St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-10
CRIME CALENDAR.
The Report that Nettie Koran Had
Confessed TO Poisoning Her
Family UnfOunded.
Two Necktie Parties, One in Missouri, the
Other in California; iscellan-
eous Crime.
Especial Telegram to the GlObe.l

Especial Telegram TO the Globe
SHE DIED FROM NATURAL CAUSES.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 9.-The report tele-
graphed from Whitewater last night that Miss
Nettie Horan,. the fifth victim OF alleged
wholesale poisoning, had made confession
and two sisters, pr owes to be
groundless. Miss Nettie died from
dementia brought on by excessive grief.
She made no confession. The general belief
in Whitewater is that every member Of the
Koran family died from natural causes. At
least, so affirm all the leading physicians.
Sensationalists started the poison story.
A DETERMINED MOB.
ST. LOUIS, Dee. 9.-CharIes Stevens, des-
perado known as "Omaha Charley" who
killed Hubert Kramer at Maryyille, Mo-, De-
eember 3, was this morning taken from the
jail, after fight with the sheriff, by a mob
who hung him on q railroad bridge.
One of the mob was danger
ously wounded by the sheriff.
Stevens was pardoned out of the penitentiary
for previous murder last winter. The par
ticulars Of the affair are TO the effect that
sixty masked men went to the Jail at two
O'Clock this morning, called up Sheriff An
derson, and demanded that he deliver Ste
yens. This he refused TO do, and told the
crowd he would fight TO the last in the de-
Tense of his prisoner. A com mittee of three
was then sent to consult with the sheriff, but
his reply was the same as before.
The mob then made rush
for the door of the Jail, and Notwithstanding
the sheriff repeatedly fired into the crowd
dangerously wounding one of them, whose
name is withheld for the present; they forced
an entrance, overpowered the sheriff. seized
the murderer and marched him unuer cover
of score of cooked revolvers, to railroad
bridge half mile away, and hung him.
HUNG BY MOB.
DAGGETT, Gala, Dec. "a mob Of twenty
men this morning surrounded the officers in
charge Of Lon Farthing aud William White
alias William Pitts, charged with hayins
dubbed Josiah o. Hraris to death with
a wagon spoke on the night Of the 5th inst
The mob told the officers to keep perfectly
quiet and there would be no fuss. They then
marched Pitts to the outskirts Of the town.
put rope round his neck. threw the other
end over the cross arm Of n telegraph pole
anu nOlsUeu nlm up he was dead in a few
minutes. Pitts WAS a deserter from the
United States army, having enlisted in the
Second Cavalry, Company F, stationed at
Ft. Ellis, NJ. T. Farthing was told to leave
the country.
KILLED BY GAMBLER.
LTNCHBURG, Va, Dec. 9.-Charles r.
Palmer, gambler and low character of
Chatham, Pittsylvania county, while on a
earouse yesterday at Sage, that county, ac-
costed William Anters, with whom be before
had an alteration, and commenced shooting.
Several shots took effect and Anters soon
died. Palmer then beat an inoffensiye
negro nearly to death and fed. A posse of
citizens have been searching for him all day
without success. They are greatly incensed and
their purpose is to lynch him if caught
Though only eighteen, Palmer became no
torious throughout that section as a swindler
and desperate.
DROWNED HERSELF N cIsTERN
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9-Mrs. G. E. Geisen-
dorff, wife of former wealthy manufacturer
of this city, drowned herself in n cistern
this morning. She had been an Invalid for
years, and before daylight eluded the yip,i-
lance of the nurse with the above results.