The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-24
CRIMES and CRIMINALS

CRIMES and CRIMINALS.
Early Sunday morning goth inst. about
200 members of the sporting fraternity from
Chicago assembled at Hammond, a little
town just across the Illinois state line in IT,
diana, for the purpose of Witnessing mill
between two local bruisers, Thomas Lynch,
a brakeman, and James Walsh, a boiler
maker, who had met once or twice before,
but without settling the question ofsi,-
Premacy. Thirty-nlne rounds were fought
in one hour. Both men were badly pun
ished, and Lynch was declared the victor.
Thomas Walsh, who whipped his
wife to death with a leather strap
fenced by Judge B.rnu !, in Chicago, re-
Gently to thirty-fve years in the penitenti-
ary. Patrick Condor, known as tie
bridgeport Terror" who killed Hugh
Ward one year ago, was given tel years for
granddaughter by the jury, Walsh's crime
was decided as one of tue most brutal ever
recited in court.
A pretty and intelligent young woman,
giving the name of Kittie Mitchell, and said
to be q daughter of the member of the New
York legislature. was arrested in Chicago
for shoplifting. Her plan was to steal ar.
ticles, and soon after bring them to the
store from which she got them aud get their
value in money, stating that she bought
them, but had decided that they were not
what she wanted.
The accounts of E. B. Wood, late city
treasurer Of Lansing, Mich, appear to be
5000 short, and Angeles bank, where
Wood had large transactions, has closed its
doors. The bank deposits are large for a
small private banking house. and about
$12 600 of school money is said to be depos.
tied there. The treasurer dealt in options.
Levi D. Jarrard, postmaster and ex-coun
ty collector of New Brunswick, N. j., is
missing. He is short over $40, 900 in county
accounts. His bondsmen are troubled. A
government special agent has been sent for
to take charge of the pos:ofice, now in the
hands of the bondsmen. Jarrard is sup
posed to be in Canada.
Alfred Linfried, tramp died recently in
the Episcopal hospital at Philadelphia,
from the effects of eating lucifer match
heads, which he had taken with suicidal in
tent He said he was tired of life, and, be-
ing too poor to buy stronger poison, in-
vested 8 cents III a box of matches, the
heads of which he a:e. He died in extYem e
agony.
At Beatrice, Neb., Enoch Bradshaw has
been convicted of murder in the second de-
gree, he having killed Henry voorhees, tor a
small sum of money and team OF horses five
yeas ago while they were on trip through
the western country. Bradshaw was recent
ly arrested at Council Bluffs. -:
Mike Cohen, alias Sheeney Mike, F. Hor-
lon of New York, and J. G. Lawrence of
three noted burglars have been
arrested at the Fifth Avenue hotel, Pitts
burg, Thursday. They had in their pos
session kit of the firess burglar toole
ever seen in that city. =. =.
Harry Watson, the Boston reporter who
shot his mistress, was held in $1,000 fol ex-
animation on the ed inst. May Appleton,
he victim, is in critical condition. Phys
icians think the ball injured The spine and
lungs. Friends Of Watson. the criminal,
,ay he is crank. ..,
Howard s. Ingersoll, rubber stamp man.
nfacturer Of New York, has begun suit
against the Sun to recover $50, 600 damages.
That paper gave particular OF an alleged
assault on the plaintiff by woman, who.
IS stated, horsewhipped him for insulting
1er. 3ss55S
4 Capt. Meller, who was taken to the Hart
ord, Conn, insane asylum few DAYS ago.
3 found to be an embezzler to the amount
i 80, 600, and the discovery caused his in
anity.
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