The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-04
FIENDISH CRIMES.
RAPE, MURDER AND SEDUCTION,
A Brave Young widow Kills Two
TrampS-Aud Gave mp HerORn
Life I'm Dong So-PostmasG-
crate Cincinnati Arrested
for SeducIiOn-A Fe-
male Horse Thief
Special to the Globe. pemocrat.

Special to the Globe-Democrat.
J RICHMOND, VA, June Last night
pluCky yoang widow, living nesr
Tszewo!l Court House, in this State,
succeeded in defeating two tramp ruff
ans after fight which cost her life.
About 10 o'clock at night two men came
to the house of Mrs Brecky Baldwin,
and asked her to give them some silver
IN change for notes, offering 81 Of the
latter for SIS of the former She
complied, and they soon left, but re.
turned after she bad retired, broke
open the door and entered. They en-
tered her bedroom. She jumped from
/ the bed, and told them to leave her room.
! They demanded her pocketbook, and
threatened 10 violate her person If she
did not giveitup. she went to her dress,
deliberately took the pocket-book from it,
containing 81, and threw II in the fire.
OAe Of the tramps stopped TO get it out,
when she snatched up an AK and dealt
him terrible blow, knocking him down,
quickly following with other blows dash
ing his brains out on the hearth
stone. The second tramp then drew
a dirk-knIte and rushed at.
her and stabbed her twice
in the lett breast. She dealt him a fear.
tul blow with the Ak, nearly severing his
right arm near the shoulder. The MS
Cresnt then fed, leaving trail OF blood
behind him. His dead body was found
this morning two miles from this place
A young white man came by this morn
ing, and found Mrs. Baldwin IN All eX-
plrIng condition. Size told her story and
died two hours afterwards. The dead
bodies Of the two trsmps were thrown in
q hog pen, so great was the indignation
OF the people in the vicinity, There were
no papers found on them by which they
could be identified
Texas Lynching.
Special to the Globe Democrat.
san ANTONIO, TEX, j me -Ncws Of
a tentIsh outrage perpetrsted by negro
named Bill! johnson on Mrs. Nichols, a
lady residing near Helena, Karnes
county, has Just reached here. Mrs.
Nichols and daughter, sged thirteen,
were alone, when Johnson entered and
assaulted the lady with intent to rape
her. She resisted the fellow, aided
IN the struggle by her daughter.
Their combined Efforts defeated the
negro's purpose though Mrs. Nichols
" as choked until black and blue, and
botn her ears wcrb bitten of by the
brute. The news OF the outrage aroused
the whole country, and Immediately
search for johnson was begun. A party
led by the sheriff lonnd him the next
morning, conveyed him TO Helena, and !
imprisOr ed him. A man who sends the !
news makes long story short by stating |
the negrO's body was found the f)llow- !
ing day one mile and a half from town, |
hanging to a tree. Strewn about the |
ground near whore the body hung were
thongs and switches, VIII ch Jonnson's |
shoulders Indicated had been used upon |
him to force confession of bis crime.
a Racy Sensation.
CMCGESATI, June l-Joseph j.
Crone, of Cincinnati, to-day brought suit
in the Court of Common Pleas against !
Postmaster John p. Loge. He alleges
that Loge has seduced, debalched and |
the affections of his wife, and |
he asks damages in $4,000. Loge is the
recently appointed postmaster, who sue
ceeded Wahle The affair creates much |
gossip.
= Female Horse Thief.
kEoKUK, Ia, June IA girl named |
Jessie Huff was arrested here this morn |
lus for stealing horse at Quincy, and |
taken bsck to that city. She broke open
the stable, stole the horse, and rode it all |
the way,to this city, q distance Of fifty |
miles with nothing on it but blanket. |
Although but sixteen years Of sge, the |
girl has had quite q career Of crime. She |
n sbo,ttime since by stealing |
$40 from her employer, and running !
away. She wss captured and brought |
bsck but gave the officers the slip, OBJ
tanned n skIf under lalse pretenses, and
escaped down the river. This was the
last hesrd Of her until she turned up !
here this morning, with the stolen horse
in her possession.
During violent thunder storm this |
morning, lightning struck the Chat
hsm Square NJ. +. Church, damaging |
the tower, and tearing of q portion OF |
the roof