Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-09
CRIME.


shot his wife for alleged conjugal dis
loyalty July LIST. Reports say the wo-
man cannot recover.
A LEBANON, Pa, dispatch of July 4th
says Nimrod Spattenhuber, convicted Of
the murder of John Ivison in saloon
in this city on the night Of Dec. 10, 1878,
was hanged here yeterday morning.
A Boston dispatch ofJuly LIST says Cap
tain Edmunds was arraigned today on
charge Of forgery and the bail fixed
at $4,000. He was remanded to Jail
to await the action of the grand jury.
A HoRRIRLE crime was committed by
one Harry McClain, near Brighton,
Iowa, July LIST. In an attempt to ravish
Ruth Hoskins, he nearly murdered her
brother, a quiet Quaker farmer, and
also brutally beat an old lady and 1T
tie child.
SAYS a Nashville, Tenn, dispatch of
July 4th: John Hall and Burrell Smith,
the negroes who murdered Maj. Pugh
at Murfreesboro six weeks ago, were
Yesterday sentenced to be hanged at
that point Aug. s. A motion for new
trial WAS overruIed, and they took no
appeal.
A SPRINGFIELD, H., dispatch of July
LIST says O. n. Hornsby, collector of Sa-
lisbury township, Sangamon county, was
arrested yesterday on the charge of en-
bezzling $4OO of school taxes collected
by him. He gave bail for his appear
ance at the next term of the circuit
court.
A BEAUMONT, Texas, dispatch Of June
3Oth says: Last night during service in
a colored church, white boy, looking
through window, was shot in the back.
Two more shots were fired into the
church. Some of the men III the
church returned the fire, and about
forty shots were exchanged. One
negro was wounded.
A Dies MONIES, Iowa, special under
date Of July I'd, says: Last January
William Mckinney mysteriously disap-
peared from the home of Thomas l..
Hahn, Madison township farmer, and
nothing was heard of him till yester-
day, when he turned up at Polk City.
During his absence Hahn had been
tried several times for his murder, and
had barely escaped lynching by his
neighbors.
A GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, dispatch of
July 3rd says: A report reached here to-
day that Mrs. Emanuel Brogy, living
on section thirty-ive southeast corner
of Kent county, yesterday shot her
infant and then herself. The
woman is dead, and the child cannot
survive. Two other children were
missing and could not be found. The
husband was working in field mile
distant.
FROM Madisonville, Texas, July Cd,
comes the following: On Sunday night
several young white mon from the town
we're in attendance at a negro preach
ing, five miles distant. Among them
were Spencer Wolf and Robert Kilpat-
rick. The two were sitting under an
arbor, when an assassin, concealed in
the bushes with Winchester rifle, fired,
instantly killing Wolf, who fell dead.
Fitzpatrick and Wolf had exchanged
seats, and it is said the assassin aimed
to kill Fitzpatrick instead of Wolf. The
ball also struck negro woman and a
negro man, dangerously wounding both.
A GREEN Bay special of July End
says: The body of a widow named Ryan
was found in thicket in the town Of
Glenmore, this county, yesterday morn
ing. Her throat was cut and her face
showed evidences of being previously
knocked down with billet of wood.
The body was sixty or seventy rods
from her own house. Up to the pres
ent time nothing has transpired to
trace the murderers Or show any mo-
tive for the deed. The house has not
been entered.
A BOSTON special telegram of June 80
says the arrest of Capt. James +. Ed
monds, of Newton, for forgery, has
caused considerable excitement in the
city, as perfect confidence was felt in
him. He has been an alderman in
Newton for the past five years, is now a
nominee for mayor of Newton, and I'M
doubtedly would have been elected to
that Office but for this affair. Last
Wednesday he had an apoplectic shock.
Last night officers obtained full con-
fession from him as ne lay in his bed.
The amount of forged paper he has ut
tered, SO far as can be learned, is about
$4,000, and it is in the form of
notes for three and four months.
The Daily Advertiser of Boston pub
Ished July 3rd the story of the efforts
of the friends Of J. f. Edmonds, the
forger, to raise money enough to salts
fly his creditors and thus avert his pros
ecution for self-confessed forgery. 1t is
asserted, but not proven, that the banks
holding his fraudulent paper have
agreed to accept SO per cent of the