The Dickinson press., 1884-09-13
The Criminal Calendar.

IAahh Ialtersou owner OF tne opera mousse NJ
Long Branch, N j., is missing, and detectives are
searching for him with warrants for his arrest
he ls charged with having forged the endorse
ments OF number Of well known residents of
Monmouth county on notes aggregating over
$4,000!
AtDenver, early Sunday morning, John P.
Glow, who lays claim to the title of the cham
pion pugilist of Colorado, and Alex Thebold,
cowboy, had set-to with gloves. The cow
BOY though physical giant, was knocked out
the first round
Samuel Roberts, the defaulhng 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-
lendant waived hearing and gave bail in
5000 for his appearance at the criminal
court
o. W. Wilson, forty-seven years old, an agent
for tho Brooks Oil Company, of Cleveland,
Ohio, committed suicide Friday afternoon by
jumping from steamer in the lake while
on his way from Chicago to Milwaukee. 1t
IL supposed that poor business drove him
to take his life. He had been divorced twice
from his wife whose address is not known
Ole l. Westerguard, the book-keeper en-
ployed for 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
. very irregular aud 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
eral hundred dollars
Richard W. Peck of Brooklyn has brought
suit for 100000 damages against B. 7. Bab-
bit, the soap man, charging as one of the items
that his wife received from Babbit the sum of
fl9,OOO as an inducement to her to sanction
the soap man in assuming improper relations
with Miss Peck, 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.
ThomasJ. Libby, proprietor of the West Point
house, at Proutsneck, Scarborough, Me-, mar
ried man, came to a hotel recently with Lydia
Snow, who is reported to have worked at his
house. Shots were heard in his room, and, on
looking over the door, both were seen lying on
the floor. Entering the room, it was found
that Libby had fired two or three shots at her,
one of which had passed through her left
cheek and lodged in her head, and another
passed through the partition in the next room.
He then shot himself behind the ear, inficting
q slight wound
Louisville Specal:-The individual who
forged o draft on William Tarr Co., Of Lex
ington, in favor of William Tarr, Ir., for S.
$50. was the same who played confidence
game on William Kendrick & Son, jewelers. of
this city, for $500 diamond car rings. He
purchased $5, COO worth of bonds from J. w.
q u. ). Green, and gave o check on a Lex
ingtod 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
cribed as q well-dressed, handsome man of
florid 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
$l,OO0 and gate money. The mon appeared in
tho 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-five min
utes, and ending in 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 called on the sec
onds to withdraw the men. Fitzgerald was
badly punished.