Ocean County , NJ History

 

New Jersey Courier 15 Sep 1916

New Jersey Mirror 29 Mar 1860 On Friday morning last(March 23, 1860), Philip Lynch, convicted at the December term of the Court, of the murder of George Coulter, suffered the extreme penalty of the law, in the yard of the County Jail, in this town(Mount Holly.) The murder of Coulter was one of peculiar atrocity

29 Mar 1860, from the New Jersey Mirror On Friday morning last(March 23, 1860), Philip Lynch, convicted at the December term of the Court, of the murder of George Coulter, suffered the extreme penalty of the law, in the yard of the County Jail, in this town(Mount Holly.) The murder of Coulter was one of peculiar atrocity. A brief review of the facts in the case, may not be unacceptable. On the night of the 23d of September last(1859), Coulter and Lynch met at a house in Bordentown, where there was quite a gathering of persons and a raffle going on. After remaining there a short time, Lynch, according to the testimony of Coulter's little boy, who was with him, invited Coulter to go to his (Lynch's) house, which he did. They sat down and commenced drinking. Lynch, shortly after they entered the house, brought a gun from up stairs and showed it to Coulter, remarking that he was "not afraid of anybody while he had that." Soon after, one Peter Conlin came in, and joi