The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-12
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

CHARLES Colby was hanged at Santa Cruz,
Cal. on the 9Th inst, for murder.
THERE were two executions in Missouri Oh the
5th inst. Walker Kilgore was hanged at Mex
leo, aud Joseph Case at Lebanon. Both for
murder.
ROYAL Il. CoNANT, ex-caShier of the Elliott
National bank of Boston, has been convicted of
emhczzlcmcnt and sentenced to seven wears
imprisonment.
Az unsuccessful attempt to wreck the express
train going north from st. Johns, b., on the
Inter-Colonial road was made on the night of
the 18th inst. 4 pile of sleepcrs and other debris
had been placed on the track, but, fortunately,
the engineer succeeded IN clearing path
through the obstruction.
Ar Cincinnati, o., on the 9Th inst, Charles
I.inck fatally knitted Louis Schmidt because Of
a difficulty about young woman.
JoHS MOODY. son of Whitfield Moody, far
mer living near Kingston, Ky, was shot by his
brother George on the night of the Sd inst.
They had been drinking, and John was about
To assault George with Il knife, when the latter
fired the fatal shot.
G. GIosEMAN and Vim. Carson were found
guilty, onthe ith, Of the murder of Bernard Pick
! or, at Vanwert, Ohio. Picker was murdered ut
his door one night in December last, and the
mudcrers then tortured his wife by placing her
feat to n hot stove until she told them where TO
find Il, 500. When the men were arrested IN
Vanwert they shot the sheriff and constable, in-
| flcting serious injuries on both.
NICHOLAS iiICHT, n well-tO-dO business man
of Fort Branch, near Evansville, Ind., suicided
| by shooting, on the 4th inst.
| An aged drayman, named John PrinZcll,
| hung himself in his stable at Mt. Vernon, Ind,
| on the Sd INST
CHARLES WEBSTER, convicted of nm outrage
on little Frances Otto, on the 18th Of October,
| 1879, il TO To hung OH April I'd. His compan-
! ion in crime, Geo. Washington, was executed on
| the 2lst of February last. Anderson, the wife
murderer, will be hung the same day. All in
Kentucky.
Ar MI. Vernon, Ohio, Oh the Sd inst, Mrs.
Julia Jenkins suicidod i'll the temporary absence
of her husband and children. She tied her
| lower limbs together and jumped into the cis-
! tern. No cause known.
On the Sd inst, jeremiah Webster and John
Guttlre, farmers, near Chillicothe, ILL.,, quar-
relied about II fence. GuttIne shot and killed
| webster.
Cook IIovEY, late city clerk OF urbana, Ohio,
and an alleged dcfaultcr in the sum Of SCI, 600,
| has lecn arrested near London, Ont.
W. II. TRELwAy, deputy collector of internal
revenue, has Teen convicted Of embezzlement
! at Dauville, Va.
Ex-AuDIroR KENNAY, against whom five in
dictments were pending, pleaded guilty at War
rem, Ohio, Oh the Sd inst. to two of them and
| the remaining three were nolled. He was sen
fenced two years in the penitentiaiy.
GEO. WOODS, printer under trial at Evans
villc., Ind, for the murder Of Mrs. Nellie Hobbs
in 1877, took poison and was found dead In his
| cell on the I'd inst. lie was convicted about
| two years ago and sentenced for bfe, but OBJ
tanned new trial. Tie night before his suicide
| the jury In the second trial failed 20 agree and
were discharged.
A osE-ARMED negro named Louis Kinder,
who had outageously assaulted white woman
| at Georges Station, South Carolina, was lynchcd
! by mob ON the I'd inst. At the last moment
lac acknowledged the outrage, confessed 10 hav-
| ing outraged n colored woman In Newbeny ak
years ago, 10 killing colored girl near Kings
Tree last April, 10 four burglaries and innulner-
| able thefts. After firing volley Of pistol balls
into the body the crowd quietly dispersed.
The dead body of q. W. Parker, man of
considerable property, was found floating in the
canal near the hospital at Cincinnati, on the I'd
inst His gold watch was missing. II IL
| thought he was murdered.
FRED FucHs, carpenter with large family
dependent upon him, suicidod by hanging in an
| old shed. ut Milwaukee, on the I'd inst, Ia lit
u dependency. His body was not found until
i've days aftor his death.