Murderer of Dr. Stout has been Recaptured-1857

STOUT, SHARP

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 9/25/2019 at 18:44:22

St Charles Republican Intelligencer, Thursday, July, 16, 1857, Saint Charles, IA, Page: 1

We learn from the Delhi Democrat, that Christopher C. Sharp, the murderer of Dr. Stout, in Delaware County, Iowa, has again been captured. The scoundrel escaped from the State’s prison at Fort Madison, some months since, and was next heard of in Tennessee, where he married a girl of sixteen, and a lady of highly respectable parents. His wife hearing of it had him arrested for bigamy; and our state authorities have now taken him in charge. As the brutal murderer of Dr. Stout, the villain, Sharp, deserves death; and now for the seduction of an innocent and artless young girl, merits the severest tortures.