The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-03-22
CRIMINAL

On the morning of the 18th, two prisoners
confined In the Sandwich, Ont. jail for robbing
the Harrow postofice, shot and killed JaiIor
Leech, fatally wounded Turnkey Davis, and
escaped.
WM. G. SMITH, aged 20. committed suicide
With morphine on the 18th. at San Antonio,
Tex, on account Of domestic troubles.
A DEATHBED confession has cleared the
mystery of Christina Kett S death. at DAYTON
o., IN 1867. Her mother struck and killed her
Ia a 1T Of anger.
J. X. BENTLEY, who recently embeZzled
tickotc Of the Cleveland Akron & Columbus
road was arrested IN Logan o., on the 18th
MATT LEWIS, colored wife murderer, was
hanged at ST. Louis on the morning Of She 14th
inst.
FRANK SIAGLE. who was convicted of a
double murder, was hanged at Somerset. XIV.
Oh the l4th inst.
MAGGIE GARRITT, a Chicago girl. aged IA
years, took Paris greea on the I4th. because
her mother scolded her, and died from its eff
fects.
MRS BLTSZLy was arrested at Norwalk O.
on the 12tb, on a charge Of cruelty 10 a child
named Maggie Montgomery, adopted some
time ago from a charitable institution near
Cleveland The girls skGl was fractured and
her scalp torn loose as though from ha'- pull
ing. Her feet were II horrible condition from
burning or freezing.
PRESTIss TILLER, the clerk of the Pacific Ex-
press Company at st. Louis, who stole 800, ,O0C
and ran of two weeks ago, was arrested III
Milwaukee on the morning Of the 18th.
A TERRIBLE tragedy which took place in
Robertson County, Tenn, on the 10th came 10
light on the 18th. The crime was discovered
By peddler who entered a farm house and
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two grown daughters, and a 12-year-old son
laying on the floor with skulls crushe3 farm
hand named Geo. French was arrested. and
confessed the crime, duplicating two negroes
named Jim and Doc Carter. The three men
were Immediately hanged by mob.
FREDERICK ]. DIETRIcHs, teller Of the La
Clede National Bank. st. Louis, is detaulter
IN the sum of $50. COO.
MUTILATED corpse was found IN a soap box
IN the depot at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
night Of the 18th.
On the 18th at Marcum's Mil. KY. Asa A.
Cantrell was shot by John Marcnm, a 17-vear-
old boy.
Harry TURNER aged IL years, shot himself
dead with revolver st St. Paul on the 18th be-
cause his mother lectured him.
FREDERIC VIERKs, an old German resident Of
the town Of Lind. Waupsca County, Wis. was
mysterously murdered on the night of the
11th.
The money sto en- from the Pacific Express
Company at Sc. Louis, No, by Prentiss Tiller
and an sccomplice, was discovered at Milwaukee
on the 18th by Charles J. letter. salesman
ID the trunk store of Carpeies, Schram 4 Co..
with whom man. supposed 10 be TIller had
left an old valise with orders to ship TO Detroit
ID new trunk which he had purchased.
J. Fl. FULLERTON, clerk Of the Manhattan
Beach Railway Company, skipped out on the
18th and took with him AIS shares of stock
valued at S45.0 600.
OSWALD PIETsCH, s German commercial
traveller 26 years old, suicided at New York on
the 18th.
and Texas terror. was shot and killed IN the
Vaudeville thesterr at San Antonio, Tex, BY
King Fisher, deputy sheriff of Uyalde County
sud desperate of the first water himself
Fisher WAS also killed in the row.
The governor Of Delaware has respited Lewis
F. List whose execution for murder had been
arranged for the 14th inst, until 1904.
Al Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th William
Spence, an ex United States marshal, shot and
killed Edward S. Wheat, his son-in-law.
AT Gold Mine, Ps., on the 18th three farmers
were fatally wounded by Ezekiah Henry, the
lover IN runaway match.
WILLIAM PUETz and Mshlon Mccullough
who assaulted Car-driver Grothe several months
ago we're sentenced TO States Prison on the
10th, for three years and three years and one
month respectively.
The store snd postoffice at MiIlard. Wis,
wss entered by burglars on the night of the
9Th and robbed of $500 worth Of goods and
stamps
A WOMAN named Mrs. Harvey killed her sis
ter, Mrs. Hughes, in quarrel at little settle
ment IN Coffee County. Ala. on the 10th. and
fatally stabbed her nephew who interfered.
PETER ScHMITz, the Chicago contractor who
cheked his wife to death ten dsys ago. suicided
II his cell on the after noon Of the 10th.