Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-10-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITlES.
CRIME AND CRIMINAL RECORD

At Chicago, III, Robert Burns was
sentenced, September %, for IA years to the
penitentiary for the murder Of Frederick Bo-
honom. 2sA@4s - 4-AAA tNAAS - aE
Mrs. Ames, Of Minneapolis, was robbed
Sept. %, by her servant girl of $50 in money.
The thief had not been caught at last ac-
counts.
The decayed body of II. II. Conant
was found in the woods near bis house in Ci-
cero ILL.,, on the evening OF September 25. He
is supposed to have been killed by burglars.
On the night of Sept 81, the prisoners
in the Jail at Grenada, Miss, set fire to the
building which was entirely consumed. All
the prisoners escaped, Two we're quite badly
burned.
There was shooting afray in Yako-
ma City, Washington Territory, September so,
in which Dick Splownwas killed, John Splown
shot through the lungs, and David Caro-, ALSO
shot through the lungs are not expected to
live.
| A telegram from Milwaukee Of Sep
tember 80, says Archbishop Henni is lying at
the point of death. He has been confined to his
" sinking. Mentally he is vigorous but
physically he is entirely helpless.
John Vanderlade, on trial at Shelby
vile, KY, Sept. %, was found guilty of murder
and sentenced to death. On the 10Th of last
July, Vanderlade escaped from the penitenti-
ary where he was serving term for robbery.
On the day following, while passing along
secluded road en- route on foot for Louisville,
he met little daughter of Charles johnson,
in the neighbo-hood of Browns barn, whom
he ravished and murdered.
at Cincinnati, o., Thos. Bell, photo
grapheI. who created a sensation few weeks
ago by driving a man from his house at
the point Of revolver, and firing two shots
after him, on the ground that he was unduly
familiar with Mrs. Bell, on the night of Sep
tember 80. shot himself through the head,
causing instant death. His wife says he drew
a revolver and threatened to shoot her, when
she fled, and heard the shot when she got
down stairs.
The st. Louis Republican special from
Plattsburg, Mo-, of September 81. says while
Mrs. Winn, wife Of BENZ. Winn, ESQ o young
lady of refinement and high social position,
was returning home on horseback from visit
to friends near Grayson yesterday, she was
siezed by man who wrapped her riding hab-
it tightly around her head, dragged her into
ravine near by and brutally ravished her.
party of neighhols immediately started in
pursuit of the fiend, overlook and hung him
on the spot. The ravisher proved to be
mullatto, married man and laborer on
Winn's farm.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Warsaw,
Indiana on the evening of September 2S. Last
week Morse Chaplin, wealthy farmer near
here, caused the arrest and Imprisonment of
his daughter, ahaDdsome girl oftwenty years,
and G. L. Smith, sewing machine agent who
had won her heart and then forged check
on her father in her favor for $3.50. Smith was
bailed out, but her father refused to give bail
for the daughter, fearing she would elope with
Smith. Yesterday afternoon Smith called at
the Jail and was allowed to walk with her in
the back yard. They had not been there long
when four pistol shots were heard and when
the iailor's family reached the yard the dead
body OF Miss Chaplin was discovered lying by
the side of the body of Smith, the smoking re-
wife and two children and was trying to get
divorce.
A Vincennes, Ind, special of Sept. %,
says: Ed. Hogan, an employe of the Ohio
IS Mississippi railroad, went to the bagnio of
Jennie Herberts last night and found Doug
las Williams sitting in the Jap of Kate Ad-
ans, one of the inmates of the house. With
out uttering word, he approached Will
Jams, dealt him terrible blow on the head
with large hickory stick, ,.inficting injuries
from which Williams died this morning. Ho-
gan fed and has not yet been captured.
Williams is nephew of Gov. Williams. and
his brutal and unprovoked murder has crea.
ted intense excitement in the country, and
should Hogan fall into the hands of the peo-
pie, he will be lynched. Kate is said to be
Hogan's girl, and the cause of the murder
was probably sudden fit of jealousy ocea-
stoned by finding Williams in such Intimate
relations with her.