Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-08
A YOUNG MURDERER.

Right votes.
A YOUNG MURDERER.
New York Sun. ID
The murder of a boy of ID by \ play.
mate of the same age attracted much
attention on the west side of the city
this afternoon. The murdered boy,
Frederick Lawler, was the son of a
shipping clerk, and was bright and en-
tilligent in appearance. The murderer
is named Andrew Moore. The two
boys got into q dispute about tre;lt.
ment Moore had received from Lawlcl
some time previously. Moore claimed
that Lawler had spoken i'll of him to
some other boys, which Lawler denied
Moore declares that LaWler then
threatened to whip him, upon which
he took 4 knife from his pocket and
stabbed him. Moore then attempted
to run away, but was siezed. Excl;.im
ing 81 have fixed him. lie coolly
wiped the blood off the knife-blatle
and put the weapon i'll his pocket.
The knife-blade, which was about four
inches in length, and half All inch
wide, had been forced through the
breast bone, and penetrated the base
of the heart. At the Coroncr's in.
quest, Moore, when asked why he had
committed the deed, said that Lawler,
who was taller and heavier than him.
self, had punished him severely i few
days before, and threatened to do it
again, that he had the knife in his
hand, opening clam, and that Lawlel
struck him, and in the struggle the
knife accidentally pierced his compan.
ions breast. lie had clam in his
hand when arrested, but some little
boys who witnessed the affray declared
that he took it from an oyster-stand
near the place of the homicide, after
he had been siezcd. George c. Crager
who saw the quarrel, and prevented
Moore's flight after the murder, says
Lawlcr was apparently trying to gel
away from Moore when the latter
suddenly raised his hand holding the
knife, which he thrust with all hi:
strength directly into the chest OF
Lawler. The latter dropped like ]eat
to the pavement, and Moore attempted
to dodge behind the oyster stand ant
run away. lie declared the murder t.
be entirely unprovoked.
TO THE POLE.
The London Telegraph, speaking Q
the expidition from England in TIL
Arctic seas says:
| When the two vessels were last seen
open water lay before them, and the
were bearing straight up northwIr
for Prlldhoe Land and Cape Isabell;
The season was III I'LL respects eminent
ly favorable, and there was every re;
son for hoping that Il very high lat
tude would he reached.
When we remember how Hall, in tn
little POllr1S, Il mere river steamer Q
small power and ill adapted for ic
navigation, with company, all tol(
of thirty men, women and children
including eight Esquimatlx, steame
up Smith sound and Kennedy chann'
in the working season, 4 distance 9
$50 miles, we cannot but venture t
hope that Captain Mares may hav
been able to push the Alert throug
the hitherto unexplOred waters Of Lii
coin sea up to the shadowy and far o
Presidents Land, or even, it may b'
to the eighty-fifth parallel.
We know from Mr.. Lannon'S s expe
ience how steamer, if her bows III
properly ironed for the work, ca
charge and crush her way through il
which would hopclessly stop the pr
gress of another vessel, and there
consequently some reason for belicv'
ing that the sledging party, whic
must now be we'll on it's way, has po
sibly not got more than four, or at til
outside five. degrees to cover before
reaches that extreme apex of til
earth which is, to use Mr.. Markham
words, ga spot where the suns altitud
is equal to it's declination, and whel
bearings have to lie taken by referent
to time and not to the Magnet" bl
which yet is the Ultima Thule of a
Arctic discovery and the express go
of the present expedition.
ICE CREAM.
A Philadelphia paper prints IN a
tonisling array of figures which III
slightly refrigerating to the sense
Just now. s'Twenty thousand cows ~