Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1880-12-01
CRIME.

LEWIS 4. RICHTER, a prosperous muller,
Of Lincoln, H., is in jail for an attempt to
murder his divorced wife.
idaho reIOices over the return to her
penitentiary Of three escaped convicts who
had already killed two pursuers.
\ BURGLAR in Brooklyn made heavy
haul in bank notes, and sat deliberately on
the victims bed TO count them over, in
which position he was seized and held I'M
til a policeman arrived,
JAMES BAXTER, the match-stamp thief,
now a fugitive from justice at Cnicage, ha;
| distinguished himself at Toronto by kid
mapping his son from his divorced wife's
| attorney and escaping to Montreal
| REvENUE CoILEcroK WADE, Of Savan-
| nah, reports the arrest of the notorious
moonsliner, Wash Parham, and the des-
truction of his dist ilIery.
| SAMUEL +. PERRY, g negro who took
| leading part in arranging the exodus from
North Carolina to Indiana, was arrested,
| Oct. 2Sth, al the second auditors Office in
Washington. or charge Of forging school
orders in North Carolina.
Two persons named Reilly and WycotF
escaped from the city jail of Alton, H.,
by digging through a stone wall. The lat
ter was recaptured but the former made
good his escape.
4 SPECIAL to the Pionee5 Press says
Robert Lowe, Of West Albany, Wabasha
county, in this state, shot and Instantly
killed his wife and infant child, and after
wards blew his OWn brains out Domestic
trouble was The cause Of the tragedy.
Ilzz1E BARTON, has achieved an unen-
viable reputation in Dewitt county. Ill.
as an alleged horse-thief She is about Is
years old, and has been in Jail several
| times, and has stolen three or four teams
OF horses. besides other property A re-
ward OF $50 has been offered for her arrest
and the recovery Of the property
MEs. MEAKER, who with her son Al
! mon, is in jail under Indictment for kill
ing little Alice Meaker, her husbands half
sister, at Waterbury. VT, last spring. made
a nearly successful attempt to burn the
Jail on Oct. %. She set fire to the cell bat
the flames were discovered in tine to save
the Jail,
Az attempt was made to rob the nation
al bank of Wellsbury, w. Va, October
80. As the watchman was entering the
| bank he was attacked bv three men and
| knocked down his cries caused the robbers
| torun. Pursuit was made and one Oft
gang arrested and taken in custody BY the
mayor. He gave his name as G.. Carson.
and says he resides in Chicago.
! A sENs >r,oo has boon created, says
a Philadelphia Pa, dispatch, by the
discovery that Mary Ann Conner who
died six weeks after her marriage and Just
after making her will, leaving her prop
erty Of about $4,000 to her husband
Michael Conner was the seventh wife of
the man, his sixth wife having died with
n lew months Of his marriage to the
woman who expired last week
4 FURIOUS fight occurred a few nights
| age III low den near Camp Sheridan,
where large number Of cowboys and
soldiers had congregaled A dance was IN
progress, and poor whisky was consumed
III large quantities by both sexes. One
man was shot dead Oh the floor earlYlu the
| evening, but the festivities were continued
until the whole party became involved in
a shooting atiray Two men were killed
and several wounded
In Brooklyn, n Y on the 26th inst,
the secret service officers arrested w
Spencer alias Bill Broclswav, Charles FL
Smith and JAS p Owens, charged with
| being concerned IN Counterfeiting OF one
hundred dollar national bank notes, conn
| terfeiting one thousand coupon bonds OF the
issue OF 81. Smith confesses he engraved
plate from which the bonds were print
ed, Tie counterfeit bonds are in the pos
! session Of DOYLE III Chicago. He also
states he engraved. plates for several coan-
terteit one dollar notes which recently an
Feared. The last engraved was on the
Pittsburg rational bank Owens vas The
printer Of these notes and bonds. Smith
claims in addition he engraved the plates
connterfeiting 80 bonds which were put
on the market in CT, about S., 900 of which
had been taken BY Jay Cook & Co., before
their character was discovered. The ex-
animation Of the arrested parties is set
down for Tuesday next A number Of
bonds taken from Doyle IL Chicago viii
be forwarded TO Brooklyn to be used as
evidence.