Hunters accidentally shooting each other in 1915
New Jersey Courier 15 Oct 1915
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the death of George Akins
A WIFE OUTRAGED--THE PERPETRATOR SHOT DEAD BY THE HUSBAND.-- We announced in our last paper, that an attempt had been made by George Akins, Jr., to commit an outrage upon the person of a Mrs. Conover, wife of John H. Conover, living near the Red Lion, but that he failed to accomplish his purpose, owing to the cries and resistance of Mrs. C. We have since learned that he fully succeed in his infamous designs--and a few days afterwards he was shot dead by the husband, while about to enter his house again. The particulars of this dreadful affair, as we have learned them, are as follows: Akins went to the house of Conover, on Sunday morning, the 5th instant(August, 1860), soon after 8 o'clock--nobody being at home or near the premises, but Mrs. C. and her two children--Conover having gone to visit a neighbor. It is supposed that Akins had been watching Conover's movements, and seeing him leave the house, went immediately over. Soon after going in, he seized hold of Mrs. C., who
Charles Bowker obituary, 1951
Charles C. Bowker, age 70, of Barnegat passed away Thursday, January 11, 1951. Viewing was held Sunday, January 14th at the Bugbee Funeral Home, funeral service Monday at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. W.R. Sloan officiating. Interment was made in Masonic Cemetery, Barnegat, under the direction of the Bugbee Funeral Home of Barnegat.