Alexandria Gazette
15 June 1824
SHOCKING MURDER
A man by the name of Gollyhorn was murdered in Dumfries, Va. on Tuesday last, by a person named Burgess. The circumstances as far as can be collected were as follows --
The parties were engaged in pitching quoits, when a quarrel ensued, during which, Gollyhorn kicked Burgess in the face; after which Burgess procured a butcher's knife and returned to the place he had left Gollyhorn, & found him asleep on the step of a house, & upon his waking plunged the knife into his body. The deceased walked about twenty steps and dropped dead. Pursuit was immediately made after Burgess, who was apprehended and conducted to Brent's Ville, to await his trial in November.
New Brunswick Fredonia (New Brunswick, NJ)
27 July 1825
EXECUTION OF BURGESS
Joseph Burgess, who was sentenced to be hanged, by the Superior Court of Law for Prince William county, Va. held in October last for the murder of Chares Gollyhorn, was executed near Brentsville on Friday the 8th inst. The Rev. J. Johnson, of Fairfax, visited him in his apartment in the morning and spent some time with him in religious conversation and prayer. Burgess appeared to be perfectly indifferent to the whole subject of conversation, and unaffected by the scenes through which he was about to pass. At the gallows he discovered the same insensibility and hardness of heart. While Mr. Johnson was discoursing to him in the most solemn and impressive manner, he was carelessly occupied in marking the dust on his coffin with the end of the rope which was tied about his neck.
--Richmond Fam. Visitor
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