The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-13
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

Tas second trial Of she notorious Grover
kennedy, who Killed his uncle at Richmond,
ky., In iS7A terminated at Nj Vernon, on the
9th, In verdict Of guilty OF manslaughter, aud
tho sentance was Ia the penitentiary for twenty
ono years. At the former trial the sentence was
for hfe Notice Of appeal was gwen.
JuiLrs RpSE, Of Dayton. o.. came homo
drunk On the 9th, seized his child, -four months
old, dashed It on tho floor and kicked Il aeross
tho room. The only witness to the murder was
his little daughter, ak years Of age. Radke was
arrested.
JAMES ANDERSON, late pablo administrator,
Memphis, has been arrested. charged with
frsadnlentS apprepiathg monies collected
nom tho estates OF minors. 10 ID said his de-
talcation viii rcach s7a,O0o.
fRsp. hEnrsH, the notorious ~. Luuis eoun-
terfsiter, has been sentenced to ten years In the
penitentiary.
DEPUTY ColLkcroR DAVIS has destroyed four
illicit distileiies and arrested Ave men In Giles
and Lawrvncc counties, Tennessee.
hESRy MoKrr, who has been o.. trial at Hud-
son, n. T., for the murder u his wife and her
paramo,u at Tagl.kanick on the iath Of Sop
tember last, has been convicted Of murder In
the first degree and sentenced 10 be hanged
March ~. After sentence the prisoner asked 81
BE- hanged IN public and allowed one hour aud
half 10 speak.
GnoRoE MITCHELL convicted Of the murder If
his wife, in Troy, Ohio. has been sentenced TO
DO hanged May ~
Ar LGean, Ont, on the It'll q feeling II IN
tense enmity toward family named puanelly
accused OF tneendiarism, eliminated IN the
murder 81 James and Judy Donneliy husband
and wife, Thomas, the youngest son, and
bridget niece. boy named Conncrs, who
was sleeping in the house, hid and eseaped tho
vengeance ct the assassinS, who were masked.
The house was fired and the rcnains Vt the
victims incinerated. About the same time (mid.
n,ehsD another party called at the residence Of
Vim, ponnelly. three miles distant from his
fathers house, and awoAe him, Ills brother,
John, being IN the house, arose and went b. tho
door, when two shots nom revolver vert iired,
killing him dead,
4 youNu man entered the otiice Of tho Guar
antee Trust and safe Deposit company at Phil
adelphia, on the III. and the attention az the
clerk being diverted, stole fourteen ~ 200 bonds
Of the Crane Iron company held by the pcpo~it
company ~ collateral,
JorS GofrscaAiK, German butcher. suieid-
III at Springfield, Ill, I'M tho Sd. by hanging.
CHRISTIAN i.ASpoa.r, In Jail at Milwaukee.
Wis, ON charge of hieamy. hung himself
With scarf to the bars Of his cell on the night
IL the III
AT ~. Johns, n. L.. Capt. Vim. II. Tower
has been arrested on charge Of scattlmg at sea
in May last the bark Brothers Pride, with in-
tent to dcfraad the insurance companies Of s70.-
900.
lsRAsL BooruiEy, cashier Of the First Ma
uoaal bank at Augusta, Me-, shot himself fatal
" ON the sd, after jumping into q cistern IN
the banks premises with weights attached 10
his feet. Tho directors say the accounts arr
probably all right.
DETECTIVES LLrwsiLES and Become May.
after capturing Lao Grimes, . notorious des-
perado. and one Of Doc Middleton's gang. shot
and instantly killed him at Deadwood, Dakota,
TN the III, while he Was trying to Escape.
PAT HARRY, In a. ofjeaious rage at Kansas
City, Mo-, ON the I'll. fatally wounded John
wakcnthaler with an axe.
ArJaekson, Amador county, Cal, ON the lat,
John Boles, henchman. stabbed and killed
Robert Vermar, an Italian, aud was in turn
KNITTED 70 death by friends Of vemar. who
hunted him down.
sipSxy II. Thomas, Mark Faldou, John Boyd
and Thomas Steward. VI Philadelphia, convict
ed Of making fraudulent election returns. were
sentenced On the sist to pay tine Of si00 aud
costs, aud 10 undergo imprisonment for twelve
months.
Mas. JENNIE SMITH and Cove Bennett, once
convicted Of the murder Of tho formers has-
band, a Jersey City policeman, but granted q
new trial. were acquitted Of the charge Gu the
Slst. The Jury was out two hours.
Ar Newport, Ky., on tho Sist John Manning
was sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the
murder Of Edward Connolly in tho Newport Jail,
two prisoners quaireled. and Manning nearly
severed Cennollys head from his body with one
slash Of the razor.
OK the aist the grand jury in New York city
presented twenty-iiye indictments against Rey.
Edward Cowley, manager Of the "Shepherds
Fold" charging him with starving, beating and
cruelty ill-trcaihg the children IN the fold.
cowley ia in the Toombs In default Of bad.