The National tribune., 1882-09-09
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

George Greene, residing about thrne miles
from ST. Louis, No, murdered his two children
"a four-year old boy and two-year old girl
on Sunday morning last, by shooting them
with large horse pistol, and afterwards COM
mitted suicide. He had been divorced from
his wife and had been forbidden by his father
| in-law to come near the place. but on Sunday
morning Greene got a neighbor named Blank
enbaker to bring his children to see him. After
| playing with the two little ones for couple of
| hours Greene signifed to Blankenbaker that
| he could take them back to their mother.
Greene then went along the fence where the
horse was hitched, and while Blankenbaker
was in the act of getting on his horse the mur
| derer pulled out large horse pistol and shot
his little boy and instantly, before the report
had died away, shot the little girl. Not being
satisfied that they would die of their wounds
| he shot them again and Immediately ran away.
An alarm was given at once, and eight or ten
of the neighbors started in pursuit and rain him
so closely that he put the pistol to his head and
fired, the ball striking him in the forehead and
coming out at the back Of his head.
Lars Eckland AID Oscar Anderson, brothers
in.law, quarreled at Rogers Park near Chicago
Saturday night, and the next day the former
was found with three bullet wounds in his
body. Anderson made confession, but after
wards disappeared and his body was found
hanging from tree on the lake shore His
clothes were wet, showing previous attempt
at drowning, and strips of cloth strewn about
showed that he had made one or two futile
attempts to hang himself before he got strips
torn from his overalls strong enough to hold
his weight.
A Portsmouth (Ohio) special says: "After
midnight of Sunday Charles Levernier was as
saulted in his store, in Union township, near
Lombardsville, by two masked men armed
with hickory clubs, who had entered by a rear
window. Being powerful man, he kept them
at bay for an hour, but was then overpowered,
bound, and gagged, and left apparently dead.
The men robbed the store OF $500 and fed.
Levernier was found this morning still bound
and insensible. 1t is feared he may not re-
cover"
Near Paris Logan county, Arkansas, on the
30th ult, man named Edward Schwerzman
took his children, eighteen months, four and
five years Old to a well in the yard and threw
them in. There was only thirteen inches of
water in the well, but the children were dead
before assistance could reach them. As soon as
the last child was thrown down he leaped into
the well and was also drowned. The man was
laboring under temporary insanity.
Mount Vernon, Indiana, has been threatened
by mob, in consequence Of an effort to close
the saloons on Sunday and at IL o'clock every
night. About 1 o'clock Sunday morning the
residence of John Paul, the city marshal, was
fred by a mob and burned to the ground. The
deputy city marshal was terribly beaten by
gang of roughs. The telegraph and telephone
were guarded by the mob to prevent comlnuni-
cation with the neighbOring towns.
The recent highway robbery at Bar Harbor,
one of the famous Maine summer resorts, turns
out to have been practical joke perpetrated
by hotel boarder. The valuables were re-
turned to the victim. The disclosure of the
joke las created greater Indignation than the
original robbery.
captain VIM II. Alexander, patient in the
Insane Asylum at Augusta, Maine, was stran-
giea TO death Sunday morning by another in
mate OF the institution, Edward E. Stuart of
fortiand, who twisted towel around the for
mers neck with piece Of gas pipe
In an excursion riot at Elizabethport N. 7 on
Monday, men, women, and children were ex
posed to regular fusillade. From twenty TO
thirty shots were fired, one man WAS kiIIed
and another seriously wounded.