23 Sep 1817 - Commercial Advertiser (New York)

Vol XX - No 7747; Page 2, Column 4
(original can be found at NewspaperArchive.com)

From the Potsdam Gazette of September 12th - We understand that a respectable man by the name of Havens, who lived in the vicinity of the Black Lake, in this county, was murdered by three Irishmen, at Ogdensburgh, on the evening of the 6th inst. As to the motive or design of the villains we know nothing. It seems there had been a battalion training at Ogdensburgh that day, and that Mr. Havens left that place about 8 o’clock in the evening, for his residence, five or six miles distant, and while on the bridge, near the village, across which he had to pass, he was attacked and beaten, apparently by the butt of a musket, as there were a number of large gashes found upon his head and face, and then thrown into the river. About this time the alarm was given by other passengers on the bridge, and the villains fled; they have since, however, been apprehended and committed to gaol. The body of the deceased was taken up after being in the water an hour and a half. It is melancholy to add, that Mr. Havens has left a wife and children to mourn his loss.