Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-30

known man YVES OaQly ScalO0Q. Inc en-
gineer ives recovering from debauch.
A special to the Times, from Augusta,
Kan, SAYS: Bob Cross, the murderer of
Deputy Sheriff HOLSTER, of Hunnewell.
was captured by officers who passed
through here with the prisoner. They
are endesyOring to evade a mob of two
hundred men, who were in close pursuit,
being ut one time within six miles Of the
officers and their prisoner.
A ST. Louis Post Dispatch special from
Gslesburg. ILL.,, says: Frank Avery, bra ke-
man, fell dead on the steps of the Lindell
Hotel, suspected to have been caused from
a blow by q blunt instrument from behind.
His companion thought he heard the sound
of blow, but saw nothing to confirm the
suspicion. Avery had quarreled in bill
lizard hall Just before. The Coroner's Jury
failed to develop the cause of the death.
Mrs. Jane Isabel arrived at Little Rock,
Ark, in sad plight and tells a tragic elope-
ment story. Her husband, sue says, is John
Isabel, and resides in Austin. She fell in
love with another man and elOped with
him, taking her husbands team Of horses.
On the road they were overtaken by five
men who hanged her companion to a tree
and turned her adrift, after selling the hor-
ses and all her baggage.
Gov. Hoadly has respited John B. Hof-
man, who was to have hanged Friday, "a,
to Dec. Is. Hoffman lay in wait for his son
all night in a doorway. and rs he was issu-
ing from the door in the morning killed
him. This is the third murderer in Cincin-
natl who has been respited since Sept. 26,
and one of them b IS been committed to life
imprisonment. AS yet there has been no
special manifestations Of dissatisfaction
owing to executive clemency.
A mob of masked men at Senatoba, Miss,
attempted to take Sam Franklin and Shakes
peare Franklin, two Negroes, from Jail to
lynch them, but were prevented by Sheriff
jeff Williams aided by his deputy, JEFF
Vesey. The Negroes have recently been SEN
fenced to long term in the penitentiary
for poisoning five members of the family OF
G. Smith, living near SenatOba. The mob
broke down the outer Jail door, but were
fired upon by the sheriff and finally retreat
ed.
Prosecuting Attorney I. J. Delaney of
Springfield, Mo, went out to Bots dare at
the cOrOner's inquest over the body of Bart
Miles, who was shot and killed by NJ. q.
DeBoard at that place, and after investi-
eating the facts relative To the homicide,
had three other parties implicated placed
under arrest. Their names are Dave ROg-
ers, W. Bouldin, and Elisha DeBoard.
NJ. G. DeBoard who was shot in the
arm and neck, is still alive, though it is be-
lieved that he cannot recover.
Zachariah Elliot, an escaped murderer
from San Diego, Cal, was captured near
Abilene, Texas, by City Marshal Hill and
of he
El[iot's crime was committed last Spring,
and he was traced to Texas by Sheriff Muir
ply, of san Diego, but the refugee had fed
to Kansas City. He returned to Texas re-
Gently and was captured, bis captors being
on the lookout for him. 1t is understood
that there is 81 900 reward for Elliot. He
was started for California at once.
A special to the Indianapolis Journal from
Wabash reports that bloody row occurred
on the Wabash passenger train near that
CITY. The train was full of people return
ing from Democratic barbecue at Peru. A
woman named Cotticipen, crazed with
liuuor, drew long knife and began cutting
and slashing among the occupants of a car.
Henry Garner was cut in the left shoulder,
n. Qainn was dangerously stabbed III the
face. and Conductor Prince was cut in the
face. The woman was finally elected from
the train.
At Uvalde, Texas, W. +. Carnly was shot
and killed through p window OF his resi-.
deDce. Deceased had been accused OF
criminal intimacy with Mrs. Minis, wife
her two little girls, despoiled their
home of all the furniture and SCI
up housekeeping with her paramour in
a respectable neigLborhood. The girls have
been taken in charge by friends, and will
be sent TO relatives in Kentucky. Theil
father, who was told of the mothers con.
duct, is supposed to have done the shoot
ing.
A dispatch from Albany, N: Y, states
that Henry A. Hogeboom, a farm hand
who claims to have discovered the obstruc.
ton on the track, which wrecked the Bos.
ton e. Albany train at Undertook, has
been arrested on suspicion. The theory is
held that the act was not committed with
malicious intent, but in the hope of flag.
ging the train, when he intended to &C.
quaint the passengers with the fact that he
had saved their lives, in expectation that
he would be handsomely remunerated for
his galIantry. Experiments show that q
man could place rails across the track and
remove them inside of ten minutes.
John T. Davies, Of Liverpool, England, a
member of the firm of Davies, Atkinson &
Co., filed bill for accounting at Chicago,
against his partner, John Atkinson, whose
alleged defalcation to the extent of $500 coo
of the firms money was announced few
days ago. The bill expressly charges that
Atkinson gave the checks OF the firm to the
amount $27 900 on option deals, when he
had no funde of the firm to his credit, and
that he appropriated full $20O,OCO Of the
firms money in the payment of his Board
of Trade losses. The bill asks for re-
ceiver for the firm.
A st. Louis Post Dispatch special from
Chattanooga, Tenn, says: Fuller particu-
lars received of the double lynching Of J.
R. Dorsey, Postmaster at Alpine, Ga, and
the woman Jane Wade. When they were
carried from the Jail the woman confessed
that Dorsey killed his niece Mrs. Davis,
and her guest, @. C. Jones, whom he mis-
took for her husband, but protested her
own innocence. When the bodies were be-
ing strung up, they were riddled with bull
lets, and were left hanging till night.
Dorsey was past seventy years of age, and
the woman past fifty.
RI. Waddy, of Leavenworth, foreman
of the pattern works of the Great Western
Stove Work Company, killed his wife and
Miss Mollie Logue. and then killed himself,
on the 10th. 1t was q case of inverted
matrimonial life, Mrs. Waddy having been
q much married woman having married q
young man by the name of Edwin B. Man.
chester, by whom she had two children.
He left her in 1878. She soon after was
known as the wife of Dan Newcomb. She
married Waddy last March, and they sepa-
rated in September. Waddy had family
in New York State. He performed the
numbering by shooting the women and
and himself. Adultery and jealousy were
the procuring causes.
Rice Orbin came down to breakfast at his
parents home in Bradford, Pa, and ex-
claimed in frightened tones: 81 had a ter
rible dream last night. | dreamed 1 shot a