Ocean County , NJ History

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

New Jersey Courier 15 Nov 1918 Collector and Mrs. Ernet L. Worth announce the marriage of their daughter, Gertrude Edith, to Charles P. Lippincott of Philadelphia. The bride is one of the popular young ladies of Bayville and Camden, a graduate of Toms River high school and Trenton normal, and has been teaching the past three years in the Cramer school, Camden. Mr. Lippincott is assistant cashier in the Fourth Street National bank of Philadelphia, and comes from a well known Camden family. The Ladies Aid Society will meet at the home of Miss Carrie Bonnell on Wednesday evening, Nov 20, at 8 o'clock. Coastguard James Brower is spending a few days at his home here. Mrs. A.B. VanWickle, Mrs. Annie Hess, Miss Mae Kelly and Fred Tappen of Asbury Park visited Devine Butler and wife on Sunday. Miss Ida Ward of Toms River spent Sunday with her brother, Geo. Ward and wife.

New Jersey Mirror 28 Jun 1866 John M. Lippincott committed suicide at Evesboro, on Saturday night, by hanging himself in an apple orchard, nearly opposite the hotel. He served his apprenticeship in the Mirror Office, and during that time and for some years after, he was a temperate and industrious young man. But later in life he indulged too freely in liquor, and finally became very intemperate. His sad end, considering the life he has led for sometime, is not surprising. He was about 50 years of age. This case should be a warning to those young men whose course is now fast tending to the drunkard's death.