The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-20
The Criminal Record.

Henry ID. Wright the defaul,ing ex
deputy po''m"s'er of Racine, arrived in
Wis. Milwaukee o9 the 9 h and Or. cseled
to the United Sla IS circuit court, Judg,
Biodgett presiding. He wi hIraw the ples
nf not guilty to the charge of embe2sline
United States postal funds, end entered q
plea OF guilty. The Judge thereupon sen.
tenced him on the first charge to five wears
imprisonment ~ hard labor in the stat.
prison at Chester. III On the second count
ne was sen'erc'a to one days jmprison.
ment IN 'he s"me institution and 10 pay 6
hhs OF ~ III 80. The amount Of the fine
lovers the iGtai dtia lcatiOn Immedjs elk
af'er iAa s'n cree he was taken into CUSTODY
nv tie United States marshal and taken 10
me county jail 10 await transportation tc
Chester.
Flva noIed murlerers made a desp.rste
attempt to es ape prison at Cincinnati,
Ohio on the ll,h inst. -Four got over the
walls; one escaped Entirely, one was killed
twen,yti We yards from the wall, aud two
badly crippled. The ittemp. was made
Just Irevions to the retiring OF the convirts
40 th'ir C-ls They were Bob Daniels.
Jane' Ward, j. b rry, Grsnt and Day.
ah-v were armed with short knives. Grant
escaped, Ward was next over and wps
ziii.o, Berry and Daniels were both cri,
pied by 'he breaking of the rope. About
thirty shots were fired bv the guard.
On the night Of the Ilth inst, Augustus
'Sawles, treasurer Of the order Of railway
con'uc'crs, and Charles Achtenacht, con.
ducior on = Missouri Pacific, were robbed
al the II uzzles Uf cooked reyo!vers by tour
h1ghwaymen. n Kew river bridge b~twean
hhrsss Cry an Wya, dotte. Sawles WAS
relieves of 900 watch and 800 fun6s of
tne ordcr. T"e robbers escaped.
Gro was hanged at Grayson, Ky, on the
l2jh inst, tor the murder of Fannie and
* bhi" Gibbons, and Emma Carico, by
crushing in their skulls and then setting
IRE 'e tie house by he use ofcoa oil and
Durn NJ the bodies teyChd recognition. o.
his two parthers in the crime Ellis Was
taken from jail and hanged, and Neil is
Stili in Jail awaiting trial.
A diSIatch from San Antonio saws a
young Jew named Halbert has been arrest
ed there, CHARGED with forgery on the bank.
ing house OF kidier, Peabody & Co Bos.
ton, for 10000 Hslb RI denies the charge
an gave Sln'W bal, tyo lsrge mercantile
hfms eoing his curitv. The forgery is
sSid 20 have been committed some time
las, month
Rev. E-a3'u5 S'ym1ur Presbyterian
minister OF New York, vas in court in
Soso II recently when lis son was being
sentenced ior forgery. He said he dill no
wish To intoriere with the s-ntence OF the
court. The mother OF the prisoner caused
scene by rtbukipg The father for his cuur e.
Young Seymour forged hiS fathers sigma.
ttlre.
"a ~ IN, ho ,
huqu', recently, John Ahefn struck the bar.
Keeper cripple, a George Ruchle, with
beer glass, Ia II citing jur's from which he
'heu so1n after. Ahern was arrested and Is
now IN Jail. Heis only twenty. y.tve years
old ard has recenu become heir To- con.
Die property.
Gail Bach was hanged on the i2l iEst.,
Mt Bowling Greco, Oaio, for the murder of
his wife in October, 1851. The family
lived on farm near Weston. Ohio. and
Bach and wife in6ulged in fr. quent uuarrels
during one OF which he attacked and killed
her Nj n cora cutter.
Lieut. Charles r. IIsrgous, Fifta infantry
stationed Of Fort keosh, is under orders
for ira by court marital on the l0lh inst,
charged with Duplicating his pay orders.
nj ! A + Bates has left Washington to
appear az a witness in the case.
AT Fargo, ID. t., HIan named Anders o.
HelIman tried to shoot his wife and boy.
He fired several shots, hut being drunk he
missed them and they escaped 10 the neigh
boIs Unframed. Helman was arrested
The y rites live ner Portland.
Hutchinson, Simmons McCurdy and La
pierre, notorious burglars, hava been ar.
rested AT Montreal and SIG 600 worth of
stolen good belonging 10 Hodgson. Sum-
hef Co, wholesale dry GOO Is recovered.
Burglars entered the res dence Of c. J.
Handbloom, at Des aoines, Iowa, recentl
and while one kept that gentleman silent
by means ola cooked revolver anothe picked
up 5000 IN money and sod wa'ch.
Wah Lee. the Chinanan who buichered
Al Ssta at Sioux Ctty. lava, ieg weeks
ago, died in Jail on the llth inst, presGni-
ably oi opium poisoning
Aprlitic,l quarrel in ssloon m Du.
Duque TN the sth inst, batseen william
Kennedy and Fr,rk Bari ,y resulted ia tie
kllii ofan innocent der-Frank
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