Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-01-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
RECORD OF CRIME.

VIM. Van Blair, farmer living near Genoa,
Mich, shot his wife and then killed himself.
The cause was drink and family troubles.
Fanny Nephen, young lady of seventeen,
suicided with strichnine at Brownsville, Neb.
She had been Tilted by her lover, who refused
to pay dry doods bills she had contracted with
the expectation of marrying him.
soldier of company F, Sixteenth infantry,
was shot and killed in cold blood at San Angelo
Texas, near Fort Concho, by a gambler named
Watson who, after the murder, was furnished
with fleet horse by friends and escaped.
| w. II. POrtheseus was arrested at Milwaukee
charged with debauching Lizzie McDopough, a
young lady resident of the Third ward Par
theseus is a well known baker, past middle age,
and his arrest has caused somewhat of SEN
sation.
Andrew Moder, aged twenty-eight, formerly
organist of St Peters church, Louisville, shot
himself through the heart in the suburbs, o few
days ago. He had been a hard student prepar-
ing to teach, and it is supposed that his mind
was affected.
Special Agent d. Van Horne of the Pittsburg
division of the secret service bureau of the
United States treasury, has arrested in New
York Charles w. Squires, alias James Clark,
alias Tim Pin, alias Tim Flynn, the last of gang
of counterfeiters.
The officers of the steamer P. c. Brown re-
ports that an insane man on the steamer Annie
P. Silver, while in the vicinity of New Madrid
shot and killed Dan Blake, second clerk of the
Silver, and fired a second shot at the captain,
wounding him in the hand.
Mr. Johnson, a citizen of Yankton, tried to
commit suicide He entered gun store and
borrowed a pistol, loaded it and deliberately
placed it to his breast over the heart and fired
The ball struck his suspender buckle and
glanced penetrating the lungs, but the wound is
not necessarily fatal
Philip J. Kreger, Jr., formerly cashier of the
Broadway Savings bank, at St Louis, and treas
urer of the school board, has suicided. Kre-
ger was the young man who, as cashier of the
Broadway Savings bank, wrecked that concern
year or more ago and utterly ruined his old
father, who was president of the bank.
A body was found near the lake shore, Chica-
go, which was identified as that Of j. A. Cope
land, young man of excellent family and rep
utation, who had been cashier for Aldrich,
found to be short He had evidently been I'm
able to bear the disgrace of exposure, and had
gone to a secluded spot and blown out his
brains.
Two men, named Brooks and Griffey, were
arrested on charge of killing a man named
Yarnan and wounding one more near Chatta-
nooga During the night noise was heard at
the window, and simultaneously two rifles were
fired, the bullets entering the brains of the two
prisoners, and causing instant death. tits be-
lieved that it is the result of an old feud, and
that the two prisoners were killed by friends of
Yarnall
At Plain City, Ohio, Mrs. Matilda Scott, a
widow, aged about forty years, her daughter,
twenty-five and an adopted son, aged fourteen,
were found on the floor dead, with their brains
scattered abou the floor and smeared upon the
wall of the sleeping room. A large hickory club,
smeared with blood, was found upon the porch
near the dead, and it is supposed that it is with
this that the deed was committed. Robert Gar
ner has been arrested charged with the murder
Frederick Kester, for the murder of his wife
in August, 1879, was hanged in the Jail yard at
Danville, ILL., He died without struggle. His
crime was bloody and unprovoked. He had
been married but year and had constantly
maltreated his wife, 80 that her father threatened
to take her from him. Kester, on the night of
the murder, shot his wife with gun, and fail
ing to kill her beat her brains out with an axe.
He then dragged her body to some tall weeds
near the house, and taking his swiftest horse
fled the place. He was tracked to Iowa and
brought back for trial.