The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FRANK ALLISON, . merchant of
Woodlawn, Carroll County, Va, suspected
| the fidelity of his wife, whom ne learned
was very intimate with his partner, young
man named Hawks, during his absence from
home on business trips, which occurred fire.
quently. A few days since Allison bade his
wife good-by, announcing his intention of
making trip of several days. dura-
| ton, Instead of doing SO he secreted
himself in the woods not far from home,
and ut night returned to his house and sud-
denly broke in upon the guilty couple. his
| worst fears being realized. Drawing his re-
volver he shot Hawks three times. killing
him on the spot, and then shot his wife twice,
wounding her MORALLY. He then went and
surrendered himself to the officers. Allison
is man of middle age and his wife consid-
erably younger. All were of high social
standing.
The dead body of Michael Hendricks,
said to be nephew of Gov. Hendricks Of
Indiana, was recently found along the road
near Leadville, Colo. A bullet hole through
the head gave evidence of the cause of his
death. Young Hendricks was implicated
in the shooting of man named James Nc
Callaum, recently, but upon examination
established his innocence and was acquitted.
McCallaum's brothers, however, threatened
to kill him for his part in the affair, and as
they have since left the country, it is sup
posed they carried their threat into eXecu-
ton.
THE Woodin Hotel at Saltwater,
Mich, burned on the 18th. The proprietor
is widow, whose fve-year- old son peiished
in the flames. She is insane with grief.
A ROW between cowboys and soldiers
occurred in low dive at Camp Sheridan,
Neb., in which two of the cowboys were
killed and one soldier was shot in the leg. 1t
was thought he would die.
j. HERBERT REED, prominent in
surance man of Boston, jumped from third
story window, struck on his head and was
instantly killed. He had been for some time
deranged.
ALBERT TALBOT, a son of the late
DR.. P. H. Talbot, of Marysville, Mo-, has
been arrested, charged with the murder of
his father, who was shot and killed by an I'M
known assassin while sitting in his own
house on the night of Sept. 16. Mrs. Tai
bolt, wife of the murdered man, Ed. Talbot,
another son, and a hired man named Wyett,
have been arrested as accomplices. A
detective, in the disguise Of farm laborer,
working upon an adjacent farm, became in
innate with the Talbot boys, and
claims to have secured indubitable
proof that DR.. Talbot was assas-
sinated by members of hisS own family.
According to the evidence of Wyett, the
murder of the Doctor was coolly premedi-
tated by the two sons, the gun having teen
loaded for that purpose several days previ-
Gus to the assassination. He says that Ed.
Talbot stood outside and did the shooting,
while Albert sat by the window near his
father and pulled the curtain aside
so that his brother could get a good
aim at the old man. Wyett's story
is confirmed by the evidence of the detective,
Brighton, who worked up the case, who tes-
titled that the brothers confessed to him that
they committed the crime, and also that they
hired him to murder Wyett, the hired man,
on account of his knowledge of their guilt.
The Talbot boys, on the other hand,
charge that Wyett killed their father, and
protest their own innocence. All three
were held for trial without bond, while Mrs.
Talbot, as an accessory, was held in 81 200
BAH.
AT West Albany, Wabash County,
Mimi, Robert Love shot and instantly killed
his wife and infant child, and afterwards
blew his own brains out. Domestic trouble
was the cause of the tragedy.
MICHAEL O'HEARN, a man of con.
siderable wealth, who resided at Pittsfeld,
Mass. stabbed his wife to death and then
committed suicide. O'Hearn and his wife
lived unhappily. He was addicted to drink,
and when under its influence he was ex.
ceedingly cruel and brutal.
CHARLES THROoP and Henry Mum,
painters, at work upon the Public Library
Building in Cincinnati, on the 2Sth, by the |
breaking of hook that sustained their scat
folding were precipitated to the pavement,
distance Of 80 feet, and both were instantly |
killed.
THERE was collision of passenger |
trains on the Panhandle Road, about % |
miles west Of Pittsburgh, on the 10Th, by |
which j. Anderson, q fireman, and three |
young men who were stealing o ride were
instantly killed.
PETER WRIGHT, colored, was hanged |
at Liberty, Va, on the 18th, for the murder !
Of his employer, farmer named Maupin, in !
June, 1879.
JUDGE MOORR. an old and respected |
citizen Of Jonesboro, Clayton County, Ca,
was on the 18th brutally murdered by ne
gro named Belts, who beat out his brains :
with rail.splitting maui. The murderer
escaped but was being holly pursued.
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