The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-08
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

The stage which runs between Pierce City,
No., and Eureka Springs. Ark, was stopped On
the Goth ult. some twenty miles from the former
place by party Of six masked, well-armed
men. and the passengers, eleven men, and one
woman, were robbed of their money and other
valuables. About $500 was taken, Of which A.
=. Mann, assistant engineer of the st. Louis d
San Francisco railroad, lost 1910, and W. II.
Chaplin, his clerk, Sl75. Other passengers
threw away their pocket books containing 81, 500
when the stage was stopped, but recovered them
when the robbers left.
WIN. II. FAIRcHILD, who has served terIas for
various crimes in the Michigan and Ohio peni-
tentiaries, was arrested ut Chicago on the LIST
inst, for the murder Of an old man named
Richard French whom Fairchild had entced to
Kansas under promise of taking care of him and
there murdered him in cold blood. The crime
became known to the chief Of police Of Toledo,
o., to whom the pmttling Of FaircMlds little
child revealed 1t. The body OF French was ex-
humed and Fairchlld has been followed for
some months with the result Of his arrest.
The murder was commit cd IN 1878.
THE grand jury investigating the robbery of
trunks and bodies which came ashore from the
wreck of the Vera Cruz, have found true bills
against Edward Moody and J.. Allen, the latter
hotel keeper at Matanzas, Florida.
A NEGRO employed on the st. Johns and Lake
Justice railroad, in Florida, killed his white
boss. He was carried to Fort Mason but ut
night band of men overpowered the guard,
took the negro out and lynchcd him.
IT is now asserted that Sheriff Gouthereaux,
Of New Orleans, il defauler to the state for tax
collections amounting to about $150,000. The
deficit to the state and city l. estimated ut
quarter of a million.
THos. BELL, Cincinnati photographer, sui
oil l,y Oh ina no .,lt NJ
of domestic mfehcity.
A SHOOTING affair took place at Yakima City,
W. T., on the 3Oth ult., in which Dnk Splawn
was killed, John Spawn shot through both legs
and David Carol shot through the lungs and
not expected to live.
The remains of Horace p. Wilbur and Mrs.
Mary Tyndall were found in the river ut Phila-
delphia, Pa, Oh the 3Oth ult., and Il private
Waterman states that he saw them both jump
into the water on the night Of the Goth. Wilbur
was q lawyer III good standing, and leaves "A
family. The woman had recently been divorced.
A HORRIBLE double tragedy wax enacted at
Warsaw, Ind, on the 18th ult. A scwing-ma-
chine agent named Smith captivated the heart
of Morse Chaplin's daughter and forget
check on Chaplin which the girl drew. Both
Smith and Miss Chaplin were arrested, but the
former secured bail and was released. Chaplin,
daughter. fearing that she would elopc with
| Smith. On the 2Sth, Smith called tt the Jail
| and was allowed to walk about the yard With
his dulciuea. Suddenly pistol shots were heard
and the jailor found the dead bodies OF Smith
and Miss Chaplin lying side by side, the smok-
lug revolver etill remaining in SmnhS hands.
Smith was Il married man, but divorce proceed
| lngs were pending.
G. W. EASTMAN, city clerk OF Evansville, Ind.
has disappeared, and his accounts ARE short
| $1,000.
A MAN named John Hicks, aged 40 years, has
| just been received at the JeiYersonvile, Ind,
| penitentiaiy on two years sentence. He has
passed over 81 years of his long life in prison.
AT Abbeville court house, S. c., OH the 28th
| ult., p. Griffin was shot and killed by Charles
McClung. They quarrelled over game Of
billiards.
JOHN SAUNDERS and character called
"Shang the boot-black" jawed with each other
at Hot Springs, Ark, on tho 2sth inst, when
the latter drew q revolver and killed Saunders.
Both colOred.
john PREIs, incarcerated for drunkenness IN
a Chicago police station, hung himself to the
bars of the cell, on the night Of the 9th.
+. NJ. SHAW, late president Of the First
National bank, Paola, Ram, which went into
liquidation some months ago, has been arrest
report of the condition of the bank.
On the night OF the Goth inst. prisoners con.
fined in the Jail at Grenada, Miss, set fire to
the building, which was entirely consumed. All
the prisoners were released and made their es-
cape. Two were badly burned.
A SPECIAL from Plattsburg, No., dated the
9th, says While Mrs. VIM, wife of Benz.
VIM. Esq, was returning home on horseback
from n visit TO friends near Grayson, she was
seized by man., who dragged her into ravine
near by and brutally assaulted her. party Of
ncighbors overlook the rayisher and hanged
him on the spot. He proved to Inc mulattO,
a married man, and laborer on Winn's farm.
Ohio, went to Cincinnati on the 9th and ex-
changed $500 in fanr per cent. bonds for
| gold. He put the gold IN u vase. On the cars
on his way home, he found his yalse exchanged
for one containing three bricks. No clue to the
robbery.
MISS SARAH VANCE, patient in st. Vincent's
insane asylum st. Louis set fire to her cloth
| ing, on the 25th, and was fatally burned.
HARRISON THURMAN was fatally stabbed by
| John Hayes at Gainesville, Texas on the 25th.
DOUGLAS WILLIAMS was fatally beaten with
club by Ed. Hogan in Vincennes, Ind,
bagnio on the 25th inst.
The decomposing body Of II. II. Conant was
fonnd in tho woods surrounding his house at
Cicero, n Chicago suburb, on the 25th. II is
thought he was killed by burglars.
By the burning Of saloon at Buena Vista,
Col, on the night of the oath, Tom Mccarthy
and Tom Kelly lost their lives, There arc
strong suspicious that the men were murdered
and the saloon fired to hide the crime.