River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-18

reservation, charged with making fraud
ulent returns and vouchers to the gov.
eminent. Bridgman claims he will be
able to clear himself of the charge.
DAVID ROBERTS, for the past sixteen
years Chief cutter of II. B. Claflin & Co,
was arrested last night, says a dispatch
OF the 9th, and confessed to having rob-
bed his employers of silks and satins
valued at $4,000. The robberies have
been going on for series ofyears. Ten
thousand dollars worth of the stolen
property was recovered.
A CAIRO, H., dispatch of the 9th says
The inquest over the body of Fred Whit
camp, whose murder was announced in
a dispatch last night, was held to-day,
and the verdict of the jury was to the eff
feet that George Kohl did the killing at
The instigation of Mrs. Whitcamp. Both
were committed to Jail on a charge of
murder in the first degree. Kohl did
not deny his guilt but charged that he
did it because Mrs. Whitcamp wanted it
done. She denied all knowledge of the
matter whatever but the evidence against
her is deemed conclusive.
THE Chicago Journal of the 18th.
says: Clarence f. Davis, who abducted
very respectable young lady from
Quincy, H., recently, married her in
this city, and then decamped, and who is
known TO have several other wive in va
rious parts of the country, was brought
to Chicago last night in custody, and is
now likely to receive his deserts. His
Detroit and Quincy victims are here to
confront him, and two others are expect
ed. He is heartless wretch, and ii Is a
pity there is not law expressly covering
such case as his by extreme punish
ment.
THE trial of the eleven persons indicted
for corrupt solicitation of members of
the legislature in connection with the
act to appropriate $4,000,000 TO pay the
losses incurred by the railroad riots of
1877, began at Harrisburg, Pa, March
9Th. In the list of defendants are ex-
State Treasurer Kimble and four men,
bers of the legislature. In addition to
the indictment for bribery Kimble and
two other defendants are charged wi
| n riury. About fifteen lawyers will par.
| 4 .te in the several cases, among
! vgnum are Senator Matt Carpenter, Judge
! T. s. Black, and President Gowen, of the
| Philadelphia and Reading railroad, who
| had been retained by the prosecuting
committee of the house ofrepresentativ $.
The trial is expected to last two weeks
Hon j. w. PERRY, member of the
Kentucky legislature, arrived in Gin
| Cinnati on the evening of March Sth and
registered at Hunts hotel for himself
/ and Miss Adams. They were assigned
separate rooms. Early on the following
morning Miss Adams left for Van Vert
Ohio. An examination of her room dis
| closed the fact that she had given birth
to an infant which was found in the ares
whittier it had evidently been lowered by
a cord from the second story window
The babe was, strangely enough, alive
and apparently unhurt by its fearful
treatment. Miss Adams was intercepted
on the train. Mr.. Perry expressed the
greatest surprise over the affair. He sale
Miss Adams had been brought up in his
family and that she was scarcely sixteer
years old. The affair created great ex-
citenent owing to the prominence Of
! Mr. Perry and the inhuman conduct o.
! the young mother.