Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-11-03
RECORD OF CRIME.

At Calhansville, Ala, Jack Burns went tc
the house of J. c. Kump for the purpose of kill
ing him, when kump's fifteen year old SOB
stabbed Burns to death.
At Montgomery, Ala, Thos. J. Cox was &C.
riously cut and j. W. Crawford dangerously
shot, each by the other. Both highly respecta-
BILE. A bystander, named Hogan, shot in the
leg
Levi Morriss, young man who came to
Mentor, Ill, short time ago, was arrested
with haning robbed and killed a man named
Mitchell Ford at Williamstown, Mich, over a
year ago. Morris was taken to Michigan. His
parents reside in the east and are said to be
quite wealthy.
Jno. Vanhom, q 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.
Especial from Freeman, ILL.,, 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 a young school director ofsthat place. LAM
bert is married, having a wife and two children
residing in ST. Joseph, Mo. He was admitted
to bail in 81, 900.
Mrncie Burns, notorious burglar, well
known in all the large cities of the west and by
the wardens of four penitentiaries where he
has served 50 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 lew cents,
of poor blind negro named Crumpt in January,
1880: The culprit mounted the scaffold with
,p1s
ofa dozen words told the sheriff he was ready
The drop was five and ene-half feet, and his
neck was broken.
A young man named Frank Crandall was
arrestd at Dundee, Mich, and brought to De-
troit, charged with altering draft on New
York, bought at Fort Worth, Texas from $500
to So, 900. Crandalps father keeps 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 infamable
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 strictest 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.
No evidence 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 conclusion of the brain. Mrs.
Cook often intlmated indications of an unsound
mind, and in the bedroom was found letter
sayile she was crazy, and if she would at any
time be found dead she wished her son to be
good to his father. tits generally thought that
the woman administered poison to her husband
and then inflicted blow upon herself.