Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-19
CRIMINAL

CRIMINAL
A AMur1LArED corpse was found in a soap box
in the depot at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
night of the 11tb.
OK the 18th at Marcum's Mill. Ky., Asa A.
Cantrell was shot by John Marcum, a 17-year-
old boy.
HARRY TURNER, aged IL years. sho: himself
dead with revolver at st. Paul on the 18th be.
cause his mother lectured him.
FREDERIC V1ERKs, an old German resident Of
the town of Lind, Waupaca County, Wis.,. was
mysteriously murdered on the night of the
11th.
The money stolen from the Pacific Express
Company at st. Louis, NO., by Prentiss Tiller
and an accomplice, was discovered at Milwaukee
on the 18th by Charles J. letter, q salesman
in the trunk store of Carpelea, Schram & Co.,
with whom man, supposed to be Tiller, had
left an old valise with orders to ship to Detroit
in new trunk which he had purchased.
J. II. FULLERTON, q clerk of the Manhattan
Beach Railway Company, skipped out on the
18th and took with him 475 shares of stock
valued at $45,000.
OSWALD P1ETsCH, q German commercial
traveller 26 years old, suicided at New York on
the 18th.
BEN THOMPSON, the celebrated despera do
! and Texas terror, was shot and killed in the
Vaudeville theater, at San Antonio, Tex, by
KING Fisher, deputy sheriff of Uvalde County,
! and desperate Of the first water himself.
Fisher was also killed in the row.
The governor of Delaware has respited Lewis
| F. List, whose execution for murder had been
| arranged for the 14th inst, until 1904.
Ar Nashville, Tenn, on the l1th William
| Spence, an ex-United States marshal, shot and
killed Edward 8. Wheat, bis son-in-law.
AT Gold Mine, Pa., on the 18th three farmers
| were fatally wounded by Ezekiah Henry, the
lover in q runaway match.
| WILLIAM PUETz and Mahlon Mccullough
who assaulted Car-driver Grothe several months
ago were sentenced to States Prison on the
10th. for three years and three years and one
month respectively.
The store and postof6ce at Millard, Wis.,,
was entered by burglars on the night of the
9th and robbed of $500 worth Of goods and
stamps.
A WOMAN named Mrs. Harvey killed her sis
tai, Mrs. Hughes, in quarrel at little settle
ment in Coffee County, Ala. on the 10th, and
fatally stabbed her nephew who interfered.
PETER scHn1rz, the Chicago contractor who
choked his wife to death ten days ago, suicded
in his cell on the after noon of the 10th.
| WILLIAM RILEY, aged 16, and Mary Riley,
1 Ous
Mimi, for the murder of their own father.
A FOND Du LAC, Wis, landlord named
Schsrbuno turned q woman who gave birth to
q child in his hotel out into the storm and when
found by the police the woman, who gave her
name as Mrs. Kitty Ames and her nom as
Neenah was nearly dead from exposure and the
child corpse in her arms.
Two WbitewaterWis., terrors of the town,
named James O'Brien and Ed Crockett, are
under arrest for an assault upon q well-knowu
business man of the town.
THEnegro coachman of George Sloane, New
York City merchant. robbed his masters house
on the 9Th. and nearly murdered Miss Harvey,
Mrs. Sloane's sister, because she would not tell
him the whereabouts of certain valuables.
ALEX KEYEs was sentenced to state prison
for life at Lafayette, Ind, on the 9Th, for thu
murder Of his mother-in-law.
JOHN T. VANDoREN, city marshal of Whining
ton. O.. was fatally shot on the 9Th, by q drunk
en- man he was arresting.
DURING the absence Of paymaster @. 8. Bart
lett, at lunch hour, on the 9Th, . thief entered
the Offices Of the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy
Railroad, at Chicago. and took S27, coo from tht
| vanlt. Paymaster Bartlett was discharged fol
carelessness and the case placed in the hands
of detectives.
On the 7th the desperate known as Franl
Rande, but whose real name was Chas. c
Scott, committed suicide by hanging in III
solitary cell in Joliet prison, where be had beef
placed for murderously assaulting q priso,
official. During his life Rande killed no les
than eighteen persons.
HANaENGs on the 7th: David McClain, a
Savannah, Ga, for the murder of W. s, Saxton
Harrison Williams, murderer, at Corsicana, Tex.
Noah Jackson colored, ct Lake Providence
La, for the murder Of his Is year old wife.
LONG ISLAND was the scene of another bruts
assault on the 7th. Mr.. and Mrs. Terry, an oil
couple living near East Hampton, were beate
and bruised by q hard character named Fre
Davis and are not expected to survive.
GEORGE L. DALE, Minneapolis dry good
merchant, was relieved Of notes to the value q
$67, 500 on the New York Elevated Railroad o
the 9Th.
Ar Bridesburg, . suburb of Philadelphia
Ps., on the 9Th, Amelia Mag committed su
eide by cutting her throat The young gi
was only "a years Of age and had been victil
to melsncholia since the prediction OF fortuu
teller month ago that she would bring Sol
row to al who loved her.
RUTus F. ANDREWS. surveyor Of the port
New York under President Lincoln, il undo
/ arrest IN that city on charge Of oonspirae
and forgery in connection with the BrookIy
bogus divorces.
CASUALTIES
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