Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14

named Tom Virgins, tiuding his divorced
wife in the company of o Methodist preacher
cut her throat and then his own.
Jacob BOaltInan, an aged hermit who lived in
the woods in Newayago County, Mich, and
who it was said had accumulated considerable
money, was found dead in his hut on the 9th,
evidently murdered for his money.
A negro who wrOnged q little girl at Parola.
Kansas, on the night of the 7th inst, was
promptly arrested and placed III jail. An at
tempt was made 20 secure the prisoner by q
mob On the night Of the 9Th, but the sheriff
fru 3trated the designs of the avengers. On
the afternoon Of the 9th inst. however. the
mob broke into the jail and battered in the door
OF the cell containing the black fiend, when it
was discovered that he had taken his@oWn life
by severing his Wind-pipe. The baffled crowd
secured the bleeding body and hanged il to a.
tree in the public park.
Burglars broke into the residence of William
McGregOr, farmer, near Rockford, ILL.,, on
the night of the 8th, shot Mr.. McGregor and
his little daughter, gagged Mrs. McGregOr,
and then robbed the heuse and left The
wounded are not expected to survive.
hoTrlble discovery was made IN a st. Louis
tenement house on the 9Th. 1t was found
that Henry Deces, q German, had cut his
wlfe's throat with a razor and then his own
Deces was Woodworking man and had ao-
cumulated So, 900 in savlngs. He i'll treated
his wife continually and on one occasion she
left him.
J. G. =, Hepburn, son of an English baronet,
was murdered by miners at PinOs Altos, Chi
huahua on the 4th. Five of the murderers
were tried and shot.
Judge Williams, Of Catua, Texas was killed
while sitting Ill his office by a stray shot fired
by either Green McCulloch or Charles Hogg.
who engaged in o fracas in the street in front Of
the judges office.
/ A tragedy occurred among the Creek In
dams on the Sd inst. The Greek orphan money
was distributed, and one of the Euchce band
received 1000. The mans good luck drove
him crazy on the day he received the money.
Next morning before daylight he shot two of
his companions, Higia Brown and John Buck,
through the head while they were sleeping
The whole camp was aroused, and in an at
tempt to capture the lunatiC Jim Barrett was
MORALLY wounded. The Indian then took
shelter under a wagon, and defended himself
with firearms. It being impossible to capture
him he was killed by well directed volley
At Cadillac, Mich, Gu the 9Th, the body of
little girl, mClOsed in a flCur-sack. with her
skull mashed in, was found under a pile Of
lumber. The officers say it is a murder, and
claim to have clew to the perpetrators.
James l.. Livingston, farmer, aged IS, re-
siding near West Berlin, Mass, killed his wife,
aged So, with Ratchet on the night Of the
Sth. Both had been on spree and quarreled.
A budget of crimes in North Carolina: Near
Rlchland, on the 9Th, Jesse Horn STAYED with
viii Bryant all night. They quarreled at
breakfast and each shot the other fatally. At
Williamstowh a feud arose between King
Griffin and his son, Smith Griffin. King went
to Smiths house. The latter shot bis father
dead. Near old Fort Carey, Gilbert Young, a
map peddler, was killed on the highway by w.
81. Whale, and old man. It was unprovoked
Near Statewide Mr.. Rast was buried by his
family. 1t was reported that he had committed
suicide. The body was disinterred on the 5th,
and it was found he had been murdered
A man named Smith killed hiS wife ina hotel
at Lowell Mass, on the 9th.
A startling tragedy was enacted at the Grim
mal court in st. Louis. Mo-, ON the 5th inst.
John G. Parker, who was to have been tried
for the murder of Mike Priton, shot his wife
dead in one of the jury rooms where they had
retired with the lawyers for consultation, and
then blew out his own brains. Where the
prisoner got the weapon is a mystery, but it is
supposed that either his wife or sister gave it
to him. The whole affair seems to have been
premeditated and coolly arranged. Mrs. Par
ker knew when she entered the court room
that she went there to die.
Margaret Murray died at New York on the
9Th inst, from the effects of injuries received
at the hands of her husband drunken brute