River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
CRIME.

john SHEA escaped from a bailiff in
st. Louis, and a few hours later killed
Police Officer Doran, who caught him
committing a burglary.
ALBERT MADDEN a mail agent on the
Rock Island road, was arrested at Des
Moines for puploining eight hundred let
tars, ard gave bail in - 1000.
THE police of Cincinnati have locked
up a Hebrew with. three different names.
who perpetrated bankrupt frauds in that
city, Chicago, and Davenport, sovering
the past ten years.
| The other morning dozen masked
men broke into the Jail at Shakespeare,
| Arizona, and lynched two cowboys con-
fined for stealing stock.
THE sheriff at Meridian, Miss, states
| that Edward Vance, the colored man who
led in the election tragedy, had in his
house three kegs of powder and large
quantities of buckshot.
| w. j. FULLER, moonshiner in Haber-
sham county, Georgia, killed Taylor Love
for furnishing information to the revenue
officers. Commissioner Raum has ordered
the utmost vigilance in securing the ar
rest of the murderer.
THE man captured at Grand Island
Neb., and believed to be Edward Maxwell
alias Edward Williams, has been identi
fad by Deputy Sheriff Knight, of Pepir
county, Wisconsin, and two brothers o
the murdered Sheriff Coleman, who hay,
applied to Governor Vance for requisitior
papers.
A NEGRO who committed an outrage OF
| Mrs. Kunkel, near Adrian, Ill.,, confessed
his guilt, and was ordered taken to Jail a
Carthage. Neighbors of the unfortunate
woman endeavored to take the prisoner
from the Offices and lynch him, failing
In whiah, sev, nots were fired at him
fatal wounGs being inflicted. A large
posse got the bleeding brute into box
car and conveyed him to Jail.
DR.. J. CLAY MADDOX, of Baltimore
while repelliDg an attack on the election
inspectors, was shot dead by some person
in the crowd behind him. As a surgeon
in the confederate service he quarrelet
with General Beauregard, he had stree
affray with a journalist in Richmond
killed a physician of Alexandra in
duel, and had been tried for cemmittin,
an abortion.
DETECTIVES in the employ of the Wis
consin Central railway have captured
three more passenger conductors for com
plicity in the frauds recently DISCOVERIES
on that road. T, H. Rhoades and J.. F
Mead were veteran employees, and wer,
arrested at Stevens Point, and S. S. Welle
was apprehended at Green Bay Eacl
gave bail at Milwaukee in the sum 0
$500.
JOHN TATE, of Chicago, was seen thu
other evening to lower bundle of good
from the upper floor of the store of ]. V
Farwell & Co. A special policeman tool
the plumber, valued at $500. and notified
the Waterman. The store was surrounded
by officers, and the thief was captured il
the basement, after tie whole building
had been ransacked for him. He confess
cd hat he hid in the store in the afternoon
He is % years of age, and the son o
respectable people.
AT Tifhn, O., theological student
named Charles E. Nader, killed Mis-:
Phoebe Bernard on the street because She
declined his attentions. While a mob wa
arranging to lynch the murderer, Sheriff
Lease was informed of the plan, ant
made ample preparations to hold hi
prisoner. The police attempted the ar
rest of Andy Moore, leader Of the mob
and three officers were badly wounded
Dennis Hallahan was captured with
rope in his possession. Sixty men guard
ed the Jail the next evening, and Their
was general belief that another attemp
to lynch Nader would be made befor
daylight, which the sheriff defeated b,
sending the prisoner in a buggy to Ere
mont, to be placed behind the bars a
Toledo