Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-02
GRIMES AND CRTMTYALs.

"A Father Deliberately Shoots His sor
Dead-A Drunken LOafer Kills His Wife
and Daushter-The Criminal Budget
Light
SUICIDE OF DISAPPOINTED LOVER
Especial Telegram 10 the GIohc.1
MARsHFIELD, Wis, Dec. &c. Beach
young fellow of rather dissjpate3 habits,
committed suicide Tuesday night at
Campbell's settlement, about si- n1iles
east of here. Beach had on several &C.
casionsions asked Miss Hughes, GOOD
looking young school TEACHER, to marry
him, but had always been refused. On
Tuesday evening Beach called on her and
again proposed, but was rejected. Re at
once said that he would kill himself, and
placing revolver at his head sent tsrl
let through his brain.
CLUE TO A MUkDRR.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
JOLIET, ILL.,, Dec. about THEE
months ago the body of we'll known clti-
zen, John Hsnlon, was found floating Tin
the river in this city. An ugly cash in the
head indicated foul play. II was lknowf1s
however, that Hanlon had gold watch
and several hundred dollars in money
when he disappeared. Nothing more was,
thought about it until recently a gang of
sneak thieves and pilferers were broken
up and arrested here. Various articles of
merchandise were found in their possession
belonging to merchants and private citi-
zens here,and among them was recognized
the watch of Ha man.
The fact that Hanlan used to 90 with
one of the thieves daughters by name of
Hungerford, and the dditional circum-
stance of another of the pilferers wanting
TO ger hold of the watch, telling various
stories as to how he came in possession of
1t, points strongly to them as the murder
ers of Hanlan. They are in jail in de
fault of $4,000 each.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, Dec. Robert Henry, who
was convicted before Judge Benedict of the
United States court, Wednesday last, of
defrauding the government Of pension
money, cut his throat about o'clock this
morning at Raymond street jail, Brooklyn.
The wound may not prove fatal. Henry
was the guardian of little nephew and
niece whose father and mother had died
two or three years ago. The father of the
children, who had been wounded in the
army, drew pension, and after his death
Henry drew the pension for the children,
bat it is said they got very little OF the
money! He was taken to the county hos
pital,
LAWLEssNEss ON THE FRONTIER
Especial Telegram to the Globe
Ell PAso, Tex, Dec. Both the Amer
lean and Mexican sides of the Rio Grande
have been for the last three or four months
the scene of murder and outrage. The Ris
Grande here is stream at this season 80
shallow that man can wade across, and
the desperadoes who kill and rob on this
side of the river Cross over to the other,
and having once passed the middle of the
current are safe. The matter has been
the talk of the people for weeks, and cul-
minated to-day in an arrangement by
which American officers will be allowed by
the authorities on the other side of the
river to cross and take their man where
they find him, and Mexican officers will
be allowed to do the same on this side.
SHOT HIS SON.
CINCINNATI, Dec. flames Boyd shot
and killed his son Alfred Boyd, late this af
ternoon. in his house in Cumminsville.
Boyd is huckster, aged forty-nine years.
Returning home he found his son playing
marbles on the commons. He reproached
him for not working, and then roughly
caught him by the collar and dragged him
home, distance of 100 yards. On reach
ing the porch door the boy struggled and
caught the door and refused to enter.
Then the father drew revolver, 44-caliber,
and deliberately shot his son through the
chest. The father was Immediately ar
rested.
ACQUITTED,
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
YANKToN, Oak, Dec. 1.-Charles Boyker,
on trial for the murder of Robert Willis.
at Fort Hale, last April, was acquitted.
ON the 0rnund of aaIf.dafanaa Dill -.