The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-04-28
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

IHE Coleman County (Tex.) courthouse was.
| broken into on the night of the 21st inst, and
all the criminal indictments DESTROYED No,
cue to the perpetrators.
Il a 5ht over game of cards, at Harris
burg, Pa. on the Dist inst, t. Harrison was.
sho. and mortaiiy wounded by Sid. Ward.
Ward Is IN Jail.
PETER RATEL, French Canadian coach
driver, aged % years, was shot and almost in
stantly killed, at a saloon at the corner of
Sevepty-figst Street and Third Avenue, New
York, early on the morning Of the 22d INST.
Two brothers named Martin have been arrested
for the crime.
o BEIEN's circus was attacked by a mob at.
Dover, Del, on the evening of the 22d inst,
and several of the employees seriously injured
A LIME-BURNER at Utica. Ind, named Lewis,
while intoxicated murdered his infant child
with q club and struck his wife with ali axe, in
tilcilng fatal injury. Lewis was arrested and
taken to the Jeffersonville jail.
A FIVE THOUSAND dollar package deposited
in the American Express Office at indianapolis.
Ind. by the Meridian, National Bank for Kan
sas, H.. was missed, and the express clerk,
Frank A. Vaughn, was accused of the theft
and admitted his guilt.
EXAMINATION shows that the thieves who
broke into the vault at Havana, where the gov
erument deposits its stamps, secured po rtag .
and telegraph stamps and stamped paper 10
the amount of 32S0,U00.
AT the house of German named Anton
Pfeiffer, at McDade, Texas, his son William
shot his cousin. Mary Deinhardt. aged ID,
three times, killing her, and he then killed
himself. 1t is supposed that he was insane.
The grand jury at Washington on the 18th
inst, returned indictments against William
Pitt Kellogg for receiving money while a scna-
tor for services rendered i'll relation TO contracts
with the United States, the witnesses being
John A. Walsh, John b. Price, Joseph
Cochrane and J. II. Brady, and also against
Thomas J. Brady, for receiving money while
second assistant postmaster general for service
rendered in relation to contracts with the
United States, the witnesses being the same as
above. There are five counts in each lndict-
ment, charging five separate payments of
81, 500 for one service rendered in the expedi-
IL of the mail schedule on Price s routes
from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, Tex, and
fiom Monroe to Shreveport. La.
AT Ayoca, Mimi, the body Of Mrs. A. Berg
man has been found buried in the stable on
her husbands farm. Bergman circulate q the
story last summer that his wife had run away
and left HIM. few weeks later he committ d sui
eide by cutting his throat with a razor. He
ha3 killed his wife. secreted various tri akets
of here and her best clothes, and buried the
body III the stable preparatory to sieppI lG of
himself Domestic troubles caused the muir
der. A revolver was found in the cellar of the
house with one chamber discharged and bull
let hole in the skull Of the dead woman ;one-
sponded to its callbre.
GEO. ECHELLFR, who was charged With set
ting fire TO the Newhall House, Milwauk se. on
the 10th Of January last, and causing the
death of over seventy persons, was acquitted
by jury in the municipal court. Milwaukee.
on the l7th inst. The jury was ont only two
hours.
BRADY's jewelIy store at Franklin, O.. was
robbed of $4,000 worth of goods on the 10th
inst, and then set on fire. The fire was extin-
guished with small loss.
The room of man named Reynolds, in the
Arlington Hotel, Palestine. Texas. was entered
early on the 18th inst, and robbed of 5000.
CHAs. r. WILKINSON, postmaster at VlRton.
H., bas been arrested for embezzlemeut Of
moueg orders and postal funds am bunting; to
Il, 200. lie has confessed.
W. A. JONES and n. H. Collins, Ike lown
citizens, we're killed in a street bravrl at Raw
vile, La. on the night of the 10th inst Jones
was the innocent party and interfered to pre-
serve the peace. while Collins, armed with a
shotgun, was attempting to assist a friend
named Roberts who had raised distu bance
IN q saloon and had been disarmed.
Tom BAILEY, a coiored man, outra3 ed
young girl at Meadville Miss, and after mur-
dering her threw her body III pond. mob
too him from jail and hanged him.