Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-20
CRIMINAL CHRONICLE.
WIG Hurder.

Wife Murder.
BANGOR, Me-, July 19.-George Mea.
way killed his wife yesterday. They
had been separated.
Hannah Butehery.
New YORK, July 19-During a quar-
rel among some drunken negroes in s
saloon on BroOme street, near Thomp.
son, early Yesterday, one man was killed,
another fatally wounded, and two OF
three badly cut.
A Wife Punfsher Sentenced TO Ten
Years imprisonment.
NEW YORK, July l9.-In the court oil
general sessions, Thomas SpTatt, who
threw his wife out of three. story win
dow, was sentenced to ten years in the
State prison, Notwithstanding that both
the man and wife denied the assault.
Peter Best Gets the Best OF "A Burglar
ST. LOUIS, July 19.-Tbe Repu6iicaaa's
Kansas City special says that last night
at Wyandotte, Kansas, as Peter Best, q
tailor of that place, was entering a room
over his store, he was knocked down by
q negro, who tried to rife his pockets,
but Bt st reviving, he caught the negro,
and he is now in jail. Best's skull is
crushed, and he is in a critical cOndi-
ton.
ESrs. DimmOCk, the Female shOotist.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, July 19.-Mrs.
DimmOck, who attempted to shoot DR..
A. w. Thompson at Northampton, was
brought before the judge to-day at
ThOmL sons instigatiOn for committsl to
the lunRtic hospital. Thomrs 0u's coun-
sci announced, however, that he would
not press the petition, and the woman
was discharged.
ChOppsd d his wife i'm Two, and Fled.
CINCINNATI, July 19.-The CONNER
ciGPs IrOnton, Ohio, 81 ecial says Taylor
Former, a desperate character residing
at Bear Greek, Kentucky, three miles
from IrODton, quarrelied with his wife
yesterday and after nearly chopping her
IN pieces took to the woods, Be wss
pursued and captured after q desperate
resistance while attempting to cross the
Ohio river, and is now in Greenup Jail.
The woman is still living but cannot re-
cover.
a Father Shot TO Death by his Son.
New YORK, July 19.-James Bailey,
an employee Cf the New York Central
railroad company, residing at No. 42l
West Fourth street, was to-day shot and
instantly killed by his eldest SCH, James
l. Bailey. The father and son quar-
relied, when the latter drew revolver
and fired. He then walked out into the
street and gave himself in custody to 4
passing policeman, to whom he &C.
knowledged the crime, and was locked
up.
Bloody ARRAY.
ST. LOUIS, July ia bloody affrsy
occurred in Usage county, in this State,
last Sunday, in which Absalom Fergu-
son was killed and Mr.. Petit badly
wounded. 1t appears tnat Petit was
farming an island in Usage river, of
which F'ergusOu claimed to have con-
troll, and had ordered Petit to vacate,
which the latter refused to do. Last
Sunday Ferguson, with squad OF
armed men, went to the island. Petit,
divining their purpose, ordered the par
ty to halt when within a few yards OF
his house. Ferguson raised his gun to
fire at Petit, but the latter was too quick
for him, and shot and killed him in
stantly. Fergusen's son then shot and
seriously wounded Petit.
JasksOs, the DefauIiing Revenue Col.
lecIOr, SsS,OOO short.
LOUISVILLE, July lS.-The revenue
OIllCldlS udNt DGeu CIOsely at WOTk III TIE
collectors Cffice examining into the late
defalcatiOn. The amount will be much
larger than at first supposed, probably
not less than seventy-tive thousand dol
lars. The evidence that JacksOn's death
was by suicide is acCumuating. The
revenue officers completed tonight their
investigation into the affairs OF the col.
lector's Office, and report the defalcation
to be eighty-twO thousand nine hundred
dollars and sixteen cents. 1t is theil
opinion that Jackson has been stealing
for several years, but that the bulk o
the money was taken during last Feb
rusTy. No trace Of how he disposed o.
the stolen money has been discovered.
The whisky FFauders,
ST. LOUIS, July ls.-The following
persons were indicted in connection
with the alleged whisky frauds before
! the United States district court to-day