River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11
The Criminal Calendar.

Frank Patterson, owner of the opera house at
LonglBranch, 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 number of well known residents Of
Monmouth county on notes aggregating over
$4,000
AtDenyer, early Sunday morning, John P.
Glow, who lays claim to the title of the CHAM
pion pugilist of Colorado, and Alex Thebold,
a cowboy, had set-to with gloves. TIE cow
boy though 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-
Fendsnt waived hearing and gave bail IN
$1,000 for his appearance at the criminal
court
o. W. Wilson, forty seven years old, an agent
or the 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
is 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-
in his real estate and foreign exchange Office
under the Northwestern bank, at Minneapolis,
had absconded recently leaving his accounts in
4 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 Il. I. Bah
DIT, the soap man, charging as one of the items
That his wife received from Rabbit the sum of
| $4,000 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 IL the rogue's gallery
at Brooklyn police headquarters.
Thomas J. Libby, proprietor of the West Point
house, at Proutsneck, Scarborough, Me-, a mar
ried man, came to 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, infiicting
slight wound
Louisville Special:-The individual who
| forged draft on William Tarr & Co., of Lex
! ington, in favor of William Tarr, Jr., for $5,-
$50, was the same who played confidence
1 game on William Kendrick L Son, jewellers of
his city, for 81 800 diamond ear rings. He
| purchased S., 900 worth of bonds from J. w.
| ID. 5. Green, and gave check on 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
| ped for parts unknown. The swindler is des-
cribed as addressed, handsome man of
forid complexion and sandy moustache
At daybreak last Thursday morning five
hundred men filled the pavilion of the sport
ing house at Roekaway Beach, N. Y, to wit
ness a fight with hard gloves, marquis of
Glasgow and Dave Fitzgerald of Toronto, for
81 600 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-five min
/ utes and ending in draw in favor of Ntzhugh,.
| 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