, 1876-01-03
CRIMINAL NEWS.
Account Of IN Attempted Murder by
all Insane Man in New
York City.
Contint1cl Excitement In Buffalo
Over tho Delt1catiOn
Of l5or1s.
Tho Ooining Operations Of 0onviots in tho
Ohio Panitontiary.

al INSANE ATTACK.
Nttr iork Jtnrs, .Idn. J..
The Westminster IlotoI, corner Of Irving
pnco and stStcouth atreet, was yestor,ay oscn-
Ing tho sccno Of probably fatal shoasinK aErray
hctwocn two prominent citizens. Mr. john u.
D,.labcr, tho wrll.knonn Wholesale liquor ncr-
chant Of No. 40 DeAvot street, was ellut by Mr.
llomaino Dillon, brother OF ox-rark Commits
sioner Robert G. Dillon. It appears That
AIE. Dillon, vino is 70 ,ea'H old and
bachelor, has hoen boarding nt thu
| Westminster for ncarly iilrce years paal. AIR.
| Dtllsbcr became Emgst Of tic hot e abott Two
months ago. lie Is ~ years old. ard ts nnuar-
| tictl. For son,o months past Mr.. bilious con-
duct III Tho hotol has been regarded Az eoma-
| wat eccentric, but he was considered perfectly
harmless by tho attachob Of the house. Ycstcr-
| day evening about 7:30 o'clock. mir. Dillon waa
atting on lounge III tue half Of tho hoto!, when
Atr: Dit'aber. WHO was smoking ciEar. came IN
and began 10 wink up aud down tho hail. sud
denly air. Dillon Bprang up from his
sent, and approaching nlr. Diilabcr,, en-
tered into, conversation With him;
John n. ,Trnpp, tho ha!l-boy, who noticed
that m alto1cation wns going on betwocu tho
two men, ran into tho private oflco Of Alr. c.. u:
Folriu, the proprietor Of tlo hotel, md notified
to soc 11r. Dillon draw Dornnger pistol from
hs trousers pocket md fro at Slr. Dillabor. who
foil to tho t!oor. An alasm was at onco given,
| md Dillon, who mndo np effort to escaps MAS
| promptly MttsIou ps III oHtoel " VIZ Ieu.eoa'u
whatever. nnd simply gavo bis name md SAID
ne was echslenah py ocenpatloh. ehps
tsaflahtt otae1ea hlm 10 60 iockeu up, ana
n,cAntimo Nj. Di1abcr bad been conveyed to
lis room In tho hotel and Prof J. H. Wood called
in. lilo found that tho large ball from tho pisto!
lad entered ar. nlI!Aoofs iolt hao loMt inenes s5
bcleS INC neest, lnhictns p!opaply tatal
wonnts. sslmatahta "o.o 'nhGasoss Mal!- auaiI'ls-
oalliug at tne hotel he was sufficiently stronx 70
maze ~ inlofmai a:atonght feeasaas .no aMar:
sir. Dilnoef SAD snss ns9!on, on appsoacn'ns1
oiln. eaiu ~" SoA, arc you M1cnlng mn
AZ; nlliAoer SAIL p" no' alt' Whoh Dil'on ~ topieu,
.lo4 arc o,,,--lif' n,-li lisf' aud dia~ln9 uio pst9l'
hhot him. Diion VI uo atIal8hed a. luz 1olh-
vlllo pollee Court thts morning.
|
VIE COLUMBUS sMAHCH MIMI.
discovery that the convictB in tho penttentlary
have got down to a hard. .tnonoy basts by MAUI
fackutpg spurious uisucB, Las rnado sonsatton
hcrc. rutaor In current tllat these thrifty con-
vets had not coufiucl themselves TO coin, but
had also manufactured bogus groonpachs, Tho
fact that Charley Uy5{ch, one OF tho most oxpork
| cou,,torfeitors IN America. ia copt,uod hero. at
opco pointed him out aB tho loader OF
lilo countorfciting gsoonIacls party, IT such n
ti,ing existed. Warrior Inncs was interviewed
on tho subject to-day. IIo says II any green.
bacls layo boon 1ladc in tho prison he docs not
know it, lie saya bogus nichols woro made by
twu ucp,-JoAu Fought eont from Augiaiso
! County for horee-stcnitnr, and Harry Parker.
rant rom M 1msan County for burrIarY. Iheao
men work close together Ia tho mollipg eho,,,
md tl,cro nude tie cpiu in motds, eonu,nc coil,
being used for pptteFp. Tho plateriai used
wns IN alloy OF copper md zluc, Tho Warden
, rays tho guard Of tho shop Was cogntz-
H. T. wa +t'onnht nronsr n vn,t o' c,,iic