The Dickinson press., 1883-04-28
Crimes and Criminals.

80.
A party by the name of Welsh, who lives
thirty miles wesi of Mitchell, Oak, and
b has held a presumption over thirty.
hree months, the time the law allows each
pre-emptor, shot a man fol filing a contest
on the same. The settler was blowing when
the contestant came upon the land to post
the contest notice. He advised him not to
post 1t or he would shoot him. The contest
ant paid no heed to the warning, but went
ahead and stuck up the notice, whereupon
Welsh pulled a revolver and shot him dead.
James Williams, of the firm of Williams
q McCauley, lumber dealers, of Big Creek,
Tenn, has been arrested for embezzI;ng
500, 600 from a New York firm in 1876.
Williams escaped to Mexico, but returned
TO this country. He failed last week for
$4,000, owing SS35 600 in this city. 1t seems
was cashier ofhis fathers banking house in
New York city. Tn robbery was commit
ted i'll August last.
William I. Church, Jr., the outgoing
comptroller of the village ofIyde Park, ILL.,,
arranged to meet the treasurer, for the pur-
pose of having his accounts verified, prepar-
atory to turning the office over to his sue
cessor. He failed to keep his appointment,
sAa SAAS liN AIhNC UIOhC OpCu tLlc SAFE
in his office. Examination of his accounts
showed q shortage OF 81, 100. A warrant
has been issued or his arrest. He has al.
ways borne a good reputation.
Smuggling is being extensively practiced
on th> islo Grande river, and the distric
attorney for the southern district of Texas,
and the collector of customs at B%rownville,
disagree as to the authority of the latter to
arrest smugslers. The solicitor of the
treasury says that officers have the same le-
gal right to arrest offenders that they have
to seize struggled goods provided arrests
arenot made on Mexican territory.
AT Munfordsville, Ky, Booth Edwards
(colored), sentenced to be hanged May 1s,
for the murder of Arch Long last December,
attempted to break Jail recently. Calling
the jailor to bring him a tub of water for a
bath, he rushed out on that officer with pis-
toll in hand, and would have escaped uad
not the %jailer's wife locked the outer ..oors.
Finding escape cut off Edwards returned to
his cell. shot himself through the head kill
ing himseltinstantly.
Burglars have been plying their vocation
at Chaska. A ew nights ago they broke
into the furniture store of Burkhart Bros.
and blew open the safe, securing about $l00
cash. On the same night they pried open
the front door of Linenfelser & Faber's
store, but as there was a large watch dog
inside it is supposed they became alarmed
and ran off.
DIR. George H. Marshall, charged with an
attempt to blackmail Mary Anderson, had a
preliminary he ring before United States
Commissioner McCandless in P%lttsburg a
f-w days ago. and was held for trial in the
United States cour May Z. He was alter
wards released Oh $1,000 bail.
Joseph G. Jones a wife murderer, has
been convicted in Atlanta, Ga. He was
married when his wife was eleven years old.
He assaulted his mother in-law and fled
from the country. He returned not long
ago. His wife refused to Five with him,
and he murdered her.
Edward lamp, a caricaturist who is we'll
known in nearly every large city in the
United States, and who drew MANY of the
pictures in Chaplin e. Cores saloon in Chi
cago, shot himself in John b. Jetfry's prlnt-
ing office i'll Chicago recently.
Sylvester Cosgrove, financial agent of the
Siemens- Anderson Steel company, Pitts
burg, which failed a year ago, has been con-
victed eff false pretense. He iraudulently
procured a S. 600 loan from the Manufact-
urers' National bank.
Arrangements have been completed in
New York for a fight between Mitchell. the
English champion. and Herbert A. Slade
Sept. IL, within 200 miles of Kansas CITY,
for 50, 500 a side.
AT Chicago the case of Jerre Dunn,
charged with the murder of James Elliott,
the pugilist was CALLED in the criminal court
and Dunn got a change of enue.