The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-23
TELEGRAPHIC TALKS
Criminal Calendar.

Gettys burg, Pa, 22.-JOhn Coyle
was hanged at II % this morning
for the murder of Emily Myers on
May Goth, 'S1. Up TO Saturday
COyle maintained an attitude OF
comparative Indifference, but the
noise made in erecting the scaffold
in the Jail yard seemed TO excite
him terribly, and the efforts of his
spiritual adviser had no calming eff.
feet.
Newport, r l., 22.-Police officer
Eugene Barker was fatally shot by
VIM. Shay, a yourg and notorious
desperate, this mo ming while en-
d avoring to arrest Shay who was
quarreliug with ac1mpanion named
Anderson Shay then pursued An
derson and fired three shots at him,
one tf which hit Anderson in the
body. The latter succeeded in dis
srmiug Shay. Both were sober
Shay was arrested.
Vienna, % Hugo Srbenck and
Karl Schlossfck, thu notorious MUIR
derers of Se:vian girls, were hanged
to-day. Schenck prOfes: cd to be a
FTeeihin ker, and asked that phil
osopher instead Of:a priest might be
sent to consult with him, but he af-
forwards psrtook of the sacrament
and pray ed with the priest through
out the night. Karl Schenck, a
brother of Hug, who was also i'm
dictated TO certain extent with
Hugo and Schlosshck in the murder
league. has been incarcerated for
life.
Newburgb, N. Y.s %. - Three
prisoners-escaped from jail. They
made skeleton key, with which
they opened the doors. None were
captured.
Nashville, %. - Last Saturday
night 6 week sgo Meyer Friedland,
a Russian Jew peddler, was MUIR
dered in mysterious manner in
the hallway of his house in Black
Bottom. The doors leading to the
hail were propped with stones
weighing nearly 100 pounds each,
to prevent his family coming to his
aid. Alter icing felled he was lit
ersllv cut to pieces with Ratchet
and large knife. The only clue
were footsteps in blocd. To day he
died and tonight detectives have
arrested two brOihers Of his wife
and a negro. The police claim posi-
tive evidence againS them. He was
q member Of benevolent society,
and had $4,000 insurance His wife
is thought to be implica ed. The
prisoners are carefully guarded, as
they will We lynched if they can be
got at.
Boston, % - This afternoon James
Nicholson entered his Wife's room,
and shortly afterward the report of
pistol was heard. A brother of
Mrs. Nicholson rushed to the room
and found that Nicholson had shot
his wife through the shoulder. He
grapple1 with Nicholson, buG was
unaole to prevent him from shoot
ing his wife second time, when he
killed her instantly. The murderer
then eoolly pocketed his pistol ana
remarked: -" am murders r" and
left the house. He is not YET CAP
t0red.
st. Lonis, 22.-Frank Ewens,
cashier OF the bingham, Illinois,
bank, which clozed yesterday in
consequence of the absconGing of
its president, f A. Vangossy, says
there were over $4,000 in the bank,
when he closed it on Saturday night,
and when he opened it on Monday
morning every dol ar was gone, an
we'll "a all the hooks. n2nera. etc
TIE 10 ers are all citizens of Ef1ing-
ham.
Richmond, Ky 22.-Nesr Irving,
last Saturday, Joe Flynn and Bul
Hale, two desperadoes, engaged in
a shooting affray. Flynn shot
Hale through the heart, but before
Hale fell he shot Flynn twice, from
the effects of which he died il a
Re n ours.