The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-11-03
RECORD OF CRIME.

Dave Desnoyer is under arrest at Henderson,
Mum, for various burglaries.
At Calhansville, Ala, Jack Burns went to
the house of. G. Kump for the purpose Of kill
ing him, when Humps fifteen year old son
stabbed Burns to death.
At Montgomery, Ala., Thos J. Cox was &c.
tiously cut and J. W. Crawford dangerously
shot, each by the other. Both highly respecta-
BILE. A bystander; named Hogan, shot in the
leg.
j. NJ. Spargnone, aged sixty years. committed
suicide by hanging himself to 4 bed-post in the
West Pennsylvania hospital at Pitsburg. FL
nanciAl troubles are assigned as the cause of
the deed.
Petar Nordon Of Cambridge, while returning
from Brunswick was fired atfour times by q
concealed party, who is supposed to be the per-
son who stole Norton's revolver from his coat
at the hotel in Brunswick.
Levi Morriss, a young man who came to
Mentor, ILL.,, short time ago, was arrested
with hanirg robbed and killed man named
Mitchell Ford at Williamstown; Mich, over a
year ago. Morris was taken to Michigan. His
parents reside in the east and are said to be
quite wealthy.
at Harrisburg, Miss, for robbing mails. He
was taken to Vicksburg, and after having a
preliminary hearing entered ball. United
States Special Agent Camp alleges that the en-
bezzlements from mails will aggregate very high
| figures.
A special from Freeman, ILL.,, says Henry G.
Lambert was arrested, charged with having
Hannah Williams, who, it is said, was seduced
by young school director OF that place. lam
bert is married, having wife and two children
residing in st. Joseph, Mo. He was admitted
to bail in 81, ,OO0
Mrncie Burns, notorious burglar, well
known in all the large cities Of the west and by
the wardenE Of four penitentiaries where he
has served ss many terms, was shot at st. Lou
dence Of Judge Seymour Is. fhompson, The
bullet severed the femoral artery and Burne
died in two hours.
Allen johnson (colored) was hanged a
Cbarlestown, N c., for the murder, under tht
of a poor blind negro named Crumpt in January
1880. The culprit mounted the rcahold with
no indications of weakness, and after prayer
Of dozen words told the sheriff he was ready
The drop was five and one half feet, and hi
neck was broken.
A young man named Frank Crandall wa.
arrestd at Dundee, Mich, and brought to De
troit charged with altering draft on New
York, bought at Fort Worth, Texas, from $500
to 81, 600. Orandalps father keeps a store a
Dundee, and the young man had recently re
turned from Texas very flush with money
| WHICH, u0 Cl61lu0eX u6 u8U OUV81u0U ~ tQ0 Tb
suit OF a fortunate speculation.
An attempt was made to burn the ship b.
tavia at New York. The FIRE marshal In his in
vestigation said there was something strang'
about it. The theory that some inflamablt
chemical had been scattered on deck on pur
pose as in the case of the Bothenia wal
laughed at by the officers on the deck, but j
was observed that the strictest vigilance Wal
maintained by the gate keeper lest any persol
whoee business was not fully known should
gain admission.
At Below Falls, Vt., Ezra R. Cook and wife
an old couple were found dead in their house
Noevtdence Of violence was found upon the man
On the woman's head was cut three inches long
The skull was not fractured. Death was proba
bly, caused by conoussion Of the brain. Mrs
Cook often intimated indications Of an unsount
mind, and in the bedroom was found lette
eayir che was crazy, and if che would at :n!
time be found dead she wished her son to b.
good to his father 1tis generally thought tha
the woman administered poison to her husband
and then inflicted blow upon herself