River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-08-25
CRIME.

| A. u. WHEELoCK, the New York embez-
zler, was captured on his arrival in Lon
| don.
The police of New Haven have jailed
James and Walter Malley for the murder
of Jennie f. Cramer.
ARTHUR BRUCE was arrested in Cincin-
natl for passing counterfeit silver coins,
and found to be a notorious criminal from
| Detroit.
EDWARD S. RANsDELL, letter-carrier
| of indianapolis, has been arrested for
| opening letters, and has made a full con-
fession of his crime.
LAWSON, the janitor of the United States
court, at Little Rock, has been arrested
for passing counterfeit money which he
stole from prisoners.
The frequent murders in st. Louis have
forced the police commissioners to order
| the strict enforcement of the law against
carrying concealed weapons.
A DUEL has taken place in Indian Ter
ritory between T. o. Carpenter, a
Choctaw chief, and Colonel Amos Price, a
prominent Creek. The latter was killed,
and the former fatally injured.
! AN alteration arising at Cheyenne
| from words passed at variety theatre
ended in the murder of George Dawson,
in the street, by a party of unknown men,.
| Five arrests have been made in connection
with the affair.
| CHARLES STEWART, a negro, killed his
wife with Ratchet at Bay st Louis, Miss,
and was taken from the Jail and lynched.
! His father-in-law prayed for him and then
| helped to hang him.
! MARRIOTT BOSWELL, clerk of the Balti-
more police board. has been dismissed for
an attempt to swindle New York firm
by ordering cloth for police uniforms and
selling it for his own benefit
THE federal officials in Texas have
nearly broken up gang of stage-robbers
who have been very bold in their opera
/ tions. Jack Harris, former companion
| of Billy the Kid, and twelve others are in
! jail at Austin.
/ THE coroner's jury at New Haven was
in session all night taking the testimony
of Blanche Douglas as TO the murder of
| Jennie Cramer. The citizens of Orange
township voted reward of 81 900 for in
| formation which would lead TO conviction
of the murderer
| VIM. CAMPBELL has served nearly FIVE
| years in the Wisconsin penitentiary for
| the assassination Of Dan O'Mara at Chip
pewa Falls. G. w. Chase, life prisone
in that institution, now confesses that he
perpetrated the crime for which Camp
bell was incarcerated.
THE mystery of the robbery of the Citi-
zens' bank of Paris, KY, by which 500, 900
was obtained, is in process of solution.
! The wife of a tailor named Cooper, who
was one of those suspected of the crime,
was on yesterday at daylight seen to dig
up large tin box in her back yard, and
she soon after left for Covington to join
| her husband. The telegraph intercepted
them, and the missing bonds were secured.
WILLIE CANTRELL, a lad residing near
| Pekin, ILL.,, while CARRYING some potatoes
along tie road, was seized by a middle
aged man and tied 10 the railway track
with rope. An indianapolis train soon
came round the curve, and the boy was
struck by the pilot. breaking his ribs and
| foot. The man then cut and threw away
the rope and fled into the woods, being
seen by the passengers.
GUERILLA work has commenced on the
| Arizona border. which demands prompt
attention on the part of the United States.
| A Mexican train recently sent out from
Sonora to purchase supplies at Tombstone
was robbed by Arizona cowboys and two
| of its men killed. In retaliation, party
of American butchers who went to the
border ranches to purchase cattle were
surprised by Mexicans, while asleep, and
six of the number put to death.