The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-31
WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIMES.


At Centralia nl) Dr. F. NJ. Netherlands res
idence was entered and over $4,000 in cash,
bonds and securities were carried off. The
money was in a box in an unused room.
JOHN NJ. Dalton, the Chicago crook who rob-
bed ex- Controller White of milwaukee of $780,
600 in money and checks, was sentenced to
twenty one and half years in the penltentiary.
The notorious female horse thief, Lizzie
Barton, who has stolen a large number of horses
in the neighborhood of Clinton, ILL.,, was sent
to the Joliet penitentiary for one year on the
charge of arson.
At Walla Walla, W. r.. a bad character named
Dick Osborn fatally stabbed Alonzo Bobbin, at
a4dance. Osborn was arrested and party of
masked men broke into the jail, took him to
the nearest high fence and hung him.
Charles R. Taylor, of Minersvill6, Pa, attor-
new, and Charles F. Garrett, clerk to the COM
mlssioners of Schuylkill county, have been ar
the county out of large sums of money.
Robert Parker, one Of the wealthiest farmers
in De Witt county, ILL.,, was arrested at Decatur
on the charge of adultery with Mrs. Riley, wife
of James Riley, who has sued Parker for 81 o.
QUO damages The affair created an immense
sensation.
Charley Jacobs, living few miles north of
Oconomowoc, Wis, committed suicide by split.
ting his throat with razor. Young Jacobs had
been in poor health for some time, being the
victim of consumption, and doubtless was
aware that the end of his life was near.
The Corpus Christi stage which left San An
tOnia, Texas, stopped fifteen miles north of Oak
Hill by four armed men, who robbed the pas
sengers of $500 and several watches and jew
elry, and robbed the mail bags Of valuable
packages. One of the passengers secreted $lOO.
At San Francisco, after being out twenty
four hours, the jury in the Kalloch case, brought
in verdict of not guilty. The verdict was re-
ceived with much applause The defendant
Kalloch was discharged and got in a carriage to
go home, an immense crowd took the horses
from the vehicle. and pulle1 him to his house
some three miles away.
A tall and singularly handsome woman was
arrested in New York, by a Chicago detective,
on a reouisition from Gov Cullonl Of Illinois
She is charged with the theft of $12O,OOO
worth of diamonds from Charles W. Perkins
diamond broker of Chicago When arrested
she was radient with brilliants. The detectives
declined to state the real name of the woman,
but it is said that she was the wife of we'll
known physician of Chicago, who was reported
to be worth over $500. 900, and that her falni-
~ connections were the best in the States.
Greenville, s. c., is preparing for a hanging
Of unusual Importance, which occurs in that
of five men-three white and two colored-are
to be broken on the same gallows on the same
day. These men were convicted some months
since for arson, and are now awaiting the ex-
ecution of the penalty of the crime. They
were convict of the burning of the Jail, about
a year since, in which they were confined on
some charges. A gallows of unusual size and
Of an improved style is being built in the jail
yard, i'll the presence of the doomed men.