River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-10-23
The Criminal Calendar.

At Waterbury, Conn, Edward Chatfield, the
''naked man" who has frequently frightened
ladies and children, has been sent to jail for
sixty days. He is insane.
Henry Mack has been arrested in Cleveland
charged with arson. The police have reason
to believe that he is the author of numerous
inoendiary outrages recently perpetrated in that
city.
David j., son of the late Senator Clark of
Horizon, Wis, had preliminary examination
before United States Commissioner Bloodgood,
Milwaukee, on a charge of passing five-dollar
counterfeit bills. In default of s., goo he was
remanded to Jail
Omaha Special: The coroner's jury has
rendereda verdict in the case of the victims of
of the Fullerton tragedy, and it is as follows:
We believe that II. A. G. Baird, Hugh MAR
Harry Perceral and Mrs. Harry Perceval and
her on e-year old child came to their death fe-
loniously, Sunday evening, Sept %, 1854, and
that they came to their death by wounds from
weapons in the hands of one George Furnival
A most horrible murder occurred at CoYing-
ton, Ky, just opposite Cincinnati Friday morn
ing The dead body of Mrs. Anna Madison,
the wife of James Madison, who works in Gin
cinnati, was found ON the floor in her home
The dead woman had been choked with a rope,
and her throat had then been cut in a horrible
manner. The husband was telephoned for,
and he came quickly and was put under arrest,
but denied all knowledge of the crime
J. Robert Williams of David City, Nebraska,
has been missing since Friday of last week,
when he took train for the East 1t has just
been discovered that he has absconded, taking
with him s27, 600 in money, borrowed of con-
fidential friends in church, Sunday school,
temperance and political circles, in all of
which ha wa T1rOmipent was gI1narir-
tendent of Sunday school, a candidate for
elector on the st. John ticket, and ran for dis
trict judge last fall He is supposed to be in
Canada.
Matt B. Parkinson. a sheep herder, rode up
to the house of former employer, Derby P.
Payne, a small sheep owner, three miles from
Deer Trail, forty nailes from Denver, and after
refusing Payne's invitation to breakfast cal
led him outside and demanded the payment of
$50, of balance due for work Payne replied
that he had no money then, but hoped TO have
some in a few days when he would settle.
Parkinson upon this drew a revolver and fired
three shots, the first of which passed entirely
through Payne's body, killing him instantly.
At Ellesville, Mass, Robert Lpes, deputy
sheriff, only seventeen years of age, and Jacob
George, telegraph operator, aged twenty one,
released a negro from the county jail, rromis-
ing him his freedom if he would kill DR. Schu-
nacher a druggist The negro carried out his
contact, calling Schumacher from the shop
and shooting and MORALLY wounding him. The
instgators of the crime then helped to organ
ize mob of citizens, who purs ued the negro,
while Lipes and his comrade quietly slipped
away When the mob overlook the negro they
shot him, infiicting a mortal wound The ne
gro, while dying, implicated the deputy sheriff
and telegraph operator in the crime, and the
mob turned on them, but they had fled