Morris tribune., 1881-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
RECORD OF CRIME.

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RECORD OF CRIME.
At Chattanooga, John Taylor. steamboat
engineer, shot dead Capt John Fletcher.
W. G. Crandall has been arrested and held tc
answer for the death of his wife and child a
Milbank, Dakota.
Stearns X. Abbott convicted of the murder
of Mrs. Genet, at Croton, Massachusetts, has
been sentence to be hanged Oh April %.
| Postmaster Bradley of Princeton, Kentucky
who is said to be short in his accounts with the
department, has been apprehended in Iowa.
| " alker Ames, a mulatto, has pleaded guilty
of kidnapping two boys from indianapolis, witt
expectation of getting money for their restitu
| ton.
At Detroit three boys have been arrested
| charged with burglarizing the custom house
and postoffice building and taking seyera
hundred dollars worth of property.
Chas. B. S. Fonda, of the firm of. Fonda &
Clark, the largest millers of Little Fall, n Y
| has absconded, forger, to the extent of proba-
| bly, $4,000 Clark has resigned.
| Miss Anna Stroka and Ernst Land were found
guilty of the murder of Miss Haywood, at Man
| itowoc, Wisconsin, and sentenced to the peni-
| tentlary, the former for ten years, and the lat
ter for one. Land wept, but the woman
smiled.
At Cincinnati the jury in the case of Edward
L. Payton, a desperate fellow who coldly
murdered Ella Stickney shooting her in broad
brought in a verdictof not guilty, on the ground
of insanity.
Walter Paine, a Fall River mill treasurer,
| who embezzled several hundred thousand dol
lars, fled to Montreal, and cannot be extradited,
has applied to Baptist church in the latter
city for admission. He has organized a Cana
dian mill company, with capital of 81 on, 900.
T>
ing the jury IN the case of Col Cash, who killed
Shannon i'll duel, said that according to the
law, the offense with which the prisoner was
charged was murder and nothing ese The
jury could not agree, and the judge ordered a
new trial 1t is said the jury stood eight for
acquittal and four for conviction.
At Mount Pleasant Iowa, Charles Gills a
leading citizen was called to his front door and
shot by some unknown person. Mr.. Gills was
found in the hall near the door by his aged
father, who heard some words and shot He
immediately summoned the neighbors, and was
found upon examination that the ball had en-
tered the left side near the heart, which caused
his death Instantly.
Seven men of Sandwich DeKalb county, Dl
are about to be tried at Geneva, Kane county,
for the murder of Hiram P Allen, a wealthy
gentleman residing in the former place. The
names of the accused are F. G. Ellis, c. Craw-
ford, G. G. Woodruff, W. Thomas E. A. Fam
mons, J. A. Dier, and NJ A. Kiefenberg The
murder occurred on the night Of February 15
1880.
A letter from Tompkinsville, KY, gives the
particulars of a fiendish murder there recently
After dark stone was thrown against the door
of house occupied by James Teller, who OPEN
ed the door, when flash and report was heard
He staggered, throwing up his arms and fell
over dead, shot threugh the heart VIM
Smith is now in Jail, charged with murder in
the first degree.
A st. Louis dispatch says: The district in
charge of Baron Bechtalsheim, the absconded
Austro- Hungarian consul, embraces Missouri,
Kansas Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ar
kansas, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming and Indian
Territory, and letters continue to be received all
over the district from persons claiming that
money had been sent by lends in Europe
through the consul, and which they have never
received.
Rev. Dr. John Cotton Smith rector of an
Episcopal church in New York, while returning
from night call on parishioner, was assault
ed by thief with billy or club. The blow
was so severe that Dr.. Smith fell half stunned,
and in falling, caught some iron railings, as he
did so the thief managed to get his coat open,
and made an effort to tear his watch and chain
from his vest By violent effort DR.. Smith
thwarted his attempt, and some persons coming
along at the time compelled the thief to aban-
don his purpose and escape.
A great sensation has Just been created at
Liberty, Sullivan county, N. Y, by the elope-
ment of Mrs. De Witt Beebe, the wife of we'll
to-do and respectable mechanic, with an impe-
Beebe took with her $1,000 in money, her
clothing, jewelry and all the valuables she had
She was the mother Of two bright little girls
one of whom, an infant scarcely two years of
age she took with her. The guilty pair were
! tracked to Middletown, where they had re-
,nI oil, ,sr,%
the cars for the West Mr.. Beebe who is an honest
hard d-working and highly respectable man, is
much broken down by his misfortune, but will
take no steps te catch the guilty pair. He will
bring suit at the coming term Of court for a di-
vOrce.
ACCIDENTS AND OTHER CASUALTIES.
Sixteen steamers and 2O3 sailing vessels
were lost during December.
The burning of G. E. Webster's cotton ware
house at Columbus, Ga, caused loss of $7O,-
600.
The boiler in the soap factory of F. W. Myer,
at Louisville, exploded, killing Myer and I'M ur-
ing his son William.
Calvin Fogg, an old citizen of Minneapolis,
and a native of Maine, was run over by the cars
and killed few days ago.
The Kansas State aid committee has adjourn
ed after having distributed among IL, 900 suf-
ferers, from the short harvvests of 1879 and
1880, 214, 40 pounds of flour, 297, 1O5
pounds Of meal and 81, Al g IN money.
James Benton and Ed. Holloway were found
frozen to death between Winona junction and
La Crosse. Both had been drinking considera-
bly, in the afternoon, and it is supposed wan
dered up the track, being too much intoxicated
to know where they were going, and finally
gave way to drowsiness, and the cold, as the
thermometer showed during the night, was
eight below.