Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIMES.

Thomas J. Kirk, iron merchant of Chicago
| suicided at Lake Forest, on account of business
| anxiety.
Robert Smith, the Lunenburg, NOVA Scotia,
murderer, sentenced to be hanged on the 3Oth
inst, has escaped from Jail,
At Ephrata, Pa, Abraham and Joseph Buzz
card, Dillon Clark and Henry Hover were ar
rested after desperate resistance. These are
the leaders of band of robbers in Ephrata and
adjoining towns.
Warren Langmore, nine years old, at Penn
broke, Mo-, indicted for murder in killing Free
man Wright, aged eight years. The indictment
contains three counts This will be the only
| trial of so young person for such a crime
ever held in Maine
ried Miss Hart in the police court to save him
self from imprisonment, attempted to murder
her by choking. The woman is in critical
state Lester was arrested.
At Memphis Henry Burton found Mr.. Tate,
a barber, in his wifes bedroom. He shot Tate
twice and Mrs Burton once. Tate returned
the fire mortally wounding Burton. Mrs Bur-
toms wound was triiing, but the character Of
Tate's wound is not stated.
Mike Henry, well known sporting man, was
probably fatally shot in his saloon in Brooklyn,
by William G. Waglam, a nephew of Kipp Chap
in, who keeps hostelry on the COney Island
road. Henry claimed that Waglam owed him
So, which Waglam denied, Henry said he lied,
and Waglam drew his revolver and shot him.
The dead body of Richard J. Welsh, city
agent at st. Louis of the collector of the Beef
Canning company, was found in store room in
the rear of the Office, with bullet hole in his
head and pistol still grasped in his hand,
showing that he had killed himself. Welsh had
been missing since Friday morning He leaves
four children, the youngest ten years old His
wife died some time ago. Personal troubles are
t0 hov haa hA IF anic
In August last C. W. Graves, night clerk at
the Northwestern hotel, Cedar Rapids, married
ayoung lady of that city: A few months after
he went to Davenport, and was employed in the
Kimball house. A few weeks ago he eloped
from there with Miss Robinson, dashing
wealthy young woman and came..to Des Moines,
where they have been living together with his
to Davenport officers.
A sad tragedy eliminated last week at
Lincoln, Nebraska. Years ago W. o. Coons, a
brilliant, talented and wealthy citizen of Fond
du Lac Wisconsin, married wealthy woman.
He yielded to temptation, fell, drank, and squan-
divorce. The woman married another man and
came to Nebraska Coons followed, pleaded
and prosecuted the woman, but was turned
away. He locked himself up in his room and
took a dose of morphine, from the effects of
which he died. He was given paupers burial.
While two colored women, Mrs. Jackson and
Mrs. Shannon, in Philadelphia, were at work
months child Rushing up stairs they found
the three ear-old son Of Mrs. Jackson sitting
on the floor by the screaming infant with red
hot poker in his hand The baby had been ter
ribly burned about the mouth, and an examin-
alton showed that the Jackson boy had forced
the poker down the baby's throat. The child
fingered in great agony until night, when it
died.