The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-17
CRIMINAL VARIETIES.
CuIIed Hero and There from the Big Ds
lies.

CulIed Hero and There from the Big Dist.
lies.
THE HANGMAN.
There was, we believe, Throughout, the
country but one execution on last hang
mans day, the victim being Milton Var
berry, who was hanged at Albuquerque, In
New Mexico. He was Al years old and
considering the long career OF crime he
had run, involving innumerable robberles
and at least half dozen Of murders, the
wonder 10 how be escaped the gallows 80
long. He was native Of Texas. where he
had his training as q COW boy. Having
killed man there he fled to Arkansas
where no Joined the famous Rudabaugh
gang Of land pirates. Having been en-.
gagged In several murders there he hid for
several years IN the mountains Of Colorado
and finally drifted TO Albuquerque, New
McKee,. where, committing another afro
cious murder, he was caught, tried, found
guilty and executed.
JUDGE LYNCH.
Paola, Kansas, was tremendously excited
on the 9th inst, over an attempt to lynch q
negro, named Henry Smith, who had
brutally ravished little colored girl nine
years old and left her TO freeze to death IN
the edge of the town. Smith WAS arrested
soon after the outrage and lodged in jail,
and that night mob of white men and
negroes gathered around the jail and de-
manded that the sheriff should give him up.
The sheriff refused and an attempt was
made to batter down the jail doors. The
sheriff resisted with arms and one of the
assailants was killed, anu the sheriff him.
self, his son, and five OF the ASSISTANTS were
wounded. This only the more lnfurlated
the mob, and after an hours work with
sledgcs, hammers, and crowbars they bat
tered q way to the cell, only to find Smith
dead an the floor. having committed sui.
eide by cutting his throat with q pocket.
knife. The mob put q rope around the
corpse, dragging it to a tree In the park
aud strung 1t up. After the body hung an
hour the coroner held an inquest, the jury
finding Smith had committed suicide du.
ring the progress Of the riot.
ROBBERY AND MURDER.
About 10 o'clock on Friday night Of last
week the house of Thomas McGregor. who
lived at Westfield corners, miles from
Rockford, ILL.,, was entered by burglar.
He entered the chamber where McGregor'e
daughter, IA years old, and companion
named Mary Sloan were sleeping. The
daughter heard his footsteps, and as she
raised herself up on one elbow, and gave
the alarm the burglar fired. The bullet
struck her just above the right ear, and the
girl fell back IN bed. Her father, who was
80 years old and sleeping in the next cham
Der, Jumped out of bed on hearing the
noise, and had taken only one step forward
!; when the burglar fired again, and he fell
to the floor, his head pierced with bullet
The burglar next turned his attention tc
/. the wife, and she, almost dead with fright
: handed him $50, the sum which they had
put by to pay the taxes on their farm
Having secured this money the burglar
fed. The villain probably did not know
of the presence of the other girl, Mary
!; Sloan. She was too frightened to leave
the house at that hour (midnighD and she
a lay there beside the Unconscious and
bleeding form Of her young friend, in
! mortal terror, until O'Clock In the morn
ling, and then ran to the neighbors and
!. gave the alarm. Both victims we're found
alive and sensible, though the girl died
! soon laiterward.w The burglar, a. shown
!, by his footprints, went from Rockford thai
: night alone and on foot, and returned thu
/. same wayanCA hired man named Norman
: Swartzel, who had worked for McGregol
i during the past year, isbeleved to be the
: criminal, as he is knownto have purchased
reyolverithe day before and since thu
Il CRIME has disappeared, having lett Rock
& ford next morning for Chicago, where hi
: was closely tracked by the police, but get
ting wind of it he fled to St. Louis
where dispatch announces his arrest or
Monday afternoon, and his being sen
back to Chicago. 3d." H"'a"
SEVERAL CRIMES. p.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn Feb. 9-Tom
Higgins (colored), finding his wife from
whom he had separated in the company OF
a colored preacher, cut her throat and then
his own.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 9.--Jacob Boalt-
man, an old man over 10, who lived her
nit life IN the woods In Monroe township
Newaygo county, and had the reputation
of having considerable money, WAS found
dead in his hut yesterday, evidently mur
dered. doubtless tor his money. He has
no relatives in the region where he lived
ST.. Louis, Feb. S.--Henry Drees, Ger
man teamster, last night cut his wife's
throat with u razor, and then his own
The two cOrpses were discovered In the
middle of the three rooms which the fam
lilly occupied in tenement in this city
The body of the wife lay on the bed, the
covering of which were soaked with blood
\ The mans body was on the floor. Five
little children slep IN the rooms. The