Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-20
MurderOus Deeds.

James English was waylsid aud assassinatet
seven miles west Of Platte City, No., on tn,
morning Of the 10th, by John Lawless. The
cause il unknown.
Geo. Stephenson, a Chicago burglar, wa,
fatally shot by an officer while he was pursuing
4 the night Of the 18th.
Jos. Addison, of Baltimore, and Richard Gar
land, Of Luneburg County, Va, fought due
near Petersburg, Va. on the 10th. The due
was caused by Garland lntermeddlng in Addi
sons love affairs and circulating stories de
rogatory to his character.
John Fowley, a non-unionist, was assaulted
| by party Of union men at Pittsturg, Pa, on
the 18th, when he fired at his assailants killing
the ring-leader, named Crtchlow.
At Mandan, Dakota, on a trestle work sixty
feet high, a 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
At Laredo, Tex, on the 18th, Leonard
Haynes, son OF the customs collector at
Brownsville, killed W. Z. Cummings, district
attorney, and escaped across the Rio Grande,
his brother keeping back the police with re-
| volver. The dead man had seduced Haynes
sister, IA years OF age.
A colored barber at Duval's Buff. Ark,
voted the democratic ticket, and q republican
darky attacked him with brick and broke up
his shaving apparatus, fJ' which be was shot
through the heat
Robert Helding and John Robertson, Swedes,
were arrested for petty thieying at Chicago, on
the 18th inst. Shortly after being arrested
Hiding made 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.
At Yazoo City, Miss. on the 18th, a German
named Hame was found dead in cistsrn, hsv-
ing been murdered. His residence had also
been burned. Charles Persons. his partner, is
missing and is suspected Of the crime.
A constable attempted TO arrest party OF
colored miners on the 18th, in Harrolson
County, Georgia, and on meeting with resist
anoe shot one o them dead.
VIM. Ritter, a cUlOIed libertine. who out
ragged and killed Helen Breustcr, a n.ulatto
girl, aged II years, was taken from the Hender-
sou, Ky., Jail on the night of the llth inst,
and hanged by a mob.
dispatch from Tyler, Texas. dated the 18th
inst, says that ID. J. Healy, chef dispatcher Of
the International aud North estern Railroad
was shot dead by Conductor Cook whom he had
refused TO allow to take ont train. Cook es-
caped. but the authorities and railroad men
will hunt him down.
A mob attempted to take H. G. Brown. a
murderer, from the Jail at Las Vegas on the
night OF the 11th, for the purpose Of initiating
him into trapeze performing. The jailor
spoiled their plans somewhat by illing four Of
the lynchers with shot. Two will die.
Jack Harris, a noted gambler OF San Antonio
Texas, was shot and instantly killed by Mar
shal Zen Thompson on the lIth inst. Thomp-
son vacated the country Immediately.
Near Sanford, o., on the 1lth INST. Andrew
Fugna and Alex. Bandy quarreled, owing TO
domestic scandal. Fugna killed his opponent
ard escaped.
Willard Adams killed Milton Schalter near
st. Joseph, No., on the l1th inst, in quarrel
about pasture ground.
Charles Stilos, q well-known Chicago sport
ing character, was murdered at the Palmer
House on the morning Of the 10Th inst. BY his
mistress, known as Madeline Stiles. Deceased
at the time OF his taking OF was caller at the
board Of trade, and vas well-liked by all his
associates. The murderess states that Stiles
seduced her from the path Of yirtne and lately
had abused her to such all extent that she be-
came desperate, and intended to leave him.
She says that she called at Stiles room TO bid
him good bye when he assaulted her 90 tiercely
that she shot him.
A young man named Cobb cut his brothers
throat in Kalamazoo County, Mich, on tine 10th
inst