River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-23
CRIME.

GARRISON, a noted bigamist, led five
prisoner, out of Jail a. ST. Johns, Mich.
JNo. CUMMINs, of Newark, o., was fined
$75 for putting split stick on his sons
tongue.
ROBERT MARTIN, an English machinist
of Newark, n. j., shot his wife dead and
inflicted mortal wound on his child.
JOSEPH WINTERHoLM, of st. Loais, has
gone to the Illinois penitentiary for two
years, for receiving letters stolen from the
postoftice at Jerseyville.
Four members of band of regulators
in Boyd county, Kentucky, have been
taken to the penitentiary. They whipped
a country grocer because they deemed his
prices exorbitant.
THOMAS NORTH, employed by the Mex
can National Railroad Company, was
killed by a policeman at New Laredo.
Mexico, and the authorities across the Rio
Grande refuse to give up his body.
LETY. the celebrated cornet player, was
arrested for bigamy. The alleged wife
claims to have married him in England,
in 1860, and asks for alimony, divorce,
and the custody of her two children.
FRANCES MERcH, handsome servant
girl. has been jailed at Cincinnati for
breaking into the house of former en-
ployer in the night and stealing silk and
jewelry. She made full confession.
FATHER MAHoNY, the Erie, Pa, miracle
worker, who was arrested on the charge of
obtaining money under false pretenses,
was discharged because he had not solicited
money for doing his miracles.
KATIE HENNEssY, five-year-old child,
was abducted from a house in Cedar street,
New York. but the police speedily cap
tured the child stealer, who proved to be
a chemist named George Walker, 50 years
of age.
ZACHARIAH Wilson, murderer, who
broke Jail at Carthage ILL.,, for whose ar
rest reward of 800 was offered, was
nabbed at Schell City, Mo-, where he had
gond to kill B. F. Herrick, the horse-thief
detective.
CAMILLA VILLERTIA, Protestant min
lister in Mexico, was fred upon at Tezcu-
CO by Catholic, and is now in Jail on
charge Of being the attacking party, but
Bishop Butler is making efforts for his
release.
VIM. MARTIN, son of the Peoria coun-
terfeiter, was sentenced by Judge Blod-
gett, of the United States District Court,
to eight months imprisonment at Ches-
ter, ILL.,, with fine Of 81 and costs.
SOME months ago James Landy, of Gin
cinnati, while intoxicated, struck John
M Cannon severe blow which has par
italy disabled him for life. The courts
compel Landy to pay Cannon $500.
r. NJ. NEAL, who robbed the San An
tonic Building association of $14 900 and
subsequently forfeited his bond, has been
arrested at Cartersyille, Ca, where he
was travelling for safe manufacturer.
THE three outlaws who recently fought
their way through southeast Missouri
have been provided for. Brown and My
Mitchell goes to the penitentiary for thirty
years
OK plantation near Kingston. n. c.,
Mrs. Quincy Gardner and Mrs James
Bryan were engaged in a quarrel, when
their husbands came on the scene. A
fight with knives followed at once. in
which Gardner met his death
In drunken affray at Salisbury, Ill.,,
George Watkins killed John Goodman
with pocket knife, leaving it firmly i'm
bedded in the victims eye. The deceased
had served a term in the penitentiary
Watkin has been lodged at Springfield.
JUAN MoNTEREA, of Taos, New Mexico,
killed Lem Gallager with a hoe, for inter-
fering in fight with his mother. A
lynching party swung Monterea from
the courthouse railing on the same
evening.
WILLIAM RYAN, who was arrested at
Nashville for robbing the government pay
master at Mussel Shoals, on the Ten
nessee river, has been fully identified as
one of the party who took $50 900 in gold
from a train at Glendale, Mo-, two years
ago.
BILLY THE KID, the rising young bandit
of New Mexico, has filled three more
graves on his way TO Mexicar soil. Pat
rick Garrett. the sheriff of lincoln coun-
ty. has been on the trail of this iend since
April %, but has failed to come up with
him.
OFFICER TIM MAHoNEY, who has served
with credit on the police force of Chicago
for the past twelve years, was shot dead by
two burglars on the corner of Halstead
street and Thirty-seventh court. He
leaves wife and three children. No clue
to the identity of the murderers has yet
been obtained.
WILLIAM L. HALL, then a prosperous
landlord in New York was swindled to the
amount OF $50,0n0, thirty years ago. by
confidence operator named John Parker
who escaped. Hall never again saw the
fellow until last week when he called to
state that he had made a large fortune in
California, and would soon make restitu-
ton. The end of the interview was an adj
vance of g., 800 to the sccundrel on a de-
post of bogus bonds. Parker ia in the
Tombs.