River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-13
The Criminal calendar.

Connecticut county treasurer 5000 short
! has vamoosed.
| W. H. 0iler, at Kansas City Mo, agent for
the Continental fast freight line suicided Thurs
! day.
Theodore Hoffman, the murderer of the ped
| Ter, Marks, at White Plains, N. Y, has been
| sentenced to be hanged April Is
| William Swinburne, son of the mayor of New
| port r. l., shot himself, but did not die, for a
| pretty girl who refused him.
| J. W. Hawkins, private secretary of Nelson
| Holland of Buffalo, specialized in grain and
| took $50, of his employers money.
| Four arrests have been made at Corning,
| Ohio, for the lynching of Richard Hickey two
weeks ago, on charge of murder in the first
| degree.
| Benjamin Beatty of Easton, Pa, attempted
to chastise his seventeen year-old boy, Harry
| when the boy drew revolver and shot his
father.
| duel with pistols was fought at Groville,
France, recently, between lie Pelletier, jour
nalist and Viardot violinist Both were Sc
yerely wounded
Belleville, Qll.) special: William Brown,
negro aged thirty-seven years, and his wife
and stepdaughter were lodged in jail charged
with a most atrocious MURDER which they con-
| fessed
Desire Boudoir, before the police court at
Great Falls, N. H., pleaded guilty to the charge
of killing Frederick Grant, for which crime his
| (Boudoir s. father stands convicted. He will be
tried in September
AtIake Providence La, Noah Jackson negro,
was hanged ON the eth, for the murder of his
fifteen year old wife on the eth of last July.
The execution was witnessed by 1900 people
jealousy was the cause of the crime.
John W. Hawkins, United States lumber in
spector and private secretary of Nelson Hol-
land, of Clark, Holland 4 Co. lumber dealers
of Buffalo, is charged with the embezzlement
| of moneys of Holland aggregating $4,000
man named Ben Swistleton shot and killed
wo men, one named Henry Leeper of Helena,
Mont, and man named C. E. Rogers, nick
named Bill or Charley, at John humans. No
Water ranch on the Big Horn, jan 50 1884
O. Van Wien treasurer of Huron county, Conn,
abscoundcd recently, and has not been heard
from since His cash account is short $4,000
to $4,000. His bondsmen are good for the
amount taken 1t is thought he is i'll Canada.
Carrollton, Ohio, is excited over the discov-
cry that the county treasurers office was robbed
some time ago of coo: that detective sum
moned from Chicago succeeded in replacing
Sl2, 700, and left with the consent of those who
employed him.
among the colored population, in which
George Blackman was killed and Peter Blood
son MORALLY wounded Isah McClary is the
murderer. The two victims seem to have been
intimate with McClary's wife.
James L. Dougherty, mail agent of the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe company, shot and
seriously wounded Prof Nutting, a music
| teacher of Emporia Kan. The affair created a
great sensation, and grew out of the well known
intimacy between NuttinS and Doughrety's wife.
The Cashes, father and son, still defy arrest at
Cheraw, s. c. Old Cash intimater his intention
to surrender with his son, at time and place
selected by himself provided his trial takes place
in the United States court Young Cash held
the appointment of United States deputy mar
shall
Tim Depew, while attending revival meet
ing at the Baptist church at Blenheim, Ont,
was arrested by dectives from Hamilton and
Buffalo, n, Y. charged with robbery and the
murder of railway engineer at Hamilton and
a murder at Buffalo. He was taken to Hamil-
| ton
John McGinnis was hangedin the county pris-
on at Philadelphia, for the murder of his moth
cr-in-law, Mrs. Mary Reed On the scaffoldhe
| embraced and kissed the priest In the middle
| of repetition of the sentence, 'Jesus, receive
| my soul, the drop fell. He seemed to die with
| out pain.
| For some time trouble has existed etween
| Rev. B. NJ. O'Boylan of Corning, Ohio, and A.
| J. McDavitt druggist of that place, and who
also is Catholic and has been member of o.
| BoyIon's church. Sunday night mob of be-
| tween forty and fifty men called at the store of
| McDavitt, and took him three miles in the
| country where they exacted promises from him
| that he would retract what he had said about
| the priest The leaders of the crowd have been
| arrested and warrant is out for Rev. O'Boy-
| Ian.
At Massillon, Ohio Sarah Stark, aged four
teen, applied for the arrest of E. d. Farmer,
| Seigner. Charles Fogle and Charles Rite, for
rape. She alleges that while going home We'd
Desday night Farmer waylaid herin lone spot
| and forced her to accompany him to wagon
| she'd where he ravished her, The other men
| accused found them, drove Farmer off and
! each in turn twice rayished her, aud then es
J capped Farmer was arrested and put under
| $500 bonds for hearing but was afterward re-
/ leased from custody on bail, and fed The
mayor offers a reward for his capture.
William Mcmillan, living near Huron, Ohio,
went home drunk and abused his wife, who
| threatened to call on neighbors for help. Nc
| MILAN swore he would kill the first man who
I came to the house Presently George Thomp-
| son. aged nineteen, appeared in the do0ryard
| having an errand at the place and ignorant of
the trouble there. Mcmillan, installing him
| for another person. shot and killed him. Then,
| discovering his mistake and fearful of diseoy-
| ery, he tried to shoot himself, but only inic-
| ted a trifiing flesh wound in a side. Mcmillan
was arrested and jailed at Huron, and was
| found dead in his cell