Ocean County , NJ History

from the Trenton Evening Times, 31 Jan 1914 BORDENTOWN, Jan 31. - William Craig, Sr., father of William Craig, Jr., a graduate of Bordentown Military Institute, who married Miss Margaret Mershon, of Bordentown, and who resided at Flatbush, L.I, died at his home at New Germantown last night.

We start with an article in the New Jersey Mirror 24 Jan 1906: Another fiendish crime was added to Burlington county's list, already too long, on Thursday afternoon( i.e., January 18, 1906) when the discovery was made that Miss Florence W. Allinson had been outraged and foully murdered in a barn at "The Orchards," a farm in the western end of Moorestown which she rented of Mrs. Esther W. Strawbridge. The condition of the dead woman indicated that she was first outraged, then strangled with a strap removed form a cow's blanket and beaten over the head with a club until her skull was frightfully crushed. The crime was committed between eleven o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon, the discovery of the dead body having been made about the latter time by Benjamin Funk, a Bridgeboro oil man who had stopped at the house to leave the usual weekly supply. Funk entered the house and found no one there except little Bessie Walker, a five-year-old chil...