The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-08-21
Crimes and Criminals,

Bob Ford and Dick Lddel, of Jesse James
fame, landed in Las Vegas quod for riotous
conduct
Richard Cowlthorp of Lake George, Stearns
county, Mimi, committed suicide by cutting
his throat
John Scott, brother Of congressman Thorn
self with check line at his home in Smithfeld,
Ohio. The Cause is unknown.
Anton Baccioc, indicted for murder in the
second degree for killing Adam Doller at Gin
cinnati October, 1882, was found guilty. The
penalty is imprisonment for life
E. N Rowen, who shot and killed James Lyr-
lex of Albany in his wifes bedroom at Batavia,
N. Y, has Withdrawn proceedings for divorce
as reconciliation has been effected with his
wife.
Christian Hans, farmer at South Belleville,
ILL.,, committed suicide yesterday forenoon by
shooting himself through the head Cause,
financial trouble. He leaves a wife and four
children
Fred F. Punchon of Jacksonville, Wis has
been convicted of adultery. The young woman
with whom he had been intimate, Gustie Luck
ow. drowned herself after she had confessed
her ruin by Punchon
Frank Punchon, the alleged murderer and
seducer of Gustie Luckow, at GAINESVILLE, Wis. !,
was sentenced to state prison for two years
and nine months, being convicted of adultery
This is the third time he goes to the peniten-
tiary.
Bill Dougherty and Zach Gray, young ranch
ers residing on Sand Prairie, in the southeast
ern part of Kaufman county, Tex, were princi-
pals in a desperate duel fought on Sunday eve
ming, in which both men were wounded, Gray
fatally.
A young man who gave his name as @. F.
Skinner, and who is said to be the son Of q
well known Methodist minister in Iowa, was
sentenced to jail, in GAINESVILLE, Wis, for theft
of iewelry from residence in the outskirts of
that city.
A Chicago coroner's jury, inquiring into
the death of the man Heck, killed In the stove
molders' riot Of Wednesday evening, held
thirteen Of the non union moulders to the
grand Jury, and censured their employers,
Cribben & Sexton, for furnishing them with
arms.
An unconfrmed report is current at Kansas
City that Alfred Sheldon, the missing English
man, has been seen in Trenton, Mo. It is
stated that Andrew II. Finlay, restaurant
keeper of Trenton made overtures to the au-
thorities for the reward, saying he had seen
Sheldon there and conversed with him.
The latest news from Lewis county, Tex,
makes it certain that in Sundays ARRAY at
least five persons were killed, viz: Young
Gordon, David Hinson and three Mormon
elders The other elder who escaped was
seen near the Hickman county line, and is sup
posed to have made his way to Shady Grove,
Mormon settlement Cordon's wife who was
shot when an elder ran behind her, will die.
Russell r. Lewis, Of St Louis, shot and
killed himself in St Louis. He was young
| man of thirty-two years, and Of very nervous
| temperament His wife is daughter of Gen.
| Reese, o. s. A., and was involved IN the unfor-
| tunate affair with young Iglehart two years ago.
| for which her husband obtained divorce. bul
| some months later they mot in Chicago, be-
| came reconciled, remarked, and since have
been living together.
The knowledge Of the killing Of Kitty, the
! seventeen year-old daughter Of Heck Mitchell,
| a farmer living three miles west of sycamore
| ILL, by Louis Taylor, farm hand, created the
| greatest excitement in Sycamore. The muir.
| dered girls parents had left the house after
dinner, leaving the daughter at homo alone
with Taylor, who was working near the house
| Alice Dennis, the daughter of neighbor, wa
| to pass the afternoon with Kitty. When she
later arrived at 2:30 p. m she made the horri.
BILE discovery that Kitty was corpse, and thai
| her clothing had been set ON fire by Taylor
| Two hundred men set out upon his trail ani
finally discovered him near . creek Of water
Taylor was seen to rum into the stream and
killed himself with pistol shot in the head
His body was recovered The mother Of tn
murdered girl il insane.