The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-19
The lend Phillips Memorial
Services.
Latest Concerning Events in
Egypt.
A Budget of News from Wash
ingtOn.
Criminal Calendar.

Chattanooga, 17-Specisl TO the
Daily Times from Gadsden, Ala :
George Coates, colored, who set fire
TO Jere Green's house while Green
and wife were ct church, and four
children were burned to death, has
been captured. Threats OF lynch>
ing caused the jail 10 be guarded by
local military.
Chattanooga, 18.-The trial Of
Frank James began to-day at
Huntsville, Ala, in the charge Of
conspiracy to rob A. j. Smith, a
Governm ent official. James sat with
his wife and child, and was dressed
in a suit of broad cloth. Jesse
James, Bill Ryan, James Hill and
Dick Iiddle were also included in the
indictment. Smith, the person
robbed, testified that when four miles
from Florence, Ala, about 4 p M,
on March 18th, 1881, three men
hslted him, presented pistols and
took S., 600 OF Government money
snd $500 of his own. They bound
him IN the woods till dark, then
they let him go. Smith believed
the prisoner was one Of the ROBBERS,
but would not swear to his identity.
A witness, from whom the three
men mentioned asked the Way TO
MusseIl shoals, believed the prise
oner was one Of them, but was not
certain. Thomas Pedon, keeper of
the saloon near Mussel shOa's, could
not swear positively to James 6e-
ing one of the three men who fol.
lowed after Smith as he passed
the saloon. Adjourned till to-mor-
row.
Memphis, 17-Helena, Ark, spe-
cials report desperate fight yester-
day in the western portion of Phil
lips County, Ark Between q posse
of citizens led by the sheriff and
three brothers named Charles,
Squire and Joseph Moore " no bad
for some time been engaged in the
stealing horses. Their guilt was
established by the parties from
whom they had stolen horses and
who tracked them a distance of 800
miles to where the stock was sold.
The three brothers tried to escape in
-aAi11,I Lut -<-~ G.~d uPAn b. tho
posse. Chss. Moore, leader, was
shot through the small! of the back,
the bullet lodging in his stom sch.
Squire Moore was also idly |
wounded aud Will probably die. |
J OSeph Moore escaped. None Of the |
sheriff posse was injured.
New Haven, Conn, 18.--Chatles
A. Spaulding, suspected of compIi-
city in tie Sterling jeWelry robbery,
was arrested last night by detect
i've as he was eating lunch. SpauI
ding shot himself five times; the |
wounds are fatal. He said he could (
not bear the disgrace of the arrest.
Indianapolis, 1.-THE body OF
Geo. Leah was found in White
river, near the city tonight. Leah
was the Oldest locomotive engineer
IN the United States having been
the first man to drive the locomotive
tRocket," which was exhibited at
the recent Chicago railway exhibi,
ton. He was 81 years old. The I
case of the suicide is unknown.
st. Louis, 1s.-John G. Telford, q
on the Iron Mountain
from Pine Bluff, Ark, en-
'oute to Ireland, was robbed Of ST.,
90 on the train, near Poplar Bluff,
esterdays by G. III. bennett. The |
obber was arrested on the train by
no Of the secret service men OF the ,
-euld system, and the money found
/ his possession. bennett had been
aiming as express messenger on
me OF the western roads, and is :
lid to be a "western crook" l.
San Francisco, 1s.-W. V. B. :
Tardell, bookkeeper for Newman &
evinson, fancy goods dealers, was
und short 800 in his accounts this {
orning. He was arrested, end !
IF an hour after died in prison;
,lieYed to be q spicide.