The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-28
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

a MRS. bUCkMINSTER, OF OnlchgO,
shot herself fatally, on the 2lst. She had
been a.vicsim Of morphine, and her hus.
band having deprived her OF the drug she
became melancholy and ended her existence.
The body Of q man was taken from
the bay at the battery, New York, on the
2lst. The hands were securely fastened be-
hind the back, and q b&ndage wac bound
tightly over the eyes.
Two colored criminals were hung in
South Carolina, on the 2lst One was a boy
Of Is, executed for ou;raging two-year-olt
child. The other was hanged for murder.
IT has been discovered that P. K.
Berger, chief clerk of John Jsrmain, coal
operator, Scranton, has embezzled $50, COO in
the past few years.
AN unknown man committed suicide
near Kansas City, Mo-, on the Goth, by
shooting himself in the head. He was first
seen wandering about In the fields where
later his body was discovered. A silver
watch, SIS an0 q business card OF Bob Cul-
bertson, Falmouth, KY. were found on his
person.
NEAR Lintdale, Mo-, on the 10Th, A,
Crockett and P. II. Nicholas, two well.to-do
farmers, eng aged in a dispute about hog
belonging to Nicholas which trespassed on
Crockett's land. A light ensued lin which
Nicholas was cut thirteen times with
pocket knife, aud killed at once. His throat
was cut from ear to ear and his tongue
dropped cut. Crockett was cut eighteen
times with q dirk. He lived Eve hours.
ADoLPH STEMPLE, an inventor of a
bridge guard gate, shot himself fatally in
the region of the heart, at Chicago, on the
18th, while in a Respondent mood over diff.
fculty with his invention.
JOHN HILTZ, late president, and Chas
E. Prentiss, late cashier Of the German
National Bank, Washington, have been in.
dicted for Enforcement.
On the evening of the 18th a fendish
murder was committed about seven miles
south of Lawrence, KS. A colored man
named Strowder Hines went to the house of
Samuel Odell, and, seeing Oden sitting
near a window inside placed the muZzle of
a gun near the glass and fired at his head,
killing him instantly. Hines then went
into the house and was determined to cut
Mrs Odelps throat with butcher knife, but
finally let her live. The fend has been ar.
rested.
ELIZA PIEKsToN, of returning board
tame, was arrested at Canton, Miss, on the
18th, charged with numbering her husband,
who died suddenly the same morning
They had been married Only two years and
had qusrreled very much.
MRS. MARY BRowN, of Brownsburg
Ind, was arrested on the 18th on a charge
of numbering her little daughter Minnie
by administering arsenic in pies and cakes
SAMUEL ODELL, while sitting near the
window in his house near Lawrence, Kan
sas, on the 10Th, ives bssely assassinated by
a colored man named Hines. He then con
Guided to cut Mrs. OdelPs throat, but fol
some reason desisted from his purpose
Some months since Hines confronted Mrs
Oiel in a cornfi ED and frightened her ter
ribly while she was in delicate condition
For this Odell threatened to DE revenged
and Hines claimed that he took Odells lif'
in order to save his own.
A GANG of roughs wsylaid farmer
name John Graf, near Lancaster, Ohio, OF
the 18th, and beat him so badly that b,
died. They robbed him of $50. Shorl,
before he expired Graf named Jack Roucl
as one of his murderers.
FRANK DAVIS, a painter, was attacked
on the road near Blueball, Buller county
Ohio, on the 10th, aud his head crushed b,
boulders. His asssilaut got thirty cents il
money from his per.On. His murders
escaped.
AUGUST MoRHLER, the German WHIT
recently attempted to assassinste DR.. L. B
FoOte, Of New York, committed suicide II
the Putnam house in that city, on the 10Th
He left letter stating that the DOCTOR haC
through professional treatment made hi
life miserable for the past ten years, henc,
his attempt to murder him.
THos. AMBROSE, clerk of the United
States Cours at Cincinnati, was arrested or
the 18th, charged with making fraudulent
claims against the government. Bail wal
fixed at SIC, 900, which was furnished.
w. Z. GREENLAw, one of the wealth
lest and most prominent citizens OF Sher
man, KY, suicided with morphine on the
14th, because of the unfaithfulness of hi,
wife.
EUGENE T. RIDDELL, a we'll known
young man of Milwaukee, Wis, suicided at
his home on the 18th, by placing revolver
on each side of his head and speeding two
bullets into his brain. Dependency wa
| the cause,