The Dickinson press., 1883-10-20
The Criminal Record.

Fred Mann, aged nineteen, who murdered
the Cook family at L'Orginal, Canada, a few
months ago, was hanged or the 18th inst,
The history o. the crime is in brief as fol-
lows: Mann attacked the elder daughter
early in the morning, and evidence of GRIM
inal assault was discovered. Her he stran-
gled. The mother entered the s%torehouse
to see what kept her daughter, when the
fend strangled her with the same rope that
had killed her daughter. He next killed
the aged father with an axe, and afterward
chopped up one of the boys in bed. He was
irving to kill another, when the two sisters
of the butchered boy came upon the scene.
and. though both We're wounded, they sue
ceeded in driving him off after q desperate
struggle. He escaped for a day or two but
was recaptured.
joseph 2. Love, a fugitive from justice in
West Virginia, has been living with his fa-
ther-in-law, near Danville. in Franklin
county, for some time past One dav re-
Gently he and his brother-in-law, were out
hunting, when the father-in-law pulled the
tail of n OF the dogs belonging to joseph
The ire of the latter was aroused. and a
melee ensued, during which the fugitive
shot and MORALLY wounded his three com
panions, and sustained a slight wound him
self. Love had a heavy Colts revolver, and
one of the other men had a small pistol.
The murderer escaped.
Late last month the type foundery of
Philip Heinrich. in William street New
York, was robbed of matrices valued at
SIC coo. The thievss selected portions from
twenty different patterns, and the moulds
taey left behind were rendered practically
valueless. Soon alter the theft
letters were sent to Heinrich, offering to re-
turn the stolen models for 81. 600. The clue
was followed up and Frank STEIN arres ed
as the thiet.
News has been received that three men
broke in the door of Ezra Curtis house re
Gently at Sand Ripple, KY, look him out
in the yard where one guarded him. while
the Others violated the body of his wife
and daughter aged fifteen years. The men
have been identified. They are worthless
characters living in the neighborhood.
The circuit attorneys Office in ST. Louis
was entered Thursday night, and the short
hand record of the last grand jury which
inves igated the gambling ring was missing
The missing notes cover all the testimony
of some twenty witnesses in The gambling
investigations and other important cases.
Jack Radford was hanged on the 12tf
inst, at Fremont. Ohio. for the murder O
his wife last October. He made a terc,
fight against the OFFICERS, and cried, ne
me go, you hellions" and showered obscen.
epithets upon them after being dragged tt
the scaffold.
William Whslen, Henry Sloan and
Richard Brase, Chicago gamblers, hav'
swindled Albert M. Billings, of the HON,
National bank of Chicago, out of $l3, 900
which IN THAR aHvioo ho ipuaokoJ - At.
ada mining property.
John Birch & Co.'s clotking store and ]
Esbjornsson's residence near Litchfeld
Mimi, were burglarized recently. TIL,
thieves got $40 worth of goods from tn,
former, but nothing from the latter.
Charles Gearhart courted the daughte
of George Chamberlain, at Lancaster, Ohio
stayed too late, and Chamberlain shot hin
through the window and is now in Jail.
August 6omers, alias George Bates, ant