The Northern Pacific farmer., 1880-04-22
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CRIME.

hanged at Leesburg, Va, on the 10th
for the murder OF Tn Omas, colOred; last
October.
PETER LAWN, ringleader in the cele-
brated gold brick, swindle, last October,
was captured by the Rocky Mountain
Detective Association, at Denver on the
18th inst.
A New York dispatch of April 18th,
states that Chastinc Cox, who murdered
Mrs. Hull, and Pactro Ballio, who muir.
mered his wife are sentenced to be hung
May 28th.
JOSEPH G.. BRAcKENR1DsE, formerly
clerk in the postoff1ce, who is now serv-
ing a two-year sentence in the peniten-
tiary for rihing registered letters, was
pardoned on the 18th inst. He has been
in the Michigan city prison since May
~.
The grand jury at Keokuk Iowa, on
the 18th inst. indicted Frank Lane for
perjury on the witness stand in the
Young case, but failed to find bill
against any Of the parties held for the
lynching Of Young.
AT Neenah Wis.,, on Sunday morning
the 18th, three masked burglars entered
the house of Mrs. j. +. Goats and with
pistols at her head demanded her money.
On a refusal they beat her to insensi.
bility and ransacked the house, carrying
off $4,000 worth ofjewelry and dia-
m0nds.
A READING, Pa, special Of April 10th
says, an innkeeper of New Holland
named Marks, who died last Monday,
made q confession that he himself and q
neighbor named Weldler murdered and
robbed the peddler whose body some
time ago was found in the creek. The
authorities are looking for ,Weldler.
A CHARLESTON, South Carolina, spec
ial of April 10th, says that Anon Woot
m i6 oofR1E The E eHd d not 5GbSaE
his neck, and he died from strangulation.
under the new law against arson.
A SENSATION was produced in court,
at st. Johns, N. B., on the 18th inst,
during the trial of Captain Tower tor
scuttling the bark Brothers Pride,
when a steVedore from Cardinas testified
that the vessel took in cargo of dirty
water at Cardinas. The prosecution are
seeking to prove the cargo worthless; it
WAS insured for $38,000 at Melado.
A GALVESTON Texas, telegram of
April 10th states that James Riley a
landowner, struck over the
head with billiard.cue by John Sley a
few days ago, has since died of fracture
of the skull. Riley and Sley were play
ing billiards, quarreled, and the former
attacked Sley with a knife, when Sley
struck him.
THE crooked tobacc cases which &C.
cupied the United States courts nearly
three weeks Of the February term, ended
at Detroit, Mich, on the 18th inst, by
Judge Brown accepting plea of nolo
co7atendree and imposing $1,000 fine on
the Rothschilds, Burnstine & Solomon, in
the criminal case. The suit to recover
money out Of which the government
claims to have been defrauded by Simp'
sons manifestation of tobacco in bonded
wareh ouse, is still standing.
A SPECIAL from Laramie City, of April
18th, says there was an extensive delivery
from the penitentiary Wednesday last.
The affair was kept quiet by Warden
Horn, who hoped to capture the prison.
ers and place them back in the peniten-
tiary. Warden Horn armed and mount
ed several short-term convicts and sent
them after the fugitives. The search
proved fruitless. The escaped are no.
torious road agents and murderers, "The
Kid" Buffalo SAM" Hamilton and
Wilber.