Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-06
Criminal.

IR. II. j, Holman, OF LOUISVILLE, hle
been arrested on a charge of forging the
names of various parties to notes ior
81 900.
A REPORT has reached Little Rock that
one Of the Iron Mountain train robbers
has been captured in Bowie county, Texas,
by an officer from Texarhana.
AUGUSTUS D. WHRELKcH. lhievinQ
bookkeeper of New York, has been banded
over by the London police to officers from
the United States.
THERE was much trouble with the col
ored population at Atlanta. Sept 2S., and
a general riot was barely arrested by the
efforts of the police,
In a crowd of 10000 persons at the
Cleveland depot, Monday evening, George
Schneider. of Chicago, was seized and
robbed of his pocket-book and diamond
pin.
THE mysterious murder of Moore in
Memphis in 1874 has at last been unrav-
eled. His wife got her nephew to do the
deed for $3.50, and recent family row
caused the disclosure of the facts.
MASON, one of the four Central Pacific
train-wreckers now undergoing examina-
ton at Auburn, Cal, has made a full con-
fession and disclosed the hiding place OF
tools and arms.
JOHN SHERMAN. United States marshal
for New Mexico. a nephew of the great
fnancier, was indicted by the federal
grand jury at Las Cruces, for embezzling
government funds, and passed night in
jail.
A. p. ROGERS, employed in the Burling-
ton car-shops at Aurora, H., met his wife
on the street, Sept. %, and gave her a
fatal shot in the back, instantly following
the deed by killing himself. They spent
twenty years unhappily together
A MERCHANT at Pickering, No, named
Benin, who grew weary of raids by burg
lars, mounted a shotgun in his store and
so connected it by wires that couple of
young negroes got a terrific charge in
their midnight work One was captured
in badly-wounded condition.
SNEAK thieves invaded leading hotel
at indianapolis. getting $500 in currency
and "a $500 watch from Il. +. Leonard, of
Springfield, H.; diamond belonging to
S. w. Ipsell, of Detroit, and $500 in
money from Leonard Benton, of New
York.
LIZ HttIdlOIS VI VIC al hailHdo u din
robbery have been lodged in jail at Hope,
and have been fully identified. One was
captured near Sulphur Bluff, Tex, and
The other two in the Indian nation. Clark
Hull, conductor on the Iron Mountain
road, had the satisfaction of taking one of
the robbers.
THE Maxwell bandits have made their
appearance in Calhoun county, illinois.
An attempt to capture them, Sept Is, re-
suited in the killing of Sheriff John
Lammie, and the wounding of John II.
Churchman and Frank McNef. The
deputy sheriff of Pike county, q. w.
Roberts, pursued the desperadoes, but was
kept back by steady firing.
TED FRANKS, the iailer at Bloomington,
H., was shot through the heart on the 4th
inst, by a horse thief named Chas. Pierce.
Other prisoners seized the murderer and
took the revolver from him. Within nine
ty 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 Center streets, and strung up. The
shrieks ofthe villain could be heard above
the cheers of the crowd. 1t was expected
that Patsey Devine, the assassin of Aaron
Goodfellow, who occupied the cell next to
Pierce would meet the same fate, but he
was spared. His being granted new
trial by the supreme court was the inclt-
ing cause of the lynchng.