The Mineral argus., 1884-09-18
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 well known residents of
Monmouth county on notes aggregating over
$4,000.
AtDenver, early Sunday morning, job P.
Glow, who lays claim to the title of the cham
pion pugilist of Colorado, and Alex Thebold,
a cowboy, had a set-to with gloves. The 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
$1,000 for his appearance at the criminal
court
Ole L W~esterguard, the book-keeper en-
ployedfor the past two years by P. 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 manner.
The books are being now examined by an ex-
pert accountant, who has already discovered
many false entries by which the firm loses sew
eralhundred dollars.
Richard W. Peck Of Brooklyn has brought
suit for 100000 damages against b. I. Bah
bit, the soap man, charging as one of the items
that his wife received from Rabbit the sum Of
Sl9,OOO 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 police headquarters.
Louisville Special:-The individual who
forged a draft on William Tarr & Co., of Lex
ington, in favor of William Tarr, Jr., for So
$50, was the same who played a confidence
game on William Kendrick a Son, jewellers OF
this city, for 1880 diamond ear rings. He
purchased So 1000 worth of bonds from ]. W.
Nd. s. Green, and gave a check on a Lex
lngtOd bank for m 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-
cribed as a well-dressed, handsome man of
ford complexion and sandy moustache.
AT daybreak last Thursday morning five
hundred men filled the pavilion of the sport
ing house at Rockaway 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
81 900 and gate money. The men appeared in
the ring promptly. McHugh weighed 126
pounds, Fitzgerald $50. 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-tive 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-fifth round, they became SO
obstreperous that the referee called on the sec
onds to withdraw the men. Fitzgerald was
badly punished.