The Murder of John Hockey, 1860
New Jersey Mirror 16 Aug 1860: A cold-blooded Murder was committed at Delta Grove -- on the Rancocas, between Bridgeborough and the Rail-road Bridge, some 10 miles from Mount Holly--on Monday afternoon. The murderer was brought to this town, on Tuesday morning, and lodged in jail. It appears that a party calling themselves "Hottentots," adherents of the South Penn Hose Company, and others, of Philadelphia, went on an excursion to Delta Grove, on Monday morning. The party comprised persons of both sexes, to the number of two hundred and upwards. Rows were frequent during the day. One man was stabbed in the morning. Five or six of the adherents of the Hibernia Hose, accompanied the party. A man named Keyser, connected with the United States Hose Company, was observed to be very quarrelsome. He early became intoxicated, and made numerous efforts to create a disturbance. Notwithstanding all this, however, no serious affray took place until about six o'clock in the evening.