The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-03-25
CRIMES CALENDAR.
It is Filled up from all Parts
Of the Country.
Murder and Suicide--.Theft and AS
sault---A Jury's Verdict.
a Philadelphia Doctor and his
Exposure.
FORC1BLE ENTRY.

PITTSBURG, March 25.-Seven masked
men entered the house Of John Conner,
aged 81, who lives alone with his wife at
Catfish. Pa, about SO miles from here,
bound and gagged both and compelled the
old gentleman to give the combination of
his safe, and stole $1,000 in Government
coupon bonds. unregistered. and from
weresroughly handled and may not sur
vive,
TEXAN DUEL.
ST. Louis, March .25.-The RepuLEs-
cans Jacksboro. Texas, special says that
bloody tragedy was enacted near there
last Mondy. Two stock men named Leo
nard and Doyle quarreled on Sunday, and
agreed to settle their trouble the next day.
They met Monday. according to agreement
armed with rifles and accompanied by 9
man named Leroy as q witness. Leonard
demanded that the matter be settled at
once and with their rifles. Doyle agreed.
and asked Leonard to step off 100 PAGES.
Leonard commenced doing so. when Doyle
attempted to shoot him, but shis gun hung
Ere. Leonard turned. shot Doyle with his
rife. and as the wounded man lay on the
ground writhipg in pain and mortally
hurt. walked up to him and fred three
pistol balls into his head. killing him in
stantly. Doyle's gun shot Leroy, who has
since died. Leonard left word that he
at last accounts he had not done so. nor
had be been captured.
INSANE.
Sioux CITY, March 25.-GustaveFreid-
rich, German saloon keeper. As years OF
age. this morning shot and instantly killed
girl named Helen Eberhart aged IA
years and then shot himself twice. the last
shet tearing away his heart. The shooting
was done with double barreiied shot gun
and after the first two shots the man Put
In fresh shells to do the fatal work on
himself. The sshootiDg took place just
back of Freidrich's saloon. The girl at the
time was passing through q narrow hall
way to the apartments where her parents
reside. friedrich was in the room occu-
pied by him as sleeping room and where
he had been sick for some weeks. The
coroner's jury found that the man was
insane. Friedrich was in the habit of
calling the girl his child and seemed to be
much attached to her. He left letter
by which it appears that he fully contemp-
lated suicide. but as no reference is made
to the girl. It is ooniectured that the killing
of her was q sudden impulse with him.
THE VERDICT.
SAN Francisco, March 24.-Ae 8
o'clock last evening the jury brought in
verdict of not guilty in the trial of Kalloch
for the murder of Chas. De Young, editor
Of the Chronicle, in April last. Kalloch
entered his carriage, when the people
embarrassed the horses and drew the car
riage three miles to Kalloch's home.
Ii transpires that deliberations Of the
jury in Kalloek case are now mainly re-
gardinR who held the theory Of self de-
fense. This alone was ground OF verdict,
the transitory mania being rejected.
BEAUTIFUL THIEF.
NEW YORK, March. ga tall and sim
Rular handsome women, rs years old,
handsomely dressed and wearing expen-
siVe diamonds. was arrested in the upper
part of the city tonight and locked up at
the police headquarters. The carriage in
which she was driving carried large
trunk and q satehei containing the prison
er's baggage. Accompanying the New
York officers was detective George A.
Hartman, of Chicago, who had a warrent
for the women's arrest and reqUisitien
signed by the Governor of Illinois. The
detective declined TO state the real name
of the woman. but said she was the wife
of 9 well known physician in Chicago,
who was reported to be worth over $780,
900 and that her family connections were
the best In the State. She was charged,
he said. with stealing $l2,500 worth of
diamonds from Ches, W. Perkins. diamond
broker, LaSalle street. Chicago. February
28th, A three weeks search resulted in
finding the women in this city. in an up.
town boarding house. living under the
assumed name of Florence Mcneil.
DOCTORS DEGREE.
PHILADELPHIA, March 24-The Record
to morrow will publish the confession Of q
bogus diploma vender. Dean John Bnch-
anan, now undergoing imprisonment in
consequences of the exposure by that pa
per some time ago of the character of his
different medical colleges. Buchanan has
given MP all the books he had; matricula
tion books. minutes of the faculty. minutes
of trustees, account books, alumni minutes
and mass of valuable information. in
cluding list of foreign diplomas sold and
q catalogue of addresses including oyer
5000 names of persons who had CORES
bonded with him. He gives the names
of wholesale druggists in Philadelphia, who
have sold bis diplomas and the names OF
parties to whom the diplomas were issued.
He relates how the diplomas were signed
By the faculty, how, IN one instance, three
professors, for five dollars each, signed
FIVE hundred diplomas and bow. for $3.50.
diplomas which were to be sent abroad
were certified to by spanish Consul, In
all, about 10. 900 names are tangled up In
his disclosures He has given the Dames
of many professional abortiouists and the
means whereby they destroy life. He tells
of the tricks of his trade; quack nostrums
that are advertised to cure all diseases. aud
of impostors who prey upon public cred
ulty. He recites incidents wherein he
robbed graves and how, on one Saturday
morning he, he stole FIVE bodies from the
Bleckley aims house. He tells how he
kept himself clear of the courts and their
penalties. He tells of twenty-five con
Germs in this country and in Europe by
which degrees are sold.
He figures that fully 20 900 bogus
diplomas are current in America and 40.
600 more in Europe. Buchanan also tells
Q story of his attempt te lead the public to
believe he had committed suicide. he
says on 9 night in August lasr he vent
to the Market street ferry, where an
Duser and man known as Shep were
waiting. Buchanan gave his coat to his
s'double" and drove off to railroad depot
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