New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-10-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CRIMES IND CRIMINALS.

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GRIMES IND CRIMINALS.
Israel Guard, who brutality murdered
his wife at Lawrenceburg, Ind, last July, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Maj. George Gallagher + Little Rock,
Ark, who shot himself through the head %
days ago with the intention of committing
suicide, is dead ss~-'----.s,ssff-,.
t. A drunken tailor At, Minneapolis Min
nesota, attempted suicide the Eother day. by
cutting his throat. A timely diecovery pre-
vented his death. Al s ~
AT Bradford, Pa, Harrison Edgar
threw an apple core st "a window Of a Chinese
laundry, and one of the Cinnamon fatally
stabbed him. The murderer has been arrest
ed. fss.,
Edward II. Golf, ex-president of the
Boston, Montrear&s Portland railway has alb:
sc,onded,sthe grand jury having found. a true
bill against him for forgery on the Canadian
Agricultural insurance CO mpany.
Two of the, Mexicans who were ;recog-
nized as the mnredrers of ex-Sheriff Williams
and ex- Clerk Finley, of Santa Clara county,
near Tuevon, Arizona, were captured in
During quarrel between two farmers
named Kessley and Lines, living on adjoining
farms in Heidelberg township, Pa, Kessley
struck, Lines in the face with club, causing
almost instant death. .Kessley was lodged in
jail. y 7 - - .}a1 2f'i1 ' j3s
A, Fort Fettermon, Wyoming Territory
telegram, gives an account of the robbery
Ton an orc.O mil
that place by masked men. This part of
Wyoming Territory is infested with horse
thieves, robbers and ,scoundrels Of every
grade;se nft4 70 .lna, ..t.;,t;.E...,,.. T.....
At San Francisco, ' on t tie Isl Isl inst.
Harry Widmer, husband of the. actress Katie
Mayhem, chastised Frank M. Pixley, pro
prietor, and A. G. Bierce,, editor Of the IA.
go'sdut, in their office, for publishing with I'M
complimentary comments letter written by
Mrs. Widmer to Clay Greene. 5yN 'ai }Y.S
uItis stated that the grand jurors of
Hudson county have agreed to present an in
dictment against Mrs. Jennie r. Smith charg-
ing her with the murder of her husband, Off
Ger Smith,. in Jersey City, in August last.
They have also taken vote as to the com
plicity of Covert D. Bennett, but lacked three
votes of the majority necessary to find a bill
against him. !fi .sqa# Ell .5ztE
1t has TRANSFERRED that Wesley w.
Bishop, of Norwich, Conn, enlarged with poi
soning his wife, Harriet Bishop, and Charles
N. Cobb, Jr.,, has made confession implica-
ting Kate NJ. Cobb his paramour, in guilt.
Bishop confesses criminal intimacy with Mrs.
Cobb, the procuring Of poison for Mrs. Cobb,
with which to destroy the life. of her husband,
and his knowledge that she administered it.
He denies hepoisoned Mrs. Bishop, and i'm
putes the murder to the, woman. The whole
makes one of the most terrible pages in the
annals of crime. Mrs. Cobb, says Bishops
confession is a base lie from beginning to end.
:, The coach arriving at Deadwood, D. T..
confirmed the report of the coach robbery at
Canon Springs station. VIM. P. Bell was
killed almost instantly; Gale Hill, one Of the
messengers, was dangerously wounded, and
will probably die; Capt. Smith slightly hurt
by ball grazing; the top of his head render
ing him insensible. Scott Davis escaped I'M
hurt. Two of the robbers were badly wound
ed-one shot by Davis, the other by Gale Hill,
who fired through window in the back Of a
harm after being turt. The coach was run
into the timber, and but a short time occupied
in opening the safe, which contained $4,000
in gold bullion, some gold jewelry, and q small
amount Of currency, all Of which We're secur-
! ed by, the robbers. ...,,n,,