River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-29
CRIME.

The jury in the Hayden murder case
so long on trial at New Haven, failed to
agree ON a verdict, and were discharged
Jan. 49, 1t was understood the final bal.
lot Of the jury stood II for acquittal and
/ for conviction.
SENTENCE has been pronounced by
Judge Blades, of Pontiac, ILL.,, on De Boes,
says dispatch of the 21st. He will be
hung March H.. De Boes is the villain
who murdered Miss Martin, of Minonk,
on the 10Th of Oct. last.
An Oswego, N. Y, telegram of Jan.
21st says David Bonnell, Sylvanus Rey-
nolds, Lafayette Ingersoll, Neva Inger-
soil, Frederick Ingersoll, Frank Gibson,
Lucy Ingersoll, Ida Ingersoll and
Levina Look were arrested while anu
featuring spurious coin. Metals, dies,
acids, etc, besides 500 in counterfeit
American and Canadian coin, were
seized.
4 DAsTARDLY attempt was made to
wreck a train on the Illinois Central,
near Mendoza, ILL.,, last night, says dis.
datch Of the 22d inst. The rails had
been piled on the track, and as the train
struck the distractions they were scat
tered and the cars saved from being
thrown from the track, not, however, un-
| til one coach was badly splintered; but
| fortunately none of the passengers We're
| injured This is the third attempt at
train-wrecking that has occurred recently
on that road.
A MAN giving his name as William
| Oliver Davis, called at the boarding
house of Mrs. Charles Wolf, at 121 Wells
street, Chicago, on the afternoon of Jam
10, ostensibly in search of board. While
Mrs. Wolf was showing him the rooms,
! the man suddenly presented pistol and
! demanded what money she might have
in the house. n struggle ensued during
which the thief secured the money and
made off. He was soon captured owing
to Mrs. Wolf following him into the
street and shouting. Efforts were made
| to lynch him by the excited crowds, but
he was landed in jail.
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred near the
| university grounds at Berkely, Alameda
county, California, yesterday, says tele-
gram of the goth. Two young bloods
from Oakland were out cunning, and one
of them, named Gross, imbibed rather
freely of bad whisky. Seeing some OBJ
ject moving in the bushes Gross declared
it was a wildcat, and raised his gun and
they discovered that the supposed wild.
cat were two sisters, named Whitcomb,
the eldest aged 10 and the other about
nine. A buckshot had passed entirely
throue h Miss WhitcOmb's head, entering
Just below the eye and making its exit a
little below the angle of the right eye.
Her little sister received a terrible wound
in the forehead, from which the brains
ocZed out. The little one Is sure TO die,
and Miss Whitcomb, if she survives,
will be horribly disfgured. Gross has
been arrested on charge of criminal
carelessness.
THE jury in the case of James l. Cros
by. on Trial at Mayville, N. Y, for the
murder of his wife last summer, came
into court'last night, says telegram of
Jan. 22nd, with verdict of not guilty,
and the prisoner was discharged by
Judge Barker. When court adjourned
at O'Clock the judge announced the
ringing of the courthouse bell would in
dictate That the jury had agreed on its
verdict. When the bell pealed forth at
the solemn hour of midnight, the mother
Of the accused, an old lady, fell in fit,
and at a late hour was in a critical con-
dition. The rush for the courthouse,
when the bell was heard, was something
which terrified people, many of the clti-
zens rushing thither halfdressed and
with their clothing in their hands. When
the foreman announced the verdict the
prisoner cried for joy, though he stoutly
maintained his innocence throughout
the trial and said he knew he should be
acquitted. After being congratulated
by his friends they bore him triumph
artly away. And thus ends the Filing
ton murder mystery, which has claimed
the attention of all Chautauqua for the
past two weeks.