The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-11-03
RECORD OF CRIndE.

RECORD OF CRIME.
At Calhansville, Ala, Jack Burns vent to
| tho house of. c. Kump for the purpose Of kill
ing him, when kump's fifteen year old son
stabbed Burns to death.
,on,2 ont A. Th9s Cox was g.
ehot, each by the other. Both highly respecta-
| bic. bystander, named Hogan, shot in the
leg
Levi Morriss, q young man who came to
Mentor, Ill, short time ago, was arrested
With haning robbed and killed man named
Mitchell Ford at Williamstown, Mich. over =
| year ago. Morris was taken to Michigan. His
parents reside in the east and are said to be
| quite wealthy.
Jno. Vanhom, . postal clerk, was arrested
at Harrisburg, Miss, for robbing mails He
was taken to vicksburg, and after having a
preliminary hearing entered bail United
States Special Agent Camp alleges that the en-
bezzlements from mails will aggregate very high
figures.
special from Freeman, H., says Henry G.
Lambert was arrested, charged with having
procured an abortion upon young girl named
Hannah Williams, who, it is said, was seduced
by young school director of that place Lam
residing in st. Joseph, Mo. He was admitted
to bail in 81 900!
Mrncie Burns, notorious burglar, we'll
known in all the large cities Of the west and by
the wardens of four penitentiaries where he
has served ss many terms was shot at st. Lou
is by policeman while trying to rob the resi-
dence Of Judge Seymour D. THOMPSON. The
bullet severed the femoral artery and Burns
died in two hours.
Allen johnson (colored) was hanged at
Charlestown, N. c., for the murder, under the
most brutal circumstances and for few cents
of poor blind negro named Crumpt in January,
1880: The culprit mounted the scaffold with
M ind nfTNr,n ~ 1-kA
Of dozen words told the sheriff he was ready.
The drop was five and one half feet, and his
neck was broken.
young man named Frank Cranda!l was
srrestd at Dundee, Mich, and brought to De-
troit, charged with altering draft on New
York. bought at Fort Worth, Texas, from $500
to 80, ,OCO. Crandalrs father keeps q store at
Dundee, and the young man had recently re-
turned from Texas very flush with money,
| which he claimed he had obtained as the re-
| suit OF fortunate speculation.
An attempt was made to burn the ship Ba-
! tavia at New York. The fire marshal in his in
vestigation said there was something strange
! about it The theory that some inf1amable
chemical had been scattered on deck on pur-
pose as in the case Of the Bothenia was
laughed at by the officers ON the deck, but it
was observed that the etricteet vigilance was
maintained by the gate keeper lest any person
| whose business was not FULLY known should
gain admission.
At Below Falls, Vt, Ezra r. Cook and wife,
an old couple, were found dead in their house.
Noevidence Of violence was found upon the man.
On the woman's head was cut three inches long.
The skull was not fractured. Death was proba-
bly, caused by concussion Of the brain. Mrs.
Cook often intmated indicationsof an unsound
mind, and in the bedroom was found letter
sayi. g she was crazy, and If she would at any
! time be found dead she wished her son to be
good to his sfatber. ltis generally thought that
the woman administered poison to her husband
and then inflicted q blow upon herself