Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-19
Crime and Casualty Record.

CONFESSION OF BLANCHE DOUGLASS.
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 1S.-It is known that
Blanche Douglass, in her confession, said that
she was in New York after her first eXamina-
ton, and before her arrest for perjury Mich
ael Malley, of this city, called and asked her
how much the Malleys, meaning Walter and
James, Sr., had paid her. She said that Wal
| ter paid $50 when she took the cars for New
| York. Michael asked how much would in
duce her to take the next steamer for Europe.
She said she would not go to Europe. She was
going to return to New Haven. She says that
on Wednesday night, Aug. 3, when she, Jen-
ME, Walter and James were at Malley's house
the girls drank ten glasses of wine apiece and
the boys one. She went to bed with Walter,
| and James carried Jenuie'up to his room, ap-
parently unconscious. John Duff, one of the
| witnesses, is reported to have flown to Can
| ada.
At the inquest to-day, several witnesses tes-
titled to seeing Jennie Cramer Friday j.
Gilchrist, one witness, swOre he saw the
Cramer girl Friday evening about Sis. She
was with another girl at the grove near tie
private road. Three men were following
| them. Witness heard one of the men say:
| cpl have it or somebody will die" One of
| these men was Jas. Malley. 1t was the man
with black moustache that made the re-
mark. Malley has brown moustache. The
| girls were laughing. sLater he saw the
whole party going towards Howe's Pavilion
| near the shore.
WORK OF FIEND.
PEK1N, H., Aug. 1S.-Willie, the 13-year-
old son of Michael Cantrell, section boss on
the Indiana, Bloomington & Western road,
was sent to a field this afternoon, and wss on
his way home with some potatoes when he
was met by middle-aged man with blue
shirt and smooth face. This person seized the
| boy, threw him down, and with rope tied
him to the rail and secreted himself a short
distance away. The road here is on curve
and heavy down grade. The passenger due
at 3:42 from the East was on the boy before
| the train could be stopped. He was
struck by the side of the pilot,
breaking his ribs and foot. AS soon as
the train passed, the murderOus wretch ran to
where the boy lay, expecting to see his victim
cut in twain, but the lad had twisted himself
to one side, and escaped with the above in
juries. The villain cut and threw away the
rope that bound young Cantrell, and then ran
into the weeds of the ditch along the side
track, and made his way through corn field
to the woods. The train was backed to where
the accident occurred, and the boy found
| tumbled into the ditch doubled in heap, and
| AoauIiS' Dc'eIaI pitsStngerS on Ine train
saw the man go 10 the boy, after they had
passed over him, and witnessed his flight.
Word was sent to this city, and the police and
several gangs of men went to the scene for
the purpose of hunting down the BRUTE There
is strong talk of hanging him should he fall
| into their hands.
a SAW MILL FIRE.
New YORK, Aug. lS.-The extensive plan
ing and sawmlll of J. 8. Loomis, corner of
Baltic and Nevins streets, Brooklyn, burned
early this morning, together with large
quantity of manufactured stock awaiting ship
ment Loss $70,000; partially insured.
A PITTSBURGH ACCIDENT.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1S.-This morning,
while large force of men were engaged in
dcmolishing an old brewery on Du Quesne
street, the floor of the third story gave way,
burying four men in the debris and killing one
of them instantly. The others were seriously
but not fatally hurt.
FORGER ARRESTED.
BGsToN, Aug 19.-The police of Lynn ar
rested Thos. A. Marvin, alias Gen. r. A.
Moulton, alias Gen. Kenningham, charged
with the forgery of draft
for 1865 from the cashier of the Madison,
Wis, bank on the First National bank of Chi
cago. The crime is said to have been COM
mitted in Richmond, where Marvin recently
married lady of social standing.
FATALLY BURNED By FAT.
New YORK, Aug. 1s.-The boiler used for
rendering fat in the packing establishment of
Heitter & Sons, Hoboken, burst this evening,
fatally burning julius Mesnier. A number of
workmen were injured.