Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-04
GRIMES AND CASUALTY.
Two Little Girls Drowned While Bathing
Looking for n 1hief-CrOokedness
Concerning a COrpse-An Old Viii
lain COwhided I'm New York
Hotel.
A Series of Bloody Battles-A Fiend MUIR
ders His Wife and ChiId-A Beautiful
Young Girl Betrayed and Ruined.
Parracide-Murder or SchOOlmaster by
BOys-Sensational Discovery-Fiend-
ish WreckiBg-FaIlen from His
High Estate, ETC., Etc.
Two Girls Drowned while Bathing.

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Two Girls Drowned while Bathing.
HUNTSVILLE, ONT, July 3.-Two girls,
| WIlliamana Hammond and Mary Marion
.were drowned while bathing.
Looking for n Thief.
NEW YORK, July 3.-Philadelph officers
are here looking for the thief who aided an
other already captured, in robbing the office
of Graves d Aulls, Philadelphia brokers, yes
terday OF $4,000 in four per cent bonds.
Fiendish wrecking.
| BALTIMORE, July 1.-The iendish wreck
| ing of the southern express on the Phiadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad On
Saturday night, when four men were killed,
was followed to-day by the confession of the
miscreant, who deliberately placed the OBJ
structions on the track. At the time of the
disaster, Harley J. Brown, who made a pre-
| tense of attempting to stop the train by wav-
| ing his handkerchief, was arrested on suspi-
cion, as noticed, and taken to Wilmington.
He was closely confined during the day, and
this afternoon made full confession. The Of
iicials at Wilmington having him in charge
did not make the confession public until
| Brown was safely lodged in Newcastle Jail,
fearing that he would be lynched by the ex-
cited people.
A Little Crookedness Coacerning
| Corpse.
| ST.. LOUIS, July ga box containing a
corpse was received here last night, ad
| dressed to Mrs. Carey, who lives near the
| Four Mile house, on the Olive street road.
| This morning Mrs. Carey presented the huri-
| al certificate which accompanied the corpse
| TO Coroner Auler, for his inspection. The
| certificate was not exactly in the proper form,
and the coroner having his suspicious aroused
| that something was wrong, refused to issue
a burial permit to the lady. He then tele-
graphed to Higbee, Randolph county, the
| point from where the corpse was shipped,
| and this evening received the information
| that the remains were those of Michael Ca
| rey, who had been brutally assaulted at ball
near Higbee, last Saturday night, by Will
| liam Tansey, from the effects of which he
| died soon after The body was then shipped
to his mother, Of this city, under an informal
| certificate, evidently with view to conceal
the crime which mad been committed, and
| but for the carefulness of Coroner Auler,
nothing might ever have been known of it.
Sensational Discovery.
Bucyrus, Ohio, correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer: Quite sensation has been
occasioned here by the discovery that one of
three burglars mentioned in previous dis
| patch as having been jailed for breaking into
| John Dubail's clothing store at Crestline is a
woman She has been In with the male pris-
oners, sharing the cell of one of her pals
since last Tuesday night, and so much like
man did she look that the discovery that she
! was female was not made until to-day. The
woman is very reticent at the instigation of
| her lover who is big, overgrown, cowardly
brute, who watches her constantly for fear
she will give something away. She will not
state her name other than 1t Is Madison
Wells, the cognomen under which she was
arraigned. She says that she has worn male
attire for five years, and that she is seventeen
Of la of no rorto
are dead, and that she was forced to adopt
the present mode of life in order to gain
livelihood. Owing 10 the ercrowded con-
dition the miserable jail and lack of proper
accommodation, she still remains among the
men. Her case has been reported to the
county commissioners, who are expected to
furnish her with female apparel at some fu-
ture meeting of that august body.
A series OF Bloody Battles,
Livingston, Missouri, correspondence st.
