Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-12
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A NOTED HIGHwAYMAN CAUGHT.
ISnocial Tele ram to the Globe


yesterday morning Officers Schedel and
Fu2long found man named S. B. Bird in
front of the st. Charles hotel bleeding
from wound in the forehead. He wasIun-
able to say how he had received his in
juries. He was conveyed to the charity
hospital, where $10,190 and watch and
chain were found on his person. Both of
his arms were found to be fractured and
both wrists dislocated. His left ear was al
most torn off, and he was suffering
great pain. This afternoon Bird related
how he came by his wounds. He said he
went to the clerk of the st. Louis hotel to
secure a room for the night, but was in
formed that the hotel was crowded and
every available room was occupied. He
started to leave, and walked straight out
| TO the front until he struck the railing,
over which he fell and struck the sidewalk
head foremost, thirty feet below. The
accident to Bird was mentioned IN the
morning papers and the name struck the
! eye of Sheriff Weber, of st. Clair county,
Ill, one of our carnival visitors, as that Of
notorious highwayman for whom a
requisition had been issued
III ISOEudGJs 1COOs ~ SAAS
governor of Illinois, and a visit to the
charity hospital confirmed him in his sus-
picion. Bird was one of a gang who com
mitted several robberies in the vicinity of
Belleville. Ill, in 1879, notably that Of
Dank, st. Louis paymaster. at Center
vile, Ill, who was relieved of $4,000 By
Bird and two others while passing through
a piece of woods; also, that of Charles
Gersteci, a coal operator of st. Louis, who
was robbed of. $500 in September, 1879,
while dismounting from train at Alma.
Bird has been placed under police guard
and as soon as able to travel will be taken
to Illinois by Sheriff Weber for trial.
RUINED BY FARO.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
CINCINNATI, Feb. 10.-Rumors have pre-
vailed for some time that Charles E. Mar
tin, the discharged bookkeeper of R. j.
Ross, a prodaco dealer on Walnut street,
was a defaulter to the amount of $500.
Mr.. Ross discharged Martin Jan. 1. The
story has been SO persistently circulated
that it has effected Mr.. Ross credit. This
led him to resign the Office of treasurer of
the produce exchange, for the reason, as ne
said, that he feared the exchange hadcome to
distrust him. The exchange, however, re-
fused to accept the resignation. To-day
Mr.. Ross admitted for the first time, Mar
tin was discharged because he was behind
in his accounts. He would not give the
amount OF his embezzement, but said it
was less than $500. Martin has
wealthy uncle in Kentucky and another in
Missouri, from whom he expects help, and
Mr.. Ross promised that if he would make
the amount good, he would ray nothing
about it. This Martin has only partially
done, and Mr.. Ross credit having been
affected, he was finally compelled, to make
faro. He has been discharged before for
Irregularities. He is of good family, and
has a wife and three children.
BECOME INSANE IN COURT.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.]
RoCKEoRD, ILL.,, Feb. 1O.-The few per-
sons who happened to be in the circuit
court on its opening yesterday witnessed
strange and startling scene. Judge Brown
was to pass upon the arguments for
new trial in the Upstone case. The MUIR
derer had just been brought from the jail.
AS he stepped within the bar it was no.
ticed by those who watched him closely
that his tread was uncertain. His knees
seemed to totter. His entire frame shook
slightly, his head was bent forward and
crouohed between his shoulders. and look
of utter and abject misery was on his
countenance. Just as he was about to
take his seat a wild look came into his
eyes and he gave vent to blood curdiing
yell. He sank as if he would fall to the
floor all in a heap. Deputy Sheriffs Hale
and Cole grasped him by the arm and
endeavored to raised him to the chair. He
then commenced to struggle frightfully,
endeavoring to wrench himself from the
firm grasp of the officers. All the time the
unfortunate man kept up continual yell
ing and crying at the top of his voice.
sickening all who heard it. He did not say
anything that could be rendered intelligi-
BILE save one expression. "Oh, my head"
In his writings he knocked over the chairs,
his eyes rolled wildly, shutting and open
ing convulsiyely. lie would draw up. his
legs and thrust them back with great force.
Finally he was carried into the judges
room and placed on the bed. Then a con-
vulsion shook his entire frame. His eyes
were tightly closed, his fists cIenched so
they could not be opened, and the nails
cut into the flesh. He lay on his side,
with both arms extended and shiv-
ering from head to foot like
an aspen leaf His cries finally
grew fainter and less frequent, until they
at last sank into mere low moan. The
county physician not having been found,
DIR. Sabin was summoned. He gave the
man strong dose of chloroform, and got
him to sleep. At first It vas thought by a
number Of the attorneys present that he
was stimulating insanity, but it was soon
apparent that he could not have carried
ouy mere preteuses TINS far, and the fact
that he continued to move convulsively
when under the influence of chloroform
did away with that theory. This afternoon
at 3 o'clock Upstone commenced to yell
and shrek more violently than before. He
took his coat from him and tore his shirt
into shreds. He was finally taken back TO
jail, and it required the united strength of
four men to take him there. The decision
as to new trial cannot of course be
given until the prisoner is in condition
to appear in court.
THE GRAYs5N >KX.) TRIAL.