The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-04-05
CRIMINAL

MRS LAURA NJ THORPE vas murdered by a
| dlssolute wretch named Geo. S. Walsh, at New
1ork, on the morning Of the 29tb.
| JESSIE PEEBLEs, aged Ii, committed suicide
| at Hamilton, Ont, on the 29tb, because tired
| OF life.
| DELASo Z. SMITH, student of the Harvard
law school at Cambridge, Mass, suicided on the
| 3Otb, by IufilctIng thirty-eight wounds in his
| left breast with a pen knife
LEWIS ENos, paymaster Of the ST. Louis &
| Cairo Narrow Guage Railroad left st. Louis on
the 18th with IS, coo of the company's money.
JOSIAH LOOMS, raft pilot, suicded by hang
| ing at Durand. Wis, 90 the 39th.
WESLEY GREGoRY and Frank Elliott were ar
| rested near Dean Ia. on the 18th. while in the
act OF counterfeIting silver half dollars and
nIckeis
The militia were called out at Cincinnati. on
the 2sth, to disperse the mob assembled to
lynch BerneI, the wife murderer and succeeded
II badly woundlng five innocent bystanders
o. ". SAMPLE, Dan Dowd, VIM. Delane.
James Howard and Dan Kelly. were hanged at
tombstone, Arl., on the 28th for the Blsoee
murders.
Wsl. MCDOWELL was hanged at San Be,ua-
dine. Cal, On the 2S,b, fer the murder of
Maggie O'Brien, Jan. 13, 1888.
FRED SIRA. aged 19, committed suicide at the
home Of his uncle, Daniel Striteskv. in the town
of Caledonia. Racine County. Wis. on the 2Sth
by shooting himself.
HENRY 5. CHURCH. the defaulting chamber
ain, Of Troy. y. Y, was captured on the 9th.
Ine deficiency IN his accounts amounts to ST.
600.
CNoISSATI is trying to make up her mind to
ynch William Berner, the confessed murderer
Of William b. KIRK.
A WEALTHY recluse named Alfred Davis. aged
r. living near PikeviIle, Ky, 5 assaulted IN
bis house and fatally injured, N the 27th. bv
one James Stewart, who had craved and been
granted lodging for the night. Robbery was
the object of the assault.
AT Comstock, Mich, near kalamaz zoo. on tie
9th, an insane man named Frank S. Sleeper
set IRE to hay stack, crawled INTO it and was
burned to an unrecognizable msss.
ALEX ROBERTS, young New York bookkeep-
er, suIclded on the 9th. Cause despondercy
The citizens of Lincoln, H.. have politely
requested Orrin A. Carpente-, acquitted of the
murder of Zora Burns, to leave Logan COUNTY
at once and forever.
4 WOMAN living with 0rrin Farrel. at Wells
vile. \. Y, as bis wife, shot her son and
daughter, on the 9th. and then killed herself.
GEo. VI. RILEY. dissolute St. Louis pilot.
fatally shot his wife and then blew out his own
brains, on the 25th.
On the 18th Geo. Russell, of Brooklyn, \. Y,
in jealous 1T, shot and seriously wounded his
wife and then fatally wounded himself.
GEO. II. RUPERT, treasurer and secretary of
the Pennsylvania Mutual Insurance Company.
Of Chester. and also treasurer and secretary of
the borough OF West Chester. Pa was foI1nd
on the 18th to be short in his accounts to The
extent of between S14, 600 and $50, 600.
PARTY of young bloods returning from n
eharvari near Coleman, Mich. on the night of
the 24th commenced to raise a racket in
front Of the residence of an old German named
Van Nalkenburg. whereupon he fred into the
party, killing Charles Cieave.
MARY RILEY. aged Is, on trial a. Worthing-
ton, Mimi. for being accessory to the murder
of her own father by her brother William IRE
Gently sentenced for hfe) was acquitted on the
25th.
EDWARD ELLIS. young Wilkesbaure, Pa,
lawyer, esssyed the role of peaceraker between
two quarrelsome married ladies' on the Gath. and
received fatal bullet wound from a pistol In
the hands OF Mrs. Thomas which that LADY had
aimed at Mrs. Reese.
IN fight between two oil factions at Petrol
ls, Ps., on the oath, man named Bower WAS
frightfully cut with a razor. and yonng man
named Andre. who chanced to be passing at
the time, fatally stabbed IN the back.
A THIEF entered the house of Oliver Ne
Mahop, at Clinton, Ia, on the oath. and stole
his daughter Eugenia's bridal dress valued at
800.