Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-16

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drew a revolver and fred five times, thret
balls entering the w0msn's head, one he
shoulder and the last through her heart. Re
loading. he fred twice at other inmates aD(
twice at sn officer who attempted 70 ar1es
hin, but without effect. He was then over
powered and taken to the station.
The Ashland Murder Case.
CATLETTsBUBG (Ky.), June I5th.-The pre-
hminsIy hearing in the case of VIM. DiTely
tcolored), the newly arrested prisoner, charged
with committing with two other negroes) al
outrage upon the Gibbons girls. and the mur
der of the girls and their brother, at Ashland
KY, was continued to Monday, at the re
q0est Of the detectives Ellis. Neal and Graf
were tried, found guilty, and ordered TO bC
hanged for these murders, on the confession
OF Ellis. who was afterwards lynchad. Nes
and Craft have been codtesting the cass il
the higher Courts for the past six months
and We're recently refuled q new trisl. Th'
arrest of Direly on newly-discovered evi
deIce puts sh entire new phase on the Gale
braVed murders. Great excitement prevail;
in kentucky over the arrest of Direly il
Ohio. Including Ellis and the victims of tbs
outrage, sixteen lives have already been Tor
feited.
SwindIers Captured.
OMAHA, June 15th.-Special Postoffice IL.
spec.or John B. Furay. OF this city, has ar.
rested at Lincoln two young men--Wm. A.
Hull an apprentice 70 q dentist, and John
B. Sweet, lawyer-f)r using the mails tC
circulate a receipt for the prevention of con-
ception. under the name of DR.. j. H. Laroy.
They sent out circulars headed "Great Sc.
cret Revealed" offering the receipt with an
explanatory picture for 81. 1t was huge
sell, there being no receipt, and the picture
being harmless and humorous. They were
detected by decoy letters, st the instance OF
the Comstock Society for the Prevention Of
Vice. They were held for trial, and in de.
fault of bail are in jail.
Ten Years In the Penitentiary.
OMAHA, June 15sh.-At Hastings, John
Bsbcoek, indicted for murder, pleaded guilty
to manslaughter, and was sentenced to ten
years in the Penitentiary. Babcock WAS
associated with Green and Ingraham in the
murder of Csssius NJ. Millet, groceryman
at Hastings, whom they intended to rob.
Greene and Iugraham were lynched, and
Babcock's life was spared, as he gave his
companions away after all three were under
arrest on suspicion. Babcock has been landed
in tie Penitentisry.
An AtrOcious Criminal Disposed Of
WETuMPKA (Als.) June 18th Jordan
Corbin, who murdered Benjamin Cardin,
and seriously wounded his wife and SOC, for
the purpose of outraging Cardin's daughter.
near Cosacoos, Monday night. was captured
by citizens and put in Jail Wednesday. That
night he was taken from Jail by a crowd OF
500 men and hanged. The crime was the
most deliberate, horrible and exasperating
conceivable, Corbin staying around the house
an hour. It was bsrricaded by the wounded
wife with the bed in which lay her dead hus.
band, shot in the head while asleep, by gun
pushed through the window. The daughter
escaped to the woods in the hight, and has
since been found ain ost dead from fright, and
IS not expected to live. The mother and son
are very seriously injured, but will recover.
imprisonment for Life.
LOUISVILLE (Kyl, June 18th. - Thirty
days ago Vaughn Hilton was murdered in
Montgomery county. To-day the Sheriff of
that county took to the Peniteatiary at Frank.
fort, to remain during their natural lives,
about half of the perpetrators viz: John
Barnett, Elliott Watkins, Newton Yarber,
James Beecroft, John Gibbs and Solomon
Beecroft. These are the parties whom the
mob attempted TO take from the Mount Sser-
ling jsil about ten days ago, when Jack
Ringo, Sheriff Of Menifes county and leader
Of the mob, was seriously wounded.
Wonderful DOuble-Tesm Performance.
NEW YORK, June 15tb.-Wm. II. Varder
bilt's famous mares, Maud S. and Aldine, to.
day at Fleetwood Park scattered al
previous records, making mile il
2:154. Vanderbilt drove the mares. They
were hitched to a heavy top road
wagon, weighing I'll pounds. Vanderbilt
himself weighs 200 pounds. The pair were
drawing AL pounds. The quarter was made
in 32t seconds, the half in 1:055. three-quar
ters In 1:41, and the mile in 2:l58.
Pauper shrewdness.
Erie (Pa.), June 15bh.-The Grand Jury
recommended that married paupers in tht
almshouse be permitted to occupy joint ousr
ters, instead Cf being separated. The Pool
Directors were altering the building to NEE
this recommendation, but the work was
stopped to-day, owing to the discovery of {
scheme among about 100 unmarried inmates
to marry and secure extra comforts.
The Lynching of Warner.
CHEBoYGAN mich. J. June 15sh.-It is nov
believed that Warner, lynched last night OF
charge of rsvishing Nettie Lysus, was ar
innocent man. He protested his iunocenct
to the last, though let down time or twt
and asked to confess. The Iynching wal
done by dozen disguised men, and was wit
messed by crowd of several hundred. Tbt
Sheriff did nothing to protect the prisoner
and is blamed By the better class of citizens
Something Like BIackmaiI.
OMAHA, June 15sh.-A. P. Adams. th,
wealthy rauchmsn Of Red Cloud, who ba
been sued in Omaha for $4,000 damages BY
Stewart Hoge for the alienation of his wife
affections, declares that he is innocent, anc
was not in Omaha on the day spscifsd will
Mrs. Hoge, and has not been in Omaha fo
three years. Some people think it is black
mail
Disappointed, but not Discouraged.
WASHINGTON. June 15tb.-The Govern
ment is not discouraged by the failure of the
star-route jury to convict the defendants
1t is disappointed. naturally. but the pend
ing indictments against Brady and the LESSEE
members Of be ting will be pushed 70 trial
with cslerity.
Tried and Acquitted.
OMAHA, June 15th.-Mrs. Mary Ferron
indicted fer the murder of her husband by
pouring coal oil on his clothes while be wa
asleep and setting fire to him. was tried anC
acquitted at Falls City.
Tnerm0metrical.
CHICAGO June 15th.-Highest temperature
to-day, IA: lowest. 59'
SWAPPING DOLLARS AT THE BAR,-Tues