Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-08
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
MURDER AND MARRIAGE.

L.. McKenny, shot and killed Alfred Smith, at
the residence of the latter, six miles from
Mount Vernon. McKenny a young man al
most beardless, seduced the daughter of Smith,
evidence of which seduction was palpa bly,
seen in babe which Smith 8
daughter had given birth to about
| six weeks before the killing. McKenny was ar
rested and held to answer by an examining
court. He was indicted by the grand jury at
the present term of the circuit court for wllful
murder, and yesterday the trial begun. Smiths s
wife and his daughter Mamie were the only
witnesses of the killing. According to pre-
ponderance of testimony, Smith had driven
MoKenny and Mamie from the house, had at
tackled MeKenny and stabbed him severely with
knife, before McKenny fred the shot which
sent Smith into eternity. Mamie has been
living with McKenny since the killing and
their former relations have been kept up. The
trial excited considerable interest," and attracted
large crowd to the court house. The tesl-
money closed this morning, and after the Jury
had been instructed by the court the argu-
ment of counsel began. Defense begged the
jury to turn the boy loose and promised that
as fitting finale to the prosecution. William
and Mamie should Join hands and in the sol
emuity of matrimony should pledge lifelong
devotion to each other. The jury, after delib-
Grafton of about twenty minutes, returned
verdict Of not guilty. Immediately after William
court house, and halting just outside of the
bar in front of the judges sea-, Judge Mcclure
stepped in and in q few words pronounced
them man and wife. The occurrence caused
considerable sensation.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN DIsAsTER.
New YORK, May THE inquest in the Mad
ison Square Garden disaster was finished this
evening. Coroner Brady, in addressing the
jury stated that it had been proved that
the building law had been aignally
violated, and that the building was of faulty
construction, and it would be the duty of the
jury to find where the fault lay, and ernbody
IN their verdict the name of the guilty party,
or parties, as well as those who were to blame
and injuries to bodies and limbs.
The Jury returned the following verdict: We,
the undersigned jurors, find that Mrs. Annie
Willets, Mrs. Ansel Shellman, Mary Ann Con-
molly and VIM. I'll. Tileson came to their deaths
by injuries received on April FL,
1880, by the falling of the west wall
of the building known as the Madison
Square Garden, which was due to the faulty
construction of said building, and we hereby
censure the Harlem railroad company for en-
ploying civil engineer to act as architect who
is not conversant with the construction of
buildings. We also censure the department. of
buildings for negligence in their duty in allow
ing the aforesaid addition to be
erected contrary TO law and in faulty man
ner. We recommend that the entire build
ing be knocked down, as we deem it dangerous
and unfit for purposes of public assemblages.
THE ST. LOUIS FoRGER.
ST.. LOUIS, Nay z. -Itappears that the man
calling himself Gen. 3. A. Morton here yester-
day was known to our sergeant, at whose in
stance he was apprehended, as John d. King
&I,o&M
or Kingman. did not forge the name of ex-Gov.
Palmer, but presented to the Joclyn bank
forged check of bank in Alson, Ill, which he
said was in payment of loan he had made to
Gov. Palmer whom he had met in Texas in q
temporary financial strait. Besides the arti-
cles mentioned last night, there were found in
Iorton's, or Kin2man's valise, blank drafts on
the Chemical National bank of New York num-
bered from 81, ,321 to 27, $50; blank drafts, let
ters of credit and letter heads on the Planters
bank, of Owensboro Ky. blank letter heads of
the Coal Mountain State Line New England
railway, 3. A. Morton, New Haven, president.
W.. 8. johnson, deputy United States mar
shall of Texas, who is here Identifies Morton as
a man who in the fall of 1877, forged draft
for $500 on MIR. Root, banker, at Fort Smith.
Ark, which was cashed at Sherman, Texas, but
ne does not recollect by what name he was
known then. Chief of Police O'Donnell,
Chicago, telegraphed Chief McDonough here
this forenoon, that if a case cannot be made
against Morton here, to hold him as he is want
ed in Chicago. Morton will be taken to Joclyn
tomorrow.
VETERAN MURDERED.
DAYTON, o., May IA man was found muir
dered on the road to the soldiers home, near
this city, this morning. He lay on the road
with q bullet through his head, but wagon
tracks near the body showed that the body had
been brought there from the city, where the
murder was committed. Deceased was vete-
ran of the Home, named Valentine Schroeth
aud was from Eaton, Ohio. No clue to the
murderer has yet been found.
SHOT WHILE ESCAPING.
FRANKFoRT, KY, May Three prisoners
attempted to escape from the penitentiary this
morning, two white and one black. The whito
men had scaled the wall, but the negro was on
the top when discovered by the guard, who
fired, and the convict was instantly killed. He
was under life sentence. The other two were
recaptured.
RALEIGH, N. c., May 1.-Two young men
Yesterday, while attending Good Templars'
picnic near here Annie Mitchell, with them
in boat which capsized, was saved by a boy.
| NEW TRIAL DENIED
HARTFORD, Ct., May THE court of errors
denies new trial to Henry Hamlin, sentenced
to be hanged May rs, for the murder of State
prison watchman named Shipman.
COUNSEL TO BE HEARD.
NEW YORK, May 7.-Gov. Cornell will hear
the counsel for Cox and Balboa, sentenced to
be hanged May 2S, who seek communication of
sentence.
| FOR LIFE.
BUFFALO, May Capt. Andrew Mckenzie,
who confessed to killing sailor named Thos.
Russell. on the barge Walton the 28th of last
November, plead guilty to murder in the
| second degree, and was sentenced to the Auburn
prison for life.
| MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
BR1DGEpoRT Conn, May 7.-The jury in the
Neucholz case rendered verdict of murder in
the second degree.
KILLED BY FALL OF COAL.
AuDENRIED, Pa, May flames Boyle and
John Gallagher, miners, were instantly killed
by fall of coal in the Honey Brook mine this
afternoon.
STORE BURGLARIZED.
MILWAUKEE, May 7.-The store of Liese
Drake, Oak Grove, Wis.,, was robbed last night
of goods to the amount of $1,000. No clue to
the robbers.