The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

PETER LAUGHLIN refused to drink
with Whitley and Underwood, cowboys, at
Palo Pinto, Texas, the other night. Whitley
drew navy revolver and attempted to
shoot Laughlin, but the latter knocked the
weapon out OF his assailant's hand. Whit
ley then drew a large dirk knife and
plunged it into Laughlin's heart, causing
instant death. The cowboys took to their
horses, but were soon overtaken by party
of citizens. fight ensued, in which z.
Veal was shot in the arm and another Of the
posse was unhorsed. The rustlers escaped
unhurt.
JAMES II. ARNETT, a wealthy farmer
near Lewistown, H., attempted to put his
wife out OF the house, the other night, and
a Young son shot him down. The trouble
grew out Of Mr. Arnett's intimacy with an
other woman, and public sentiment is with
the boy. The wound will probably prove
fatal.
Mrs. d. A. RADCLIFFE, wife of the
well-known banker at Dunvile, Ontario,
died in a dentists office, the other day, un-
der the influence OF too much choroform.
WHILE Frank Egbert and Stephen
Scarce were trying to shoot each other, in
Frankfort, KY, the other night, Jerry Lee,
Chief of Police, came in for a stray bullet
which made a serious wound.
j. L. SIMMONS, formerly of Wichita,
Kans., killed himself with a revolver at Sill
yer City, N. Mex, the other morning. His
wife left him a short time ago, running
away to Colorado with another man.
A FREIGHT train on the Chicago,
Burlington g. Quincy road ran over the
body OF a man, fifteen miles north Of KeO-
Iuk, Iowa, the other day, horribly mutilat-
ing It., cutting off the head and one arm. On
the other arm was f. c. Robinson in India
ink. 1t is thought the man was murdered
and the body placed on the track, but the
affair is clouded in mystery.
A YOUNG son of Luther Stuart, a
farmer near Ridgevile, Ind, fell from a
wagon the other day aud was crushed to
death.
GEORGE NEsBITT, a ranchero living
Tulerosa Canyon, started for Las Cruces,
n. Mex, recently, accompanied by his wife
Miss Woods and a stranger. Nesbitt had
been drinking freely, and 1t is supposed
that while driving along the road, eighteen
miles from San Augustine, he murdered the
three persons above mentioned, for tEeiI
dead bodies have been found, and circum'
stances point to his guilt.
A BAND of tramps bull-dozed n mum
her OF shopkeepers at Rockland. Me-, the
other night, and assaulted two gentlemen
on the street, enforcing demand for none!
by slashing them with knife. The rogue
fell out subsequently, and after n terrible
fight, in which one was seriously stabbed
they were arrested.
A MAN named Davis was fatally sho'
by his wife, at Rhea Springs, Tenn, on the
18th. They had been married only sis
months, and both were prominent and wei
known I'm the best circles before their mar
rlage. 1t is believed the woman's mind j.
unsettled.
A NORWEGIAN bark from Rotterdam
90 Galveston was wrecked near Corpus
Christi, Texas, on the 18th. Five OF the crew
were drowned.
A. n. ROBERTS, who was threatening
to kill every body in sight in n saloon on tn,
railroad track near Vicksburg, Miss, th,
other night, was himself killed by bar
keeper.
WIN. G. GRIFFITH, farmer living il
Wheeler County, Nehr., was found unde
the ruins of his sod house, the other day
which had fallen in on him while asleep
Near him lay the bodies OF his two sons
Lester and Willie, who were also killed il
the same manner.
A SHOOTING AFFRAY occurred at th'
Occidental Saloon at Fort Worth, Texas
Sept. u, in which ex-Policeman Walter r
Witty received wounds from which he die
the same evening. A hack-driver, known
as Canada Bill, with whom Witty had
standing grievance, was the murderer.
FRANK LEvoK, engineer at the Co
operative Stove Works, Cleveland, Ohio
was caught in the machinery while adjust
ing belt, Sept IL, and met a horrible fate
His neck was broken, both legs wrencheC
of at the knees and both arms pulled of a
the elbows.
r. Q. THOMPSON, superintendent o
the plow works az South Bend, Ind, tool
a overdose Of medicine on the 18th ant
died within q few hours,