Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-14
NUMBER 80.
FIENDISH FATHER.
THE BOSS BRUTE DEVELOPED IN
WASHINGTON.
Hammer Handles, Boot Heels, Cords, Cold
Righteous Judge Sends Him Up for Six
Months on Each Count Other Criminal
Matters.
AN 1NHuMAN FATHER.

AN NHUMAN FATHER
WASHINGTON, March 13.-J. r. P. Meich-
I'm, clerk In the war department, has been
under trial for week past, charged with ex-
cesslve cruelty to three of his daughters. The
Judge of the police court said in passing SEN
tence to-day: ''While, as we have seen, the
offences committed were not enormous but
TRIVIAL, the instruments of punishment en-
pioyed were clenched fist, chisel ham,
mer handle, screw driver, chair rocker, con-
hnement In the room in December without
hire, tied with cord to box and kicks from
defendants feet in the face and on the head.
With all the explanations of defend
ant fully considered and weighed,
l am utterly unable to re-
conclle the use of these in
struments of torture with the
possession and exercise of proper mo-
tives of inficting parental punishment
Ihe violence, unnatural and unreasonable
severity manifested, the disproportion of the
punishment to the offence, the insensibility,
coarsness and brutality which characterized
all these painful scenes, all bespeak heart
regardless of social duty, and exhibiting all
the ordinary symptoms of wicked, deprav-
ed malignant spirit. From careful con-
sideration of the evidence find the defend
ant guilty of the several assaults and batteries
charged in the information.
Regarding the first assault, made in October,
1877, the lightest, he is sentenced to paw o
fine of 500 and in default, thirty days I'M
prisonment in the United States Jail. AS the
evidence discloses a system of persistent
cruelty on the part of the father utterly in
consistent with the true character he should
sustain to his children, he is sentenced to six
months imprisonment in the United States
jail In the District of Columbia on each of
the remaining informations as they may ap-
pear"
CHACE ARRESTED.
FALL RIVER, Mass, April 13.-Sangier
Chace, the defaulting treasurer of the Union
mills was arrested at his residence this even
ing, and lodged in the police station, upon
two complaints, each charging embezzlement
OF 100000. The prisoner was perfectly
cool, and said he expected it. The family
and friends made every effort to have him
bailed, offering bonds of $25,OOO to have
him remain at home under guard but were
refused. Chace will be arraigned Monday
AN Ex-PRIEsT SENTENCED TO HANG.
PHILADELPHIA, April 13-Judge Mitchell
to-day overruled q motion for new trial in
the case of Blasius Pistorius ex-Priest con-
vlcted of the murder of Isaac Jacquette in
Montgomery county in 1876, and sentenced
Plstorius to be hanged. Upon the announce
ment of the decision Pistorius arose ex-
citedly and accused his lawyers of not having
acted III good faith, and said that if the
judge did not grant him a new tr ial, he
would be murderer of justice. Counsel for
Pistorius gave notice that the case would be
carried to the supreme court.
FARO DID IT.
Boston, April 13.-Edmund F. Masurett,
cashier of the fremont House, has shot him.
self fatally. He had lost funds of the house
at faro and sought to compromise with the
proprietors of the hotel, who declined it and
sent for an officer.
CHACE THE DEFAULTER.
FALL RIVER, Mass, April 13.-S. A.
Chace, the defaulting treasurer of the Union
mills, has resigned and Thomas E. Brayton,
of the firm of Thomas E. Brayton & Co.,
cotton buyers, has been chosen to the office.
ARREST OF ANOTHER MoLI1E.
OscEoLA MILLS, Pa, April 12.-John Ao-
ton, Mollie Mcguire, has been arrested
charged with being implicated with Nc
Manus and O'Neill, murderers of Fred K.
Heaser at Shamk1nssin 1874.
HANGED.
New YORK, April 13.-John Shallington,
colored, was hanged at Snow Hill, North
Carolina, yesterday, for the murder of his
step-daughter in the fall of 1877.