The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-13
CRIMINAL.
News from the Train Rob
bers at Winston.
A simple SwindIe and its
Victim.
The usual list of minor of
fenses.
TRAIN ROBBERS.

TRAIN ROBBERS.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Aug. 13.-Marshal
Con. Murphy says of the train robbers and
the efforts made to capture them: There is
nothing new from them. Of course con-
tinued watch is kept up for them and it
may result in their ultimate capture. All
these newspaper stories about their riding
through the country in body are nom
! sense. These men don't travel in that way
appreciate the fact that it will be hard
enough to take them, if they are found,
but don't think their capture half so hard
as the finding them. The first and most
difficult part of the work is to locate them,
and if that is once successfully accom-
plished they can be taken, although prob
ably not without a hard fight
have heard nothing from Poke Wells.
/ don't believe we were after the right
man. You see we had no trace of him,
except what was furnished by the Iowa
sheriff. We followed that up, but could
make nothing of it. am inclined to think
he was on the wrong scent. | don't think
the man in the wagon he was following
was Wells at ALL 1t may have been de-
coy put up on him to give Wells chance
to escape.
| A STUPID SWINDLE.
BOSTON, Aug. 13-Daniel Goodnow, a
wealthy merchant of 81 Commercial street
this CITY, has been swindled out of sum,
estimated about $4,000, by very stupid
dodge. Goodnow had recently purchased
large amount Of damaged cotton, and a
plausible, we'll dressed man, giving the
name of G. A. Fulter, and pretending to
be cotton broker of Klby street, called
upon his intended victim several weeks ago
and negotiated for the cotton. To blind
the ewes of Goednow he soon afterward
introduced man who claimed to be the
agent of the mills, who looked the cotton
over, drank glass of wine with Goodnow
and ordered him to send the cotton to
Bidford by vessel, as the Pepperell
Company was at loggerheads with the
railways. Goodnow finally purchas-
ed an old foreign vessel, loaded her
with cotton valued at S29, 931, and a
lot of wine which was to be sold for the
benefit of the consigner. The victim was
prevailed on to provision the vessel for an
extended voyage, as he was told it would
be necessary to send her to foreign port,
as she was foreign built. The vessel first
went to st. John, n. B., where she cleared
!; for Biddeford, Me. Before the vessel de-
parted the agent, well dressed, smooth,
) and smiling as ever, made out the proper
papers from the Pepperen Company to
Goodnow in which the usual stipuations
as to time of payment were put. A short
time ago, when Goodnow first began to
suspect that all was not right, he went to
the Boston Office of the Pepperell company
and asked for his pay for the cotton, fol
lowing up the request with a demand. OF
course the officials of the company at once
took in the situation, and Goodnow then,
: for the first time, realized that he had been
swindled.
MURDERED MAN AFLOAT.
-PITTsBURGH, Aug 13:-The remains of q
one-legged man was found near Reming-
ton, Pa, on Tuesday night, badly decom-
posed. The body was tied to a board two
feet wide and seven feet long and was ly
ing on the bank of the river. A piece oi
tarpaulin was tied over the face, which
when removed, took with 1t the whole
skin, completely disfguring the face. The
supposition is that the man was murdered
and afterward tied to the board. There
was nothing on his person by which he
: 1o "a
/ FOUR SHOTS.
7 UvALDE, Tex, Aug. 13.-A serious
: shooting affray occurred on the FREQ river
i about six miles from town, last night
s which is likely to result in the death of ont
a of the participants. Two Mexicans nam
9 ed Ransom and Flori some two weeks agt
S had difficulty while in San Antonio owe
{ financial affair, which was apparent.
v settled at the time, but which eliminated
It last night by Ranson's firing four bullet
4 into Flori's body. Flori, after being shot
8 ran about hundred yards and fell, wher
} he was found by some railroad hands 1
n short time after, and conveyed to his brotl
j ers house near by. The doctors have bu
: little hopes of his recovery. Ransom fed
10 and has not yet been captured.
A BRIDEeRooM MURDERED.
OTTAWA, Aug. 13.-James Wetherel
u widower, aged seventy, and Margaret Dc
. herty, widow, aged fifty, were marie
~ last night. Some roughs started
y eharivari at lip. m, which lasted till tw
= this morning. The mob then broke in th
: door and demanded money, which Wethel
Ss ell refused. The old man beat them o
y and followed them out At daylight thi
Iy morning his dead body was found by th
ar roadside with his head crushed.
= - AFTER wATERMELONS.
al ST. JosEPH,- No., Aug. IA frui
grower named Joe Davis. owning waite
melon patch mile north of the city, n
s Gently set spring gun in the midst of ii
- melons. Early this morning On incautior
: negro visitor trod on the gun and caugi
the load in his right side. His name
s George jackson, and he lives in this cit
u 1t is believed his wounds may prove fata
is. and the colored men are talking of causir
n z cue