The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-20
THE NEWS RECORD
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

Four men under sentence Of death are
confined in th5 St. Louis Jail, all to be hanged
within the next three weeks.
A dozen Of the participants in the re.
cent fatal prize fight at Buzzy Woods, near
Boston. have been held fer trial.
Mr.. Ed. Harvey, superintendent of the
arge Smith farm near Paxton, ILL.,, has run
away with young women OF Loda, leaving hi
own wife and TOUR children to take care of
themselves.
On Saturday the 9th, Capt. Bogardus.
the famous pigeon shooter, while engaged in
shooting match at st. Louis, was arrested at
the instance OF the society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals.
Sheriff Baker, of Wood county, Wis,
viii e attempting to dispossess man named
Courtwright OF some property he was illegally
occupying on the 18th, was shot and instantly
killed by Cartwright.
Thos. Divine, night Waterman at the
Palmer iron colliery, near New Philadelphia,
Pa, was shot on the night Of the 18th, and
probably fatally wounded, while on his way t.
work. The assassin escaped.
Sebastian Debrot, an Italian coal dig.
ger at Alpsville, Pa, having outraged girl OF
10 years, being about to be arrested for his
crime, committed suicide by plunging prun-
ing knife three times into his breast.
Bulliner and Baker, procurers of as.
sassination, of Jackson county, ILL.,, being
found guilty, were on the 18th sentenced to
imprisonment tor % years, at which Bulliner
cried like child but Baker was unaffected
Secretary Bristow has directed the
Solicitor OF the Treasury to take legal steps to
protect the government in the matter Of the
custom house at Boston. Systematic fraud
or criminal negligence in the construction OF
the building is alleged.
Burglars who broke into the Express
Office at LAUREL, Ind, on the night OF the 9Th,
and carried it halt mile away to blow it upt
gained only Sl2 to $40, the agent having re.
moved $4,000 from the safe the night before.
Sharkey, the New York murderer, was
liberated from Jail in Havana, Cuba, on condi-
ton Of becoming subject Of Spain and enlist
ing in the Spanish army, and has accordingly
been enrolled in regiment at Santander,
Spain:
Another OF the gang Of swindlers who
undertook a simultaneous raid with forged let
tiers Of credit upon the New York branch of
the Bank Of British North America, came to
grief at Indianapolis, making five who were
caught and arrested.
Thomas Wiley, ship carpenter Of
Baltimore, having been arrested for outraging
little girl, Rosa Schnappel by name, it ap-
pears that he has pursued and assaulted other
little girls and that his propensity to the crime
has for some months been known to his &C.
quaintanoes.
William F. Leslie, the defaulting clerk
of Duncan, Sherman & Co., accuses Ella Shaw,
known as Margaret D. Katen, of
having enticed him into her tolls and persuad-
ed him to rob his employers, and has begun
civil suit against her which is pending in the
New York courts
William Butler Duncan, William
Watts Sherman and Francis Il. Gain of the
late banking firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co.,
have been arrested on charges of fraud in the
transfer Of property and falsifying book &C.
counts for the purpo Of deceiving and cheat
ing their creditors.
A colored doctor at Elkhart, Ind,
Thomas Montgomery, has been arrest
ed Tor procuring an abortion upon a woman
who lies at the point of death in consequence.
He boasts OF having had large practice in that
line and that some OF his patients stand high
in the social scale.
Mr.. Grouse of Wayne township, Ind,
having been persuaded to invest in counterfeit
currency was subjected to Matchmaking pro-
cess by the fellows who persuaded him into
the investment, from which he was saved bv
the Intervention of a shrewd lawyer, who has
caused the arrest Of Yates and Fitch the black.
mailers.
Another suicide, making three, has
been caused by the failure of the Townsend
Savings Bank OF New Haven, Conn. The last
is E. w. B. Hitchcock of Naugatucket, who
lost his money in the bank, became recklessly
dissipated in consequence, and has now killed
himself in fit Of delirium, after attempting to
kill his wife.
Josie Longmaid, the, girl who was muir.
dered and her head cut off, near Pembroke.
N. H., told Miss Lake, school teacher, some
time before her death, that Bill Drew, the
man who is under arrest tor her murder. had
several times grossly insulted her and threat
ened ii she told her father, to kill her and cut
her into inch pieces.
About midnight on the night of the 7th
Mrs. Annie NJ. Forrest of Bay City, Michigan,
was awakened by corrosive acid being poured
on her face. She is horribly burned and has
lost her eyesisht, The outrage is suspected to
have been committed by a man who has been
jilted by a girl who lived and slept with AIRS.
Forrest, he making mistake in the person.
John Mcclure, a farmer of Lyman,
IN Ford county, Illinois, has been sued tor
damages on behalf OF one Charles O'Connell,
boy lie alOllfed from,