River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-15
CRIME.

CHARLES /, MILLIMAN, a provlslon-deal-
er of New York, had fight in his stable
and fatally stabbed Marcellus Walker.
BURGLARS entered the house of William
Harmer, at Springvale, Wis, and secured
81 900 in cash and 5000 in securities.
THE trial of James and Walter Malley,
| for the murder of Jennie Cramer has COM
menced in New Haven. Both pleaded not
guilty.
ATSparta, Tenn, L. ]. r. STAFFORD kill
| ed his father-in-law, named James Scott,
and Eli Paul and wounded son of the
latter. Scott was acting as peacemaker,
and was accidentally shot.
| HENRY TODD. a colored desperate from
| Kentucky, had battle with detectives in
the streets of indianapolis, and was shot
through the head, leg and arm and club
bed until he surrendered.
| NELSON F. DAVIS, late tax collector at
Houston, Tex, is found to be defaulter
for 100000. Suits will be brought against
his bondsmen, one of whom is Mayor
Baker.
Miss HATTIE HoLCoMB of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, has sued Police Judge Harris,
for $50, 600 for breach of promise and Sc
duction, and papers for criminal proceed
ings have been issued.
MARY HARLENsrEI young Jewess of
New Haven, caused ex-Mayor Shelton
and DIR. Henry Brown to be arrested on
charge of seduction and attempted abor-
ton. They declare that hlackmail is the
object
THE trial of the Malleys for the murder
OF Jen.i lie Cramer, has commenced at New
Haven Walter Malley's father visited
the suspected boys at the jail. Over one
hundred persons have recently called to
see Blanche Douglass, but she will hold
no interviews.
ED. KELLEY, who shot Officer Crowley
in Chicago, last month, was caught at st.
Louis, while taking letters from the post
office under an assumed name. Edward
Laughlin, of the Chicago force, has the
prisoner in charge.
WILLIAM +. MARTIN, the man sentenc-
ed to be hanged at Lebanon, Mo-, who was
released by the jailei' niece, and recaptur-
ed in her company at Pine Flats, Tenn,
sprang from a car window, in letters, at
o'clock Saturday morning, and made for
the woods. Sheriff Goodhall sent the
woman to Lebanon and started in persuit
of the murderer.
In the criminal court at Philadelphia,
William B. Dickerson and Joel N. Van
Arsdalen, who forged the Whitaker will,
ten years in the penitentiary. Dicker-
son, who is aged and infrn, rem arked:
'Yo GU may as wall send coffin with me-
JAMES WARD, of Erie, Pa, recently con-
iessed himself the perpetrator of crime
for which Charles Stafford has served
seven years in the penitentiary. Not
only has the ofense outlawei but Ward
proves to be brother-in-law of Stafford.
and had hoped to secure a pardon for him.
) A MAN giving the name of H. G. Hunt
signed the firm name of Cripperly, Cole
& Haselhurst to a check on the United
National bank of Troy, N. Y. :, and secured
81, 404. The cashier at first declined to
honor the check, but the forger returned
with it stamped correctly. The sharper
has not been caught.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN went to Kan
sas City, and held conference with the
Chicago and Alton officers as to the best
means of catching the train robbers.
Three of the number were arrested near
the scene of their crime by the sheriff of
Saline county, and have been fully identi-
fed There names are Greed Chapman,
Samuel Chapman, and John Burglar, and
they reside not twenty miles from INDIE
pendence.