Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-12
Murder, Rape and Suicide in Kan
sas-Sickening Details-A Viii
lainOus HOrse.Thief.
Confession of a Suicided FOrger-
Murder of a Woman, and Sui
eide of the Murderer.
The Cherry Vale HOrrOr-Arrest
of Some of the Criminals
Detectives After the
Bender Family.
Nurdered a woman. Fired the House
aud Cut his own Throat.

Murdered a wOmau. Fired the House,
aud Cut his own Throat.
PHILADELPHIA, May 11.-Perry
White, residing in a tenement house,
1855 New Market street, set fire to his
house this evening, cut the throat of an
unknown woman and afterward his
own throat. Both died. The flames
were soon extinguished.
Probable Fatal stabbing ARRAY.
COLUMBUS. o., May 11.-During an
alteration, yesterday, between four car
penters, Henry Bush was stabbed, it is
feared fatally, by Francis NJ. Owens,
aged nineteen years. Owens was sup
piled with money to make his escape,
after the cutting, but was arrested twen-
tv-five miles north of this city last
night.
RiofOus Demonstrations in Rome.
ROME, May 10.-During the sitting of
the chamber of deputies yesterday, a
crowd numbering two hundred persons
marched to the Quirnal, making riot
GUS demonstrations on the way, shout
ing for the complete abolition of reli-
gious corporations. The police made
stand against the mob and prevented it
from entering the palace.
A FOrger's Confession and Confusion.
ST. LOUIS, May 10-A special from
Keokuk, Iowa, to the Democrat gives
! further particulars concerning the double
suicide In Hamburg county, telegraphed
! this morning. The fOrgeries in which
Wallingford was implicated are much
more extensive than first reported, and
| have been carried on by an organized
! band of thieves and fOrgers. 1t is stated
! that over two hundred thousand acres of
| land in Iowa have been sold on forged
deeds, by means of which a very large
| sum of money has been obtained. The
written confession of Wallingford, who
suicided, discloses the names of the
parties engaged with him in the forger-
! les. They are William JohnlyTarge,
James Rhodes, George Ball, ]. III.
! Baker, an old man named RoSeberTy
and sons, and man named Scott. Some
of these men have been arrested, but
the ringleaders fed, but the officers are
now in hot pursuit.
! Arrest of a VflIafnous HOrse-Thief and
| Barn-BuFRer.
CINCINNATI, May lion Friday, at
! " apakenetta, at the instance OF George
w. Hood, of Butler county, John Law
! ler was arrested and brought to Hamil-
! ton, on the charge of horse-stealing and
barl-burning. He acknowledges his
guilt. His mode of operations has been
! to pick up old horses grazing on the
commons, steal good horses from barns
at night, put the old horses in their
places, set the barn on fire, and then
leave. About a dozen barns have been
! burned in Butler county in this way
within the last six months. Mr.. Hood
detected the trick by examining the
shoes of the horses and tracing them to
the old broken-dOwn horses that had
been put in the barn and burned. He
had lost by theft six horses, and the
same number of old ones had been put
in his barn and the barn then burned.
Most Revolving Murders, aHts Suicide of
the Murderer.
ATCHIsoN, Ks, May ia special to
the Ddig Champion from Wetmore, a
small town on the Central Branch rail
wav, FORTY miles from here, gives an ac-
count of revolving wholesale murder
| It appears that a man named James
! Erickson was arrested some time ago,
charged with rape on the wife of man
named Marquette. All the parties are
! Swedes. Erickson was acquitted, and
he left the place. Yesterday he came
! back to WetmOre, and this morning
went to Marquette's house, near town,
and when the latter came to the door
Erickson shot him through the breast,
| killing him instantly. He then took
| Maruuette's two small children to q
neighbOr's house, where he left
them, saying he had killed their father,
and was going back to kill their mother.
The alarm was soon given, and the
ueiphbors rushed to the scene of the
murder, and it is reported that they
feared to 60 into the house, and sent to
! Wetmore for assistance. Before it ar
rived they heard shots made. On en-.
tering the house, they found Mrs. Mar
| quette lying on the bed in a state of nu-
dity, and shot in seven places. Erick-
son was lying across her body, also
dead, shot in two places, one over the
| temple and one in the abdomen. He
still held the pistol. 1t seems that he
had committed rape on the woman be.
fore killing her, and then shot himself
The bodies were all brought to Wet
more, and an inquest is now being held
over them.
The Cherry Vale Horror.
KANSAS CITY, May 1.-THE Cherry
Vale excitement is still at fever heat
! The Times has specials tonight which
give the following additional particulars
A force of about one hundred men art
at the grounds of the slaughter, which il
being plowed over again, though M
more graves have been found. The
Roach family of Ladare, seven mile:
from the slaughter, consisting of the ole
man and wife, his son Hod and wife
and his step-sOn, John Harness anC
wife, and Tho mas Tyak, wife anC
daughter, have been arrested. A Mr.
King, travelling district preacher, ha:
been arrested at Parsons, and notori
Gus murderer, once pardoned from the
penitentiaTy, named Major Murford, anC
a woman with him, were arrested al
Fort Scott. Detectives are still out, buI
rumors are so contradictory that no reli
auce is to be placed in them. Tht
Bender house and furniture is being de
molished by the visitors, who are carry
ing away portions of it as relies.
ST. LOUIS, May 1l.-ThOmas Beers, 8
detective OF Kansas, arrived here yes
terday on the trail of the Bender family
upon whose premises so many bodies o
murdered men have recently beeI
found. He has the authority of Cover.
nor Osborne, of Kansas, to hunt the as
sassins down, regardless of expense
Chief McDonOugh, of this city, will
render all the assistance possible. AL
ready information has been received o
parties here who have told more abou
the murderers than they ought to know
as innocent people.