Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07
CRIME.

Ike Stockton, desperate from New
Mexico, was fatally shot at Durango, Col,
while resisting arrest.
George W. Hunt, paying teller Of the
Importers bank Of New York, is charged
with the embezzlement Of $4,000.
w. I. BRANCH, disbursing agent of the
American Transfer company at Bradford,
Pa, has been arrested in Toronto for the
em5ezzlement Of sl50,O00.
BURKE X MEYER, wholesale cloth deal
ers at New York, have caused the arrest
of their bookkeeper for the emhezzlemeDt
of s., 900.
BILL RYAN the Glendale train robber,
was convicted at Independence, Mo, after
deliberation for twenty minutes by the
Jury, and sentenced To imprisonment for
twenty wears. \ motion for new trial
was instantly entered, on the ground of
intimidation by Governor Crittenden's
presence with armed guards.
The perpetrators Of the Arkansas train
robbery have been lodged in Jail at Hope,
and have been fully identified One was
captured near sulphur Bluff, Tex, and
the other two n the Indian nation Clark
Hull, a conductor on the Iron Mountain
road, had the satisfaction Of taking one Of
he robbers.
DESPERATE attempt was made. at Pal
las Green. Ireland. to blow up with dyna-
mite the residence of Captain Thomas
Lloyd, occupied hy seventeen emergency
men and police Captain Boycott was in
Westport recently, and was followed by a
mob and burned in efiigy Mofiat, the
leader Of an Orange expedition in County
Louth, was fired AT and wounded
MASON, one Of the four Central Pacific
train wreckers now undergoing examina-
tlon at Auburn, Cal, has made full con-
fessior and disclosed the hiding place Of
tools aud arms.
OTTo FREEsE, Of Aurora, ILL.,, was mur-
dercd on Main street, at midnight, Satur-
dav, by Thomas Oleson, ii Swede, Ii years
Of age. The affair grew out of badinage
between two squads. The Jail was sur
rounded by large and excited crowd all
the forenoon, and the prisoner was sent to
the county Jail at Geneva 10 avert a
lynching
JoHN AND FRANK MCDoSALD, of Me
nomonee, Mich. having served two years
IN the penitentiary, returned for ven
geance. They killed William kittson and
fatally stabbed his brother Norman. On
the following evening a mob Of four hum
dred battered down the jail door with
heavy timber, dragged the prisoners to
death on the road. and strung their bodies
TO trees.
For the purpose of ousting some Of the
directors meeting Of stockholders of the
Nevada and Oregon railroad was called at
Reno, Nevada. Treasurer Coffin and two
gentlemen from San Francisco were or
dered 70 retire from The room, but did not
do ~ In second the air was filled with
whistling bullets fatal wounds being in
hicted upon d. w Balch, of San Fran
cisco. and :. C. Scovill. secretary OF the
company.
TEp FRANKS the iailer al Bloomington,
I'LL, was shot through the heart on the 4th
inst, by horse tllief named Chas Pierce
Other prisoners seized the murderer and
took the revolver from him. Within nine.
~ minutes crowd OF five thousand per-
sons surrounded the jail. the iron doors
were soon forced, and Pierce was dragged
out To a locust tree at the corner of Market
and Centre streets, and strung up The
shrieks of the villain could be heard
above the cheers of the crowd 1t was
expected that Patsy Deyine, the assassin
IL Aaron Goodfellow. who occupied the
cell next to Pierce, would meet the same
fate, but he was spared His being grant
cd new trial by the supreme court was
the melting cause Of the lynching.