Daily globe., 1883-06-06
CRIME RECORD.
A MIDNIGHT LTNCH1yG.


| posed the purpose of the assault. and
crouched in his cell floor and Draved
| fervently. His voice could be heard ont
| side. The iailer was forced to lead the
way to Whitney's cell, which was then
forced open: long rope the men had
! brought with them was put around the
waist of the half faintlng doomed man. He
| fell on MS knees when once in the open
air and asked leave to pray again. This
| vas granted, but as he continued his ap-
peals to heaven too long, he was jerkel to.
his feet and dragged through town into a
dense woods that covers the bluf, dozen
of the lynching party warning the crowd
not to follow, and intImidatiug them by
display Of revolvers. 1t was expected the
court would hold special session to try
the accused, but when it was announced
yesterday that the trial would go over to
the fall term, the indignation was general,
and threats of lynching were made. It
was quite an orderly mob in its behavior.
In the absence of the conventional masks
many of the lynchers were recognized.
The last seen of Whitney he was being
taken into the wood by the lynchers. Ere
this he is dead.
When the woods were reached the pris-
oner was handed over to a dozen masked
men. He said his real named was Fisher
and not Whitney; that MS parents lived in
| Virginia. He did not know whether he
killed Burchard or not, as he and his part
ner, whose name was Collier, fired FIVE
shots each. He then shook hands with
part of the mob, bidding them good bye,
after which he was strung to a tree. The
mob then dispersed. The sheriff took
charge of the body this morning. and the
coroner is now holding an inquest.
Whitney was desperate of the James
stripe. He and another outlaw named
Collier, after robbing several stages il
Gasconade county, on the 18th of last
month, attempted to burglarize the store
of Burchard & Lukes in the little town of
Bern, during which they shot and killed
young Burchard, son of one of the pro-
prietors.
ST.. LOUIS, June 5.-Welch, q coal miner
in the Belleville, H., district, fifty five
years old, driven to desperation by in
ability to support his wife and nine
children, by reason of the strike among
the miners, hung himself yesterday in az.
orchard near Belleviile.
FATAL AFFRAY.
OChAN1ON. ds uLS 0,-IdSJ O1SnL JOS
Hennihan and Daniel Waterspiel had an
alteration, during which the latter ran in
to the house where he was boarding, pro-
cured gun and fatally shot Hennihan in
the breast. Waterspiel was arrested.
SHOT HIS SISTERS sEDUCER.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., June 5.-Theo. l..
Shields shot dead Joe G. SiIton, superin-
tendent of the Maryland & Charlotte copper
mines, this morning. Shields claims Sill
ton seduced his sister and refused to mar
ry her. Shields surrendered.
SHOT IN THE ABDOMEN.
CINCINNATI, June 5.-Chas. Baumgaert-
ner, while drunk in the saloon of julius
Katz. this morning, being refused drink,
attacked Katz' daughter with an icepick,
whereupon Katz shot him in the abdomen
with a revolver. Baumgaertner was taken.
to the hospital in dangarous condition.
SUICIDE.
New YORK, June 5.--H. w. Green, mechan-
ical engineer, supplying the steam motive
power to number of manufacturing
firms, killed himself this afternoon in his
room at the hotel. He had previously
made two attempts. He lost 100000 in a
! business venture about three years ago
and about the same time a separation be-
| tween himself and wife occurred His
wifeIlives in Brooklyn with two children.
His son is manager of the Kiralfy troupe.
NOT A HEROINE.
On May %, the artificial flower factory,
100 Green street. owned by Mrs. Louise
Guidap, French woman, sixty-two years
old, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Guidan
| Eo;-
warned her workmen and other occupants.
She alone failed to escape. She was
much praised for her heroic se!f-sacrifce.
At the coroner's inquest to-day it was
learned she had tried TO induce two Of her
workmen to burn the house to obtain thes
insurance, as she was financially en-
barrassed. 1t is now believed that failing
to induce the workmen to fire the building.
she sdid herself.
KILL TWO MEN AND WOUND TWO IN BEING
CAPTURED.
WAvERLY, Ia, June 5.-The Barber boys
were captured this evening at about s
o'clock while eating supper in house a
few miles south of Tripoli, Iowa, after a
very desperate fight in which the Barber
boys severely wounded four men, two NOR
tally.
STRANGE PERFORMANCE.
PETERSBURG, Va, June 5.-Sergeant p.
H. Boisseau, of Danville, arrived this aft
ernoon and summoned twenty-four jurors
for the case of the commonwealth VS.. W.
T. Dodson, for the murder of a negro
named Jas. Reid. 1t was impossible to
| get a jury IN Danville. Boisseau and the
jurors left this evening for Danville.
Dodson recently insured his life for $4,000
for the benefit of his wife and children.
That they might get this sum he murdered
the negro and placed the body in a house
and then set fire to it, that the body might
be burned and passed off as his, Dodson's.
Protesting Against Marked Regulations.
The gardeners are on their ear, as it
were. Through some order of the authori-
ties the gardeners have been driven out of
the long market shed where they have had
stalls and tables and compelled to locate
on Seventh street with their wagons
backed up to tie sidewalk or curb
stone. The gardeners have united
in an indignant protest to the city
council against such accommodations
| They saw they are willing to nav the citu