Nebraska advertiser., 1877-12-06
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

At Athens. Ohio, on the 9th ult.
DR.. ]. w. McWhorler was malicious
ly shot dead by his brother.
Robert Leise, of New York City,
President of the Security Life Insur-
ance Company. convicted of swear
ing to false returns, has been senten-
ced to five years in the penitentiary.
Frank Rande. the notorious outlaw,
has been lodged in Jail at Galesburg,
III. The grand jury has found two
indictments for murder. against him.
At Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the 30th
ult., David Stilman and wife, aged
invalids were found murdered in their
own house.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt recently while
driving one of his fast horses ran over
an old man. injuring him, it is
thought, fatally.
On the 29th, ult.. son of Congress
man Kelley, of Pennsylvania. while
riding In a street car in Philadelphia,
was without known provOcatiOn. shot
by drunken negro, though probsb-
ly not mortally.
At Northampton, Mass, on the
29th ult., M. Davenport fatally stab
bed his wife and a man named Pratt,
of whom he was jealous.
Joseph Green, of st. Marys, Ohio,
suspectiDg that his wife and George
Dire were too intimate, left home to
be gone some time, but returned sud-
denly and unexpectedly one night,
finding Dire at his house, as he ex-
pected. The latter ran away without
his clothing, Green after him, and
firing at him shot another. man seri-
ously.
At Ada, Ohio, on the 23th Ult., a
young man named Thos. Bastaber.
telegraph operator, put bullet in his
brain while drunk. His lady love
had infarmed him that he must stop
drinking or cease his attentions to
her. He chose not to quit his drunk
enness, and being enraged at the
young lady sought to kill her, but fail
ing to find her concluded to kill him
self. This was much the better end
ing Of the affair.
Jas. T. Aikens. while giving an ex-
hibition with a stereoptican at Toledo
Ohio on the 2Sth inst, dropped dead
on the stage. Supposed cause, heart
disease.
At Topeka, Kas., on the 2Sth ult., a
little daughter of John Nevins, while
playing with matches bad her cloth
ing set afire and was burned to death.
Des Moines, Dec. lin August,
1874, Iewd woman named Ella Bar
ret, was murdered in her room in this
city and her effects plundered. The
circumstances were atrocious, the wo-
man being found with her head hack
ed In frightful manner. 1t was evil
dent that some important papers were
taken from her trunk, as well as sum
of money and jewelry. Last spring
four negroes in this city were indicted
for the murder. In the course Of the
trial of the first prisoner, Andy
Smith. the fact was developed that
there was all unknown white man in
terested in the murder, but who, has
not vet been learned. The jury in
the Smith case have just returned
a verdict of murder in the first degree. |
The trial OF the other three will COM
mence Monday.
Two years ago Lyman Blackman.
a farmer living near Birmingham,
Michigan, decided his farm to his son
Henry on condition that he should
support his parents and sister. He
failing to do this his father started for
Pontiac to get out the necessary pa
pers revoking the deed. In his ab-
sence Henry quarreled with his moth
er and sister, which resulted in bis
shooting and killing them both and
setting fire to the house and barn.
He Is now in Jail at Pontiac.
The Kearney Press says: "McLsin,
The murderer taken from Kearney to
Lincoln on Tuesday, and around
" bom the walls of the peni-
.entiary have closed for the re-
nainder of his natural life, makes the
,ne hundred and fourteenth criminal
now confined within that institu-
ian