McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-24
CRIME.

weaver, aInanceu OF Ed. Beier, Went TO
church with Nicholas Biehl. Beier became
so enraged that he went to the house Of Mics
Weaver and demanded his presents. Be-
Ing refused, he put pistol to Miss Weaver
head and snapped it twice without shooting
He then went to the back door and shot
himself twice, one of the balls penetrating
the heart.
John Flemming and Fred F. Loring,
of Chicago, convicted before Judge Bod-
gett, of the United States district court, of
| carrying on an extensive grain swindle under
the firm name Of Fleming and Merriam, were
sentenced to twelve months in the county
Jail and pay fine $500. A writ of error was
granted in the case, however, by Judge
Drummond, OF the circuit court, and the
prisoners released on 81, 900 bail.
The case of Frank James, for the
Blue Cut train robbery was called in the
criminal court at Kansas City on the 18th,
and continued till FEBRUARY IL, on account
Of illness of the defendant. The case of
Charles Ford on the same charge, was also
COutluuCu " OUl IL, ~ opPColS tudt
Ford is at St. Louis, too i'll to attend.
John Elfers, who killed Ben. Hag-
garty, because he would not pay him four
bits, was hanged at San Francieco on the
18th. sf r.,
John Ripe, grain buyer at New
Abba, Iowa, hung himself in his ware
house. He was aged 30 years. Whisky
and love affair are supposed to have been
the cause.
While resisting arrest, w. A. Alex
ander, cowboy and noted desperate, was
shot and killed on the reservation at Reno,
Colorado, by a detachment of soldiers. One
soldier was killed and two wounded.
Tommy G.. Walker, aged IA, was
arrested at Boston for setting fire to a school
building. He had mania for setting fires.
The dead body of Amelia Olsen, II
years old, was discovered on the open
prairie near the northwestern outskirts OF
Chicago. The deceased was employed as a
domestic, and met her death while return
ing home after nightfall from her place of
work. There were evidences that she had
met with violence, and the belief is enter
tanned that she was choked and left insensi
BILE, and died from the effect Of her rough
usage, or that combined with the exposure
of the cold night. The locality through
which the girl passed ls infested with
rough class.
Edward Tappan, arrested for con-
nection with the Townsend outrages, at
Hunters Point, L. L., confesses that his
brother John and himself were concerned In
the murder Of Mrs. Maybee and her daugh
ter at Brookville. They took their lives by
choking them. g.
A. j. Rogers and Geo. w. Fowler,
Pullman car conductors, connected with
tIains running between New York and Chi
cago, on the Pennsylvania railroad, plead
ed guilty to the embezzement Of railroad
tickets. Sentence was deferred.
At the Mutt trial, on the 18th, medl-
cal expert testimony as to the prisoners
mental condition was continued. Several
prominent physicians were examined, all OF
whom agreed that at the time Of the shoot
ing of Dukes young Mutt was insane. At
the conclusion Of the expert testimony the
letters that have given the Dukes-Nutt case
such fearful prominence were produced by
the defense. With the reading Of the let
tiers the defence closed.