Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-11-25
CRIME

Arizona with $50 600 of trust funds.
AT Alta, Wis, Mrs. Verrier induced hel
mother and brother to eat poisoned soup
and both died within a few hours.
IT is discovered that J. Howard Wells
Jay Goulds blackmailer, is commissary
who defrauded the government out d
/ about g 100000 and then went to Europe
during the war.
| FRANK PEARCE. white outlaw OF South
| Carolina, was shot dead in Marlboro coun-
| ty by State Constable Chisholm, who at.
tempted his arrest.
A son Of Rev. DR.. Lanahan. pastor Of
the Foundry Methodist church OF Wash
ington, was arrested in the postoffice al
Baltimore for emhezzling money from the
mails.
Ar Madden, West Va, desperate
named Robinson, shot Marshal Allen
Belcher through the heart and fired three
times at the mayor. A mob collected to
lynch the murderer, and the state rifle
men were placed on guard around Charles
ton Jail.
THE five men whe robbed Jesse Baldwin,
of Boardman, o., of $4,000 in gold, took
a train at Columbiana and rode to Pitts
burg. As they carried no baggage, it is
believed that the coin was b:ried near the
scene of the robbery.
In the Utah election contest at Wash
ington, George q. Cannon has filed an an
swer stating that he Is member of the
Mormon church, living with plural wives,
who have borne him children, and that as
religious teacher he as defended the
polygamous text Of his church as reyela-
ton from God.
AT Evanston, H.. William Heisle, a
widower, was found dead in his bed with
his head crushed and bloody. The house
had evidently been plundered. The mur-
derer left some clothes which seemed TO
he those of a tramp seen in the neighbor-
hood. lie was a young German about
nineteen years old.
HERBERT NJ THEIRS, the Kenosha
farger, was arrested in lodging house at
Ne. 70 Throop street, Chicago, where for
nearly month he had been quietly board
ing, under the name of Mr.. Jesse. 1t was
thought that he was taken 10 kenosha,
but the sheriff in that city refuses 10 give
any information in regard to the matter.
BELLE SPAULDING. who has been ON
trial for several days at Galesbnrg, Ill.,.
for the murder of her husband, has been
acquitted. The Jury, which he'd that the
killing was iustitiable, was invited by
Miss Spaulding TO an oyster supper
after ths verdict was rendered Eight of
them accepted. The lady will be married
at an early day, il is said.
THE commission appointed bv the gov
ernor Of Massachusetts to investigate the
charges Of scandalous conduct made
against the Ninth regiment Of that state
have found "a true bill" against he regi-
ment, and Governor Long has instructed
Colonel Strachan TO report the names Of
the culprits within thirty days that they
nay be dlshonorably discharged
4 THE mar arrested at Grand Island.
Neh., for murders in Pepin county, Wis,
admitted to reporters at St. Paul that he
was Edward Maxwell, who killed the
Colenan brothers. He stated that, while
hesieged in the Eau Gale woods he aud
his brother Lon went eighty-tive hours
without food He will be taken from
Menomonee to lurand, WIS, to await
trial.
Tucker BAsHAM, independence, Mo-,
who was sentenced To ten years i. the pen
itentiary for completely in the Glendale
train robbery, and was pardoned to testify
IA witness for the state against Bill
RYAN, who WAS recently tried and con-
victed for the same otfense, has left the
country in sudden and mysterious man
ner, and his whereabouts are entirely un-
known. Basham's testimony convicted
Ryan, and gave the whole gang away
Before the trial lie was threatened with
death if he testified, and during the trial
his dwelling house was set on fire, and am
attack would have been made on him had
he not been so closely guarded. Since
his trial he has received thI hIeatening let
ters; some signed Jesse James" Ed
Miller" and others signed The Boys"
BIsham has been very excited for several
weeks, and the letters have frightened
him so. that he concluded his only hope
of escaping their vengeance was to fy Sc
cretly lie took his wife with him, left
his property, and even his father does not
know here he has gore.