Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-04-25
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

AT Avoca, Mian., the body of Mrs. A. Berg
man has been found buried in the stable on
her husbands farm. Bergman circulated the
story last summer that bis wife had run away
and left HIM. A few weeks later he committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with razor. He
had killed his wife, secreted various trinkets
of here and her best clothes; and buried the
body in the stable preparatory to stepping off
himself. Domestic troubles caused the mur-
der. A revolver was found in the cellar of the
house with one chamber discharged and a bull
let hole in the skull of the dead woman CORE
sponded to its calibre.
GEO. scHELLER, who was charged with set
ting fire to the Newhall House, Milwaukee, on
the 10th Of January last, and causing the
death of over seventy persons, was acquitted
by jury in the municipal court, Milwaukee,
on the 18th inst. The jury was out only two
hours.
BRADY's jewelry store at Franklin, O., was
robbed of $4,000 worth of goods on the 10th
inst, and then set on fire. The fire was extin-
guisted with small loss.
The room of man named Reynolds, in the
Arlington Hotel, Palestine. Texas. was entered
early on the 17th inst, and robbed of $4,000.
CHAs. r. WILKINSON, postmaster at Vinton,
Ia., has been arrested for embezzlcment of
money orders and postal funds amounting to
81, 200. He has confessed.
w. A. JONES and N. H. Collins, wel]-known
citizens, were killed in a street brawl at Ray
vile, La, on the night of the 10Th inst. Jones
was the innocent party and interfered to pre-
serve the peace, while Collins, armed with
shotgun, was attempting to assist friend
named Roberts who had raised disturbance
in saloon and had been disarmed.
Tom BAILEY, 9 coiored man, outraged a
young girl at Meadville, Miss, and after mur-
dering her threw her body in a pond. A mob
too him from jail and hanged him.
HENRY EMIL JOHNSON and James Donnelly,
met in grocery at Stockholm, Cal., on the
10th inst, and fought with knives, each kill.
ing the other. The trouble grew out Of dis
pute about the sale of o wagon. Both were
stabbed in the breast.
EDWARD H. SAaER. city clerk of Wyandotte,
KS, is absent without leave. and shortage in
his accounts Of from $500 to $25, 900 is
rumored.
The most daring and successful burglary
ever perpetrated in New Orleans occurred on
the night of the 10th inst, when the Metro
politan Savings Bank was entered by five OF
more men, the private watchman assaulted,
large sums of money taken away. The thieves
paid little attention to the heaps of silver on
the shelves, but devoted themselves to the
private bank boxes, some of them containing
articles Of great value. About fifty of these
were found open and rif1ed of their contents
The burglars made no attempt to open the
banks burglar. proof safe, apparently satisfied
With the booty they had obtained. They
scraped up several thousand dollars in loose
silver, but evidently regarded this of compara-
lively little value, as over 81, 600 that they had
prepared to take away. was left behind. Next
morning a bag containing $500 more was found
the bank, where it had been thrown. The
amount of loss has not yet been ascertained.
ROMAN NowAK fatally shot his divorced wife
at Chicago, on the 18th inst, and then killed
himself.
JOHN GREEN shot and killed his uncle John
Winchester, at Jacksonboro, Texas, on the 18th
inst, the result of an old feud. James Wag-
rick shot and killed Joseph Blackerley, of the
same place, in q difficulty about some sheep.
CHARLES SMITH, well-to-do farmer, living
four miles north of Earlville, Iowa, went to his
barn on the 18th, where his two sons, aged 10
and IA, were engaged at work and killed them
with an axe. Returning to the house with the
same weapon, he killed bis wife as she stood
by the stove preparing breakfast. He then at
tempted to slay his two daughters, the only re-
naming members of his family. but they sue
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and gave the alarm. When they returned it
was found that Smith had killed bimself by
cutting his throat with butcher knife. Finan-
clal embarrassment, it is supposed, caused the
dementia which resulted in the bloody work.
Ar Lake City, Co.., on the 18th inst, the
jury in the case of Alfred G. Packer, charged
with numbering five companions in the San
Juan country in 1872, returned verdict of
guilty. A motion for new trial was made on
the ground that the murder was committed on
an Indian reservation, and that, therefore, this
bered that Packer claimed his comrades died
of starvation or killed each other in the
delirium attendant upon the last stages of in
anition and that he was compelled to eat por-
tions of their remains.
ANDY TAYLOR, one of the notorious Taylors
who captured train on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad last fall. mrr-
| dered q sheriff, deputy and liberated their
brother, WAS cal tured in Kansas on the 18th
inst. One Of the three brothers was killed
| several months ago. There is $1,000 reward
for the other two.
EARLY on the 18th inst, about one hundred
| disguised men attacked the Jail at Wytheville,
Va, compelled the sheriff to surrender the
keys, took VIM. NJ. Crockett from his cell and
hanged him. Crockett was awaiting trial for
the murder Of Joseph II. T. Hurt in Wythe
County. After hanging him the mob riddled
his body with bullets.
The body Of Frederick Wagntr, brother Of
the deceased palace-car inventor of that name,
| q native of New York, and for whom extended
search was made last fail, was found by emf
grants on the 9Th inst, on the bank of creek
eight miles from Powers Station on the Santa
Fe Railroad. The body was terribly disdgured.
Considerable money was found scattered about
the plain. bullet hole in the back of the
neck proves conclusively that he was murdered
for large amount of money which it was ex.
Pected he carried on his person.