Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-15
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public announcement that DR.. Luther b.
Dickinson, editor and proprietor of the
Planters and TURNER'S Magazine, and
prominent citizen of Richmond, had been
engaged for two years past in o systematic
course of forgeries, using forged endorse
ments of Jeter & Dickinson, proprietors of
the Religious Herald, to negotiate notes of
his own which he offered for discount at
various banks in the city, or sold to note
brokers. He has also for some time used
forged endorsements of Rev. DR.. George B.
Taylor, Baptist missionary to Rome, Italy,
and Rev. Charles E. Taylor, professor in
Wake Forest college, North Carolina, both
of whom are his brothers-in law. The fact
that he was brother of Rev. DR.. Dickinson,
Jr., member Ct the firm of Jeter g. Dickin-
son, and was otherwise SO highly connected,
disputed oil suspicion as to the commences
of the forged signatures, and he
might have continued this criminal
operations for long time to come but for
the recent death of Rev. j. B. Jeter, senior
which event rendered impossible the further
use of the firm name in negotiating loans.
Settlement of the affairs of deceased DR..
OotcI lou " IuO O46COSCAJ VI LAO 4O4EO4ACos
The forger finding disclosure of his many
crimes about to be made left the city last
Thursday ostensibly on business, since which
time he has not been heard from. he left
behind the following letter:
March III desire to make to my friends
and creditors frank confession of my folly in
fraudulently using the name and credit of
others in the vain hope of extricating myself
from endorsements caused by bad manage
ment. My affairs compelled me to fee from
my home utterly penniless. solemnly de-
clare my purpose to devote the balance of my
life to the payment of my every Indebtedness,
and I invoke charitable judgment and treat.
ment on the part of all concerned.
(Signed,) L. E. DICKINSON.
An Investigation into the forgeries show
they will aggregate $28, 900 or more. Rev.
DR.. A. E. Dickinson has conveyed all his
real and personal estate in trust for the ben
eft of the sufferers by his brothers. crimes.
TERRIBLE MURDER IN OHIO.
CINCINNATI, March IA Gazette special
from Waynesville, Ohio, says brutal muir
der was discovered there this evening. Gid
con Carson and his wife have been living the
past winter in an old school house in the
outskirts of the village in the most abject
poverty, intensified by Carson's intemper-
ance and i'll health. He has been known
to DO very violent in temper when
drunk. At o'clock to night young
man who wanted to get Mrs. Carson
to do some washing tomorrow
raped at the door. getting no response. He
entered and found the room in utter con-
fusion. Mrs. Carson lay on the front part
of the bed murdered, a portion of her left
cheek entirely cut off, which he found after
ward in a bowl. The fatal blow had ap-
parently been given with a Ratchet. The
coroner was called, when it was found Mrs.
Carson was entirly nude, being covered with
bed tick, and her husband
was lying in a drunken stupor in
the back part of the house. He was taken
to jail, where he reused enough to say he
knew his wife was dead, that she was killed
about O'Clock, but said he did not know
who did it.
Carson is between 80 and GO years of age,
and has been highly respected man. He
was at one time in the dry goods bust
in Haines, Wright g. Co.'s store. Within
the past few years he has been drinking
heavily.
FIRE IN PACIFIC MAIL STEAMER.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.-Fire has just
broken out in the steerage of the Pacific
mail steamer City Of Sydney, of the Austria
liam line, lying at the Pacific mail dock. A
general alarm was turned on and the whole
fire department has turned to the dock. At
the time of writing, six streams are concen-
trated on the fire, which has not yet broken
through the upper deck, and it is believed
that it will be confined to its present
l. Ill
GUS damage. At best, the ship which is full
of cargo, will have to be discharged, and
some other steamer substituted, as the City
of Sidney was to have sailed for Sidney
Tuesday. The fremen have now got at tho
fire, and the safety of the ship is considered
secured though the extinguishment of the
fire will be tedious.
At eleven p. M. the fire in the City of Sgd
ney is still burning, with no immediate pros
poet of being extinguished. As far as can
be ascertained it is just forward of amid
ships, either in the lower hold or in the lower
deck. There is lumber and lot or Homo
lulu freight stored in that part Of the ship.
Water is being poured in rapidly and it is
probable the steamer will have
to be pretty we'll flooded.
Arrangements are not yet determined
for replacing her on the line and there is
likely to be dely of several days and per-
haps week in the sailing of the next steam
or.
ESCAPE oE FORGER.
CLEVELAND, o., March 14-Edward E.
JONES' arrested in Chicago and taken to
Mansfield, Ohio, for trial on the charge of
forgery, on Friday night, escaped by letting
himself down from the fourth story of the
hotel where he was in custody. It is sup
posed he has twenty three thousand dollars
of forged notes in his possession.
SUICIDE OF AN ACTOR.
BOSTON, March 14.-Geo. n. Hammond
committed suicide last night by hanging.
He was we'll known actor under the stage
name of Fred. Il. Hillman. He was father
of the 'sLittle Hillmans," and played long
time with Yankee Locke.
SUICIDE OF AN EDITOR.
PHILADELPHIA, March 14.-Charles Cath
cart Taylor, city editor of the Times, died
to-day frem the effect of a pistol shot dis
charged during mental alteration, by his
own hard.