The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-12-05
CRIuEs AND CAsUALITIEs

SHOCKING DEATH-Mr. Horace Bin, one Of
the most respectable citizens Of Terre Haute,
IndiSna, while hunting on the lsth inst :, scei'
dentalIy shot himself causing instant death.
4 DEFALcArIoS IN ORASeE.-- The Post Mas
ter at Orange, New jersey. Nj. Isaac P. Bald
wip, is delaulter in the sum OfS2,9Oo. He
has disappeared, but his sureties will be held
responsible for his peculation.
An EDITOR INDICTED FOR HoMIcDE.-The
Grand Jury Of Campbell county, Va, have
found a true bill agaipst Geo, W. llaidwiehe,
editor OF the Iyhchbarg Republican. for shoot.
ing and killing Joseph Button, at Lynchburg,
last June.
To BE ExEcTTED-WjIliam D.. Totty, con
victed OF the wilful murder Of Catharine J.
Thorn, and sentenced to be hung, was executed
according to Jaw on Friday last, in the city Of
Richmond, Va. t''' ,' ,'.-I
| MURDER ASD SUIcIpE.-.A few days, ago, at
New Orleans, man named Martin Porter, de-
liberately shot dead courtczan named Emelie
Scull, with whom he liYed, and Immediately
after blew out his own brains. They were
both recently from New York .-.,.
FoUND DEAD-sA German shoemaker, was
found dead in his bed at Mrs. Gentschs Hotel
in this place yesterday morning. d lie retired in
good health and spirits A Coroner's inquest
was hcld-but we did not learn their verdict
when our paper went to press.--Netg PAilqdel-
phjd A1rocate, 30tt list. ,,, ,i.,,s .rs +
RI YANcEY and Mr.. Gailor, editors ofthe
Memphis Audianche have recently been muir
;dcrously assaulted by unknown rowdics.gy
SINGuLAE SUIcIDE.-Andy Vance went into
barroom in Augusta, Ga, on the 10th, eferT
ed to treat the crowd, and takinb a bottle, O.
ilaudanum from his pocket, said it was his last
drink and swallowed it. e.. All attempts to save
his life were unayailng az f-,.,, s.e,
Blown UP.-At Newburyport, Mass, while
Jacob Morrill,, John Il. Kimbart, and Wm. P.
Bartlett were firing cannon in honor OF sold
Abe's" election, on the 7th inst, the gun blew
up and injured them all more or less. They
were all ferrymen, and Morrill, was over, SO
years ofage. ., ~, .,.., ..,,.,..,.,,...:-, ,,.
CONVICTED FOR MYSTERIOUS MURDER
Some months ago, Jacob Hersefeld was Post
master at Hollow Square, Alabama, and one
fine morning his neighbors found that he had
been mysteriously and barborously murdered.
In the course Of time suspicion fell upon An
drew e. Jones, and q fortnight ago he was
found guilty Of the assassination. The ev-
dence was entirely circums mstantial but strong
enough to produce convicriona 10 the minds Of
the jury of murderin the first degree. svJones
was sent to the Pentehtiary forfe on recon-
IN, nLatioH Of the jury. eS 7et' sa p taaga'Tg
SIfocktNa MuRbERI in CALIFoRSIA. Oh the
morning Of the 27tl Of October, the citizens Of
San Francisco were Mortified by some details Of
a very shocking and mysterious murder, that
occurred the previous evening. The family Of
Theophilus johnson, consisting Of himself wife
and two chiidren-a boy aged fifteen, and a girl
aged thirteen resided in secluded valley
few hundred yards southwest from lone noun
tain cemetery, and about two miles from San
Francisco Mr.. Johnson is Ship carpenter,
and employed at the South Beach yard
On the afternoon Or the 23d, young johnson
returned IRON school and found the doors lock
4 ed and bolted inside lie forced an entrance
through window OF his mothers sleeping a
partnent, and found the room full Of smoke
his mother lying on the bed wallowing in blood
and his sister dead on the floor. The girlt
skull was cleft openly blow from the sharI
edge OF an axe, and there were marks Of anoth
er blow on the head Inflicted evidently with
the pole of an axe. The skull of Mrs Johnso
had been crushed with repeated blows, iron
the same weapon. The murderer had set fir
to the bed clothing by placing lighted candi
under the bed. /" The boy summoned a neigh
Dor, and together they succeeded in extingust
ing. the fire.. A young man named William
: Cook, who had been in the employ Of Mr.. John
son, was seen that morning choppipg wood j
the neighborhood Of the house, and the axe wa
recognized as belonging to him. lie was nc
$ where to be tound, and suspicion. rested upo
him as the perpetrator Of the deed. .s. 81
p The people in the neighborhood turned ou
d and secured the countryall night believing tha
Cook had secreted himself in the ehappare
y On the next morning at daylight. the dead b.
: dy Of Cook was discovered under some, bushs
e not far from the house He had been smurdere
0 with his AKA. The skull was literally smash
i ed to pieces. J. The body had been dragge
some distance from the spot where the murd'
n had been committed, as evnced by clotsl
J. blood and brains strewed along the ground5-
:, The perpetrator of this horrid affair evidentl
d commenced by slsughtering Mr.. Cook, SO as
J get possessionof theaxe to complete his s'desigu
:, upon NJ Johnson, and daughter. it is suppose
|. that the murders were committed by an insar
4 Kanakaa tSandwiCh Islauder) )a6T ,isased o'i
i '9A man named Page recently Killed MI
Garret, IN Texas, for which he was forthwith
hung by the mob. ns bsgss'-a dasH ,TaI .'at
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