The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-12
NOW COMES KRUM.
The Missing Ex-Judge of St. Louis
-. -. Travels in Great Circle, fol-
lowed by DETECTIVES;
ARdIWill. Undoubtedly Let Back to
His starting Point. Mysterious
Death.---A Wealthy RufEan.

81. LOUIS, June 1.-THE Post Dispatch an
nounees that the whereabouts of ex-Judge
Chester II. KTum is now known. Mrs Krum
was notified yesterday by G. a. Thiel, the
manager of Thiel's private detective agency.
THAI her husband was on board Central
Pacific train bound east and would breakfast
at Ogden this morning. Krum has ticket
for Salt Lake City only, It appears
thas Judge Krum, on leaving st
Louis, April 26, went to Chicago
and thence to New York, stopping one
day at the Albemarle hotel He left there in
hack and was driven to the Pacific mail
steamer, which sailed for Panama, whence
he proceeded to San Francisco, He was rec
ognized on the train by C, F. Neweomb, son
of ex-United States Marshal Newcomb, who
filed that Office when Krnm was
United States district attorney The
mystery of Judge Krum's action in taking
this trip, and leaving his family and relatives
in ignorance of his whereabouts, and his
large law business unattended, is still unex
planned 1t is feared, however, that his
financial affairs are complicated Further
information is expected from Newcomh, who
is on the traiR with Krum.
CINCINNATI, June 1.-THE body Of Frances
Schmit, young woman, was found in the
canal Saturday morning, and it was sup
posed that she committed suicide Early
this morning a man named Binder was ar
rested on suspicion of having caused her
death. Mr. Ripey, who gave the infornla-
ton causing Binders arrest, says he saw
Binder and another man with Miss
SchInit at Binders house On Thursday night
at II O'Clock; one of the men struck the girl
whereupon he struck the man, and Miss
Schmit ran screaming away toward the
canal. 1t is thought that in her fright she
ran into the canal. Ripley dses not know
Schmit, but recognizes the dead body as the
woman he saw on Thursday night Binder
was too drunk to talk when arrested, but in
part corroborated Ripley's story
PROMINENT RUFFIAN
-TRoY, n Y, June l1.-Last October G. H.
Stevens, q prominent and wealthy resident of
Lusban, Washington county, effected an en-
trance to a neighbor's house during the alb
sence of the family and attempted an assault
upon a servant girl Stevens was believed
to be innocent of the deed until three weeks
after when he was detected in the act of I'M
fastening a window of the house from a had
der on which he was standing He was in
dicted for burglary and the trial was
to have been begun to-day. For
the sake of his family, the members of which
are devout church people, a settlement was
proposed, and after three days labor has been
consumnated To-day Stevens publishes q
card admitting the entrance to the residence,
alleging that he was intoxicated and certify
ing that the domestic, whom he attempted to
ravish, is virtuous, and that he never had
criminal intimacy with her, He also paid the
girl $500 The settlement does not dispose Oh
the indictment for burglary, although it il
probable that it will be quashed.
SUICIDE OF A MURDERER.
STEUBENvILLE, O, June n.-Alex. Wyatt
indicted for the murder of John Bird, and
confined in jail, hung himself in his cell las
night about midnight Bird ran away witt
Wyatt's wife, and the latter followed them t.
5teubenviile, where he shot and killed Bird
on the morning of May % The following
letter was found in his c5li:
DEAR SARAH: loved you better than any
woman in the world You were wicked TX
me, but have forgiven and prayed to Get
to forgive you. Please do not forsake on
dear children Arthur, stick to your mother
and write to your Uncle Arthur for none,
to keep you. [Signed,l ALEX WYATT,
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