St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-25
CRIME RECORD.
The Hyers, Comedy Troupe Burst Up
i'll Knock Down and
Robbery.
Swift Justice Melted Out to Negro Rayisher
Shot His Wife and then
Himself
A Little Six Year Old Boy Killed by His
Sisters Because They Hated Him
Miscellaneous.
BELLLGERENT sHowMEN.

lcpecldl Telegram 10 the Globe.
WINoNA, Mimi, Sept. 24.-The Hyers
comedy troupe showed here last night and
then broke up. Two members, the Harper
brothers, assaulted Manager Hyer in the
Huff house Office, severely cutting his head
with an iron pen rack and robbing him Of
$40 and his watch and chain. They are now
under arrest and will be examined to-mor-
row. The other members took the 6:20 train
for Chicago this evening.
SHOT HIS WIFE AND THEN HIMSELF.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 24-Darwin n.
Gardner, formerly police clerk of this city,
holding his office for nine years, and after
wards resident of Pittsburg, but later To-
Gated here, this morning shot his wife, who
before their marriage was known as Alice
Phillips or Tucker. He then shot himself.
Gardner is fatally wounded, the wife is
wounded in the temple and will probably
recover. The two were alone in a room at
the time and nobody seems to know the mo-
tive OF the desperate act
NEGRO RAvIsHER KILLED.
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 24-A special from
Tuscola says that on Sundayat the village Of
Carthage, near that point, a negro named
! Short, seized well known lady while in the
suburbs and dragging her to a cump of
bushes rayished her. She gave the
alarm and a posse of 100 hunted the negro
down and riddled him with bullets.
MURDERED BY HIS SISTERS
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24.-The story comes
from Ottawa, Ks, that on Monday last Carry
and Bessie Waterman, aged twelve and four
teen DAUGHTERS M Wotarro q
farmer, tied rope around the neck of their
half brother, six years old, dragged him
about and beat him with sticks till he was
dead. The head of the child was nearly
severed from the cutting of the rope. The
girls stated at the coroner's inquest that they
hated the child and wanted him dead. They
were held for murder
DEATH BY HIS OWN HAND.
SToCKBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. PA sudden
gloom was cast over the community by the
death, by his own hand, of Herbert c. Ma
son, of Boston, who has for some years
made this his summer home Mason served
in the late war and carried always with him
the marks of his wounds. A few month";
since his father died, which with other
griefs caused a depression of mind termi.
mating in insanity and led to this most paiR-
tul result.
BY THE MORPHINE ROUTE.
VINcENNEs, Ind, Sept. 24.-Mary Vein
stein, Jewish widow of high social stand.
ing, attempted suicide Monday night by TAX
ing morphine. The affair was kept secret by
her friends until this morning, when her
physicians announced the case hopeless.
POISONED HER CHILD.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 24.-At Fort At
kinson to-day Mrs. Stagge, on trial for in
fanticide, confessed having purchased poison
and administered dose to her child, from
the effects of which the child died. Mrs.
Stagge was promptly sentenced to peniten-
tiary for life.
COULDN'T STAND THE DISGRACE.
| PATTERSON, N. j., Sept. 24.-Charles R.
Rice, travelling agent for Chase Bros, nurs-
erymen, of Rochester, killed himself to-day
when about to be taken to Jail on charge of
| swindling his employers.