The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-31
Che plain I'd Iowa Cavalry.

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ATTEMPTED MuRDEa-A NEW York
RUNNER MAKES DEaD..y ASSAULT oN A
M ERcHAsz.-A DARING aud cold binoded
attempt Was' u.ade on Saturday morning
last to inurief j. c. Prentiss, Esg., q high
~ respected ana wei. known merchant D:
Rayenna.
The nv raerer'a Iaa.e is W. w. Flower,
q New lDrk rAnAer. On Friday night
Flower WAS "A the store of Mr.. Pren;iss
and heard him tell his clerk that in the
morning lie Mus. deposit the money in the
bank. After Mr. P.eIsiss left the store in
the evening, Flower asked the clerk to
change Tor bin 3 hundred dollar blIi, but
The clerk declined 10 Go lit and told him to
Gail ia the morning, when Mr.. Preutss
would probably accommodate him.
Flower seemed satisfied and left. In the
morning, after breakfast, he went over 20
the store. Mr. Prentiss was engaged in
~koveiil- snow and ice OF the sidewalk
Flower made tie same request as ne q ID
the night before. to which Mr.. prentiss as
senteG and they passed into the store. Mr..
Pren;isa unlocked the safe took cut tie
money ana proceeded to count out the
Change tor the bill. aud had counted out
probably 500, when Flower struck iliL4 two
DlGvs GA tie back oi the head, and Selling
hin! by the feet dragged him through the
trap door into tie cellar. After he lad got
his victim into the cellar, probably finding
that the blows with tie POKER had not fully
accomplished TIE purpose, he took loose
Stone from the cellar walk aud beat Ei.a on
the hss dwi;Li !.
Tie murderer then probably went up
stairs TO secure his booty; but Just at this
time gentleman caflie IN, ana was seen
oy Flower, although himself unseen. The
gentleman discovered money scattered on
the foo-, and perceiving the trap door TO
the cellar open, looked down, when he saw
tvf fhnrn IT,. 4
He went into the cellar and found MIR.
PEantiss lat able to speak ard to his qUas-
ton as 10 who had uoae the deed, he re-
piled Flower and pointed to the omen
cellar ccor tl1ut leads 10 TIE back yard OF
the store.
The gentleman gave the alarm, and "a a
few minutes the whole village was aroused
The Authorities teiegraphed tie description
oi tie n-arderer ali over the country, and
every means was taken To effect his cap
ture.
III the afternoon, towards night, the
murderer WAS discovered in the priyy o:
the Collins House. H.Gre lie had been all
day. When found lie was almost dead,
having attempted to hi. himself; He had
lied = handkerchief .ger his mouth, and
brought tue encs sround his throat, and
| ted them SC, tight that he must have died
! from snEdca.io. in j lew minutes more j.
he had not been relieved. He had also at.
tempted to get into thevault, but had stuck
fast. When it was known that he had
been captured. the people became very
much excited, but he was safely lodged in
jail to await the result of his foul deed.
Cleveland Herald, Dec. 1891.
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DARING RraGLARY-THE BURGLARS
FIRE SIX SHOTS AT A POLICEMAN AMI
EscAPE.-Last evening, about half pas1
! nine O'Clock, officer Jacob Roskopf, Of the
North Side Merchants Police, was passing
Culver Il Co.'s LA Kinzie street, when his
| attention was called to the apparent inse.
curity Of the side door on La Sale street
and as he approached it he heard persons
inside. Opening the door about six inches
some one fired at him with revolver. the
ball passing close to his cheek. The Officer
then ran around to the back door. where
within two seconds, five shots more wer,
fired at him, passing closely on both sides
two OF the balls entering his! coat sleeve
The burglaTs--there were two Of them
then made break out Of the back doc
and took to their heels, the officer in clos,
pursuit, but, we regret to say, entirely un
armed. The chase continued down "A
Sale street. to North Water street. theme,
to Wells street, ACROSS the bridge, ther
through South Water to Lake street bridge
where the burglars took to the dock. ant
the officer lost sight Of them. Returnin,
to the store, he found two crowbars, q dari
lantern. several other implements, 4 boitl,
i containing quarter of pound af powder
anu quantity Of putty, with which tn,
They had succeeded in making one explo
sion in the lock, and were preparing TO
another when the officer disturbed them
1t was a bold attempt, and the officer de
serves much credit for his intrepidity il
following them SO far under such disad