The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-30
Crime.


Last year there were II murders and
50 suicides in New York.
"A Missourian INDICATED his right to
seat his little daughter on hot stovs by
shooting q friend who unwisely interfered
with the family discipline.
The National Bank of the Republic,
at New York, was recently robbed of
$4,000 in United States and Missouri
State bonds, while the clerk having it in
charge had his back turned.
An express messenger in Alabama
who was robbed of $70C40 the other day,
was finally convinced by the detective
police officers that he hadn't been
robbed great deal, and he refunded the
money.
The New York Sunday Times says
that children are flung away in the streets
of that city like cigar stumps, and the
police say infanticide has never been so
common in New York as during the past
twelve months.
"A burglar who was lately captured in
st. Louis, was paraded through the streets
by the police and taken to the promi-
nent hotels, with placard bearing the
word "Thief" upon his back, that peo-
pie might beware of the gentleman in
future.
-Rodman Graham murdered his wife
at Philadelphia while she was waiting upon
his dying mother, shooting her with q
pistol. He gave himself into custody,
alleging, as a reason for the deed, that his
wife attempted two or three times to poi
son him.
Jake Taylor, mischievous colored
man, residing in Champaign, Ill, under
took, few days since, to discipline his
wife, By hitting her over the head with
chair. Just as he was in the act of doing
SO, she punctured his heart with a pair of
scissors. which caused his death almcst in
starvly. A Coroner's jury absolved the
woman from blame.
AN atrocious murder was perpetrated
at Springfield, Ohio, lately. One Perry
Bechtie, an old resident of that city, while
under the influence of liquor, and irritated
by the rival claims Of another man as the
inventor of water-wheel, shot John D.
Riley, a brother-in-law of his competitor,
killing him instantly. He probably mis-
took the victim for the other man. The
murderer was promptly arrested.
Charles Langenhiem, whose painted
cell in the Philadelphia Peniteutiary has
been enbalmed in Dickens american
Notes" has been again arrested for bur-
glary. His first term of seven years he
spent in deliberately ornamenting the walls
Of his cell in water-colors. When released
he did not reform, but soon found his way
back again, was put in another cell, and
decorated that in the same way.
"A Cheyenne correspondent says that,
with all the efficiency Of the Mayor and
police, it is expected that Cheyenne this
winter will oe hard place. The city is
full of cut-throats, thieves and despera-
does besides, it is the winter quarters for
" bull whackers," "mule-skinners," grad
ers, bridge builders and others who have
gambled off their money, and will have to
steal or starve, as there is no employment
there for them during the winter months
Those who are SO fortunate as to hsve
money enough to pay the high tariff on
the Union Pacific Railroad are leaving for
the States.
"A small specimen of man, named
Spaulding, Chicago druggist, was re-
Gently detected in efforts to cheat the Gov
eminent out of few pennies, by the fol-
lowing somewhat ingenious method of
using stamps: 1t is incumbent upon him
to put tive-cent stamps upon numerous of
his bottles and packages. He would pur-
chase a lot of four cent stamps, and also
half the number of penny stamps Then,
cutting the former in two, he would paste
the penny stamp over the torn edge, it
being also large enough to cover up the
vacant half of the four cent stamp, leaving
Uncle Sam and others to suppose it was all
there