The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-03
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.


A SrR.NGrIELp, KY, dispatch says James Nc
llyey was shot and killed by 4. Il. Phelps, rep
resentative Of Washington county, on the 10Th
inst. II was an old feud. Phelps surrendered
| 10 tho authorities.
DISPATCH from Paris states Miss Candace
VI. Olney, once wcll-inown New York milner,
and who was witness i'll tho celebrated Newell
divorce suit in April last, killed herself in the
Hotel dc France, Mt Pau.
ROLAND RucRER cheated the gallows at Pales-
tine. Texas, on the 27th inst, by cutting tie
arteries in one of nix wrists and bleeding to
death. lie was to be hanged on the 18th for
the murder of i. Grayson and wife.
ALLEN WRIGHT (colored) WAS hanged for
the murder OF jesse Weeks, at Dallas, Texas, on
the 9th inst. At Waco, in the same state on
the same day, Lynchheld Burke was hanged for
| the murder of Sarah McBee. aged nine years.
He died protesting his innocence.
FoUR disguised white men molested Negroes
cabin near Cochran, Ga., On the night of the
18th inst, when the occupant, John Brown,
showed up and with shot gun killed two
brothers named Dykes, blowing the tops of
| their heads of.
| The body of the wife of Vim. Curtis canal
boatman was found in secluded ravlne near
Sidney, O., OH the 25th inst. They were
married in January last but she has been living
in Tayiorsyille, above Dayton, for some time.
lie went after her with buggy, on the 25th
| inst, and on their return he committed the
the murder. Her trunk, his bloody shirt and u
rubber oyercoat were found hid under pile of
wood on canal boat. Curtis is under arrest.
RICHARD o. ADAMS. Deadwood's defaulting
postmaster, escaped Jail on the oath. A large
reward il offered for his capture.
YOUNG woman giving her name a. Kate b.
Schoiield, who took passage from New York on
the steamer Arizona, jumped overheard in
the Irish channel on the 18th inst, and was
drowned. She wax % years OF age, refined aud
handsome, and lived in the west. Her name il
withheld.
ErrIE A. CARL is the latest victim OF Chicago
Abortionists. Her body was found in hallway
Oh West Madison street on the night Of the sd
inst. and DIR. Earl. notorious for his conviction
and imprisonment for u similar practice, whose
office was in the building, was arrested. He
confessed having performed tho operation
which caused the girls death.
AT Salamanca, n. y, OH the 9th inst, while
John Lock Warwick was in a saloon with Mrs.
Bonn, alias Lizzie Jackson, who had become
enarmored of him and followed him from SYRIA
cnse Fred. Jackson, Lizzie's reputed husband,
! APPEARED and fired on the twain, shooting War
! rick fatally through the windpipe and seriously
| wOunding the woman. Warwick fired several
! shots ut Jackson but failed TO him. All the par
| Ties are co!ored.
TnE much sought DIR. buchanan, of bogus
medical diploma notoricty, whose disappearance
from Philadelphia and supposed drowning from
ferry boat has already been tecgraphed over
| the country, has been run down ut last. IIe
was found ut Windsor, Ont. opposite Detroit,
| where he was registered ~ Mr.. Falrchild.
ROSARIO NELL, the Sicilian brigand and men,
Der Of tho society La Malta, who was sent to
the pcnitentiary at San Francisco for robbery,
was pardoncd by the governor on the 23L inst,
and Immediately started by overland train en-
route 10 Italy, III charge of an Italian official and
| Capt. Stone, Of the San Francisco police. lie
was wanted nj home for murder, and was par
| doned for his Offensc here in order 10 admit of
| his extraditiOn.
The bodies OF Simon Zimmerman and his
wife were found early on the evening of the
23d inntant, at their residence on Clybourn av-
cnuc, Chicago, with bullet holes in their heads,
which had evidently been made by the husband
the night previous. Two children, aged three
years and one year, had been III the house al
day with the bodies. No calise il assigned for
the crime.
WILLIAM AND ROBERT VAN IIULTz, brothers,
while i'll the store of Henry Stock, at Pleasant
Hill, Mo-, Oh the 2lst instant, purchasing pro-
visions, were ordered out of the store by Stock,
| who ut the same moment fired on them with
pistol. The Van llutZ brothers returned the
fire, killing Stock and severely wounding an-
| other man named Alexander.
JAMES THoRP shot and instantly killed Alfred
| Perry, negro, during an alteration at Kansas
| City, Mo-, On the ODD inst.
THOMAS SMITH and Wesley Thomas (negrocs)
quarrelled on the Odd inst, III front of w. NJ.
Bakers saloon, Buriingame, KS, and Smith sent
| bail through Thomas lung. A second shot
| fired by Smith passed through the front window
| Of the saloon and struck Baker in the breast.
Thomas died in n few minutes and Baker was
MORALLY wounded. Cause, Smith too intimate
| with Thomas wife.
A SANTA FE dispatch says Charles Williams
and Louis A. Gaines were hanged at that place
on the 2lst, for murder. Both died without O
struggle, their necks being broken.
IL melee caused by the meeting of Demo-
cratic and Greenback procession at Cofreeville,
YallabuSha county, Miss, II. N. Pearson, Green
back candidate for sheriff, shot and badly
| wounded IA negro named IhOs. Spearman, and
| was III turn shot down and seriously wounded
by Spearman's friends. Two others were
wounded III the fray.
a DISPATCH from Marietta, o., dated tho 22d
inst, says: "People Of the town of Lowell, ton
miles distant, on the Muskingum river, were
Mortified 10 find yesterday morning that the
twin children Of Jno. Farley had been drowned
i'll tub of water during the night. The father
and mother were arrested. The children were
only month old. The parents are very poor,
and Farley is given to drink. They both deny
the crime, but Farley says he believes the wife
drowned the babies"
A CHAMPAIGN en- dispatch OF the 22d inst,
says: "About II o'clock last night Geo. Glass,
| g.. L., Ill IA n
| killed Frank Stillman, laborcr, who was trying
| to gain forclbe admission to Glass house."
A GENERAL disturbance took place at Morris
town, Tenn, Oh the 10th instant, between
drunken men who were there to attend the cir
| Gus, and the officers Of the Inv. The town mar
shal, Jos. Is. Morris, and II. 4. Richardson, were
killed outright, and Sheriff Loop dangerously
wounded.
A YOUNG woman named Faulkener, from Of
tawa, Canada, fell victim to an abortionist at
Chicago on the Goth instant. DIR. Thomas N.
Cream and Mrs. Hattie Mackey, q colored wo-
man, arc under arrest and mutually accuse
| each other.
WILLIAM and JOHN LITTLEFIELD. prominent
and wealthy stockmon, were killed In fight at
Lcesville, Texas, with families named Finney
and Martin. An old feud.
A BUTCHER boy named Sevinger was killed at
New York city, on tho 2lst inst, by stray shot
from u highway robbers pistol. The robber
was being closely pushed by the police and used
hIs weapon with the above result.
JACOB SELLER, Of Maumee, Mich, was found
dead In the town OF Grafton, Laramie county,
| o., on the night Of the 21st ult., with two bull
lot holes over his right ear and some stabs in
his side Evidently case Of murder.
JoHs ATKINSON, boss herder at the Rosalind
agency, d. T., was killed in q row on the 10th