St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-03
CRIME RECORD.
The Warden and His Assailant at
Joliet Penitentiary Still
Alive.
The Cool Manner in Which the Sedueer
of a Young Woman Was Shot.
A Minister After Preaching an Interesting
Discourse Steals Horse and Suit
of Clothes.
A Dastardly and Fatal Assault on a
Young Woman
NEITHER ARE DEAD.

NEITHER ARE DEAD.
JOLIET, H., March 2.-Deputy Warden
Mcdonald, whose skull was crushed by the
desperate, Frank Rande, in the peuitentiarv
yesterday, is still alive and conscious. and
hopes are entertained of his recovery. Rande
is likely to recover from the wounds received
in the struggle. He is still very defiant, and
expresses regret at his failure to kill Nc
Donald outright The bullet in his head has
not yet, been extracted He is evidently
preparing TO play the emotional insanity
several times to-day whether he would be
not be punished, because he couldn't help it.
being impelled by higher power.
MURDER IN A DARKROOM.
LEXINGTON, Ky, March 2-James Camp
bell, native of Scotland, and astonecutter,
was killed here this morning in bar-room
fight between Policemen O'Conner and
Gormely and three stonecutters, Sweeney,
ferguson and Campbell. Sweeney asked
O'Conner, who went into the bar-room to
take drink, to drink with him. O'Couner
refused to do so, calling Sweeney cowardlv
cur, and striking him in the face
with pair of brass knuckles.
Ferguson, another stonecutter, ran W
and hit O'Connor, when Officer Gormley
knocked Ferguson down with a club and
fired two shots at him, one ball grazing his
scalp. Sweeny and Ferguson ran out, leav-
ing Campbell in the bar-room. As they ran
out the third shot was fired, which is proba-
bly, the one which killed Campbell He is
shot through the heart. The evidence points
very strongly to O'Connor and Gormely as
the murderers. Campbell has brother and
sister in Pittsburg, Pa.
A CowARDLY AND FATAL ASSAULT.
ST. LOUIS, March Miss Nellie Kaiser,
employed at the Palace hotel, Ashley, H.,
was assaulted last Friday evening. near the
depot, by Ed Roach, who knocked her down
and embankment twenty feet high, resulting
in injuries from which she died on Saturday
morning. Roach escaped, but 4 posse are
searching for him.
AN EStBEZzLER CAUUHT.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 2-B. w. Pratt,
who, till about four weeks ago was general
agent here of the Mccormick Harvesting
Machine company, of Chicago, was arrested
yesterday, charged with embezzling $4,000
from the company. His arrest is the result
of an investigation of Pratt's accounts by
B. w. Chapman, special agent of the Nc
Cormick company, and is an outgrowth of the
embezzlement of $1,000 from the same
company by Hiram H. Post, bookkeeper of
Pratt, who was exposed, and attempted sui
eide by cutting his throat several weeks ago
written statement made by Post and
submitted to the company, gives a dc
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shows they worked together, and that Pratt
got the lions share Of spells. Mr. Chapman
thinks that Pratt's embezzlement will greatly
exceed the amount charged, but as some of his
books have been destroyed, or o'kerwisedis-
pose of, the exact amount will probably
never be known. Pratt was released on
80, 900 bond His attorney thinks that the
prosecution will be successful. Pratt is Il
man Of family, who formerly lived in
Detroit, then at Crown Point, Ind, and was
once the advance agent of a circus.
sEDUCER KILLED.
HAzLEToN, Pa, March EARLY last even
ing, while the streets were thronged, 4 dread
full tragedy occurred, at the corner of Broad
and Pine streets. young man, aged
twenty-eight, named VIM. Nichols, was stand
ing near the entrance TO Squire Shutters
office, when he was approached by Edwin
Brotheras, well known Englishman. When
within four PAGES of his victim Brotheras
made some remarks about settling difficulty
that existed between them. Receiving no re-
Spouse, be drew q revolver and fired two
shots in rapid succession, the first shot taking
effect in Nichols arm, and the second enter
ing his head at the ear. Brotheras walked a
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excited crowd took up the cry to stop the
murderer. He then ran, but was captured
at the corner of the next block. Nichols
cannot recover. The cause assigned by
Brotheras for the shooting Of Nichols was
that he seduced his niece, Beatrice Ellen
Rugg. an eighteen-yearold girl, who came to
Hazleton last October
HIGHwAYMAN ARRESTED.
CLEVELAND, O., March John Snow,
the alleged highwayman, wanted in Balls
ton, n Y, was arrested here to-day by
detective, who saw the Associated Press no.
tice of his escape from the officers at James
town. No official notice was received that
Snow reached here last night.
TWO MURDERS AND AN EXECUTION.
MATAMoRAs, Mexico, March 1.-Rosalea,
the murderer Of Lawyer Bolado, was executed
yesterday at the City of Mexico. At Merida,
yesterday, Isaac Morton, hackman, muir
dered Signora Manzamilla, in his hack, for
repelling his advances. In the same place,
Tabain Hernandez, was murdered by his
wife and paramour, and his body thrown in
the river.
CoUNTERFEITERs ARRESTED.
SPRINGFIELD, March 2.-The authorities at
Smithield, H., telegraphed to the United
States marshal at Sprin gfeld, informing him
Of the arrest of gang of counterfeiters,
and the capture of their entire outfit this
morning. Their names are Mr.. and Mrs.
Fiestery, and Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold.
A MINISTER ARRESTED FOR THEPT.
SPRINGFIELD, H., March Rev. VIM.
Mcdonald, who preached an able and inter
esting sermon, last evening, at Auburn,
was arrested here this morning, on tele-
gram charging him with the theft of horse
and suit of clothes from man named Eos
ter, at whose house he went, after the re-
ligious services, for the purpose Of spending
the night The minister, horse and clothes
were missing when Foster woke. This morn
ing the stolen property was found in Nc
Donald's possession.