Newspaper Reports Regarding the Life and Death of Aaron Thomas Bowden & "The Sanctified Band" - Part 1
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The shooting of Aaron Thomas Bowden was the third shooting death on Chincoteague. The first was in March 1878, when Joseph J. English, owner of the Atlantic Hotel shot a guest for non-payment of his bill. The second was in June 1885, when Tom Freeman shot 13-year-old Jennie Hill. The first local newspaper report regarding the death of Aaron Thomas Bowden, followed by newspaper accounts from other cities, by publishing dates: From The Peninsula Enterprise newspaper, edition of Saturday, 8 September 1894, on page 3, column 2, under the heading "Neighborhood Notes:" "Chincoteague. Mr. A. T. Bowden was shot in his bed through a window, near which he was sleeping last Saturday night, and died in a few hours thereafter. At the coroner's inquest held over the dead body, Irving Sturgis testified, that he and twelve other young men had been up the Island in search of members of what is known here as th...