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... - WINCHESTER, JULY 23. MURDER ON BOARD A CONVICT SHIP. W. Brown and Smith Williams, two convicts from the halks at Portsmouth, were indicted for the wilful murder of William Winney, on the 15th of January last, by striking him a blow on his forehead with a hammer, and with cutting his threat. It appeared that the deceased was deputy foreman of the convict sawyers employed in the Gun Wharf at ...