Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31
~ IgWS OF TH Il WEEK
GRIMES IND CRIMINALS.

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e. Mr.. Learned. proprietor of hotel,
in Crookshire, Quebec, was shot dead By a
tramp to whom he refused whisky.
Some tour hundred persons in North
Carolina, indicted for illicit distillidg, will be
allowed to plead guilty and sentences will be
suspended during good behavior.
In an affray at Plaqueim,ne La., be-
tween A. G. Brule and State Senator Geo. B.
Waite, the former received flesh wound in
the arm, and the latter a serious wound in
the side, and is now in q critical condition
Cause, politics.
At Cleveland, Ohio, the jury IN the
case Of Chas. McGue, on trial for murder
rendered verdict of murder in the first de-
gree. McGue murdered Mary Kelly, his
several months since.
Otto Kuentryner hired livery rig at
st. Paul, MIMI, Saturday evening, Oct, 26,
drove out to Lake Como had the
herse put in Knauf7s stable, and on
the porch Of the hotel shot himself through
the heart producing instant death. He was
not intoxicated, and believed 10 have been
deranged.
A galveston Nesos special says: The
Fcrt Worth stage bound fer Weatherford,
Texas, was stoppe,. fifteen miles east of the
latter place by two masked men. The mail
pouches were cut open and their contents
riaed, ard one male and two female passen-
gers stripped Of their valuables. The amount
obtained by the highwaymen is unknown.
The Manhattan Savings institution was
on the morning'of Sunday, the 9th of Octo-
Der, 1878, robbed of securities to the amount OF
s2.757, 200, of which 50, 500, 200 were registered
in the name of the institution and not fnegoti-
able, and $!68,000 are made payable to it, and
$73O00 are in coupon bonds, and Sill, in
cash. For the purpose of preventing the loss
to depositors, it is deemed advisable that no
payment be made without sixty days, notice,
as provided by the laws of the iEstitusion.
The integrity of the janitor is suspected.
A startling development of defalcation
has just occurred at st. Paul. Minnesota.
Charles Etheridge, prominent and well
known citizen, member of the House of
Hope Church, enjoying the confidence OF the
community, has turned out to be defaulter
to large amount, and has fed. He was
agent for several large Fire and Life Insur-
ance companies, and also had an extensive
loan agency. The amount of his stealings is
not known, but investigation will develop it
in few days. He is supposed to be in Can
ada.
While en- route to Cheyenne city in
charge of VIM. Ward, stage agent, Doug.
Goodale, one of the participants in the late
m dor and sfo rOhhoru Of Cannon Srr;p nc
escaped by throwing himself from the wind
ow fthe passenger train at Lone Tree, Neb
OF the treasurer taken from the coach on this
occasion about 900 has been recovered.
One of the robbers, Thomas Price, Lies dang
erously wounded at Deadwood, while two,
kno m have been engaged in the same rob.
berry, namely, Mcbride and Carr, have not
| Deen captured. The former is known to have
been wounded by one of the messengers
There are at present in confinement four OF
the gang, who, although the evidence is not
| clear that they were in this late robbery, have
confessed to having been engaged in others
| At Boston. Mass Judge Bumpus m de
| public his decision in the case of Charles L
| Hartwcll, conductor, who is charged with
| having caused the accident at W. llaston, or
the Old Colony railroad. Hartwel is ad
judged guilty of manslaughter and held il
| $1O,O0O bail for trial in December. Engineer
Hurlburt, of the freight train, is adiudged
guilty Of gross negligence in OCCUPYING the in
ward track without giving proper signal. The
verdict further states that engineer Westgate
of the forward engine of the excursion trair
was not suitable person to have charge O.
the train under the circumstances, as he die
not possess that complete knowledge of ane
familiarity with the track and switches Of thu
road, such as regular engineer would have
and further that if the rules of the road hat
been followed out, no accident would hav'
occurred.