The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-09
CRIMES AND CAsUALTTEs.


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
a FREIGHT CAR loaded with brick
was ditehed near Joliet, H., FEB. 9Th.
Ten tramps were secreted 10 thetvan at the
time. Two were killed outright and the
others were badly injured. The names of
the unfortunates are unknown.
JoHN GRANT and William Orcutt
were killed by the explosion OF nitro-gly-
cerine which they were unloading from a
wagon to deposit in a magazine near Boli-
var, N Y, Feb 2Sth. The wagon was torn
To- -kmdling wood and the horses SO badly
injured that they were killed 70 end their.
misery
DR.. III. L.. WILL1FORD, Of Memphis,
Tenn, was aroused by his wife, early on the
morning of the Ist, who thought she heard
some one trying to break in. Shortly after
ward a shadow appeared at the window.
The doctor fired q, the object. thinBiug it
burglar on the outside, but it proved to be
= young colOred nurse. The bullet passed
through her body, infllcting fatal wound.
A THREE-YEAR-OLD daughter of Alex
Bush, living near Peoria, Ill, was burned
to death the other day. She was left alone
near stove and her dress caught fire.
RICHARD MCBRIDE, a brakeman, was
killed in wreck OF freight ears on the Wis
consin Central Railway, near Cold Spring,
on the 2Sth
Mrs. +. G. SWIFT, of Milwaukee,
Wis, committed suicide the other day by
plunging into cistern.
Mrs. GEORGE BARRY WALL, well
known in theatrical circles as Lizzie Mccall,
has been arrested in New Utrecht a suburb
of New York City, for shooting her hus-
band. Mr.. Wall, on his deathbed, contra
dicted previous statement that his wound
was the result Of an accident, saying that
his wife shot MIN without word OF warn
ing. Mrs. Wall protests her innocence.
j. SCOTT and L. BoylestOn, young
mrn of,good families, quarreled at Willis
ton, S. c., March 1st. Boyleston drew a
knife and cut his friends throat from ear
to ear.
CHARLES FRY, in Jail at Georgetown,
Ohio, under indictment for burning barn,
was shot dead, March 1st, byJ. l.. HeIbling,
Jr., son OF the Sheriff. Fry was powerful
young mulatto, and had been breaking the
furniture OF the cell When the Sheriff
went to give him supper he made murder
Gus assault upon him, whereupOn young
Helbing used a revolver.
THE engine and baggage car of n
passenger train on Lake Champlain Rail-
road ran into a wash-out near Ogdensburg,
n. Y, March 2d, killing James Chambers,
engineer, and Henry Petrie, fireman. The
express messenger and baggageman were
badly injured. No passengers were hurt.
ORvILLE B. Roe, of La Sale, III an
idle, drunken carpenter, shot his wife,
March 1st, because she refused to longer
support him, and then killed himself.
WILLIS PULLAM and a man named
Berry qurreled over game OF cards, at
Denver, Colo, a few days ago. Pistols
were used, and Pullam was seriously in
iured.
Mrs. THOMAS GILLESI, the wife of a
we'll to-do farmer living at Bakers Corners,
four miles from Armada, Macomb County,
Mich, was shot through the body and al
most instantly killed, a few days ago, by her
son, Charles B., about Il years of age. For
some years Mrs. Gilem has been i'll,
and very fretful, so much so that she
was once taken to Pontiac Asylum to be
treated for insanity. Her unfortunate fail
ing made life very unpleasant for the family
at times. At the hour named Mrs. Gillem
was sitting up in bed and had been engaged
in a wordy dispute with her son, who went
to a closet, got n revolver and returning to
the bed, shot her, the ball passing through
her lungs, from the effects of which she died
within fifteen minutes. Young Gilem man.
ifests no grief or contrition for his crime,
simply declaring that he is ready to go to the
State prison, and that now there will be
peace in the house.