Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-09-15
Criminal.


Danville, Ark, to take three murderers
from Jail and lynch them, but the con-
demned men had been previously secreted
by the sheriff.
THE bodies of four men, believed to
have been cattle-thieves killed by ranch
men, were found near Ell Paso.
In the criminal court of Chicago, John
keenan, was convicted of the murder OF
p. j. Hensley, in De Koven street.
A TRAIN on the Chicago and Alton road
was robbed at Glendale, Mo-, by masked
men, who killed the express messenger.
JAMES ?. MOORE, lawyer of Green
vile, S. c., having been detected in en-
bezzlep, enis, killed himself with iaudan-
um.
In an affray in wheat field at Goodlee,
ILL.,, Marshall Roberts killed John Adams.
Jr., with shotgun, and made his es-
cape.
DEPurY MARSHAL BALL, of Omaha, has
captured Matthew and j. l.. Bowman, who
murdered man named Chandler in Dent
county, Missouri, last fall.
LIEUTENANT FLIPPER, the only negro
graduate of West Point, will be arraigned
before court-martial at San Antonio for
the embezzlement of $1,000.
MARVIN, the polygam'at and forger,
now in jail at Richmond, is known to
have served three years in Aubar IN prison
for forgery on the National bank Of Lock-
port, n. Y.
AT indianapolis, Charles Bachman, of
Terre Haute, attempted the life of George
w. Harley, of Haverly's Ministries, be
cause the latter took exceptions to his
wholesale denunciation of Chicago.
SEVEN inmates of the Jail at Henderson,
KY, broke through the ceiling into the
attic and out through the brick walls, de-
scending thirty feet by means Of rope
made from blankets.
) In an attempt to arrest two burglars at
Petoskey, Mich, Deputy Sheriff Herrick
was shot in the mouth, and his assistant
was struck in the temple with a slung-
shot. Twenty armed men have been
called for to aid in capturing the robbers
A NUMBER of masked white men went
intention Of lynching negro charged with
rape. A party of colored men, learning
of the plan, gathered in cemetery and
opened fire on the lynchers. About two
hundred shots were fired, but nobody was
killed.
In the trial of the MalIeys, at New
Haven, the mother of Jennie Cramer told
her sad story The prosecution announced
its intention to prove that the accused,
knowing Blanche Douglass to be prosti-
tute, brought her to New Haven to aid in
debauching Jennie Cramer.
ID. G.. OGsBURY. city marshal of Silver
ton, Col, was recently murdered by de-
perado named Bert Wilkinson and two
companions, One of the villains was
lynched by vigilance committee, and
Wilkinson and the other accomplice have
been captured at Needle mountain.
SOME person stole from the steps of a
residence in Sioux City, a 2-year-old son
of Mrs. Harry Hall, and mounted'citize
are hunting in every direction for the alb
ductor, who was doubtless the father of
the child, Eugene Miller, of Portlandville,
divorced husband.
A PARTY of fifty tramps boarded Penn
sylvania freight train near Harrisburg
and threatened vengeance if any attempt
were made to put them off. The train
was delayed until carload Of police
could be transported to the scene of
trouble, when nearly twenty of the tramps
were captured.
JESSE /. WARTMAN, the deputy collector
of customs at Cincinnati, has been sus-
pended from office There is a deficit in
his accounts of from =, 500 to 10000,
which arose solely from the robbery of his
safe in 1879, during parade in honor of
General Grant. The money lost is due to
the railroad companies.