The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-08
CRIMEs AND CASUALTIES.

Two children, named Anna and William
Tully, aged eight and ten years, residing
in ST. Louis, were seriously, if not fatally,
burned while filing kerosene lamp few
nights ago. y
f. The overland mail coach, near Redding,
CAL, Oct. 8, was robbed by four men.
They got Wells, Fargo s. Co.'S box. con-
tanning nearly $4,000, and about $4,000
from passengers. The robbers escaped.
A sheriff's posse is in pursuit.
An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate
ex-senator Pomeroy of Kansas was made
in the streets of Washington, October II,
his assailant being NJ. F. Conway, former
ly member of Congress from the same
State. Three shots were fired from a re-
yolver, only one of which penetrated the
skin, and that causing but slight wound
Upon being taken into custody, and asked
the reason for his attack upon Pomeroy,
Conway replied, " He ruined myself and
my family Pomeroy expressed himself
totally ignorant of the cause of the attack,
but it is reported that it was owing to
Conway's belief that the former had been
instrumental in thwartihg him in some
political movements in Kansas. Some of
Conway's acquaintances think him insane.
He was released on $4,000 bail.
The steamer Missouri, of the Missis-
sippi and Dominion Line, from Liverpool
to New Orleans, was wrecked off the
Bahamas, Oct. /. All the passengers and
crew were saved. Loss from a quarter to
half million. ii
Eighty-six valuable horses were burned
in Hayes stables, in Boston, Oct, 10.
About one-half were the property pf pri-
vate individuals, and the rest belonged to
Hayes. alf ass g
A farmer named Robert Austin, resid-
ing six miles southeast of Carrolton, Mo-,
having suspicion that criminal intimacy
existed between his wife and hired man
| named Elijah F. Haley, ostensibly started
| for st. Louis on Oct. 10, but instead OF
proceeding there he returned to his house
at night. secreted himself in a closet adj
| Joining his wife's bedroom, and soon after
caught Haley creeping in on his hands and
knees. Austin Immediately fired three
shots from navy revolver at them, the
first taking effect in the abdomen of Mrs
A., the second shooting Haley through
the heart, and the third passing through
Haley's temple; either of which shots
would have been instantly fatal. Mrs
| Austin lived about three hours, but gave
no explanation of her conduct, and made
no attempt to clear up the circumstances
/ Austin says he did not intend to kill his wife
He went to town next day and gave
/ himself up to the authorities, but no one
appearing to file an information, he re
turned home again. Another version Of the
i tragic affair land stated to be equally relli
ableJ is that Austin's wife owned the farm
on which they lived, and that he. falling
to secure the transfer of the title to him
self, resolved to put her. out OF the way
and that upon returning to his house OF
the night mentioned, he entered his wife;
/ room in a surreptitious manner, which
aroused Haley to find out who was the in
truder. and then Austin shot them both al
described in the first instance. Botf
stories appear to have earnest believers il
the vicinity of the tragedy where naturally
4 the greatest excitement prevails.
In Nashville, Tenn, October 13, R. NJ
Richards, proprietor of a disreputablt