Notes
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Free man of color, Killed Miles Relph in Halifax County, Mississippi; In "Garrick to McCaleb" Chapter, page 82
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Transcription
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WARRENTON, Oct. 25 Death of a Murderer, principally from alarm.—Joel Mitchell, a free man of color, aged 45 or 50, who was to have been tried before our Superior Court on Thursday last, for a most foul, barbarous and atrocious murder, by stabbing, committed on the body of Miles Relph, another man of color in Halifax County, some time ago— upon being sent for by the Court to take his trial, was seized with such violent fear and apprehension, added to an indisposition for several days, which was thought to be but slight, that he expired in the yard be-fore he could be placed at the bar or got into the court house. Never have we before seen a countenance so hor-rid—so ghastly— so frightful as that of Joel Mitchell! The case as it would have been made to appear, is thus represented to us:— Mitchell and Relph were both Chimney builders by trade— R. had undertaken a con-tract, with which Mitchell interfered, which led to a dis-pute.
