Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-22
CRIMINAL.

A MOB of white strikers refused 10 per-
nit gang of cOlored laborers to work
at East Atchison, Kan, on the 10Th inst.
A Mrs. FRYE, of Keokuk, insane and
locked up with her baby in the jail at Fort
Madison, Iowa, for safe keeping, killed the
child by hanging it to the bed
ROBERT WHITToN, once deputy county
treasurer at indianapolis, who, some years
ago forged a county order and jumped his
bail, has returned 10 that city and surren-
dered to the authorities.
Two boys. IL ane II years Of age respect
lively, have been found dead in MendOcinO
county, California One was shot through
the head, and the other through the heart.
They are supposed to have been murdered.
Mrs. BRowN, of Indianapolis, has been
found guilty of the murder of her husband,
and sentenced to death. Wade, her para
mour, who assisted in killing old man
Brown, has been under a similar sentence
for several weeks.
C. Epson, section boss on the Burlington
Southwestern railroad, while under the in
fuence of liquor, laid down on the track
near Milan, Mo, and slept. The result is
he is minus a leg, with probabilities of
death
AN old inmate of the Kenosha county,
Wisconsin, poorhOuse, with a long and
keen knife in his hand crept into the room
of another ancient pauper against whom
he bore a grudge, and undertook to kill
him. The fight was long and bloody
one, but assistance arrived in time to pre-
vent a murder.
Mrs KING, wife of a prominent Cincin-
natl saloonist, was forcibly taken from her
home, day or two since, and incarcerated
in an inebriate asylum. The husband
claims that she is confirmed drunkard,
while her friends claim that she is de
serving woman, and that he is bent on Sc
curing possession of her fortune.
ANEW YORK dispatch to the Chicago
Journal, of July 18th, says, Chastine Cox,
the burglariOus murderer of Mrs. Jane de
Forest Hull, was executed in the prison
yard a few minutes before o'clock this
morning. He was game" to the last.
After the moose was adjusted his lips
moved as if in prayer, and moment after
the spring was touched and he was
jerked into the air. He died com
parativcly easy. The crime which Cox
expiated with his life was the
murder, on the night of June 10, 1879, of
Mrs. Jane L. de Forest Hull, wife of Dr.
Hull, while she was sleeping in her cham
Der at the Hull resid nee, 40 West Forty
second street. On the trial, Cox's counsel
admitted that Cox by a sudden impulse, de-
termined to rob Mrs. Hull's house while
passing by, that he attempted to open the
front door but that his key broke in the lock.
He then clambered along the stone coping
on the front Of the house, and finding the
window of Mrs. Hull's room unfastened,
threw it up and entered the room. He
had secured the iewelry and was about
leaving as he came, when Mrs. Hull recog-
nized him and tried to raise an alarm.
He stifed her cries with the pill
low and the polonaise. When he
found or thought that she was dead, he
threw water over her face in the hope of
reviving her. He then passed the candle
he had before her eyes. Seeing that she
was dead, he put the candle in his pocket,
passed out by the window, and fed in the
darkness ofthe night. Cox fed to Boston
where he was arrested chiefly through the
instrumentality of Mr.. BaIch, reporter OF
the Boston Herald