The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-13
CRIMINAL

Plymouth, Ind, Oct. 13.-George Webb,
resident of Leegarden, ten miles north
of this city, while under the influence OF
liquor yesterday killed his 2 yearold child
and then blew his own brains out. The
husband and wife had lived unhappily,
and the latter had applied for divorce.
New YORK, Oct. 13.-Mike Cleary,
Shang Drapes and William Bennett are
charged by Thomas Hughes, a mine
owner of Arizona, with swindling him
out of 5000, by pretending that they
had arranged prize fight between John
L. Sullivan and Jem Mace for $4,000 a
side. Hughes bet $4,000 on Sullivan and
deposited half the money. He learned
from Sullivan that no such fight was to
take place He demanded the return OF
his money from Drnper. Tbs was re.
fused on the ground that he had forfeited
it because he failed to make the final
deposit. Hughes then had the men ar
rested
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Oct. 13.-Jack Rad
ford was hanged yesterday at Fremont fdI
wife murder, committed last October. lie
made fierce fight against the officers and
cried "let me go you hellions, and show
cred blasphemous obscene epithets upon
them. After being dragged to the scaffold
he tried desperately to break away and
jumped from the platform. With much
difficulty he was bound and the moose
adjusted, the drop failing at 1905.
TOLEDO, Ohio, October 13. Carl Back
was hanged at Bowling Green yesterday
for the murder of his wife in October
1881 The family lived on a farm neal
Weston, OHIO. Back and wife INDUCED in
| frequent quaTels, during one of which he
attacked and killed her with a corn cut
ter. At the ensuing term of court Bach
was convicted and sentenced to death
but granted new trial on writ of errol
by the Supreme Court; and second tint
convicted.
GRAYsEN, Ky. Oct. 49, Ellis Graf
heard the death warrant yesterday morn
ing calmly, and he says will declare his
innocence on the scaffold The gallew:
is in the enclosure thirty two feet square
and twelve feet high, at the base of a hill
from which the whole interior is visible
except the lower portion. Several thous
and people are present. There is no in
dication of disturbance.
Craft mounted the Scaffold at :05 p
m. He spoke of his innocence of thu
crime. The witness against him had com
mitted perjury. At the conclusion of thii
he sung the hymn did Christ for sinner
weep" in a clear voice, and then prayed
being followed by Rev. j. H. Pinkerton
after which the moose was affixed ant
the drop fell at go. His neck was bro
ken and at / ;35 he was dead The GROVE
was orderly.
ST. LOUIS, Oct 13-It has been dis
covered that the circuit court attorney
office was entered last night, and tn
short hand record of the last grand iur
which investigated the gambling ring wer
missing, The stcnographic notes cove
all the testimony of some twenty wit
nesses in the gambling investigation, an
notes of other important cases.
ALBANY October 13.-The prosecution
rested in the case of Lorin B. Sessions
ex Senator, on trial for attempted briber,
of Assembly man Bradley during the Con-
ling contest for return to the Unite
States Senate. The council for Session
Immediately moved to quash the indict
ment for bribery He argued that it ha'
not been proven. He held that there coult
be no such thing as attempted bribery i
this case under the existing law as Brad
ley had accepted the money, having n
intention TO vote, as it was alleged he wa
asked to. Had he rejected the bribe the
there would have been an attempt 6
bribery. The prosecuting attorneys rt
plying secuted the proposition and argu
ment, and claimed that attempted briber
was an offense at common law.