The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-24
Criminal.

TIE coroners Jury at St. Louis find
that. in shooting Alfred G. Hatch, Mich
ael j. Reilly acted in selfdefense.
THOMAS NJ. BAKER, a clerk in the dead
letter office at Washington, has been ar
rested for rifing mail.
A HOTEL proprietor at Rockford, ILL.,,
named John Paul. has been jailed for lille
gal liquor selling.
THE people Of Mississippi City took a
negro named Ed Turner from Jail and
lynched him for an assault upon white
woman.
A. q. SMITH, receiver of materials for
pthe government works at Muscle Shoals
canal, Alabama, was robbed by three men
Of 50 800 while going from the bank at
Florence to the chief camp on the canal.
AT Maxey Arizona, Dick Lloyd: no.
tcrious ow-boy, shot f. Mem, justice of
the peace, and was himself shot dead by
one O'Neil.
SAM kNUTsoN, young Dane, was shot
and instantly killed by John Emmons,
north of Fargo, Dakota. Emmons claims
that he acted in self defense. and gave
himself up to the authorities.
THE station agent of the Chicago, Burl-
ington and Quincy Railroad at Colchester,
III, has absconded with $4,000 that had
been temporarily entrusted to him by the
Quincy Coal Company.
THOMAS KING and Robert Smith, both
of Brooklyn, were killed in New York
City by the breaking Of swinging ladder
upon which they were standing while
painting house.
THE Derance brothers, of New Orleans,
who shot man in that city some months
ago because he was too attentive to their
sister, have been found guilty of man.
slaughter. The jury recommended them
to mercy.
KALLocH testified, in his own behalf,
that he went to the Chronicle office to en-
deavor to arrange with DeY Young for the
suppression of the pamphlet rejecting on
his father; that he (DeY oung) first drew
a pistol and the witness fired in self de.
fense.
AT Edwards, Miss, Mrs Spaulding, a
milliner, killed ]. A. Naples with a re-
volver, and reported to the neighbors that
she had shot burglar. 1t was shown, by
a note in his pocket, that she had decoyed
him to her slore, evidently with the in
tention of numbering him.
RUELK DUrToN, an old man aged 20,
living in St. Clair, Mich, made an assault
with intent to murder, on his wife, aged
Is, Saturday afternoon, with a large iron
wedge, inhicting dangerous scalp wound
across the top of his head. He then skip.
ped to Canada.
The residence of Isaac H. Root, of In
dianapolis, who is lying at the point OF
death, was invaded, on the 1lth inst. by
an unknown bov, who fired the bedding
and the drapery over the mirror and van
ished. The flames we're extinguished
with a loss of $500.
II. BORDEN, has been arrested and jailed
at Moline for the burglary Of a dry-goods
house in Des Moines, Iowa. The swag
consisted of one hundred and fifty
yards of fine silk, which was consigned by
express to the name Of "Parker," and
claimed by Borden, who had been sent
ahead to dispose of the plunder.
DR.. WILLIAM AULT a prominent phys
ician of Rochester, Ind, has been arrested
on the charge Of manufacturing and sell
ing Lnstamped patent medicines. Before
taken before United States Commissioner
Munson, he was bound over to the United
States circuit court at Indianapolis, but
furnished proper surety and was released.
AMT pleads ignOranTe as an excuse for his
disregard of the law. If he is fined the
amount prescribed by statute, the penalty
will aggregate $4,000.
THE defense in the De Young murder
case have commenced introducing evi-
dence to show that young Kalloch shot
Charles De Young while laboring under a
species of insanity, and that he was mere
ly the victim of an uncomfortable mo-
mentary impulse of rage, provoked by
this insanity. To that end, the family
physician testified that, from the time
Charles De Young shot the elder Kalloch
up to the date of the murder of Charles
De Young. the defendant was nervous,
morose, and could hardly be induced to
meet any of his friends. DR.. Mears, one
of the sand-lot board of health, and an as
sociate with kalloch in his infamous
proposition to drive all Cinnamon outside
of San Francisco, testified that he regard
ed temporary insanity as liable to occur
in the case of provocation such as the de-
fendant labored under. Kalloch's mother
was also placed on the stand for the pur-
pose of proving that he was moody and
not himself since the shooting of his ia
ther.