The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-02-15
rhs Criminal ca,,end.r.


" john Mclean of Bismarck has been indicted
4 ~ principal in the woodworking business.
F. n. Overacrc, . school principal of Macon,
M has been premptorily dismissed for writing
afectionnte lettcrs to q large number Of girl
pupi,A
George Thompson of Brooklyn has spent
sixty out of his eighty -four years in Sing Sing
Sprison, on short sentences, and has Just been
& sent there again.
James Graham of New Orleans shot and
killed his wife and then cut his own throat
j He il believed to have been suffering mental
4 depression from drink.
In Wilcox county, Ala, R. d. Boykin, o
prominent attorney and planter, was shot dead
/ by negro. The murderer said he was hired
! to do the deed by man in New Orleans
Mrs. Smith went religiously insane in church
/ ut Vandalia, Ill, walked up to the pulpit and
! demanded to be married to the minister Co
7 ing home she nearly murdered her daughter as
| sacrifice. =
A Red Wing paper says c. D. N. Allen, now
under arrest ut Sioux Falls, was former resi-
I dent Of Red Wing and WHO left fot parts un-
known with about 81, 500 Of other peoples
money in 1850
J. Lindon, aged twenty. years, teller of the
Hamden Mass Savings bank, has confessed
embezzling 5000. He has been three years in
the employ the bank He Joined Sunday
school last winter.
Burnham 'Wardell, the we'll known prison.
reformer Of Worcester, Mass, has been sen-
tenced by Judge Rockwell to one year in Del-
ham Jail for libel upon Gen. A. B. r. Sprague,
sheriff OF Worcester county, uttered in prison
reform lecture. h
a gang of fye youthful burglars has been
discovered in Bridgeport, Conn, their ages
ranging from sixteen to twenty years. They
achieved swenty7six burglsries, one highway
. counterfeitihg and bank burglaries.
Chamberlin Church. of Troy, n. Y, is mis-
sing. An unfinished examination Of books
,waassappointed ii gss his bond was I renewed sSI
and the city loses all the amounts defauited
since that 6kte' Church held the Office nearly
nine years.
AIDS Kalb. No., Columbus Spratt, an eighteen
year old boy, shot and killed James Mitchell.
after having been worsted by Mitchell in q fist
fight 6prat provoked the fight because
Mitchell was friend and defender Of Frank
Brown,who murdered Spratt's father five years
ago sprstt gave himself up.
A cowboy named Watson arrived At Mont
rose, Colo, on horseback. Meeting City Mar
shal Murphy and Police Judge Edwards, against
whom he had grndse, he began firing. re-
MORALLY wounded and Murphy had ball
through his leg, while the cowboy, though bad
y wounded made his escape.
In suit brought in New York BY Bardford
Bros, Of England. against John yantradel, .
verdict WAS given against the defendent for
81 This suit grew out Of defalcstion Of
Edward KObbe, an employee or agent Of Brad
ford Br0A, In New York city, who stole about
465, 600 In money and securities and ded to
Chicago, where he HaS arrested. ~
At Fairbault, ON tho 9Th, inst, just tbefore
the breaking up u the guards masquerade,
James Laird became highly inoensed at the at
tention his wife was receiving from Adam Giles
and while the parties were participating IN
qusdrille. Laird walked over to Giles, drew
from his pocket twenty-five calibsr revolver
aimed st Giles, and Ared The shot passed
through his clothing, which. was . heavy suit
'ofbuckakin. nd did otsnter hia body, Laird
than oOrksd isfevolyer, hut before hs conld
.df1MA b4ed On hfS'vtctim his arm way struck
by Charles Mccall, the weapon discharged and
t3H bull4 entered t1e ceiling Of thehalL Laird
w. psumptay arrested He wa14 hound
3ov@h d, ,Q0oSn ayait tbs; action OF the grand
tuiy. Hang nnable to obtain hail he was
.placea n To county jail Z.