Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-15
Brutal Murder.

Brutal Murder.
Special TO the Appeal
RUTHERFORD, Tenn, March IL
Three Irishmen, named James Fox,
Charles Durning, and John Kelly, got
on a spree here yesterday, and during
the night got into an alteration in the
vicinity of town, which resulted in the
brutal murder OF Fox by the other two.
The murderers have been arrested, and
have confessed the deed.
Associated Press Dispatches.l
The Car-HOOk Murderer
ALBANY, March I3.-Foster's case
will probably be decided to-day, but will
be made known only to the officials in
New York.
Cattle Poisoning.
CINCINNATI, March l4.-Sixty-tWo
head of cattle belonging to Smith 81
Fowler, Lawrenceburg, Indiana, were
poisoned by some unknown person yes
terday. FOTty-nine are now dead, and
the rest dying.
Robbers Convicted.
PHILADELPHIA, March 14.-Harrison
s. Brown and Henry Williams, who at
tempted to rob the Corn Exchange
bank, were tried and found guilty to-
day. A motion in arrest of Judgment
will be argued tomorrow. Both are es-
capped Sing-Sing prisoners.
Love and Suicide.
ST. LOUIS, March 13.-John Malloy,
usher in the Church of the Messiah in
this city, died at one O'Clock this morn
ing, from the effects of severing the
main artery Of one of his arms, the
wound being self-inhicted. Disap-
pointed love was the cause Of the act.
Fosters Case Hopeless.
| NEW YORK, March l4-The private
secretary of Governor Dix announced
| to the sheriff to-day that the governor
| had written a letter TO Rev. DIR. Tying,
saying that public safety and justice de-
manded the execution of Foster. The
| deputy-sheriffs are now guarding him
| in the tOmbs.
Attempted Bribery In the Missouri Leg.
lslature.
ST. LOUIS, March 14.-Quite a scene
/ occurred in the lower house of the legis-
! lature yesterday, one of the members
stating that an offer had been made to
| bribe him to vote for the insurance bill
| before the house. He accused Frank
/ HickOx, q lobbyist, with offering him
one hundred dollars. The friends of the
| bill assert that they do not know Hick-
OK, and say that the charge was ruse
/ to defeat the bill. Great excitement
prevailed for some time, and further dis
/ cussion of the bill was postponed. Mr..
| Hickox worked in the einterest of Colonel
Bogy during the senatorial contest.
COwardIy Murder.
! CHATTANOOGA, March IA cow
ardly murder occurred near Wimber-
| ley's Cross Roads, in Polk county, on
the fourth instant, Of which the follow
| ing are the particulars: Davis and Joe
ROark had difficulty last summer some
time, apd in January last Alex. ROark
and William Holden, brother-in-law to
Joe and Alex. ROark, renewed the diff
Guilty with Davis, when Holden shot at
] Davis, whereupon Davis returned the
! fire, slightly wounding Holden in the
shoulder. Nothing more of interest oc-
Cured until the last day of February,
| when Davis and Alex. Roark met at the
/ Cross Roads and made friends, and Alex.
insisted upon him going home with him
to stay all night, but Davis refused to
90. Roark insisted on his coming soon
in the morning as he wanted to swap
pistols with him. Alex. Roark lived q
little less than half a mile from the
Cross Roads.
The next morning, the first of March,
Davis started over into Bradley county
and as he passed A. .Roark's house, Mike
the father of Joe and Alick, was stand
ing in the door, and after Davis passed
thirty or forty yards, shot him in the
, back, which seemed to be a signal fol
. the others. Davis being afraid that they
were before him also, Immediately
turned and ran back by the house while
+ they were shooting at him, one bal
: striking him in the left side, one glanced
the top of his head, two others through
, his c0a., which did not take effec
in his body. The one that glanced his
head knocked hin to his hands anC
knees, when they set a fierce dog upOI
him, but he rose and kept the dog from
biting him, and ran on about two o.
, three hundred yards farther, falling
twice more, when he was met by sOm'
men from the Cross Roads, who hearC
: the firing and saw Davis running.
Davis said he did not see any one bu
Mike ROsrk. But Alex. and Holder
are both hiding out with the old man
and are still at large.
I Davis was helped to the house of Mr.
l Graham, where he died about clever
4 o'clock in the morning on the fourth
p day of this month.
? Mysterious Suicide Of an Old Cashier
! FRANKLIN, PENN, March 14.-Th
community here was thrown into q stat
of the prOfOundest excitement this morn
/. ing, by the suicide Of Thomas +. Ander
! son, cashier of the Lamberton bank
and one of the oldest cashiers in the oi
regions. He opened the bank as usua
at nine o'clock, and transacted busines
e with several customers. He was after
e ward noticed running in and out of tn,
: bank in q hurried and excited manner
r and then hurrying up Thirteenth stree
toward his residence. Smoke was thel
seen issuing from the bank
and persons who had notice,
his maneuvers entered the bank, sup
: posing it to be on fire, where they dis
q covered the CRATE heaped up with bank
notes, bonds, and bank papers, rapid,
being consumed by fire. The fire wa
s extinguished as quickly as possible, AM
I the notes, bonds, ETC., drawn out. Som
: were in a charred condition, while 9th
D ers were burned to ashes. Upon reach
ing his residence, some three square
distant, he entered by the backLway
c and handing his wife letter
said that he was about to com
e NIT an awful act, at the same tim
: exposing pistol, which he held in nj
: hand. She endeavOred to take it from
+ him, but he tore himself from hel
: stepped a few steps down into the yard
raised his hand and fired. The ball en-
= tered the right temple. His wife fel
: fainting. His consciousness returned q
intervals of short duration for an hou
4 or more, but he gave no explanation 70
! the act. At half-past twelve O'Clock b
: expired. Several letters were left by him
: but the contents have not as yet bee
made public. A note left on the coun
ter said that he had destroyed all th
n special deposits and bills receivable
v thirty-eight thousand dollars Of whic
: was Mrs. Lamberton's individual gov
= ernment bonds. The amount absolEtel
Q destroyed cannot be as yet asceEtainec
!. THE United States treasure has bee
9 telegraphed to send some ore ct once
< examine the chaEred bonds and notes
!. What led 70 this eann0t be positivei
ascertained. II IL generally suppose