The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-11-03

A gang Of young forgefS operating IN
Western Iowa have doubtless been broken
up by the capture of one Of the principals,
named Henry Stanley, at Leon, Decatur
county where he was furnishing under the
name of Woods. On the way to Atlantic
in charge of an officer he gave away their
modus operandi. There were three Of the
lads engaged in the business, and they drew
M notes and forged the names of well-to-dO
farmers to them, and then sold them. Stan
lev disposed of the notes n received 30
per cent. of the proceeds. They forged the
name Oftwo farmers near Anita to notes for
for $500, and traded one to Meredith 4 Dick
ey, dealers in agricultural implements, for
800 in money and a 5000 note. When ar
rested Stanley had in'possession one of the
notes already filled out.
Samuel Becht, a young tramp, committed
suicide at Kent, Ohio, by jumping head
first into a glass retort at the glass works of
Day, Williams & Co. The furnace was
heated to a nigh degree of intensity in or
der to melt sand, soda-ash and other sub
stances used in the composition of glass.
Death must have been instantaneous, as a
single breath drawn in the fiery furnace
would shrivel his lungs.
Mort Simmerman, the murderer of She
if Woods at Minden, Nebr., who has been
incarcerated at Lincoln, was removed to
Minden for trial on the 2Ist inst, under a
strong guard. Toward midnight twenty
five armed and masked men marched to
the Jail with the intention Of taking cut and
lynching Simmerman. The guard fired
from the windows of the courthouse and
dispersed the mob,
William Hope, bookkeeper for Hobbs,
Osborne & Hobbs, hardware, London, Ont,
has abscoRded to the United States. The
extent of his populations is not known, as
his books were falsified. He served a year
in the peEitentiary for a similar crime in
1877. The amount 10 that instance was
$50, 900.
Capt, Rand and mate, Thomas Rand, con-
victed in Philadelphia of violating the neu-
trality laws, by furnishing arms and am
munition to the insurgents of Hayti have
been sentenced to n years imprisen-
ment, and TO pay a fine of 500 and
costs. y " ~ Is.
James Gilmore, who set fire to the
Briegewster, (Mass.,) workhouse, has been
sentenced to twenty years in State prison.
Gilmore aS dressed the court, saying he set
fire becauIe he was treated badly while liv-
ing in the workhouse.
A chance remark in court at Abbeyville,
8. c., threw light on a clue 10 the murder of
Thomas Hughes, a rich old man who was
shot two years ago.. His widow hired two
men to do it, and she got his property.
Much excitement prevails in Pike county
Pa or account of the murder of Anne c..
Cheever. When found, the young woman
as dead, with a bullet hole near her heart
and left breast riddled with fine shot.
Mrs. Partridge, a Boston milliner, was
made to unpack from her plump hustle
S., 900 worth of laces at the New York Gus
tom house recently.
George Horn, convicted at Ashland, Ohis,
Of the murder of harvey Williams, was
sentenced to be hanged Feb. s.
B. T. Clark of Fort Wayne was arrested
Minneapolis for getting money under
p~retenses.
A Pueblo barber, finding a brother artist
in his wife's room, kills them both.