The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
CRIME.

Upton HELM, over fifty years of age
belonging to an old and wealthy family
of Douglas county, Illinois, was arraigred
at Tuscola and held in 81 900 for a Grim.
inal assault on niece of ten years.
JOSEPH MILLER, turnkey in the Jail at
Omaha, was terribly beaten by prisoner
in the insane ward. Two friendly inmates
wrenched hooks from their cell and forced
the maniac back.
IN order to save worthy family the
pain of tedious trial, it is probable that
Herbert M. Theirs will enter plea
of guilty at the present term of the cir
cult court at Kenosha, and receive sen.
tence.
A JOURNAL at Nashua, N. H., calls at
.ention to the sub-letting of small mai
routes in that state, alleging that New
Yorker has contracts for 175 routes, from
which he is in receipt of large income.
AT Evanston, ILL.,, William Heisle, a
widower, was found dead in his bed, with
his head crushed and bloody. The house
had evidently been plundered. The MUIR
derer left some clothes which seemed TO
be those Of tramp seen in the neighbor-
hood. lie was young German about
nineteen years old.
HERBERT M. THEIRS, the Kenosha
fSrger, was arrested in lodging house at
No. 70 Throop street, Chicago, where for
nearly month he had been quietly board
ing, under the name Of Mr. jesse. 1t was
thought that he was taken to Kenosha,
but the sheriff in that city refuses to give
any information in regard to the matter.
MARY E. CoNLEY, of Newark, N. j.,
brought suit for $22, 900 against the direc-
tors Of the wrecked Mechanics National
bank, resulting from the loss of her stock
and an equal amount by assessment. A
brother of Cashier Baldwin has been ar
rested for falsely entering 100000 as sent
to the New York correspondent of the
bank.
THEIRS, the forger, captured in Chicago,
voluntarily accompanied Sheriff Black.
man to Kenosha. He states that he is in
debted to friends in the sum of $50, 900, and
expects to be sent to the penitentiary for
life; that he wandered about the streets,
night and day, for month. and did not
sleep one hour in twenty-four. No money
was found on his person. Detective Am
stein, OF Chicago, received check for $500
for the capture OF the criminal.
NEAR Spearville, Kansas, on Friday
night, five armed and disguised men
boarded the Santa Fe train coming east.
A brakeman walked through the coaches
and warned the passengers to hide their
valuables, creating wild excitement, 1t
was arranged that aid to capture the
thieves should be obtained from wreck
ing train on the side track at Spearville,
but while car was being boarded on one
side the robbers sprang off on the other.
EUGENE w. SULLIVAN, who claims to
be resident of Savannah, Mo-, was ar
rested at Clarinda, Ia.. on the charge of
numbering John Sapp in Council Bluffs,
on the 30th of November, 1880. Sapp
was an old man who kept saloon tn ere,
and he was slain in cold blood, his body
being found on the floor of his place the
next morning The money drawer had
been rifled, and the pocket-book was taken
from the body. When arrested Sullivan
at first denied ever having been in Council
Bluffs, but finally concluded to remember
that he was there about year ago.
TUCKER BAsHAM, Independence, Mo-,
who was sentenced to ten years in the pen
itentiary for completely in the Glendale
Train robbery, and was pardoned to testify
as witness for the state against Bill
Ryan, who was recently tried and con-
victed for the same otfense, has left the
country in sudden and mysterious man
ner. and his whereabouts are entirely un-
known. Basham's testimony convicted
Ryan, and gave the whole gang away.
Before the trial he was threatened with
death If he testified, and during the trial
his dwelling house was set on fire, and an
attack would have been made on him had
he not been so closely guarded. Since
his trial he has received threatening let
ters; some signed "Jesse James," "Ed
Miller" and others signed "The Boys"
Basham has been very excited for several
weeks, and the letters have frightened
him so, that he concluded his only hope
of escaping their vengeance was to fly Sc
cretly. He took his wife with him, left
his property, and even his father does not
know where he has gore.