Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-23
CRIME RECORD.
SUITS FOR FALSE PRErENsEs.

grove, the financial agent or the SIemens
| Anderson Steel company, which failed
about a year ago, on trial in the county
court for some days on charge of false
pretenses, was found guilty this morning.
The suit was instituted by the Merchants
& Manufacturers National bank, which
gave the firm a loan of 81, 900 on the rep
resentation of Cosgrove that they had
made sales to Miles & Son, of Chicago, to
the amount of $4,000. In another suit
| against the same defendant, on trial, it is
| alleged that a new trial will be asked for
| because Judge White, before whom the
| case is tried, was found in the jury room
pending the deliberation on a verdict.
WANT TO LYNCH HIM.
ATLANTA, GA, April 21.-There is intense
excitement over an attempt to lynch
negro named Leonidas Johnson, convicted
by the court on charge of rape on young
girl. After his sentence of twenty years
imprisonment, a Mrs. Coake appeared
and declared he had committed a similar
| crime on her. Indignant citizens attempted
| to lynch Johnson and were only prevented
by guard opening fire of blank cartridges
on the crowd.
SHOT BY DEsPERADOEs.
IOU1S. April Al.-E our DTOIH6TS.
named Barlow, and two others named Gall
and Winfield, desperadoes, living in
| the vicinity of Normanville, Kansas. and
| terror to the community, went to the
store of John Normile, the postmaster at
Normanville, night before last and de-
manded liquor. Being refused they
wrecked the store, robbed the safe, fired
several shots from revolvers, one of which
MORALLY wounded the postmaster's wife,
and then fled. Sheriff Blair, with posse,
are in pursuit.
SENTENCED FOR ARSON.
LANCASTER, Pa, April 21.-Geo. B. Rem
mer, Jno. Wertz and Alexander Leaman,
convicted of arson, were sentenced this
afternoon, Remmer to sixteen years. i'm
prisonment, Wertz to ten and Leaman to
three in the county prison.
KILLED IN A QUARREL OVER CARDS.
CINCINNATI, April 21.-Typ Harrison was
shot and mortally wounded at HARRISBURG
this afternoon in quarrel and fight in
which he participated with his brother,
| George Harrison, against Sid Ward. 1t
was Ward who fred the shot. The fight
grew out of a disagreement over cards.
George Harrison was slightly wounded.
Ward is in jail.
THE HARLOW BROTHERS ARRESTED.
ATou1soN, Kas., April 21.-The three
Harlow brothers who attacked and robbed
the postofice at Normanville, Donephan
county, Wednesday night, and shot the
wife of the postmaster were brought here
this evening by Major Crowell, of the pos
tai service, and Sheriff Bailey, of Donephan.
They will have hearing before United
States Commissioner Price.
| TAKEN ON REQUIsITIoN.
| CHICAGO, April 21.-John Morrison, a
dealer in carriages in this city, who made
a claim one week ago that his safe had
been burglarized of nearly $4,000, but
whose story was discredited by the police,
was arrested this evening on a requisition
| of the governor of Ohio, granted at the in
stance of Columbus firm, charging that
Morrison had obtained goods under false
| pretense and other alleged frauds. The
| accused left in charge of an officer tonight
/ for Columbus.
| CRAZY woMAN's FREAK.
| CANTON, o., April 21.-Anton Friedman
was awakened at o'clock this morning by
| the breaking of glass of window and bull
| 1918 pdILor1HS dOOub lHS Wills. huSDln0
| to the window he saw in the moonlight a
woman running away carrying shotgun.
The woman, Mrs. Kreger, is thought to be
insane, and keeps the neighborhood in a
state of trepidatiou by occasional nocturn-
| al freaks of this sort.
| WIFE MURDERER CONVICTED.
ATLANTA, Ca, April 21.-Joseph c. Jones,
the wife murderer, is convicted. He was
married when his wife was but eleven
years old. He assaulted his motherin-law,
and fed the country but returned not long
| ago, then his wife refused to live with him
and he murdered her.
| SHERIFF KILLED IN JAIL.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April oil. A.Ryan,
sheriff of Lyon county, Kas., and Special
Deputy T. N. Dixon, arrived this morning
from Emporia, Kas., with Andy Taylor,
one of the parties implicated in the muir
der of Sheriff Gates and Deputy Conway,
of Hamilton county, in this state, last Sep
TENDER. Taylor was in irons when he ar
rived, and is in Jail here, where he will be
detained under orders from the governor,
who has reason to believe there ia danger
of Taylor's being lynched if carried to East
Tennessee at present.