Morris tribune., 1881-03-24

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
RECORD OF CRIME.

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in the mine near the czar's palace
Lewis H, Cnmmins. in New York, aged seven
teen, employed in his fathers law Office, killed
hiNself.
There is deficit in the Ashuelot, N. H.,
Savings bank, probably amounting to $780,
600. Elleroy Abel has assigned his property
to the bank.
/ kentucky regulators on last Saturday night
took William Dhei a store keeper of Princess
Furnace, Boyd county, KY, out of his bed, gave
him fifteen lashes, ordered him to leave within
five days, and went away.
United States Detectives W. II. Hall and Ben
Coleman have arrested Dale Gro 'kett, of Mis-
sissippi county, Mo-, who, it is alleged, is the
head of gang of counterfeiters who have been
plying their vocation in the vicinity.
Ed Broil went to the house of VIM. Hayes
at Petersburg Ind, with the avowed purpose
of whipping Hayes. Mrs. Hayes interfered and
was thrown out of doors, when Hayes seized a
gun, shot and instantly killed Broil
City Marshal Alfred Coburn of Anderson,
Ind, aided by Sheriff Biddle and two deputies,
arrested three burglars, after fight in which
one burglar was probably fatally wounded, and
Marshal Coburn wounded in the hand
A vigilance committee, at Charleston, H.,
whipped several bad citizens of Coles county,
and then notified twenty of them to leave the
county, where they had been engaged in the
life.
A colored man who calls himself Mai Hicks
was found guilty of murder in the first degree
in Covington, kv., and the jury fixed the PEN
atty of death. He is the man who brutally
murdered Henry Williams atLudlow, Ky, some
two or three months sgo.
resolution has been introduced in the
Tennessee house with a memorial looking to
the Impeachment of Judge W. c. Tyler of
Montgomery county Oh the alleged ground of
neglect of Office, drunkenness misappropria-
ton and attempted assassination.
4 Los Angeles dispatch says: F. P. Forster
was shot dead on the street to-day by Lastania
Abasta, Spanish girl, who states that Forster
seduced her under promise of marriage Fors-
ter was connected with some of the oldest Span
ish families in Southern California.
Tom Gordon, desperate, killed the city
marshal of Socorro, New Mexico, few days
ago. but made his escape and fled to Albuquer-
que. He was rearrested there and on Friday
last taken back to Socorro, where he WAS hanged
to a water tank by mob of 200 or 800 men.
VIM. Dickman had an alteration, which led
to fight with his employer, W. Meatz, at Hill
town, twenty miles west of st. Louis, and the
former stabbed the latter in the abdomen and
thigh, the wounds resulting in his death. Last
night Dickman was arrested and lodged in Jail.
On the prosecution, in New York of keepers
of gambling and disorderly houses, it has been
ascertalned, says the Tribune, that two agents
of the Society for the Prevention Of Crime were
in the habit of giving notice of visits of police,
so that the law breakers were enabled to defeat
the end Of justice.
James Black (colored) was, hanged at Marion
South Carolina, for the murder of Eli Wilcox
(colored). He had been reprieved twice As
the trap fell the rope broke and Black fell
heavily to the ground, spiting blood and calling
for water Eighteen minutes later the trap was
sprung the second time.
Henry Kutchell, a German living alone in
dug-out five miles from Cawker City, Mo-, was
fouly murdered an explosive being thrown
down the stovepipe which shattered the stove
and demolished the interior of the house, and
when Kutchel rushed out he was fired on and
fell, and was then clubbed with gun over the
head.
The navy department is making busy pre-
parations for an expedition from San Francisco
IN search of the Jeanette. AS there was not
vessel in the navy fit for Artic cruise, it was
necessary to purchase the Mary and Helen, a
steam whaler, at 800, 900, for that service.
That vessel was built and equipped for $780,
OOO making clear profit on her construction
of $40, 600.
sensation created among the higher
circles of Montreal society, on it becoming
known that Mrs Raymond Bonfeld, the young
and exceedingly attractive wife of local bank
er, had deserted her husband as we'll as tw o
young and beautiful children, taking her de-
parture surreptitiously for Chicago. Her OBJ
ject, it is said, is to obtain divorce The
martial relations of the lady and her husband
have never been pleasant.
man named Pitts aged fifty, was sentenced
at Detroit to state prison year, for incest with
his daughter, aged twenty The evidence dis
closed most terrible condition of affairs The
family, consisting of wife and five children,
were squalidly poor and little above the level of
brutes in point of intelligence. The father CO.
habited with his daughter with the full knowl-
edge of his family for several years.
Geo. Hendric, prominent business man Of
Detroit and lessee of the principal city rail-
ways, was assaulted by woman in his Office
One shot was fired from revolver, when she
was seized and taken to the police station.
She claims it is a case of seduction He claims
it to be case of blaekmail The woman turns
out to be notorious confidence character with
half dozen aliases, known in Boston, where
she jumped her bail some time ago in black
mailing case. She has been under arrest for
blackmailing elsewhere, also for shopifting in
this city.
Rev. Edward Faegan, late pastor of St Thomas
Catholic church at Winona, shot and killed
himself Saturday night on doorstep in Chi
cago. He came to Winona shortly after his
ordination, in the fall of 1879, and spent the
winter there assistant priest at St Thomas
church He left soon after Easter and took
charge of the parish of Birch Coolie, where his
friends supposed him to be until the news Of
his suicide came While in Winona he was in
poor health and was doctoring all the time
His friends thought that he was losing his
mind aud the suicide confirms this opinion
He was thirty years old. His parents five in
Stamford, Conn.
James Tolan of Marine, supposed to be in
sane, armed himself few days ago with the
design of killing James Sullivan, his best friend
and former partner. Not finding Sullivan, he
hunted for other game, and on Monday his wife
was sitting in the ladies' parlor of the hotel
kept by her father, Mr.. Wilshous, with two
men, john Faust and Chas Hackerson, when
Tolan came in with gun in hand, and saying,
'sYou have gone back on me, have your" de-
liberately fired at her, the contents striking her
in the face and the mouth, killing her instantly
Word was sent to Saltwater, and Sheriff Hol-
comb, the chief of police. and two other officers
procured team and drove in hot haste to Mar
inc arrested the murderer and put him in
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