Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-26
A HoMICIDAL AFFRAY.
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VNoENNEs, Ind, March 25.-The peace.
able village of Alfordsyille, in Reeve town
ship, Daviess county, was yesterday thrown
in tumult of confusion incident to la
mentable tragedy that was enacted at that
village at IL o'clock in the morning. John
Bingham, aged II, and Cooney Walls, aged
IA, became involved in a youthful scrim-
mage in front of the village
postofice. DR.. A. W. Bingham,
the father of the seventeen year old
youth 1nterfered. The Walls boy retorted,
whereupon both DR.. Bingham and his son
John abused the boy. James S. Gould, a
bystander, stepped up and interfered, say
| ing to DIR. Bingham that he thought it wsss
very unfair for two men to impose on a
child in such manner. DR.. Bingham and
two sons then turned upon Gould and at
tackled him furiously, driving him into the
street. Gould retreated to the middle of
the street and endesvored to ward off
the blows, when suddenly he drew an old
knife from his pocket and commenced
striking right and left at his assailants.
He stabbed John Bingham in the region
of the heart, and he died in less than five
minutes. DR.. Bingham was stabbed in the
abdomen, breast, and his left cheek fright
fully cut. Orville Bingham escaped unin-
iured. The dead body of John Bingham
was conveyed to the home of the deceased,
where the most heartrending scenes oc-
CURED.
DR.. Bingham succeeded in reaching his
residence just after the dead body of his
unfortunate son arrived there, but fell
from exhaustion on the floor. Physicians
were called in and his wounds pronounced
mortal. Gould walked quietly to the resi-
dence of the justice of the peace and gave
himself up. After hearing the details of
the affair, the squire denominated it homi-
eide, and placed Gould under So, 900 bonds,
which he readily gave.
AN ILLINOIS ASSASSINATION.
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PEORIA, ILL.,, March 25.-A correspond
ent has just returned from Mapleton, the
theater of the tragedy which occurred at
1880 last night in which Ed. Noble, one of
the partier who recently figured as the de-
fendant in the trial for the murder of
Jonothan s.Woolgomath, met his death
at the hands of an unknown
assassin. The details of the murder of
Woolgomath; the arFes of d.-Noble and
Enoch, his father, and their extraordinary
aequittal by the jury, have already been
chronicled in these dispatches. Since that
time the feeling against the Mobiles has
been very strong. An indignh hEon meeting
was held shortly after their acquittal,
at the conclusion of which both men
were hanged in effgy. The Mobiles, being
thus threatened, went across the river to
Tazeweil county and rentca fatms, but
having some stock at the old place Ed.
Noble last night returned for the purpose
of driving it home. He arrived at the old
place about o'clock, and securing the
services of a neighbor started with the
stock at once. Ed. was accompanied
by his brother, young lad about fourteen
years old, who drove on ahead in wagon,
in which was tied calf, and the two men
followed some distance behind driving the
live stock. About half mile from Ma
pleton about four miles from the starting
point, Ed. called his companions attention
to the fact that some one had crossed the
road in front of them sew
eral times, but his companion
paid little attention to him, supposing he
was frightened, but just as they came
to lonely point where the road ran along
side of deep ravine, from the shelter of
an uprooted tree by the road side, the
heavy and loud discharge OF gun was
heard. and Ed. Noble fell from
his horse a corpse, barely eiacu-
lating the words, 'I am shot,"
Nine heavy buckshot had entered his body,
causing thirteen wounds. The body lay
in the road where it fell, until $50 this
morning, when the coroner reached the
spot. The coroner's Jury brought in
verdict of death from gunsbot wounds re-
ceived at the hands of unknown parties.
CRIMINAL oARELEssNEss.
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SHELBYvILLE, ILL.,, March 25.-A sad case
of seeming criminal carelessness has come
to light five or six miles southeast of this
city. Two children, aged respectively five
and one and half years, had been ailing,
and were attended by Ira j.
Brant, of Lakewood. Last Tuesday
he called, and leaving some tonic as he
claimed quinine powders, thought his Wis
its no longer required. The children
seemed to be getting along nicely, having
breakfeEted heartily. About noon one of
the powders was given to each. Almost
instantly both were taken alarmingly i'll.
Three hours after the babe died in spasms.
The other child. with the same symptoms,
fingered until morning when he too died.
On Monday the doctor called, asked for
and received the remaining powders.
In due lime the children were buried. Sus-
picion was aroused yesterday, the coroner
was notified, and with two physicians re-
paired to the scene. The bodies were ex-
humed, post mortem held, and the doc
tors gave it as their opinion that the chill
dren died from an overdose
of morphine, given by mistake for quinine.
1t appeared In the evidence before the
coroner's jury that DR.. Brant was some
what under the influence of liquor when he
prepared the powder. The matter will
doubtless be further elucidated by the
grand jury next week.
INFANTICIDE.
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BURLINGTON, Ia, March 25.-A case of
infanticide in this vicinity came to light
yesterday, and resulted to-day in the con-
fnement of the unnatural mother on
charge of murder. The particulars of the
affair as developed at the coroner's INQUEST