Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-02
CRIME.

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A LITTLE Rock telegram of June 9th
says Heny Taylor (colored) was hung
for rape. at 2 o'clock, to-day, at
Forrest City. He protested his inno-
cence to the last. Death resulted
from strangulation.
AT place on the Mississippi river
ten miles west of Anena, ILL.,, June Oath,
R. Smith Reynolds, an old and wealthy
citizen, shot and killed William Fra
zier, tenant, with shotgun. The
trouble arose over some hogs that be-
longed to Reynolds, and which persist
ed in roofing up Frazler's crops.
SAYS q Providence, r. l., telegram
of June Goth: Edgar d. Thomas and
wife have lived apart till last night he
called upon his wife, at the house of her
fathers, and during q brief interview
shot her fatally and fled.
IT was announced June Oath that the
supreme court of Pennsylvania had
sustained the decisions of the lower
court in the case of Peter Manners and
John O'Neill, Molly Maguires, convict
ed in Northumberland County and SEN
fenced to be hanged for murder of Cor
oner Hesser in 1874.
A DIssoLUTE fellow, by the name of
Hume, fired three shots at his mistress
in Chicago house of ill-fame, June
Goth, and then blew his own brains out.
Only one shot hit the girl and that
glanced upon corset wire inflicting
but temporary wound.
A LEXINGTON, Mo-, dispatch dated
June 26th says: R. S. Taylor and
Robt. Taylor, brothers, and B. @. Wren,
all farmers, between whom an old feud
existed, met at We!lsville, Lafayette
county, yesterday, and renewed their
quarrel. The Taylors fired four balls
in Wren's body, MORALLY wounding
him, and Wren killed r. S. Taylor in
stantly, and fatally wounded Bob.
A CINCINNATI special of June 9th
says at colored picnic to-day near
Batavia, about twenty miles from this
city, Charles McCraw (colored), of
Batavia, was shot and killed by Hiram
Trotter (colored), of New Richmond.
Trotter was drunk. The murderer was
arrested, and has been placed under
guard outside the town, it being feared
he might be lynched by the excited
negroes.
A New YORK telegram of June Goth
says Cox, Mrs. Hulls murderer, was
stamped to that effect by the coroner's
Jury to-day, and also indicted by the
grand jury. Asked by the coroner il
he had anything to say, he replied: "It
was not my intention to hurt the lady,
but only to get what could get" He
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undoubtedly get tried, condemned, and
hanged as speedily as the legal process
can be worked.
SAYS a Cincinnati special of June
23rd: Storey. alias Allen, who was
. hanged at Batavia by an Infatuated
mob, and escaped by the breaking of
the rope, has surprised the denizens of
that place by appearing on the streets.
He arrived from St. Louis day or so
ago. His appearance creates excite
ment, as it is believed another scene OF
the same kind is threatened Mrs.
Atchley, who was the cause of the pre-
vious trouble, has not returned to her
!, husband.
A MILWAUKEE telegram of June Oath
says Mrs. Sarah w. Underwood,
arrested some weeks ago, charged
with having uttered forged notes
to the value of fourteen
thousand dollars, purporting to be
drawn by S. y. Underwood, ,of Milford,
Mass, was arraigned in the municipal
court, to-day. After hearing the testi-
mony of the complaining witness, H.
S. Hayden, of Chicago, Judge Mallory,
dismissed the case on the ground that
there was, in his opinion, no good rea-
son for the prosecution.
! A RALEIGH, North Carolina. dis
patch of June 25th says Robert
Jones, (negro) who murdered Rudolph
Eaton, (white) in the village of Rocky
Mount, December 5, 1877, was publicly
executed to-day at Tadboro. The sher-
tiff left the Jail with the prisoner in an
open wagon, the Edgecombe guards &C
complaining, with a negro fire company
in red shirts. Jones talked tonight and
poked fun at the sheriff all along. On
the subject of his religious experience,
he said he was going straight to heaven.
! He was the coolest man ever seen on
the gallows.
AT Baltimore, June Esd, Benz. r.
Brown, clerk in commission house,
shot John R. LETTERS, hotel proprietor,
in the left temple early in the morning.
in an effort to kill him for having Sc
duced Browns wife. LETTERS says he
had been appealed to by Mrs. Brown
for protection from her husband, who
had treated her cruelty. The pistol was
we'll aimed, but LETTERS threw up pill
low before his face, through which the
ball passed and inflicted only slight
wound. Brown admitted the shooting,
and expressed regret that he had not
killed LETTERS. He held Brown to bail
/ for trial on charge of attemnted MUIR