The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-27
THE CRIMINAL CAI.ANDAR.

FRANK LAWRENCE has been arrested Tor the
murder of his father, c. q. Lawrence, who
died at Grand Island, Nebraska, on the
9Th Of February, just after arriving
from Vermont. Suspicious were aroused which
he'd to Nh examination Of the stomach Of the
deceased, She analysis revealing the presence Of
prtissc acid. II was learned that Frank had
insured his fathers life for al, 900 before leay
ing Vermont.
CowLEY, the alleged reverend" rascal in
charge Of tho "Shepherd's Fold" New York,
has been sentenced H. the extreme penalty Of
the law-one year In the state prison and $3.50
fine, TO stand committed 10 jail ut the expira-
ton Of his sentence until the fine Is paid, one
day for each dollar.
Ar Corinth, VT, pauper, on the town farm,
named William Terrill, aged ~, killed another
panper, Adam Ferrin, aged ID, and then cut his
own throat.
BrRREIL smith and John Hall, the negro
assassilis Of Major Pugh, were hanged at Muir
freesboro on the 10Th.
WM. THIEsos shot and killed his divorced
wife, Mrs. Mary Rodewalk, al Columbus, o., on
the 18th. Cause jealousy.
L. ii. BowES, newspaper writer, suicided at
sand Springs, Delaware county, Iowa, by stick
ing his head in pail Of water and holding it
there. Mental alteration, caused by financial
loss, the cause.
On the 18th, All old man named John Patter-
son was brutally dubbed and robbed Of fifty
dollars, while splitting rails about two miles
from the village Of Metamora, Michigan. He
was found ON the afternoon Of the same day in
an unconscious condition, and is considered
fatally hurt.
The body of an unknown man was found in
slough hear Venice, ILL.,, opposite the northern
- Of Il ,uis ha Th.. haaH had
been terribly smashed with large rock which
lay near the body, and there were other evil
dences that the man had been murdered.
JoHS STEWART, farmers son, aged 20, MUIR
dered and crsmated VIM. Trosh in 1873. He
plead guilty Mt Troy, ILL.,, on the 18th, and was
sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
HENRY OSBORN, a white coal MINER at Des
Moines, Iowa, killed his wife OH the 18th by
MASKING her head with stone.
JAS. THOMPSON, Of the Pickett Tobacco Ware
house company, Louisville, Ky., on the 18th,
drew from the Second National bank q, 900,
placed the money in his coat pocket. and start
ed for the warehouse He was jostled against
by two parties OH the way, and on reaching the
warehouse found that he had been relieved of
his money.
Rev. EDWARD CONVEY, manager Of the
shepherds Fold New York, on trial for
starving and cruelty treating the children
committed to his charge, has been convicted.
LOUIS MARBuRa, aged 80, Of the firm of Mar
burg Bros, tobacco manufacturers, Baltimore,
killed himself on the 18th.
DIR. j. ]. 0REIILY, OF Louisville, n.y., sui
cided by cutting all the arteries in his neck with
Il lancet at Dallas, Texas, on the 10th. The act
is supposed TO be- the result of protracted dksi-
patton.
WILLIAM GILMAN, aged so, citizen of Mat
toon, H., cut his throat with q razor on the
10TH while at breakfast with his family. Mel
anchOly from the death Of his wife was the
cause.
". + GUERNsEY, a passenger on train from
the west, threw himself under the car at Des
PLANES .street viaduct, Chicago, Oh the 10th,
and was 40 badly injured that lie died in q few
hour
WI. HARTLEY. for the murder of Martin
Wylie, near Mexico, No., iii January, 1879, was
found guilty of murder in the second degree by
the jury on the 10th and assessed 90 years in
the lenltentiary.
OS the 18th, Charles Lane, OF cambridge, Pa,
aged "a, killed his wife, then gave poison TO his
three children and took n quantity himself.
Only one child lives, AMI its feet are 81 badly
frozen that it is thought il must die.
4 FATAL encounter took place at Brule City,
Dakota. Oh the 18th. by which the notorious
Jim SOmers and NJ. Somers KILLED each other.
There was fcud OF many years standing be
tween the families, and on the 18th Somers
and his uncle came together and had an alterca-
ton. Jim grabbed needle-gun and shot his
nephew through the body. As he fell the latter
pulled hIs revolver and shot his uncle, killing
him instantly. The nephew died III about an
hour.
HIRAM 7. ALLEN, respected citizen OF Sand
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the morning of the 18th. His wife took refuge
in q closet and overheard conversation which
may lead to tho arrest Of the murdercrs.
THERE were two suicides at Chicago on the
10th: Corporal X. Thai. Of Company b., by re-
yolyer, and A. V. Hoaglapd by landanrm. Both
were out Of employment and Respondent.
A YouSG man named Merit A. Harger, for
merry of Oconomowoc and WATERFOWL, Wis.
was shot dead III a street brawl at New Orleans,
On the 8th inst.
Two young men. Charles Stratton and Frank
Moore, residing near Kennedy, Chautauqua
county, \. Y, quarrelled on the 18th, and STRAIT
ton stabbed Moore in the heart, killing him in
stantly. The quarrel was the result Of jealousy
about lady.
AMELIA MANTZ shot her cousin, julius Mantz,
at Syracuse, y. u, on the night Of the 18th,
and killed herself with second shot from the
pistol. They had been living together for four
years, under promise of marriage. Jealousy
was the cause of the shooting.
THOMAS CRoKE, telegrapher, suicided at
Milwaukee on the 18th, during tit OF mental
alteration. by jumping into the river near the
harbOr.
joins L. RoBERTsoN's drug store at Sandaval,
ILL.,, was burglarized on the 18th Of $4,000 in
money and papers, and then burned. Loss by
thu fire $4,000.