Louis Globe Democrat About half-past
twelve o'clock yesterday, there was quite a
large crowd assembled to see the Hoffman
balloon show, among them Lee Arnold and
his wife. 1t seems that the Bayles party, or
faction, have formed some imaginary griev-
ance against Arnold, because he was one of
the party that went to make the arrest. The
Bayles party showed open demonstrations of
ill-feellng for some time. At last exceptions
were made to them by Lee Arnold, which
was a general signal for fight, in which pis-
tolls and shot guns were used. There were
the Bayles party on one side, and Lee Arnold
and Watt Bledsoe, Arnold's step son, on the
other side. The result was that VIM. Hicks
was killed dead from pistol shot, and Lee
Arnold was terribly wounded from shotgun
in the hands of Howard. After the fight,
Mr.. Franklin took down the show and re-
moved all his apparatus from the grounds
In the evening, after the above occurrence,
some parties who had remained about the
place, in discussing the matter, got into
another fight. They were VIM. Cundif and
Wick Howard, who were engaged in the
other fight, and the brothers, David and John
| Camden. The result of this fight was: John
| Camden, cut in the face with large Bowie
knife; David Camden, shot in the abdomen;
w. Howard shot through the thigh, and a
| bystander shot In the arm. There were also
two brothers by the name of Pike, who, On
their way home, came across a party they
had some former trouble with. The conse-
quence was they got into fight, and were
both shot, but neither of then morta.!y.
Terrible 1T. Louis.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: Fifth and
Sixth streets are thronged day and night with
crowd of ''crooks" whose faces are familiar
to detectives from one end of the country to
the other. The thoroughfares referred to are
regarded by the, loafers as their legitimate
stamping ground, and are to st. Louis what
Dearborn and Clark streets were to Chicago
during the palmy days of Mike M'Donald's
reign. The rascals who gave the Garden
City the reputation of being the best city IN
the country for cross-men are now located
here, and, although not known to the general
public their faces have become familiar from
the industry with which they ply their voca-
ton in all parts of the city. Appetite Bill.
as sleek a looking swindler as ever gulled a
granger; ''Rattlesnake Jack, the three-eard
thrower; Sherman Thurston, the most noto-
rious rough and tumble fighter IN America;
Harry Turner, partner of Lew Houck, the
monte-man, who, by his skill, has stepped
into Canada Bills" shoes; Jew Myers, and
the skii.tul Trupp, are cited as specimens of
| the crowd who have been robbing right and
left in this section of the country, and who,
like Berning, are liable to shed blood when
ever the opportunity and their inclination
| were in accord. These men are veritlble
wolves In sleeps clothing, are born orators,
and are possessed of cheek enough to stop
Rhode Island clock. Appetite Bill, or Bill
Langley, Is a fair specimen of the bunko-
steere-. Tall and slim, clean shaven, dressed
elegantly, and without ostentation; he would
readily be taken for bank teller, well-to-
do young business man, or the scion OF a
noble house. He is confidence operator of
the worst stripe; is known to be such from
Name to California; has piled his vocation
for months, and successfully, in
and about st. Louis, and yet has
never been under lock and key.
Two italian Padr0nes Arrested
Special from Baltimore to the Cincinnati
Enquirer: The police authorities have
been notified that two Italian padrones,
named Raffalle Durante and Mignel Varral,
were cruelty treating number of small boys
who perambulate the streets as musicians, q
raid was determined upon them. This morn
ing police squad, armed with warrants,
issued at the instance Of Mr.. DeMeralla, Ital-
ian consul, made descent on the house and
arrested Durante and his partner. Six small
boys were also taken in custody. The prison.
ers were marched to the Middle station, at
tracing much attention on the route, and
numbers of persons followed them to the sta
tionhouse, anxious to know their offenses
When Durante was searched large dirk,
with blade several inches in length, was
taken from him. They were brought out be-
fore Justice Jones for hearing Mr.. De-
Meralla was present. ready to prosecute the
accused for violation of the act of the assem-
bly,, which prohibits any person having in his
care any child under sixteen, who shall en-
ploy the child for the purpose of singing,
playing on musical Instruments, dancing,
peddling, begging, or any mendicant
or wandering business. The accused
were committed for the action of the