McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
CRIME.

While the family of VIM. Fox, a
farmer, three miles from indianapolis,
We're eating supper Sunday night, three
masked men with drawn reyolyers entered
the house. Two of them kept watch while
the third man robbed the house. Fox had
sold real estate the day previous, but depos-
tied the money in the bank. No arrests.
The body of an Italian was found
covered with brush near Dublin, Ind,
Sunday evening. His neck was broken and
his skull fractured in three places. An
Italian who had been seen with the murder
ed man at Cambridge City and two tramps
have been arrested. Forty dollars was
found in his underclothing.
Much excitement prevails in Pike
county, Penn, on account of the murder of
Annie C. Cheever. When found she
was dead with bullet hole near her heart,
and her left breast was riddled with fine
shot.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
Tuesday returned indictments against Frank
L. Loring and John Flemming. who are
supposed to have been principals in the firm
of F'lemming & Merriam, which gained such
extensive notoriety when it collapsed one
year ago. Indictments allege that the firm
pretended to do brokerage business on the
priated to their own use money of persons
contributing to fictitious fund called by
them "The mutual cooperative fund.-
Loring and William w. Miller have also
been indicted for carrying on a similar bus
mess. The grand jury also made similar
presentment against Chas. B. Bennett and
VIM. H. Hoffman, against whom like
charges are preferred.
Tuesday night at New Edinburg,
Ark, during the performance of Hunters
great consolidated shows, some unknown
parties from the outside fired volley of shots
into the main exhibition canvas and beat a
hasty retreat and disappeared in the dark
ness, escaping. The seats were crowded.
Bullets passed through all sections of the
audience. Chalman Decillenburg, one of
the performers, contortionist, was shot
through the head, dying in the ring.
Two masked men robbed the vault of
the county treasury at Virginia, Nev., of
49, 600 Tuesday night late. They then
seized the treasurer and locked him in the
vault. The affair is considered mysterious,
as four thousand of the amount was silver
too heavy to pack off.
United States Marshal r. S. Foster,
with posse of detectives, went to Pike
county, Indiana, Wednesday night, in pur-.
suit Of gang Of counterfeiters, supposed
to be located in that portion of the state.
They succeeded in arresting nine of the
gang the next morning. at Steinville,
small village in Pike county, about twenty
five miles from Evansville, after desperate
fight. The following are the parties cap
tured: Three brothers named Column
bus, Jesse and Joseph Hanchens, Henry
Grossman, Henry Kinder, s@ Wesley
Woods, Phil Taylor, BERTHE Luthers and
Andy, Hart: They were all brought to In
dianopolis that night in charge of the mar
shall and deputies. During the fight Joe
Hanchens was shot through the right lung,
Jesse Hanchens in the hand, and Hart
through his hat. The gang have been oper-
ating in the southern part of the state with
headquarters at Knoby, in the vicinity of
New Albany. The spurious coin manufac-
tured are half dollars and dollars in silver,
and two-and -a-half and five dollar pieces.
The business Of manufacturing spurious
coin has been conducted on a large scale,
their operations extending into adjoining
Charlotte Epps was found guilty at
Huntington, Ind, of numbering her hus-
band last June by administering poison.
Epps was an old wealthy bachelor, and was
married to the murderess two months pre-
Vious to his death, she having served him in
he capacity of housekeeper. Her punish
nent was fixed at imprisonment for life.
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