Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-13
ROMANCE OF CRIME.
me skeleton of Young Lady Missing
Tor Six Years Discovered Floating in a
Boat--A Crazed Father in Maine Kills
Inree OF His Children and Then Attempts
Suicide--Other Criminal Matters.
STRANGE ROMANCE OF CRIME.

AAs0AsoO hOaAANCE Of ChlMEs
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
ST. LOUIS, May IA strange romance of
crime is narrated here. Six years ago Julia
Leblanc, daughterof farmer in Jefferson
county, Missouri, mysteriously disappeared one
evening and was never again seen alive. Last
Monday negro, while shooting snipe along the
bank of the Mississippi river, near Point Pleas
ant, twenty or thirty miles from the home of
Leblanc, saw stray ekif floating down the
stream, and on overhauling it found it
TO contain female skeleton which proved to
be that of the long missing girl. The theory is
that she was enticed from home by discarded
lover, strangled and placed in the skiff, which
was then securely fastened to the bank of a
creek at place where the underbrush was SO
thick as to efectually hide it; that there the
boat remained until the ravages of time made
the ropes decay and thus the loosened boat
foated down the creek and into the Mississippi
river.
HORRIBLE MURDER BY A MADMAN.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
BANGOR, Me-, May IA horrible murder
occurred here yesterday which will result in
the death Of three persons. John r. scribner,
36 years DID, living three miles north of this
city, while insane attacked his wife and three
children in the kitchen of his house with a
spade, instantly killing girl three wears old
and mortally wounding two others, girl in
tant and a boy aged five. After he
struck the children the mother snatched ND the
baby and fled out of doors, followed by her
husband, who ran through the field near bv
where he cnt his own throat with razor, al
and taken to Jail. He was formerly drunk
ard, but for two years has not tasted liquor.
He has shown symptoms of madness, threat
ening to kill his wife and children, etc.
Western Associated Press
MURDERED IN THE HILLS
DEADwooD, D. T., May 11.-This evening a
east of town discovered dead body with q
bullet hole through the head. From appear
ances the man had evidently been murdered in
cold blood and robbed. A memorandum book,
the only thing found on the body bears the
name OF Chas. T.. Lee The Deadwood papers
chronlcled the arrival of man of that
name the 9th inst. by the Cheyenne route.
CAPTURE OF A DESPERATE.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 12.-Ernest White
house, who attempted to kill Deputy Sheriff
Cleary in this city in June, 1877, and who
escaped after an exciting chase, lasting six
days, and extending through several ad joining
counties in insis, was captured here to-day,
after desperate struggle with five officers,
was shot in the left hand and in
the right thigh. Cleary is the same officer who
was shot by Whitehouse last June White.
house was interviewed in his cell this evening.
He talked freely, giving an account of his adj
ventures during the year of his outlawry. He
IS rated in the city desperate man, and
there is general rejoicing over his capture.
STOREY INDICTED FOR LIBEL.
PEORIA, ILL.,, May l2.-The grand jury OF
Peoria county yesterday brought in bill Of
Indictment against Wilbur F. Storey, editor OF
the Chicago Times, charging him with libelline
(. d. Whiting, of this city, ex-member OF
Congress.