Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-04-11
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

1NGHAM and Green, the murderers of Cash
NJ. Millett, were taken from Jail at Hastings,
Neb., by mob on the night of the Sd inst.
and hanged. The mob numbered thirty-fve
masked men. 1t is not known what was done
with Babcocl, the other murderer.
In the suburbs of Eldorado, Union County,
Ark, on the 31st ult., white girl aged years
was ravished by colored boy named Albert
Williams. He was identified by the girl and in
magistrates Office confessed the crime. A
mob took him in hand and hanged him to q
tree.
ALL the Apaches have been driven across the
line from Sonora into Arizona. They killed all
the Mexicans they met, the number being esti-
mated at fifty-two.
FREDERICK De FRouv1LLE, a former member
of the signal corps, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself at his wife's home in East
Washington, D. c., on the Sd inst. De Frou-
vile and his wife separated about eight..months
since, tie woman refusing to live with him on
account of his intemperate habits.
lindsey MCLAUGHLIN and Martin Lonsky,
boys aged about 10 years, had prize fight at
round Lonsky fell and struck bis chin on the
ground, throwing his head back SO far that his
neck was broken.
In the murder case of Charles F. Kring,
plaintiff in error, against the State of Missouri,
the United States supreme court, by q ma
jority Of /, reversed the judgment of the su.
preme court of Missouri and remanded the
case for further proceedings. Kring has been
seven times tried for the same murder and is
by the decision finally released from the SEN
tence Of death which has three times been i'm
posed upon him.
L. CHANDLER, q lawyer of high social and bust
ness standing at Virginia. ILL.,, formerly mem
Ter Of the Illinois legislature, has defaulted in
the sum Of $9, 600, the losers being mostly rela-
tives. Forgery is alleged in connection with
the defalcation. Chandler has gone east osten-
sibly to obtain money to settle his accounts,
but it is generally believed that he will never
return. Gambling is said to be the cause OF
his trouble.
A SNEAK thief took $4,000 in bonds and
Broadway, N. y, publisher, on the I'd inst.
TH1RTY-rwo people have been killed within
nine days by the marauding Indians, who are
now believed to be retreating to Mexico. They
are closely pursued by United States troops.
THOMAS WALDRoN, better known as Brother
Frank, president of st. Joseph College, Buffa-
rape on q six-year-old girl and was sentenced
to five years. imprisonment.
The Academy of Music, New York, was
plundered by burglars on the night of the
.a1st u]t. The booty secured was 48,975 in
cash and checks.
ROBIN p. DUNN, hard citizen of Bloom.
ington, ILL.,, attempted to kill his family or
the LIST inst. He first shot and probably fatal
" wounded his wife. Then fired and missed
his son, young man; he then attacked biz
10 ovskl, lpsfo huk
by his son before he had inflicted any injary
upon her.
Mrs. MEAKER was hanged at Windsor, vt.
ON the soth, for the murder IN 1879 of Alic'
Meaker, q ten-year-old daughter Of poor rela
in poisoning the girl and together they buriet
the body. On the discovery of the crime tn
Xboy confessed and WAS sentenced to death, bu
the governor committed his sentence to I'm
prisonment for life. Mrs. Meaker protested
her innocence to the last, and declared her som
testimony to be false.
Ar ! o'clock on the morning of the 29th a
Bonneville. Indiana, Simon Williams shot an
killed Jackson Wallace and his son, Thoma
Wallace, in q saloon. The men had been quar-
reling during the day. but the trouble had bee
settled to the satisfaction Of oil except youn
Wallace, who renewed the quarrel at night.
Ar Atlanta, Ga, on the night of the 29th
several masked men went to the home Of Mr.
Joshua Hill, who is over seventy years of age
and outraged her and her two daughters. Tw
arrests have been made.
TIE bodies Of two colored men, recognize,
a. Henry Depugh and Henry Ross, were dis
covered in . hut at Rock Fork, . colored settle
ment near Alton, ILL.,, on the 29th. The hea'
of Depugh was almost entirely blown of
while Ross was stabbed near the heart. Th
coronor's inquest failed to elicit any clue to th
crime or the perpetrators. ..s...-.
In answer to dispatch received at the cen
tral police station, Philadelphls, soon afte
midnight on the 2sth, saying force Of me,
was destroying the new bridge Of the Pennsyl
vaniS Railroad at Second and venango Streets
. detachment Of police were sent thither .
once. When they arrived ct the scene the
found that the work Of demolition had beei
completed The wreckers, who are believed t
be workmen in the employ Of the Philadelphia
Newton and New York Railroad, had disperse'
and the police could obtain no information i
regard to their identity.