Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-08
CRIME AND DISASTER.
A CYCLE OF TRAGIC OCCURRENCES,

n SASA>D OE A"AOAN oNNCNNzbANSAISs
Death In Various Form-The Trail of Blood
and the Victims of Misforrune-MuF-
der and Suicide In Kansas.
An old German farmer named Robert
Bechter and his wife, living near Leona,
Kansas, had led very unhappy lives dur
ing the past few years and for upward Of six
years qurrels had occurred almost daily.
Their son on Saturday went to town and
upon returning found his father dead aud
his mother dying from bullet wounds
from revolver. The woman left letter
saying that she had shot her husband be-
cause he intended TO disinherit the son,
and she preferred that both should die
that the son might enjoy the property un.
disturbed.
Marshals Accused OF Murder.
The Tucson. Arizona. Star denounces
the presidents cowboys proclamation as
uncalIed for and based on malicious mis-.
representations, and concludes as follows
"The origin of this scandalOus proclama-
tion is simply this d.: A band OF deputy
United States marshals has engaged in the
most wanton aud criminal practices under
color Of their official authority. They
murdered innocent people and when the
sheriff of the county in which their crimes
were committed sought to arrest them
they interposed their official position and
resisted the execution Of the law. These
are the facts.''
Death on the Rail.
Martin McHale, a section boss on the
Cincinnati Southern railway, was run Ovel
by train 1t Chattanooga. Tenn, on Satur
| day and was killed.
William Thompson, milkman, was
struck by railroad train at Waltham
Mass. OIL Saturday, and fatally injured
and Bertie Hildreth, lad of 12 years, was
killed.
| Two boys, named Orion and Pretty
while stealing ride on a lumber train a
Ottowa, Ont, on Saturday, fell on til,
track, and one was fatally and tic othe
seriously injured.
| Tragedy In North Carolina.
In Wilkes county, North Carolina, few
days ago, three negroes, by using lever
made an opening throug h the heavy log
of q corn-crib and got inside. They wer
discovered, and the first who came out wa
shot dead. Tho others attempting to &c
out, knocked away the lever which KEEP
the logs assunder, and the logs close
upon their bodies, crushing them to death
! a COlOred Mans Crime
The case of Emmet Claude, colored, O.
trial for the murder of John Murrell ant
William Glover, before the Southampton
county court in Virginia, was given to til
jury on Saturday evening. According
the evidence Claude killed Murrell b.
striking him on the head with an axe an
then shot Glover while he was rising fron
a seat. After the murder Claude set fir
to the building where the crime was com
mitted.
Odd Means Of Reaching vordlict.
The jury in the case Of r. E. Cowart, a
Dallas, Texas, tried for killing j. Nj. Thur
mond, ex mayor and a prominent lawyer, j
the court room about two months ago, al
rived at a verdict by adding the number Q
years each juror thought the prisone
should serve and dividing the sum b
twelve. Cowart was sentenced for tw
years.
Shot in u saloon.
George Lippert was shot and fatal
wounded in saloon at Cincinnati on Sat
urday night. Herman Rose has been al
rested rs the perpetratOr of the deed.
Woman's Suicide.
Ms. Nathan Bachman, G3 years ole
committed suicide at Kempton, Bcrk
county by hanging herself with 4 rop
made by tearing 4 -four sack into shred:
| ST,. has made sayero1 attemntS nrnV ION al