Contributed by Charlene Beney
(St. George Parish Coordinator) with permission of the Saint Croix Courier.
From an article by Maxwell Vesey in the Saint Croix Courier,
9 February 1933:
As Seen by -----The articles continues on for several paragraphs discussing historical crimes in other parts of the county.
MAXWELL VESEYHIGH CRIMES IN THIS REGION
(Continued from some time ago)
The records of over a century, from 1784 to 1900, contain only a limited number of major crimes committed in the county of Charlotte. Of those charged with murder only four suffered the penalty of execution. Morgan, the stone mason, who killed his wife in Milltown, 1833, was the case told in the last article. He was acquitted on the grounds of insanity. The next in order was the Robinson-Lynch tragedy of 1835.
Robinson and Lynch were discharged soldiers, each in receipt of a pension. They lived at Oven Head in the parish of St. Patrick. One day when on their way to St. Andrews in a sail boat they quarrelled, and Robinson, losing his temper, struck Lynch a blow on the head which killed him. He then threw the body overboard. This was the theory advanced by the prosecution. Later the body was found cast up on the shore, and Robinson was arrested. But the jury did not find the evidence against him sufficient, and he was acquitted.
See also the Oven Head page from
the Villages & Geography page.