Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-17
CRIME.

JoHN SHEA escaped from bailiff in
st. Louis, and few hours later killed
Police Officer Doran, who caught him
committing burglary.
ALBERT MADDEN, a mail agent on the
Rock Island road, was arrested at Des
Moines for purloining eight hundred let
tars, ard gave bail in $4,000.
THE police of Cincinnati have locked
up Hebrew with. three different names,
who perpetrated bankrupt frauds in that
city, Chicago, and Davenport, sovering
the past ten years.
The other morning a dozen masked
men broke into the Jail at Shakespeare,
Arizona, and lynched two cowboys con-
fined for stealing stock.
THE sheriff at Meridian, Miss, states
that Edward Vance, the colored man who
led In the election tragedy, had in his
house three kegs of powder and large
quantities of buckshot.
w. J. FULLER, a moonshiner in Haber-
sham county, Georgia, killed Taylor Love
for furnishing information to the revenue
officers. Commissioner Raum has ordered
the utmost vigilance in securing the ar
rest of the murderer.
THE man captured at Grand Island.
Neb., and believed to be Edward Maxwell.
alias Edward Williams, has been identi-
fad by Deputy Sheriff Knight, of Pepin
county, Wisconsin, and two brothers of
the murdered Sheriff Coleman, who have
applied to Governor Vance for requisition
papers.
A NEGRO who committed an outrage on
Mrs. Kunkel, near Adrian, Ill, confessed
his guilt, and was ordered taken to jail at
Carthage. Neighbors of the unfortunate
woman endeavored to take the prisoner
from the officers and lynch him, failing
in whiah, several shots were fred at him,
fatal wounds being inflicted. A large
posse got the bleeding brute into box
car and conveyed him to jail.
DR.. ]. CLAY MADDOX, of Baltimore,
while repelling an attack on the election
inspectors, was shot dead by some person
in the crowd behind him. As a surgeon
in the confederate service he quarreled
with General Beauregard, he had street
| affray with journalist in Richmond,
killed a physician of Alexandria in a
duel, and had been tried for committing
an abortion.
DETECTIVES in the employ Of the Wis
consin Central railway have captured
| three more passenger conductors for com
plicity in the frauds recently discovered
on that road. I, II. Rhoades and L. F.
A'ASs'A WIN 'StSAbit SAA PAO1Sos duu were
arrested at Stevens Point, and S. S. Weller
was apprehended at Green Bay. Each
gave bail at Milwaukee in the sum of
$500.
JOHN TATE, of Chicago, was seen the
other evening to lower bundle of goods
from the upper floor of the store of J. V.
Farwell & Co. a special policeman took
the plunder, valued at $500. and notified
the watchman. The store was surrounded
by officers, and the thief was captured in
the basement, after tie whole building
| had been ransacked for him. He confess
ed hat he hid in the store in the afternoon.
He is % years of age, and the son of
respectable people.
AT Tifiu, o., a theological student,
named Charles E. Madder, killed Miss
Phoebe Bernard on the street because she
declined his attentions. While mob was
arranging to lynch the murderer, Sheriff
Lease was informed of the plan. and
made ample preparations to hold his
prisoner. The police attempted the ar
rest OF Andy Moore, leader of the mob.
and three officers were badly wounded.
Dennis Hallahan was captured with a
rope in his possession. Sixty men guard
ed the Jail the next evening, and there