The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-12-29
Crime and Criminals.


Yesterday afternoon Michael Golden, an.
inmate of the House of Correction, Philac
delphia, struck Joseph Preston, one of he
guards, with shovel. 1t is said that h
cannot recover.
The jury of inquest in the Hoppe murder
case, at Flushing, l.. l., returned q verdict
Hoppe was killed by her husband Edward
Hoppe, while under the influence of liquor,
and that heafterward killed himself.
Leon Moore, of Biddeford, Me- yesterday
afternoon shot his afiianced, Miss Belle
Cushman, killing her instantly, and then
shot himself under the eye from the effects
o. which he died in n few moments. Jeal-
ousy is supposed to have been the cause.
Samuel b. Eastburn, formerly clerk in
the Philadelphia tax-receiver's office, has
been arrested on the charge of collecting
full rases on property assessed at suburban
rates and appropriating the difference to his
own use. He will have a hearing to-day.
Louis S. Ward was arraigned in New
York yesterday to answer the charge Of
attempting to cxtort 81 900, by threatening
exposure, from Joseph A. White. He was
committed for further examination. 1t is
supposed that he was only tool in the
hands of Others More arrests are expected
to follow.
Ole Thompson, well-to.do farmer of
jacksonville township, Chickasaw County,
Iowa, was found on the farm of his son-in-
law with his head nearly severed from his
body. When last seen alive he was with
his nephew, who was named after him and
who lives with the old man. His daughter
saw the nephew riding off alone, and he has
rot since been found. The family are Nor.
wegians.
Yesterday morning tragedy occurred at
Bellefonte, Ala, small station on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad, forty
four miles from Chattanooga, Tenn, result
ing in the probable fatal shooting of G. NJ.
Fennell, w. ID. Martin and his son John.
They are the only merchants in the place,
and the difficulty originated in jealousy.
The weapons used were pistols.
Joel johnson was shot and dangerously
wounded by negro while riding along the
road near sibley Mill, Mobile, Alabama, yes
terday. He managed to crawl home, and
told his brother, Abe johnson, of the as
sault. The latter, in endeavoring to arrest
the negro, was shot through the breast and
almost instantly killed. A party at once
started in search of the assassin, and en- rly
next morning found him lying in the road
dead. t
Charles Ware and John Theodore, while
cunning in the woods near Sicklervillc, n,
j., yesterday, found the body of a woman,
apparently about IL years Of age, lying on
the ground. The body gave evidence of
violence, and the condition of the ground
indicated a desperate struggle while near
the body wasa club. The body had been
lying there since the day before, and
previous to the rain on Monday night.
Richard Ii. Leslie alias Leslie II. Scriv-
ems, was arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn,
yesterday, on the charge Of stealing regis
tered letters from postal cars while he was
a conductor on the Bennington and Rut.
land Railroad in Vermont 1t is said that
he was accustomed to go into the postal
cars ostensibly to assist the route agents in
handling the mails, and while thus
employed would steal registered let
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