Daily globe., 1883-07-11
CRIME RECORD.
A STEREOTYPER IN BOSTON W1T-
E4IDI NEARLY MURDERED.
A Minneapolis Woman Abducts Her
Daughter from Syracuse. N. IA Chi
cago Embezzler Returned from For
eign Ports-Murderous ARRAYS and As
sassinatiOns.
SUICIDE.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l |

AOI tito 1hs' bWOAt9 } o6IS IOo10ouS VI IAlS
county, committed suicide by hanging
during fit of mental despondency,
caused by the change of life. For the past
six months she had been i'll.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.
Boston, June 10-A deliberate attempt
to murder j. johnson. foreman of the
stere typiug room of the Boston Herald,
v as n1ade tonight. About 10 O'Clock, as
Johnsen was ascending the stairs from the
saulted by person hiding behind closed
down md pounded on the lead with what
Is supposed to have been an iron bar, but
the 9eapon, however, has not been found.
johnson received four CHASTITY wounds
in ths head and was taken to the city hos
pital in a very low condition. David
Flannery, night engineer in the press
room, who acted strangely after the as
sault. das been arrested. Three news boys,
who are detained as witnesses, saw the
whole afair from the top of the stairs and
Identified Flannery as the man who COM
mitted the assault. They state they saw
Flannery hiding behind the door lying in
wait, that he struck johnson as
soon as he appeared, that the
first blow knocked johnson
down and the others were inflicted while
he lay PROSTATE. Flannery, they say,
endeavored to close the door to shut him
self ana johnson in but the latter's foot
was in the way. He then Anng the door
back and ran down into the press room.
johnson identified Flannery at the police
station as the man who struck him but
Flannery strenuously denied the charge.
The victim knows no motive for the
assault. and has never had any trouble
with Flannery.
GIRL ABDUCTED.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, July I0.-On Monday
evening shortly after o'clock, Lille Par
roy was abducted by her mother, who
lives in Minneapolis. The girl had been
living with her grandmother in this city.
A strange man appeared and claimed to
have warrant for her. He dragged her
out of the house and forced her into car
riage, despite her protests, and the car
riage was driven off rapidly. 1t is sup
posed the man and the girls mother have
taken her to Minneapolis. The girl is
aged Dneteen and worked in dry goods
store Il this city.
| SUICIDE Of A SPORTING MAN.
KANsAs CITY, July 1O.-The funeral ser
vices will be held tomorrow over the re-
main of Robt. F. Potee, the well-known
gambler, who committed suicide yester-
day II jumping into the river at Wyan-
dotte. The body will be taken to st. Louis
for interment. Potee was one of the most
widely known sporting men throughout
the west, having resided in number of
cities. He has recently been keeping a
gambling house in Kansas City. Business
troubles ara supposed to have induced
suicide.
SHOT NEGRO TRAMP.
| HUNTSVILLE, Ala, July 10.-E1. Clay,
colored, was shot and killed near here to-
day by John Oday, citizen of Hunts
vile. On Sunday night, Clay attempted
to ravish Mrs. Oday. Her screams fright
ened him and he fed, and was not seem till
to-day, when he was discovered by Oday
in a field few miles from the city. Oday
overlook him and fired three shots with
the above rest 1t. He surrendered to the
authorities, but was released.
| TURNING THE TABLES.
ASHLAND, KY, July 1O.-Wm. Direly,
colored, recently arrested, charged with
the murder of the Gibbons family and dis
charged after examination, has obtained
warrants for the arrest of Alf. Burnett and
Marshal Cubell, the detectives who caused
his arrest.
| FATAL BLOW.
BLANCHEsTER, O., July 10.-Benjamin in
White, contractor, sixty years old, was
struck on the head with spade and fatal.
ly hurt, by John Long, a young man re.
Gently discharged by White.
TRAIN wRECKERs UNEARTHED.
ALBANY, July 1O.-Myron and Young;
Dowling were arrested this afternoon a.
/. Schenectady and Alfred Yoangs at Quaker
station, charged with wrecking a train OF
the Central road, June %, 1873, near
Water street, and killing Platt Truax. 6
brakeman. No clue was obtained unit
four weeks ago.
SAD CASE.
MACON, Ga, July 1O--The body of al
: infant was found near Vienna Sunday, ant
Emma Ballard confessed the maternity O.
the child. The coroner's jury found tha
the child came to its death at her hands
4 warrant for murder was issued, and the
young lady attempted to commit suicide
and is now in a critical condition. Sht
belonged to good family, and the atfai
has created profound sensation.
Il ALABAMA SHOOTING.
SELMA, Ala, July 10.-At the Macor
|, station on the Alabama Central this after
noon, one, Carpenter. had three sho
fired into his head by a brother-in-law
A. w. Smythe. Smythe soon after fired two
shots into his own breast Carpenter can
not live and Smythe may not. Carpenter
had mistreated his wife, Smythe's sister.
| AN EMBEzz1ER CAPTURED.
}, SAN Francisco, July 10.-Francis N
Kerr, Chicago defaulter for $4,000, cap
tured at Callao and taken to the Sandwich
Islands by the American man-of-war Esse
and thence to this city on the City of iSyd
lney, yarrived here last night. He wa
brought on extradition papers issued b
Gov. Stoneman of California to a Chicag
detective. The latter says Kerr's peculs
, tions were from the banking house of Pres
, ton, Keene & Co.
| PRISONERS ESCAPED.
OZARK, Ark, July 10.-Two of the me
sentenced to seven years i'll the peniten
tiarv for robbinO the Iron mountain tear