Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-03-14
The Criminal calendar, !.

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] A Connecticut county treasurer $6o, 900 short
has vamoosed tn Il 49, q s@s " $
Theodore Hoffman, the murderer of the ped
sentenced to be hanged April 18 '@' p
William swinburne, son Of the mayor Of New
port, R. l., shot himself, but did not die, for a
pretty girl who refused him. a5i ~
J. ". Hawkins, private secretary Of Nelson
Holland Of Buffalo, speculated in grain and
took $5O, GOO 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 D.. yEJG .s5 tyr,i+",..
Benjamin Beatty Of Easton, Pa attempted
to chastise his seventeen -year-old boy, Harry.
when the boy drew a revolver and shot his
father ..,
A duel with pistols was fought ct Groyille,
France, recently, between LIE Pelletier, jour
nallst and Viardot, yiolinist Both were &C.
verely wounded
Belleville, Qll) special: William Brown, a
negro aged thirty seven years, and his wife
and stepdaughter were lodged in jail charged
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. r. e.,a
John W. Hawkins, United States lumber in
spector and private secretary of Nelson Hol
land, of Clark, Holland & Co.. lumber dealers
OF Buffalo, is charged with the embezzlement
OF moneys of Holland aggregating $4,000
A man named Ben Swistleton shot and killed
wo men, one named Henry Leeper of Helena,
Mont, and man named G. E.. Rogers. nick
named Bill or Charley, at John humans No
: Water ranch on the Big Horn, JAM 80 1854.
o. Van Wen treasurer Of Huron county, Conn
abscoundcd recently, and has not been heard
from since. His cash account is short $50, Oco
to $6u,NO. His bondsmen are good for the
amount taken. It is thought he is in Canada.
Carrollton, Ohio, is excited over the discov-
cry thatth county treasurer's Office was robbed
some time ago of $14 900: that detective sum-
moned from Chicago succeeded in replacing
s12,7Oo, and left with the consent of those who
employed him.
A shooting scrape occurred at Topeka, Kan
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, q music
great sensation, and grew out Of the we'll known
intimacy between Nutting and Doughrety' g 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
snvro <DI1 H. -
in the United States court Young Cash hold
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 dectves from Hamilton and
Buffalo, N, ", charged with robbery and the
murder of q railway engineer at Hamilton and
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
erin law, Mrs. Mary Reed. On the scaffold he
embraced and kissed the priest In the middle
Of a repetition Of the sentence, fJesus, receive
my soul, :" the drop fell. He seemed to die with
out pain. .%.t..' 49,.
For some time trouble has existed between
Rev B. NJ O'Boylan of Corning, Ohio, and A.
j. McDavitt a druggist Of that place, and who
also is a Catholic and has been member of o.
Boylon'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 a warrant is cut for Rev. O'Boy-
Ian. !. r.. t%'s~ ,-r ..E&>
At Massillon, Ohio, Sarah Stark, aged four
teen, applied for the arrest Of E. D. Farmer, R !.
Seigner, Charles Fogle and Charles Rite, for
rape. She alleges that while going home We'd
nesday night Farmer waylaid herjn lone spot
and forced her to accompany him to a wagon
shed, where he ravlshed her The other men
accused found them, drove Farmer off, and
each in turn twice ravished her, and then es-
capped. Farmer was arrested and put under
$500 bonds for hearing, but WAS afterward re-
leased from custody on bail, and fed. Il The
mayor offers a reward for his capture. liz.
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
came to the house. Presently George Thomp-
son, aged nineteen, appeared in, the dooryafd,
having an errand at the place Rfid ignorantof
the trouble there. Mcmillan, installing him
for another person. shot and killed him Then,
discovering his mistake and fearful Of diseov-
cry, he tried to shoot himself, but only inflic-
ted trifling flesh wound ii a side. Mcmillan
was arrested and jailed at Huron, and was
found dead in his cell. ssssss ~ :t#8 4. j5T@@
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