The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28
ONE WEEKS HORRORS.

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RACES with which the large city dailies art
filled~ Is question often asked US, and ou
general reply is, that we have no room for sucl
histories in oil their prurient or horrifyini
details, and without the details they generally
lose all their fascination for such as hav,
cultivated a taste for this species of literature
That our readers may form some notion, how
ever, of what is going on around them in ,
criminal way, we have thrown together in ;
condensed form, q recital OF crimes as we fine
them recorded in hastily running through
our exchanges of about one week, beginning
with say the 18th and extending to the 26tl
inst. OF course this epitome embraces but {
part, in our country, our limits being made
quate to give even a synopsis, should we In
clude foreign countries:
Henry Jewett, of Hudson, N. H., 25 years old
either loved madly or hated with deadly venom
He married Hudson girl three years ago, but
was unable to live with her, and the twain were
legally separated Henry then courted Miss
Ella Wood, but she declined the honor OF hi.
hand. Jewett went to the house of her parents
where the family were all gathered in the sitting
room, and the parents approving Miss Elias de-
cisiOn, he drew a revolver from his pocket and
fired at Miss Wood The ball entered her fore
head just above the eye, and the wound is sup.
posed to be mortal He then turned his pistol
upon Mr.. Wood, who grappled with him, and
Jewett finding himself oyerpowered, put his pis.
tol to his own ear and fired, the wound also
proving mortal. Mr.. Wood took the fellow by
the heels, dragged him out of the house, and left
him under an apple tree. 1t is thought Jewett
intended to murder the whole family, and then
shoot himself.
The quiet of a Chicago Sunday, for the first
time in a week, was broken last Sunday by an
attempt at Murder. For some time a feud ex-
listed between the families of John Krouse and
VIM Dennison, residing near the corner of Mil
waukce Avenue and Noble streets. Last Sunday
morning Krouse and his brother went fishing,
and coming home considerably intoxicated,
Krouse saw Dennison at his door, and his anger
being aroused, he went into the house and took
down an old musket loaded with slugs and
spilled the contents into DennIson's face. Flu.
neral for Dennson, arrest Of Krouse, &c.
Geo Leder, of Baggy bayou, Florida, was I'm.
fortunate in n job he lately undertook. 1t was
to kill his brother.in-law, George Parrish, whom
Ledcn accused of having told the government
that he was cutting wood on its land. Having
attacked Parrish with revolver, and fred half
dozen shots at him, Parrish began to think lie
den was IN earnest, and clinched him, winding
up the unpleasantness by clubbing his brains
out.
In South Evanston, near Chicago, last week
Charles Brautse, young man, while walking
with two companions, was shot through the
head by some unknown person, and instantly
killed.
In New York, on the 10th, while James Curtin
brother of the wife struck Curtin on the head
with an axe killing him instantly.
At Horndike, Maine, lived John Gordon, a
man 70 years OF age, with two sons, one % years
old, married and having a family, the other IS
years old, single. The old man owned farm
and home worth 5000, which he concluded to
convey to his married son Amon, taking mort
ing life. The other son, John T., was dissatisfied
with the arrangement and on the night of the
18th John T., who slept in the house, arose
while all were arleep, and with an axe murdered
his brother, his wife and child, II months old
boy, 6 years old, in the same room, awoke in
the midst Of the murderous work and began to
scream, upon which the murderer left in haste,
but not before having set the house on fire. The
hired man and boy-the old man was absent
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iered parents and child. The brother was next
day arrested and is in jail, hut is logged and
reticcnt, promising, however, to explain all at
the proper time"
John Wood, negro, who some three weeks
ago ravished q white woman in Rutherford
county, Tenn, and then knocked her in the head
with an axe, was taken out Of prison on Satur.
day night by n mob and hanged
At Hamilton, Ontario last week, Thomas
Fields, proposing to have spree, gave his wife
$40. Fairly on his spree, he wanted the money.
The wife gave him 81. He was out all night,
and coming home in the morning, found his
wife, daughter years old, and son II months
old still in bed He got a Ratchet and com.
menced chopping at his Wfe's head She sprang
up anu ran Ohl uastllN duu CRlleu pOlceman.
On getting back, however, they found that
Fields had cut the Threats Of the two children
with razor. The man was taken in charge by
the policeman, but there was some difficulty in
dispensing Judge Lynch's court.
At Chicago, on the 2lst, II carpenter named
Gardiner went into the hardware store of w II.
on Archer Avenue, and finding no
one but Mrs. Sidebotham and boy in the store
claimed that he had left a rule there, and took
one from the shelf When Mr.. 5. returned his
wife mentioned the fact to him, upon which he
sent the boy to Gardiner TO bring back the rule
Gardiner brought it back, but claiming it was
his, left it, and started to go away As he went
out Of the door, however, he called Sidebotham
a d liar. 3, went for him There was
short fight on the sidewalk, in sight of two pc.
liccmen who failed TO interfere, and Sidebotham
returned 10 the house, but with such injuries
that . few hour. afterwards he died Gardiner is