The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12
The Criminal Calendar.

Frank Patterson, owner Of the opera house al
Long Branch, n. j., is missing, and detectives are
searching for him with warrants for his arrest
He is charged with having forged the endorse
ments of a number of we'll known residents OF
Monmouth county on notes aggregat!ng over
$4,000.
AtDenver, early Sunday morning, John P.
Glow, who lays claim to the title of the cham
pion pugilist of Colorado, aid Alex Thebold,
a cowboy, had a set-to with gloves. TIL cow
boy, though a physical giant, was knocked out
the first round
Samuel Roberts, the defaulting paymaster,
was arrested at Wilkesbarre, Pa, taken from
his summer residence to the city and taken be-
fore Aid. Rooney. Charles Parrish absolutely
refused to testify against Roberts. The de
PENDANT waived a hearing and gave bail in
$4,000 for his appearance at the criminal
court
Ole L W~esterguard, the book-keeper en-
ployedfor the past two years by T. P. Swenson
in his real estate and foreign exchange Office
under the Northwestern bank, at Minneapolis,
had absconded recently leaving his accounts in
a very irregular and unsatisfactory ann
The books are being now examined by an eX-
pert accountant, who has already discovered
many false entries by which the firm loses sew
eral hundred dollars.
Richard w. Peck of Brooklyn has brought
suit for $1,000 O damages against B., T. Bah
bit, the soap man, charging as one Of the items
that his wife received from Rabbit the sum of
$I9,OVO as an inducement to her TO sanction
the soap man in assuming improper relations
with Miss Peck, a girl of unblemished charac-
ter. Mrs, Peck is small and slight; always
dresses neatly, and has quiet, self-possessed
manners. Her picture is in the rogue's gallery
at Brooklyn pulice headquarters.
Louisville Special:-The individual who
forged draft on William Tarr & Co, of Lex
ington, in favor of William Tarr, Jr., for S.
$50, was the same who played a confidence
game on William Kendrick & Son, jewelers. of
this city, for $500 diamond ear rings. He
purchased 5000 worth of bonds from J. w.
I'D. s. Green, and gave a check on a Lex
lngtod bank for payment He was not given
the bonds, however, because something wrong
was suspected. He left the brokers' establish
ment and worked the jewelry store, then skip
ped for parts unknown The swindler is des-
crlbed as a well-dressed, handsome man Of
ford complexion and sandy moustache.
At daybreak last Thursday morning five
hundred men filed the pavilion of the sport
ing house at Rockawsy Beach, N. Y, to wit
ness a fight with hard gloves, marquis Of
Queensbury rules, between Jim McHugh OF
Glasgow and Dave Fitzgerald of Toronto, for
$1,000 and gate money. The men appeared in
the ring promptly. McHugh weighed 126
pounds, Fitzgerald 80. Preliminaries being
finished the men advanced when time was
called to the center of the ring, and then COM
menced one of the most exciting fights on rec
ord, lasting three hours and thirty-fiye min
utes, and ending in a draw in favor of McHugh.
Along towards the end of the fight the specta-
tors began to crowd the ring, and finally, at the
end OF the forty-ffth round, they became so
~obstreperous that the referee caliedon the sec
onds to withdraw the men. Fitzgerald was
badly punished.