River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-11-01
Doings of Criminals.

gang OF young forgers operating in
Western Iowa have doubtless been broken
up by the capture of one of the principals,
pamed Henry Stanley, at Leon, Decatur
county, where he was Fl 9urishing under the
name of Woods. On The way to Atlantic
in charge of an officer he gave away their
modus operandi. There were three of the
lads engaged in the business, and they drew
up notes and forged The names of well-tO- do
farmers to them, ana then sold them. Stan
ley disposed OF the notes and received 80
per cent. of the proceeds. They forged toe
name Oftwo farmers near Anita to notes for
for 5000 and traded one to Meredith & Dick
ey, dealers in agricultural implements for
800 in money and $500 note. When ar
rested Stanley had in possession one of the
notes already filled out.
Samuel Becht young tramp, committed
suicide at Kent, Ohio, By jumping head
first into glass retort at the glass works Of
Day, Williams Il Co. The furnace was
heate3 80 high degree of intensity IN or
der to melt sand, s0da-ash and other sub
stances used in the composition of glass.
Death must have been instantaneous as a
single breath drawn in the fiery furnace
would shrivei his lungs.
Mort Simmerman, the murderer of She
if Woods at Minden, Nebr., who has been
incarcerated at Lincoln, was removed to
Minden for trial on the DIST inst, under a
strong guard. Toward midnight twenty
five armed and masked men marched To
the ialt with the intention OF taking cut and
lynching SimmernIsn. Tie guard fired
from the windows of the courthouse and
dispersed the mob,
". A. Kline the victim Of the Clyde
Iowa shooting aHray, died at O'Clock on
the 24th. From the first no hope had been
entertained of his recovery. During the
last night he remained unconscious and
died without making any revelation of the
cause OF his own death, or the mystery SUI
rounding the Stnbbs murder, with which it
was alleged he was connected.
Warrants have been issued ST Iudianspo-
lis f)r inc arrest Of B. /. Gardiner and Ar
thur ne, on charges Of using the mails
Tor the purposes of delrauding others I'M
der she firm name Of T. c. Gordon & Co,
he addressed letters to all parts Of the coun-
try, Offering for sale 3 combined thermom-
eter and barometer, which he promised to
Onward on receipt OF . cents.
Morton N. Clark and Charles W. Store
have been arrested at Jamaica, Vt, on a
charge of counteyfeidng. They belonged TO
al organization of twentv-three vouns
persons who had a complete coEnterfeitine
outfit, which was seized with quantity Of
spurious csins.
Capt Rand and mate Thomas Rand. CON
victed in Philadelphia Of violating the neu-
trality laws, by furnishing arms and am /
muniion TO the insurgents of Hayh have
been sentenced 10 one years imprlson-
ment, and to pay fine of 500 ard ]
costs
Dr.. John E. Msthsrs Of Sandusky. Ohio. /
has confessed tsat BE euticsd Or. Gordon /
into vacant house on the pretense of Wis /
tins a patient. vobbed him, and extorted /
CHECK for $500 from HIM. He also saws I
he had planned 10 ab5uct Gordons I
1hild.
James Gilmore. who set fire to the /
briegewater tMass.,) workhouse, has been (
sentenced to twenty years in State prison.
Gilmore addressed the court, saying he SET