St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-17
DEVILISH DEEDS.
Outrage and Murder Rampant East
West and South.
Two Murders by Jail Birds Escaping from g
Canada Prison.
AFooL AND his FOLLY.
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New YORK, March 16.-There were callers
at the house of John Cassidy, 476 Sixth ave-
nue.. Brooklyn, this evening. Dennis Riley,
aged thirty years, and Celia Renney, aged
seventeen, were among them. Both were
friends of Cassidy's daughter, Mary. Riley
began to chaff the girls about mesmerism.
81 have something here,'' he said,
s'that will do it." He then
took from his pocket a 32-caliber, four-bar-
relied Sharp's revolver, and pointed it at
Mary Cassidy SIT will mesmerize you,
Mary" he said. "Put it away Mary ex-
claimed, placing her hands in front of her
face in fright Riley then turned to the
other girl, and pointed the weapon at her,
saying: "This will mesmerize you, Celia"
The words had hardly escaped his lips when
the pistol went off, and Miss Renney fell
dead. The bullet entered the center of her
forehead and passed through the brain. Ri
ley dropped the revolver and rushed forward,
caught the girl in hi arms. "My Godp' he
said, ''what have I o9ne? What dreadful
mistakel''
MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED.
DAYTON, O., March 16.-On January IL,
1867, Christiana Kett, pretty girl eighteen
years old, was murdered in her home on Oak
street, and no clue ras ever discovered to
the murder until yesterday, when her brother
made death-bed confession that her own
mother had committed the deed. A number
of parties had been suspected, but no clue
had ever pointed in this direction. The dis
closure causes profound sensation. AS re-
lated by the son, his mother on her death
bed made confession of her guilt. The
murdered girl, had gone away to call on a
lady friend, and returned home an
hour late, when her mother, in a fit
of passion, struck her with an axe handle,
crushing in her skull Appalled, at her crime,
she smeared the dead girls face with gun
powder, and afterward deported herself in
such manner as to entirely elude detection.
Mental torture drove her from the scene and
she roam ed through the western cities and
finally died here several years ago. She was
sixty-fonr years old at her death, and all of
the family are dead but the son who makes
this dying confession.
sLUGGING MATCH.
New YORK, March 16.-A prize fight for
$500 was fought to-day on a barge which was
lowed out into East river TO escape the police.
The principals, Tom Hogan and Jim Barr,
are both from Greenpoint. Four rounds
were fought and both men were severely
punished. Four of Barr's teeth werk knocked
out in the first round and in the fourth round
he was knocked senseless, when the fight
was given to Hogan.
| A LAMP A FATAL WEAPON.
WINDSOR, Ont, March 16,-Last night,
George Ross, colored, found another colored
man named Scott with his mistress. Ross
threw a lamp at Scott, striking him on the
head, and breaking the lamp, the oilignited,
and fatally burned Scott. Ross was arrested
after desperate struggle, he defending him
self with an axe.
SUICIDE WITHOUT KNOWN CAUSE.
CLEVELAND, O., March 16.-Wm. B..
Hazen, Gaylord, who committed suicide in
Chicago last night, was book keeper at the
Excelsior Oil Works, here, and also stock
holder. The secretary of the company says
his accounts are straight, and his friends are
at loss to account for his action. He was
just come of age, was supposed to have come
into possession of considerable property and
was the probable heir to large fortune.
BROOKLYN OUTRAGE.
NEW YORK, March 16.--A brutal outrage
was committed on young woman named
Magaret Meehan in Brooklin to-day, by ruff
fans, who seized her and dragged her into
a stable. Police have arrested John T. Saw
age, Robert T. Baldwin, James Mulholland
and Robert Daily, whom the girl identified.
JAnoR AND TURNKEY KILLED.
WINDSOR, Ont, March 16.-This morning
at 8 O'Clock two prisoners confined in Sand
witch Jail for robbing the Harrow postoffice,
shot and killed the jailor, fatally wounded the
turnkey and escaped. Windsor police and
citizens of Sandwich and Windsor are scour-
ing the country.
Later.-Kennedy, one of the murderers,
was captured just as he was about to cross to
Detroit. Kennedy says Leech shot O'Cal-
laghan, the other murderer, and the latter
on the road between Windsor and Walker
vile became so faint from loss of blood that
he crawled over a fence and is probably
dead. The search fails to reveal him.
HOMICIDE AT SEA.
BALTIMORE, March 16.-John Wilson,
mate of the bark Lillian, from Maine port
for Havana, was stabbed and killed by a
sailor, Gus Patterson, in Chesapeake bay yes
terday, Patterson claims in self-defence.
Subsequent to the stabbing he set the ship
on fire, but it was extinguished and the yes
sci headed for Annapolis, where Patterson
will be delivered to the authorities.
FATAL SALOON FIGHT.
PLYMOUTH, Ind, March 16.-At Walnut
station, Marshall county, this state, last night
George Harris and Daniel Harding, both
country boys, and drunk, undertook to clean
out John Chesman's saloon. One knocked
Chesman down with chair and the other
kicked him. Chesman regained his feet,
shot Harris dead and put two balls through
Harding's lungs, from which he died this
evening. Chesman is in jail.
GALVESTON STREET ARRAY.
GALVESTON, March 16.-John Duffield,
aged twenty, son of Green I. Dufield, a
prominent Galveston capitalist, was met in
the street at a. m, by trio of hard charac-
tiers, who had just previous been refused adj
mission to certain house in which the young
man was, and at the point of a pistol told
him to throw up his hands. Duffield obeyed,
but only to grasp his assailant's weapon with
his left hand, and with his right plunged a
bowie knife four times into John Kelly, who
held the pistol. The latter has since died.
Dufield an the others have been arrested.
Fire at Eau Claire.
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