Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-01
CRIMES.
Mary Mcbride, and the Mississippi
Warrant Forgery.

Mary Mcbride, and the Mississippi
Warrant forgery.
Special to the AppeaI.l
JACKSON, March 51.-MaTy Mcbride,
noted for her connection with the
Mississippi warrant forgery case, has
been fighting against the bill of the de-
tective which is now before 6 committee
of the legislature, in which he endeav-
ors to procure twenty-five hundred dol
lars, claimed as compensation for SER
vices rendered in feueting out the
forgers. She obtained an execution for
the amount claimed, and seized all the
papers in the hands of the committee
relating to the forgery business. The
bill claims that the seizure was illegal,
and that the papers were returned minus
several important cnes, 4 warrant
from New Orleans, charging Mcbride
with uttering forged warrant, consigHs
her once more to the city Jail.
Associated Press Dispatches.l
Beat to Death.
PHILADELPHIA, March 3I.-At late
hour last night q man was beaten to
death at Eighth and Race streets. Sew
eral parties are under arrest.
Ssreet-FIght and its Results.
BOSTON, March Sl.-A street-fght at
the north end has resulted in the death
Of John Rogers and the arrest of TimO-
thy O'Brien for the homicide.
A "GoOd One' PuIIed.
BUFFALO, March S1.-GeOrge Steven
son, alias Hunter, alias Clark, of Brook
lyn, has been arrested here on a charge
of grand larceny. The prisoner is al
legged to be one of a gang OF real-estate
swindlers, said TO be needed N Chicago
and Brooklyn.
Murderer Arrested.
WASHINGTON, March Sl.-A young
colored man named Harry Young alias
Charles Williams, was arrested in Alex
andria, charged with the murder of
Hahn. The evidence against him is
strong. He had been seen talking to
deceased on the night of the murder. He
exhibited draft which the deceased
obtained on a Baltimore bank for three
hundred and twenty dollars. He seemed
to know Hahn was intoxicated on the
night of the murder. There are nu-
merous threats Oflynohing him.
Indian DevIIment-
LEAvENWORTH, March 3l.-The Com
nercidl has intelligence from private
sources of a murder il Geld blood by the
Cherokee Indians of Mr.. Deming and
three other government surveyors, one
hundred and twenty miles southwest of
Arkansas City, on the twenty-fifth in-
slant. The men had gone one mile and
a half from camp, and their bodies were
found by their comrades buried in the
sand. Two others of the same party
and provision train have not been heard
from for some time. Fears are enter
tanned for their safety.
suicide.
BALTIMORE, March 3l.-William T.
Landstreet, senior member of the firm
of William T. Landstreet & Co., COM
mission merchants, committed suicide
this morning. During The war he served
short time as colonel of the eleventh
regiment Maryland volunteers.
LATER.
The report that William T. Land
street, commission merchant, had COM
mitted suicide is incorrect. 1t is stated
tonight, by relatives of Mr.. Ilandstreet,
that the shooting was accidental, and
not fatal, as was at first supposed.
Horrible and Mysterious Murder.
LOUISVILLE, March 3l.-This after
noon the body of a man, supposed to be
that of w. +. Asel, who lived in the
neighborhoOd, was found lying in the
road near Silver creek bridge, several
miles back of New Albany, Indiana,
with his throat cut almost from ear to
ear, and large wound about the center
Of the spine, both of which seemed
to have been made by some sharp,
jagged instrument like saw. The spot
is one of the most public in the county,
and the murder was evidently commit
ted not more than an hour or two before
the body was found, as the lattef was
warm, limp, and covered with blood.
Suspicious are excited against two
neighbOrs who had threatened Asel, but
there is no further clue, and the murder
I IS as mysterious as horrible.
Arrest Of q Supposed Murderer.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 31.-A police
officer from this city last night, at Cadis
junction, arrested and brought to this
city a man giving his name as David H.
| Drake, but who has an alias d. H.
! Gregg, on suspicion Of connection with
! the murder of an aged lady and child
near Nation, Illinois, some five weeks
| ago. Gregg came to this city some time
| last fall and applied for work on tine rail-
road here, bat was set to work neal
| the PittsbuTg end of the Pan Handle
railroad. At the time of the murder
Gregg was absent On an eight DAYS,
/ leave, andfhis, with his resemblance tC
/ the photographs Of the suspected party
caused his arrest. he was taken tC
| MattOon this evening for examination
/ Gregg declares he knows nothing of the
1 murder.
The Goodrich Harder.
NEW YORK, March 3l.-The story
published in a sensational paper yesteT.
day that it was known that Roscoe wa!
the murderer of Goodrich, is pronounced
/ by the officials as fiction. Roscoe they
| think may have had something TO dt
with it, and Il is true that the authori
ties seek his arrest, but Mrs. Myen
alias Armstrong, whoit is known wa
at her house on the night of the mur
der, and on that nigat had been in com
many with Goodrich in New York unit
nine O'Clock, when they parted ami
cablv. There is no clue as to the where
abonts of Kate Stoddard, en- intimat
friend Of the deceased. She is a sus
pected party, and could probably throw
iight an the murder. Gn the othe
hand, Tie chef Of police states tha
Mrs. Myers admitted 70 him that Ros
coe was the Murderer, but her stale
lmeut does not correspond with what ha
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