Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-02-09
NEWS SUMMARY,
WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIMES

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WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIMES.
Tom. Buford Of Kentucky who killed Judge
Elliot, has had his second trial which resulted
in verdict of not guilty on the ground Of in
sanity.
Alexander Mckay has admitted the robbery
of the iron and steel works in Chicago He is
said to have served some time in Canadian pen
/ itentiaries and was two years in prison at Au-
burn. N. Y.
A commercial traveller named Holland from
Philadelphia, is reported to have been robbed
of $21, 900 and a check for $4,000, on the
Missouri Pacific train between Jefferson City
and Sedalia.
Abe Twiggs (colored) was lynched in Burk
county, Ga lately. He testified against his broth
ers Nose and Frank in theirrecent trial for muir
der, and is supposed was lynched by negroes
for that reason.
In difficulty last Thursday, at Gaines Land
ing, Ark, concerning the collection of draft
for 800, D. j. O. Stout was shot and killed by
John S. Schroeder. Both were merchants Of
Gaines Landing. Schroeder was arrested.
Charles Bonner, an aged German purchased
at Pltts a% banking house two 900 and
Buffalo railroad Shortly after leaving the
bank three men crowded him and stole the
bonds
Dr.. Washington F. Haubaugh, a dentist at
Pigua, o., shot his wife dead Saturday night
with pistol and then blew his own brains out
with shot gun. He was a drunken, danger
GUS man, and had been married fifteen years.
He leaves two sons and one daughter
Little Rock special: Yesterday three men at
tempted to rape Miss Georgiana Hamblet, a
highly accomplished young lady who lives at
Augusta: The men were arrested. Last night
a mob of about twenty men broke into the pris-
on, took out the prisoners, and crossing the riv-
er, hanged them, and flung the dead bodies in
to the water.
A sensational suicide occurred recently.
in Chicago the other night Louis Grumme,
soap manufacturer, was discovered hang
ing to crossbeam in a small room in the
rear of his factory. There were fourteen small
cuts On his left wrist, showing that he had first
tried to cause his death by severing an artery
On his shirt were dark stains from some liquid
supposed to be poison. Grumme was Ger
man, about thirty five years Old
John W. Sickles, editor of the Chicago Jour-
nal of Commerce and at one time commercial
editor Of the Chicago Times and the St. Louis
Times, cut an artery Of his left wrist at the Com
mercial hotel at an early hour Saturday morn
ing with suicidal intent. The opportune arri-
val of a physician and the application of restor-
atives prevented DEATH The immediate cause
den demise of his inamorata, with whom he
had lived eighteen years. Sickles was local
editor of st. Paul paper some twenty years
ago.
A terrible outrage was perpetrated in the
vincinity Of South Chicago. The victim was
Charles Clarkson, all engineer on the Michigan
Southern & South Chicago dummy. Vltriol
was thrown into his face by two unknown mis-
creants, and the unfortunate man was horribly
burned and will inevitably lose the sight of one
eye Robbery was not their object, as Clark
sons watch and money lay untouched on the
floor and nothing taken from the house. Clark
son was terribly burned about the face, head,
breast, shoulders and arms. His left eye re-
ceived portion of the contents of the cup
and the sight was destroyed.
George Smith and Catherine Miller we're ex-
ecuted at Williamsport Pa, for the murder Of
Mrs. Miller's husband. They died without a
struggle Smith, although much troubled in
mind this afternoon, said he was prepared to
de- that Mrs Miller was as much to
blame as he was and he murdered Miller at her
solicitation. A statement to this effect was read
from the scaffold. On the way to the scatfold
Mrs. Miller became so weak that those with her
were compelled to assist her. Smith also
showed physical and mental weakness.
Ascending the scaffold, the black caps were
adjusted and the nooses placed around their
necks. Religious exercises began, but before
they were finished the drop was sprung.