The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-16
CURIOSITIES OF CRIME.

WHIPS, the Louisville (Ky.) land
lord, who recently killed his chief clerk,
has been held to bail in $4,000.
ID. +. BARRETT, an attendant at the
Northampton Mass Insane Asylum,
was recently set upon and murdered by
lunatics.
FRANK ALDEN, of indianapolis, has
been sentenced to ninety-nine years, i'm
prisonment in the Indiana penitentiary
for the murder of Mrs. Pfeiffer.
NJ. S. LENHEM, cashier of the First
National Bank of Montrose, Pa, is in
jail on a charge of forgery and embezzle-
ment He gobbled 800, 600 of the insti-
tution's funds.
AT Bridgeport, CAL, Mrs. Mary Grant
shot and instantly killed John Gilroy.
She waylaid him and shot him with a
double barreled shotgun. She says
Gilroy had been talking about her.
The Treasurer of Saginaw, Mich,
John Linton, was recently attacked by
two highwaymen, knocked down, cut in
several places with a knife, and robbed of
$500 in currency. The robbers escaped.
JACKSON, the member of the William
son county Gil. band of outlaws, who
squealed on his partners short time
ago, wants to take it all back now, says
he is insane, etc. He has been held to
bail.
JOHN T. DOUGLASS and E. w. Bryant,
two prominent st. Louis insurance men,
have been indicted for perjury, in the
matter of sworn statements concerning
the affairs of the company with which
they are connected.
NEAR Wabash, Ind, q maniac named
John Alexander murdered his brothers
wife by cutting her throat. He then at
tackled his mother with the knife, nearly
severed one of her hands from her body,
and ended by throwing her into the fire,
where she was badly burned.
DAN SHAY was arrested in New Or
leans for being drunk, and taken to the
police station. After being locked up,
Shay drew a pistol from his boot, and,
thrusting his hand through the prison
bars, shot the policeman who had ar
rested him, infiicting a mortal wound.
FIVE bold Chicago burglars entered
he residence of Mr.. Seelye, wealthy
merchant, in broad daylight, on one of
the leading thoroughfares of the city,
imprisoned the family in dark closet,
and ransacked the house, carrying off
considerable amount OF money and jew
elry.
SAMUEL HALL, of Bardstown, KY, Jour-
neying to Pittsburgh, stopped over at
Louisville, got into an alteration with
an unknown man, and was stabbed fif-
teen times with bowie-knife His ears
and nose were partly cut off, the jugular
vein severed, and the whole body multi
ated in shocking manner.
The First National Bank, of Franklin,
Ind, has been compelled to close it's
doors, the cashier, Robert T. Taylor,
having absconded after a long series of
forgeries, which have absorbed the en-
tire capital of the institution. The de-
falcation is said to be the largest ever
perpetrated in the State of Indiana.
Two Heightened young men of Sioux
City, Iowa, quarreled about money mat
ters, and concluded to settle the dispute
at the pistols mouth. A public hall was
selected for the duel, and two shots were
exchanged at fifteen PAGES distance, re-
sulting in one being wounded in the
neck, while the other was shot in the |
wrist.
CHARLES PRAPP and his wife, of Co
lumbus, Wis, quarreled at the dinner
table, when Prapp upset the table, scat
tering the contents over the floor. He
then seized a shotgun, and, putting the
muzzle to his head, pulled the trigger
and discharged the load into his head,
horrible wound that caused
bis death in short time.