The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-16
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

A DISPATCH from Cambridge, Texas
says n. A. ssay, u man supposed to be in.
sane, left the residence OF J. N. Lldd, ten
miles east of that place, having shot Ladd
dead without the least provocation, and then
went 90 Samuel Tubbs' house, aud shot him
five iiuies. Tabbs IL not expected 10 live.
Sray then went TO Logan's farm and Inform.
ed Logan what he had done Before he
could be prevented he placed n pistol to
his own head and blew GU, his brains.
BENJAMIN q. BooERT, for many years
treasurer OF the New Yo'k produce ex.
change, was discovered 20 be u defaulter 10
The extent OF }3l 900, on the Sth. Bogert
did not appear nt the exchange or At his
ctiice after the discovery was made, aud
died suddenly on the 9th, at the house Of q
friend Ia New York. IL IL thought that,
unable to bear his dis race, he may have
committed suicide.
AT Manuvski, on the Gatineau river,
Otaws, a man named Brisbois quarrelsd
with his partner, on the 9th, AMI literally
chopped him to pieces. The. h.urderer es.
capped.
GEORGE ERNST, farm lsborer in
Markham township, near Toronto, fatally
shot Mrs. Mary Pfebs on the 18th.
In the Cholio district, Georgia, on the
eth, during the election for a tax receiver,
N \. Smith, balif, called Jasper Spence
TO one side % talk about the election.
Smith, without warning, snatched q pistol
from bystander and shot Spence dead.
DANIEL DE CASTRO, a boy IA years OF
age, suicided by hanging, q: Springfield.
H., on the 9Th.
STEPHEN LoNGFELLow, q nephew OF
the poet, was arrested at Boston, on the eth
for forging tie lattei's name 10 check for
$1,000.
AT Lake Providence, La, City Mar.
shall Mcclure, while attempting to arrest q
number OF hitboltmen, was shot dead
FIVE men were arrested on suspicion aud
placed under quart. On the nj .ht OF the
9Th several OF McGuire's relatives broke into
the prison and fired upon the prisoners,
woupding ali but two MORALLY. The coro.
nsr's jury discovered the murderer Of Nc.
CURE 20 be James Brown, who escaped in
ska The men killed and wounded by
McGuire's relatives were innocent.
A MEXICAN named Juan Gravel was
lynched ~ Alamosa, Col, on the 9th for
cattle stealing.
PosroFFIcE station +, 40l Third av.
enue, New York, was entered on the night
OF the 9th, the safe blown open and 81, 900
stolen.
THERE isa deficiency of over 800, 900
in the accounts OF Daniel Emmons, the
missing town treasurer Of Everett, Mass.
ATTEMPTS have been recently made,
without success, to wreck trains on the
New York Central railroad, near NIAGARA
Falls.
JOHN M. CARR. OF Nashville, Ind,
walked into the mill race, the depth Of
which is three feet, and then shot himself
with revolver
WHILE seated in his Office on the
night OF the 81. John Harvis, deputy sheriff
tally wounded by an unknown party.
EDWARD CURLEY, a Mollie Mcguire
Of Columbia county, Pa, charged with the
murder OF John Cunning, an old man in
Centralia, July 20, 1876, returned 10 Cen.
tralia or the Sd AID surrendered himself TO
the Authorities. Curley IN expected 10 turn
states evidence and make some startling
exposures.
AT Lyons, N. Y, on the 9Th instant,
Frances liovey, an esteemed young lady,
entered her fathers store and shot him
dead. She then reloaded her pistol, went
w S'"H" " Hef 'ooub anu hiiieu herscli'
n. q. TALLFERo, retiring storekeeper
OF the penitertiary at Richmond, Va, Is
short $4,000 TO $50. 900 in his accounts, but
says 1t will be made good by his sureties.
MRS. CoLLERACKEs, OF Greensburg,
Pa, has identified the photograph. clothing
and pocketbo0k OF the nun killed near
Fremont, Ohio, la May, 1878, ~ her hus
band. lie left home 10 seek work, and
had with him 1910 in cash and gold watch.
One Peter Welsh Is accused of the murder.
MRS, q. +. LEWIS, u widow, commit.
ted suicide at Memphis on the 81, by shoot.
ing, Cause, mental depression.
The body Of u man named Mulligan
was found burned to crisp 10 his shanty,
near Sherbrooke, Canada. recently. The
c0rOner's jury came TO the con Inclusion that he
had been murdered, and William GRAY and
wife, from the United States, have been
arrested for the crime. Some money and
clothing which belonged 10 Mulligan were
found In the iPossetsion.
CORPORAL NICHOLSON, discharged
from arreat by the failure OF the grand jury
10 indict him for causing the death OF Pri.
waite Kopp ut Fort Adams, Rhode Island, by
throwing him, IN alleged, into q cistern, has
been dishonorably discharged from the
army. Prior TO his discharge he was 70.
ductd to the ranks.