Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-02
HE WON'T MARRY THE GIRL.

| WINoNA, Mimi, Aug. IA scandalous affair,
involving one of the most respectable families
of this city, came before Judge Mackey this
afternoon. Miss Hattie E. Ely, d girl II or Is
years old, the youngest daughter of Edward
| Ely brought complaints for bastardy and Sc
duction against BENZ. T. Lowe, of this city, a
young man Of good reputation previously. An
attempt was made TO induce Lowe to marry
the girl, but he refused, declaring that on her
own confessions she was unchaste before he
knew her. Defendant does not deny criminal
intimacy with the girl, but affirms that he has
had several predecessors. Miss Ely returned
from Chicago a few months ago. She confe sed
to-day to having travelled extensively in Ohio
and other States with variety troupe.
HORRIBLE MURDER.
New YORK, Aug. HAIRY Smith, police
man of Jersey City, with his wife, retired last
night at IL o'clock, and at this morning Mrs.
Smith awoke to find her husband dead with
his skull crushed. He had been murdered in
his sleep, and it appears the assassin's first
blow was aimed at the husband and not the
wife, az the deed was perpetrated without Mrs.
Smiths knowing anything of it.
There was no evidence of forcible entrance
or egress from the house. The doors were all
locked and the windows secure. The weapons
used in the murder were such as would come
first to hand in the house, carving knife and
policeman's club, but neither were found. The
murdered man is u brother of Alderman John
S. Smith.
Mrs. Smith says she awakened at BAG
A. NJ. by her husband throwing his hand over
her face. and she discovered a handkerchief on
her face which had peculiar flavor. She re-
moved the handkerchief, and turning towards
her husband, noticed that both pillows covered
his head and body. These she removed and
c.,u j<,f n 1.bI oh had als
saturated her own clothing. This, she says
was the first intimation shc had of the commits
sion of the crime. The handkerchief which Mrs.
Smith says covered her face is missing. Chief
Nathan ordered her arrest, and close watch
is kept upon her movements. Officer Smith was
one of four brothers. one of whom is a mem
Der of the board of aldermen Of Jersey City,
and one conductor the Central railroad OF
New Jersey. All bear good characters. and the
murdered man not known to have an enc
my. But one clue has yet been obtained from
} a transaction that occurred on the night pre-
ceding the murder. About 10 O'Clock as Officer
Smith was entering his ouse by the rear door.
he discovered in the cellar. He ordered
him away, and the left without trouble.
Who he was or what called him to the place is
unknown. Some are of opinion that family
troubles were the cause of the deed.
Smiths body perforated with stab
wounds, apparently made with "a carving knife,
and the bed was sodden with gore. The head
of the dead man was twisted around on his
neck, IN effort having evidently been made to
ses or it from the body. There were also marks
of a heavy blow across the forehead, which had
, crushed in the frontal bones of the skull, and
, had evidently been made with heavy blud-
geon probably policeman's club. 1t seems
Smith and his brother had both been divorced,
and one of the brothers married the divorced
wife OF the other. Harry Smith, the victim OF
. the tragedy, had married. or at least
was living with young woman
known about town as Jennie Powers.
+ BARN BURNING.
New YORK, Aug. 1.-Charies Montauye, on
complaint of Geo. Clarke, of Springfield
!, Otsego county, has been lodged in jail in de
fault of $4,000 bail in a suit brought by
Clarke for SAG 000 damages, for property
. burned by the Montgomery Tenants Mutua
3 society, ct which Montauye is alleged to have
: been an active member between December 10Th
7 1873, and September ist 1876. Clarke liz sale
d to be the largest land owner in this State. own
6 ing between forty and fifty thousand acres il
the counties of Green, Duchess, Oneida, O. Sc q
i and Montgomery. The affidavit OF, larke sets
forth that he became possessed of the lands
. through grant by the colonial council
: to Mr.. Corey and Others. Th'
. associates of Corey transferred an undivided
moiety to George Clarke, ancestor of the pres
: ent owner. During the anti-rent excitement
y from 1S46 to 1850, suit brought petit
y ton of tenants by the State against Clarke, tt
vacate his letters patent on the ground OF orig
. inal fraud in obtaining OF the grants. Thi
U suit was decided in Clarke's favor in ever,
court. Carkes father had let out the land il
= farms of about two hundred acres each, upol
= leases of two lives in being. but not less thai
= thirty-three years, at an annual rental of 12}
e cents per acre. These leases began to expir
in large numbers about 1870, and new lease
, were offered the tenants at increased rates q
from 81 cents to so and 81 per acre. Thi
increase met with great opposition from tn
tenants. The Montgomery tenants mutual sc
. ciety was formed Fires have constantly OF
d Cured up to the present time, and propert
worth thousands of dollars has been destroyed
1t is believed the society still exists, althoug
it's movements are conducted with the strctes
ne secrecy.
Of AfIidavits of detectives recite conversatio
=. held with the people of Charleston Four Corner
w. and state that iu several conversations Moi
y tauye admitted to them that the sole object
p the mutual society was the destruction
~, Clarke's property. To bind it's members tt
wv society had oaths with the penalty of death fl
), their violation.
he HEAVY BANK ROBBERY.
e. BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Aug. 1.-At 8 o'clock tn
h. morning it was discovered that remalkab
=. q robbery was committed last night in the pr
nv vate bank of L. l.. Holmes, who has been ca
It. rying on IL loan agency and private bank fl
money lenders in Williamantic, Conn. Bone
valued at 900 were carried off. and $500
currency is missing The record book,
o. which the record Of bonds were kept is SO ba
20 ly mutilated that the bonds cannot be d
nd scribed. They are of the denomination
n $3.50 and upwards, payable at the bank
W. North America, New York and as they repr
u sent real estate loans. are mostly not negoti
n. BILE. The safe was opened by the combinatio
8. which was supposed to be known only
Holmes and clerk who is absent. No clue
the robbers is yet obtained.
~ ADoCK-LoAFER KILLED.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. William Mitch,
o and John Stevenson, dock idlers, quarrel
I'll Yesterday on Callow Hill in a saloon, and Ste
of enson was killed.
DISHONEST BANK OFFICER.
SAN Francisco, Aug LIN the recent CT
st. in the United States court against w. B. Ca
it was given in evidence that E. W. Burr, pre-
dent of the Clay street Savings bank, receiy
q commission on the loans of the banks NOR
ave to Penney and Others and that he was flu
aware the navy pay certificates given as secu
10 ty were worthless. Carr, to-day, publishes
md car d, denying having received or asked CO
er- mission but saying nothing about the OF
lb. points.
for POOR MARKsMEN.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Aug. 1.-R. s. Salisbury &
j. 8. lverson met on the Carolina side of
han river this morning, exchanged shots. mis-
81 each other, and the difficulty was arranged.
led fArhh WILL BURIED ~
WAC CHATHAM VILLAGE, N. Y, Aug. 1.-Uni
States Marshal Paynes paper mill bur