Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-04
Crimes and Criminals.

A party by the name of Welsh, who lives
thirty miles west of Mitchell, Oak, and
who has held q pre-emption over thirty
hree months, the time the law allows each
~pre-eInptor, shot a mar fol filing a contest
on the same. The settler was blowing when
the contestant came upon the land to post
the contest notice. He advised him not to
post it or he would shoot him. The contest.
ant paid no heed to the warning, but went
ahead and stuck up the notice, ~whereupon
Welsh pulled a revolver and shot him dead.
James Williams, Of the firm of Williams
& McCauley, lumber dealers, of Big Creek,
Tenn, has been arrested for embezzling
$2O,00O from a New York firm in 1876.
Williams escaped to Mexico, but returned
to this country. He failed last week for
$5O, 600, owing $35, 900 in this city. 1t seems
the true name of Williams is Lathrop. He
was cashier of his fathers banking house in
New York city. The robbery was commit
ted in August last.
William T. Church, Jr., the outgoing
comptroller Of the village ofHyde Park, ILL.,,
arranged to meet the treasurer, for the pur-
pose of having his accounts verified, prepar-
atory to turning the Office over to his sue
cessor. He failed to keep his appointment,
and the authorities nave broke open the safe
in his office. Examination of his accounts
showed a shortage of 81, 200. A warrant
has been issued Tor his arrest. He has al.
ways borne a good reputation.
Smuggling is being extensively practiced
on the Rio Grande river, and the distric
attorney for the southern district of Texas,
and the collector of customs at Brownville,
disagree as to the authority of the latter to
arrest smugglers. The solicitor of the
treasury says that officers lave the same le-
gal right to arrest offenders that they have
to seize struggled goods. provided arrests
arenot made on Mexican territory.
Burglars have been plying their vocation
at Chaska. A ew nights ago they broke
into the furniture store of Burkhart Bros.
and blew open the safe, securing about 500
cash. On the same night they pried open
the front door of Linenfelser & Faber's
store, bu as there was a large watch dog
inside it is supposed they became alarmed
and ran off.
Joseph C. Jones a wife murderer, has
been convicted in Atlanta, Ga. He wa
married when his wife was eleven years old.
He assaulted his mother in-law and He'd
from the country. He returned not long
ago. His wife refused to live with him,
and he murdered her.
In Milford Center, Ohio, a thief jumped
on a locomotive, held a revolver to the en-.
gineer's head, and compelled him to run his
engine out of town. He then ordered a
stop. got off, and retreated, covering the
engineer with his revolver ALI h time.
Edward lamp, a caricaturist Who is we'll
known in neatly every large city in the
United States, and who drew many of the
pictures in Chaplin & Cores saloon in Chi
cago, shot himself in John B. Jefry's print
ing office in Chicago recently.
Sylvester Cosgrove, financial agent of the
Siemens- Anderson Steel company, Pitts
burg, which failed a year age, has been con-
victed of false pretense. He .raudulently
procured a So, 200 loan from the Manufact-
urers' National bank.
Frederick W. Eames, inventor of the
Games Vacuum brake, was killed at Wa
tertown, N. Y, by Charles Hegham, an
emoloye Of the company. 1t is thought
the shot was fred in self-defense.
Arrangements have been completed in
New York for a fight between Mitchell. the
English cham pion, and Herbert A. Slade
Sept. IL, within 200 miles of Kansas City,
for So, 500 a side.
A German music teache: named Alexan-
der kabnitz suicided at LOOMS, ILL.,, re-
Gently. Grief over the ruin of his sister
was the cause Of the act.
The Casualty and Fire Record.
Charles Walters (colored) died in great
agony at Amsterdam, N. Y, from the eff
fects of the explosion of a dynamite car
fridge in his hand. According to common
belief, he was the murderer Of William Per
cival, who was killed and his body placed
on the railroad track IN 1879. Walters was