Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-07-19
MUrderOus Deeds.

| James English was waylaid aud assassinated
seven miles west of Platte City, Mo-, on the
morning of the 18th, by John Lawless. The
| cause if unknown.
| fatally shot by an officer while he was pursuing
| his nefarious calling at Kalamazoo, Mich, on
! the night of the 18TH
Jos. Addison of Baltimore and Richard Car
! land, of Luneburg County, Va, fought duel
near Petersburg, Va. on the 10th. The duel
was caused by Garland Intermeddling in Addi-
| sons love affairs and circulating stories de-
rogatOry to his character.
| John Fowley, non-unonist, was assaulted
| by party OF union men at Pittsburg, Pa, on
the 18th, when he fired at his assaiants, killing
the ring-leader, named Critchlow.
| At Mandan, Dakota, on a trestle work sixty
| feet high, fight occurred between William
| Watson, of Saginaw, Mich, and Peter P.
| Stuart, of Dali Prairie, Mich, which ended in
both going over to death with their arms
clinched.
! At Laredo, Tex, on the 18th, Leonard
Haynes, son of the customs collector at
Brownsville, killed W. E. Cummings, district
attorney, and escaped across the Rio Grande,
his brother keeping back the police with a re-
vOlver. The dead man had seduced Haynes
sister, IA years of age.
a cOlored barber at DuvalI's Bluff, Ark,
voted the democratic ticket, and a republican
darky attacked him with brick and broke up
his shaving apparatus, for which he was shot
through the heart
Robert Helding and John Robertson, SWedes.
were arrested for petty thieving at Chicago, on
the 18th inst. Shortly after being arrested
Hiding made a startling confession being in
substance that he had murdered the mistress of
wealthy merchant Of Stockholm for 500
crowns, which he divided with Robertson, who
assisted him. The latter attempted to commit
suicide when he heard that Hiding was COM
municating with the officers.
A. 4L,o
named Hame was found dead in cistern, hav-
ing been murdered. His residence had also
been burned. Charles Persons, his partner, is
missing and is suspected of the crime.
q constable attempted to arrest a party of
colored miners on the 18th, in Harrolson
County, Georgia, and on meeting with resist
ance shot one o them dead.
VIM. Ritter, a colored libertine, who out
ragged and killed Helen BIeuster, mulatto
girl, aged II years, was taken from the Hender
son, KY, jail on the night of the 18th inst,
and hanged by mob.
inst, says that D. J. Healy, chief dispatcher of
the International and Northwestern Railroad,
was shot dead by Conductor Cook whom he had
refused to allow to take out train. Cook es-
capped, but the authorities and railroad men
will hunt him down.
A mob attempted to take II. G.. Brown
murderer, from the jail at Las Vegas on the
night of the 18th, for the purpose of initiating
him into trapeze performing. The jailor
spoiled their plans somewhat by filling four of
the lynchers with shot. Two will die.
Jack Harris, noted gambler of San Antonio,
Texas, was shot and instantly killed by Mar
shall Ben Thompson on the 18th inst. Thomp-
son vacated the country Immediately.
Near Sanford, O., on the 18th INST, Andrew
Fugna and Alex. Bandy quarreled, owing to
domestic scandal. Fugna killed his opponent
and escaped.
Willard Adams killed Milton Schalter near
st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 18th inst, in quarrel
about pasture ground.
A young man named Cobb cut his brothers
throat in Kalamazoo County, Mich, on the 10th
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