The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-10-13
CRIME. AND CRIMINALS.

Persons claiL g to represent an extern
sive New York L I, called the MetrOpoli-
tan mercantile az, cy, have cleVerly vic
timized several Lac oort, N. Y. business
men. They claimed > be able to collect
outstanding accounts a, Luch lower rates
than the men could do We. ( for themselves
end would take all recess V legal action
to insure paym ent. SeverL merchants
foolishly paid some sums dow, and 9TH
ers gave two and three months ties in ad-
vance for the work promised. The mer-
camille agents then left town, se-Gng the
notes obtained to Syracuse broker at a
heavy discount. The notes have matured,
the brokers sued TO receive their face val
re, and the signers contested on the grouid
that the notes were ~fraudulently obtained.
A test case was tried before a jury and re-
suited in favor of the defendants, but it
will be carried to a higher court.
The smuggling of Chinese across the
borders from British Columbia has be-
come a thriving business. The Victoria
Colonist confirms the statement that, not
withstanding the representations of The
treasury agent sent to Investigate the mat.
ter, Chinese smuggling is largely carried
on, and that Victoria has become the rem
devious fOrChinese settlers to cross over to
the United States. A great number of saw
mills on Puget sound employing Chinese
is tAC immediate cause why so many are
smuggled over in that section.
Frank Meyers and Austin Gutherie, cou-
sins, quarrsled about a girl at Black Fork
Creek, Choctaw Nation. They we're mount
on horseback. Knives were drawn, and
a most terrible fight ensued, the Combatants
squirting their horses together and slashing
each other with their weapons. The fight
lasted halt an hour. Meyers WIS cut in a
shocking manner, one arm being a mass of
sashes. Gutherje was terribly wounded.
At Northboro, Mass, on the 7th inst, a
man named Taylor, from Brooklyn, on q
with his v lie to the home of Richard
ElwOod, shot his wife and then blew out
his brains. The woman was induced to 60
nto a field, and while there The shots were
iTed, The woman is expected to recover, !
he ball having entered her throat and COM
ng out through the root of her mouth. |
The man died instantly.
Herman Hillman, q young farmer of
Lawrenceburg, Ind, was recently fatally
at a dance, which was given in his
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Albert Ross. Ross and one Trulock had
u%nbidden, and apparently for the
Of killing Hillman. Trulock COM |
the quarrel by insulting Hillman, |
Ross rushed in and stabbed him and
hen got away.
A man named Kelly and Luretta Mungle.
\ fascinating widow, whose conduct was
not approved by the good people of Hills
)ero, KY, were so notified and refusing to
iced the warning, were visited at night by a
mob, who tied them to trees and gave them
IN old-fashioned slave whipping, the lash
being laid the heavier upon the man.
John K. Snyder, president of the Elk.
bank Of Chenos, ILL.,, which made
an assignment a few days ago, was arrested
and taken to Bloomington on a
charge of swindling and embezzlement
by two of his creditors, who assert
he reGo;yed funds knowing the bank
vas i%nsolyent.
All Lung, the Chinaman sentenced to be
hung Feb. 5 at Maiden, Mont, has escaped
from the Meagher county jail. The China
man took with him 4 heavy chain (riveted
about one or his ankles), and also a pair of
handouts, with which his wrists were fas-
tened together.
On the morning Of the list inst. the cloth.
ing store of Rosenthall Bros, Minneapolis,
Mimi, was robbed of nearly all the over.
coats I'm the establishment and a number
of dress suits. The loss was about 49, 600.
Mrs. John Austin had her husband ar
rested in New York for desertion. She
showed 200 love letters he had received
from a dozen different girls.
Frederick Mathews, who suicided in New
York last month, left Ellen Fields, his
sweetheart 2 1000.