Morris tribune., 1880-09-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES,
CRIME AND cRlNalMAL RECORD,

4NO4oOu3 10
declared defaulter to the amount of from
$500 to $9OOO
William Horne, sentenced to be hung
for murder, hung himself Sept. 81, in his cell
at Sault St Marie.
James A. Grove, prominent citizen
and merchant of Oak Creek, Wis, hnng him.
self the afternoon of Sept. 81
( Two abortienists, DR.. Cream, and Mrs.
Mock, have been indicted in Chicago for muir
der. There victim was Miss Faulkner
John c. CahllI, late postmaster of Bur-
atainna, Mississippi has been arrested on
chal ge of opening registered letters, and 9TH
er violatione of the postal law.
Mrs. Melinda Bagley, wife of prom
inent farmer IL miles from Dayton, Ohio,
hung herself Sept. D. She had been deranged
for several days and had escaped from the
house.
Lee Brumbough, a prominent lawyer
of Miamisburg, Ohio, was shot and killed on
the afternoon of Sept 20, by George Ware, of
Dayton, Ohio. Cause, criminal intimacy
with his wife.
On Sunday, Sept. 10, conflict occurred
between the Fiotous miners and the militia at
Corning Ohio. Several shots were exchanged
and several miners were wounded. More and
greater trouble is apprehended. -
"a Washington telegram of Sept. 90,
says: Commissioner Raum will furnish suf-
fcient armed force to break up the band of
mOonshiners in southwestern Virginia, who
recently fired upon government officers.
DR.. R. II. Talbot, of Maryville, Mo-,
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through the window of his bedroom on the
night of Sept. 10, by an unknown assassin,
and died the next day. His wife, who was in
bed, was slightly wounded.
Nancy Haywood, a maiden lady of
Oakland, Manitowoc county, Wis, was muir
dered on the night of Sept. 20, by having her
throat cut. She was alone in the house with
a servant girl and her sister who profess to
know nothing about the murder.
At Portland, Maine, on the evening of
Sept. Is, John E. Carr, sailor, who had not
been living with his wife for some time found
her in boarding house and shot her several
times, killing her almost instantly. Jealousy
was the cause of the tragedy The murderer
has been arrested.
The internal revenue bureau at Wash
ington received report, September 1S, that
Deputy Collector Latham, of Southwestern
Virginia, with posse of nine men had been
attacked while in discharge of duty by fifty
armed moonshiners, fired on repeatedly and
compelled to retreat.
In the district court at LeavenwOrth.
Kansas, Sept. lS Thomas Thurston, who
pleaded guilty to shooting at D. R. Anthony,
and seriously wounding Lucien Baker and
John P. Douglass, was sentenced by Judge
Crosier to eighteen years hard labor in the
Kansas State penitentiary.
the announcement at Brattleboro,
Vermont, September %, of the arrest of T. NJ.
Waite, at Omaha, late president OF the First
National Bank at Brattleboro caused great
excitement there. A son of the Gefaulter re-
marked, "If father is brought back here, 9TH
ers will have to suffer for completely.
Patrick Dalton, John D. Keefe and
Patrick Walsh, all ng-shoreman, were shot
on the 18th inst, in New York, in a fight with
Patrick Barrett, also long shoreman. The
quarrel was occasioned by labor troubles.
Barrett would have been killed on the spot
by the crowd but for the timely arrival of Of
ficers. His forehead was cut and he was cov-
cICO Will DIu1oCS lIOa4 ACdO W IOOG " hScl0
was shot in the side, Walsh in the groin, and
Dalton in the breast Barrett was arrested
A September the 90 dispatch from
Denison, Texas, says, the Cheyenne indians,
in Indian Territory, are manifesting great dis
contend and growing diserderly. Afew days
age band of about 800 with paint and well
mounted visited the agency near Fort Reno
river, and were very demonstrative and threat
r, ening, and slapped the agent in the face. An.
9 other party is reported to have gone through
the commissionary stores at Wyichta agency
recently. The cause of tine trouble is said to
be an insuficiency of food.
Internal Revenue Agent Latham, Hunts
e vile, Alabama, in letter to the commits
sioaer of internal revenue, says: Deputy Mar
shat Howlet reports under date of the 18th
inst, from Crossplains, that deputy marshals
os Elicit and Lowe attempted to arrest Joe Lit
tile for illegal distilling near the Georgia State
line, when Lowe was shot in three places by
Little and badly wounded. After Lowe was
disabled Elicit pursued Little to or near
church, where Little was reinforced by armed
men from the church, when Elicit was COM
pelied to abandon further pursuit.
A terrible tragedy occurred at the rel
Of Andrew Tiffany, about two miles west of
1 SJamesville, Hillsdale County, Michegan' Sun
b day afternoon September 10. Henry Lindley,
man in the employ of Tiffany. who is sup
posed to have conceived passion for his en-
ployer's second daughter, Alice, called on her
and shot her, killing her instantly. Lndley
then blew his own brains out, falling with the
weapon under him. The only cause known
. To- df,11 orir1o ho bad
is unrequited love. The murdered girl was
IS years old. She and Lindley were alone in
the house at the time of the tragedy, the par
ents being at an neighboring cemetery visit
ing the grave Of dead daughter, and when
they returned found Alice and Lindley both
dead. Alice refused Lindley who had worked
for her father for three years and is said to
have married an otner man who is now in
state prison, and when Lindley shot her she
was in her own room up stairs writing to her
husband After shooting her LlndIey walked
down stairs to blow his own brains out.
About o'cloc k on the evening of Sep
saitember lS, the northern part OF the city of
Milwaukee was the scene ofa terrible tragedy
--GeeEge Wechler, of Chicago, went to the res
idenee of his divorced wife, shet her through
i. ktha neck, and then shot bullet into his own
brain, dying almost instantly. The woman
has an ugly wound but viii probably recover
as none of the great veins are injured. The
physicians were soon able to dislodge the bull.
Let. Theman's body was Immediately re.
moved to the morgue. He was evidently q
mechanic in fair circumstance. On the morn.
ing of the 18th he went to the family residence
where he was kindly received and remained
al day, msnifesting great affection for the
.. children. Suddenly in the evening, without
word of warning, he pulled his pistol ant
i, ,sispFang at his wife,. She ran from him and
asjumped for window, begging him to spare
heFfor the chi.drens sake. When she wal
almost ont of the window he fred and sh,
fell to the ground in helpless condition.
minute later he had killed himself.
The home of VIM. VoelRer, in th,
4 town OF Baytown, about three miles fron
Saltwater, Mimi, was the scene of drunken