Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-03-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
RECORD OF CRIME.

A negro named Sam Gaines was lynched in
| Tennessee i'll a horrible manner without known
cause.
Fred Klosse, n German boy at Cincinnati,
eleven years old, shot his brother Otto, a lad
nine years old. recently, i'll Il fit of anger, with
a toy pistol.
The body of young lawyer named G. B.
sullivan, of Dowagiac, Mich, was found in a
field near the village of Pakagon. There are
strong suspicious of murder.
Susan W. Fletcher, James w. Fletcher and
Charles Morton have been indicted in London
for defrauding Julietta Davis by pretended
spiritual manifestations.
Charles Wild, young grain speculator of
St Louis has been arrested for obtaining $l2
600 on false pretences which he spent on fast
women and lost in speculation.
Gov Foster of Ohio has granted a pardon to
Ferdinand SeitZ of Hamilton county who was on
a life sentence for murder thirty three years
ago, and has spent that length of time in prison.
Another lottery dealer in New York, Robert
Dunn, has been sentenced to the pententlary
for six months, and to pay fine Of 81 900.
The lottery and policy dealers have suspended
business
Henry Redding, collector Of the st Louis
Elevator company, has been arrested on
charge of embeZAlement 1t is said that he has
lost some 81, 600 specializing in bucket shops,
and used his collections to pay losses.
Pink Pratt was hanged at Atlanta, Ga, in the
presence of 5000 people, His crime was a
gross assault on white child. Pratt wentto the
scatfold smoking a cigar and chatting freely
with the guards. His father, brothers and sis
terS witnessed the execution.
While Rev. Father Mccarthy was celebrating
mass in St MichaeIs church. Jersey City, Frank
Finn, an escaped lunatic rushed up to the al
tar and seizing the priest around the body en-
dcavored to threw him to the floor. 1t Itrequired
.1 of
force the lunatic 10 loose his grasp.
Frederick William Davies, Il handsomely
dressed aud highly educated Welshman, was
whipped at Richmond Va, for stealing cloth
ing. Davies says he educated for the min
istry at Lonsdale college, Bridgewater, England.
Davies is a man of fine presence, and appears
to be cultured and refined The sentence of
the court ordering the intiiction of this igno-
miniOus punishment seemed to strike terror to
the heart of the prisoner
\ singularly daring and successful burglary
occurred in Chicago on Sunday night at the
house of +. ?. Smith, Il member of the board
OF ale. Mr.. Smith, on retiring for the night,
carefully deposited roll of bills amounting to
81 600, and diamond pin, valued at S40O, in
the pillow case on his bed. He was discovered
III an insensible condition yesterday morning.
The diamond and the money were missing, and
the whole house was ransacked from top to
bottom.
The dead and partially burned body of Phil
ip Truschel was found in opening the furnace
in greenhouse in Flatbush L. l. Truschel
was about eighteen years of age, and nephew of
Lonis Srhmutz, proprietor Of extensive green
houses on Clarkson avenue Flatbush, near the
Kings county buildings. II was evident that he
had deliberately crowded himself into the fur
mace as far as possible. He left note saying,
If any is as tired of living as 1 am let him
initiate me-
great sensation has just been created at
Liberty, Sullivan county n. Y, by the elOpe-
ment of Mrs. De Witt Beebe, the wife of we'll
to-do and respectable mechanic, with an impe-
cunious music teacher named Loomis. Mrs.
Beebe took with her $1,000 in money, her
clothing, jewelry and all the yaluables she had.
She was the mother of two bright little girls,
one of whom, an infant scarcely two years of
age. she took with her. The guilty pair were
tracked to Middletown, where they had re-
manned all night and from where they had taken
the cars for the West. Mr.. Beebe who is an honest
hard working and highly respectable man, is
much broken down by his misfortune, but will
take no steps te catch the guilty pair. He will
bring suit at the coming term of court for di-
yOrce.