The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-15
Last Nights Dispatches.
CRIMINAL.

| CINCINNATI, March ia Gdzettt
special from Waynesville. Ohio. says {
brutal murder was discovered here thii
evening. Gideon Carson and his wife
have been living the past winter in an ole
school house in the outskirts of the village
in the most abject poverty. Tonight 9
young neighbor called when the room was
found in utter confusion; Mrs. Carson lay
on the bed murdered, with portion Of
her left cheek entirely cut off, which he
afterward found in a bowl. The fatal
blow had apparently been given with a
Ratchet. The coroner was called, when il
was found that Mrs. Carson was entirely
nude, being covered with q bed tick, and
her husband was lying in drunken stupor
on the back part of the bed. He was taken
| to Jail where he reused enough to say he
knew his wife was dead; that she was
killed about | o'aock, but said he did not
know who did it.
CLEVELAND, March II Edward Il.
Jones, who was arrested in Chicago and
taken to Mansfield, Ohio, for trial on the
charge of forgery. on Friday night escaped
by letting himself from the fourth story of
the hotel where he was 10 custody. 1t is
supposed he has $23 900 in forged notes in
his possession.
RICHMOND. Va, March 14.-The COM
10 unity was startled this morning by the
public announcement that DIR. Luke r.
Dickinson, editor and proprietor of the
Planters and Farmers Magazine, and q
prominent citizen of Richmond, has been
engaged for two years past in a systematic
course of forgeries, He has been using
forged endorsements of Peter Il Dickinson,
proprietors of the Religious Herald, to
negotiate notes of his own, which he Of
1or ho
tutions in this city. or sold to note brokers,
He has also for some time used forged en-
dorsements of the Rev. DR. George b,
Taylor, Baptist missionary to Rome, Italy,
aDd the Rev Charles r. Taylor. professor
in Wake Forest college. North Carolina,
both of whom are his brothers in-law. The
forger, finding that disclosures Of his many
crimes we're about to be made. left the
city last Thursday, ostensibly on business.
since which time he has not been heard
from. He left letter stating that he
would devote the remainder of his life to
the liquidating of his Indebtedness
LOUISVILLE, March l3-Samuel Redd,
street scraper whom Mayor Baxter dis
charged to day, made an Intellectual at
tempt to assassinate the Mayor, firing one
shot at him on the street
Boston. March l3.-Nathan p. Pratt,
treasurer of the Reading Savings Bank,
tried upon fifty-two counts for embezzle
ment, was found guilty on twentyBine
counts The case goes to the Supreme
Court Pratt's bali is $4,000. He ne
gotiated paper with other banks to the ex-
tent Of $4,000 and systematically stole
from deposits when handed in. All his
transactions were kept from the knowl
edge OF the bank officers, but be says the
exercise Of ordinary care on their parf
would have prevented any wrong doings
by him His stealings aggregated over
$l3O000, and will make the bank ins0l
vent and entirely without assets to pay
some 500 deposltors The son fed before
the father was arrested His whereabouts
is uow unknown. Shortly after the con-
victinn startling paper in possession OF
Pratts counsel was made public. 1t is
the confession of Sidney 2. Pratt, a son OF
the prisoner, ,and up to within few mooths
chief clerk, bookkeeper and cashier of the
bank of which bis father was treasurer.
He takes the entire responsibility Of the
defacations and details the manner in
which the stealings were effected. lie
abstracted mortgages, insurance policies,
ito from the bank, realized upon them
and replaced them with cuuningly execut
ed forgeries. He stole $40, 900 in govern
ment bonds deposited in the bank as
collateral, substituting al envelope of old
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