Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-24
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
Two viragos i'm Trouble.

been he'd in default of $1,000 bail each, to
answer the charge Of cruelty beating and
starving her daughter.
Eate stoddard's Confession a Ruse Of
the Police.
NEW YoRR, Aug. ga statement is now
made that Kate Stoddard's confession pub
lished sometime ago, accusing herself of
being the murderess of Charles Goodrich,
was police fiction to delude the alleged
murderer Roscoe into the belief that the
woman Stoddard stood accused, and con-
demned herself to save him, and that be
need not fly from justice. The so-cslled
confession was put forth by Commissioner
Jourdsn and ex.Chief of Police Campbell
of Brooklyn.
A DastardIy Outrage-An Editor As.
saulted with yitriol.
As Walter Gibson, proprietor of the Har-
lem Local, was entering his office last even
ing, an unknown person flung a cup of
vitriol or muriatic acid full in his face, pro-
badly destroying the sight of one, if rot
both, of his eyes. The pe-petrator of the
deed jumped into buggy standing near, in
charge of confederate, and disappeared.
Revenge for personal attacks by Gibson in
his paper is supposed to have prompted the
attack.
Rather Too Thin.
John T. Robin, Is Exchange place, yes
terday sent his clerk, Lotus Francis, to
the Metropolitan Bank 10 collect a gold
check for S1,768. The paying teller gave
him gold certificates and SS8 dollars in
coin. But on Francis returning to the Of
fee he missed his certificates, and said be
had either been robbed or had lost them.
He was sTrested.
Horrible Murder and Suicide.
ST. LOUIS, Avg. pa dispatch from
Payson, H.. says on Friday of last week
John Hancock, living four miles from Pay
con was discovered hanging by the neck
from an upper window of his house by
gentleman passing by. He was dead. On
entering the house Mrs. Hancock was
found lying on two chairs, with terrible
wound in her head, from which brairs and
blood were oozing. The lady lived three
days, hut did not return to consciousness.
No explanation Of tl e matter could be OBJ
tanned but it is supposed Hancock, who for
some time has shown symptoms of derang-
meut, struck his wife with hammer, one
being found near her covered with blood
and hair, and then hung himself. Han
cock was a respected citizen of 80 years
standing and about 60 years old.
A Mississippi Legislator In Limbo.
Charles Manse, said to represent Lowens
county in the Mississippi Legislature, was
arrested here yesterday for stealing lot of
clothing from room in the Laclede Hotel.
A Negro Brute.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Aug. 23.-Albert
Lawson, colored, beat his wife, who was
encierte, on Sunday last, from the effects Of
which she died yesterday. Lawson is in
jail.
Rape and Marder.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. pa young man
named John MaDgram was arrested to-day
on suspicion of ravishing and causing the
death of bis sister in-law, Mary Lee, whose
body was found Wednesday On the COM
mons near this city, having evidence of
violation and her heart ruptured. There
were indications of struggle On the
ground, and the girls bonnet was. found
some distance away, bearing evidence of
being torn off of her. Msngram confessed
to being with her that day. ),
Trial of Three GhouIs.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-A bearing was
had to-day in the case of Deputy Coroner
Zes, Superintendent of the Morgue, Baxter
duO dIifCI Vi LtlC WdE-
on, the two former charged with trsfficiDg
in dead bodies, and the latter with robbery.
The case grows out of the discovery of the
body of the late Mr.. Munce. The testi-
mony SHOWS that the gold watch had been
stolen from the body os Munce and pawn
ed by Melvin, that the body was removed
to the college with others. The Superintend-
ent of the Morgue failed to keep a record
of the clothing or property as required b.
law. A witness testified that Baxter look
ed little like the man who took Munce's |
body TO the college, and that he had fire.
quently taken others. There was no di- |
rect evidence against the Deputy Coroner,
but he and Baxter were held for further |
hearing. Melvin was committed.
A Suitable Case for Judge Lynch.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-Some commotion |
is caused in Brooklyn from the report that |
Mrs. Christina Langdon, aged 45, had died |
ttom severe caStigation, at the hands of DR.. |
jacob Gerst. L. appears she has been in |
poor health for some time, and few days |
ago got a fall, and was delerious, and the |
following morning was a ravipg lunatic.
The Doctor was called, aud the woman, ac-
cordlng to the statements of her married |
daughter, would not be STILL He tied her |
hands behind her back, threw her on a
sofa, and whipped her quiet with a rope or
strap. The woman soon afterwards become |
psralyzed and then died. Inys stigation
will be made by the Coroner.