Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-12
The Criminal Calendar.

frank Patterson, owner of the opera house at
Long Branch, N j., is missing, and detectives are
searching for him with warrants for his arrest.
de Is charged with having forged tho endorse.
ments Of a number Of well known residents of
Monmouth county on notes aggregating over
$40, 600
AtDenVer, early Sunday morning, John P.
Glow, who lays claim to the title of the cham
pion pugilist of Colorado, and Alex Thebold,
q cowboy, had q set-to with gloves. The cow
boy, though physical giant, was knocked out
the first round.
Samuel Roberts, the defaulting paymaster,
was arrested at Wlkesbarre, Pa, taken from
fore AID Rooney. Charles Parrish absolutely
refused to testify against Roberts. The de-
PENDANT waived Il hearing and gave bail IN
$4,000 for his appearance at the criminal
court.
U. W. Wilson, forty-se7eny years old, An agent
for the Brooks Oil Company, of Cleveland,
Ohio, committed suicide Friday afternoon by
jumping from steamer in the lake while
on his way from Chicago to milwaukee,. 1t
is supposed that poor business drove him
to take his life. He had been divorced twice
from his wife whose address is not known.
Ole l. Westorguard, the book-keeper en-
ployed for the past two years by P. P. Swenson
in his real estate and foreign exchange Office
under the Northwestern bank at Minneapolis,
had absconded recently leaving his accounts in
very irregular and unsatisfactory manner.
The books are being now examined by an ex-
pert accountant, who has already discovered
many false entries by which the firm loses sew
eral hundred dollars.
Richard ". Peck Of Brooklyn has brought
suit for s100OO0 damages against b. r. Bah
bit, the soap man. charging as one of the items
that his wife received from Rabbit the sum Of
SIS, 0OO as an inducement to her to sanction
the soap man in assuming improper relations
with Miss Peck, @ girl Of unblemished charac-
ter. Mrs. Peck is small and slight always
dresses neatly, and has quiet, se}f-possessed
manners. Her picture is in the rOgue's gallery
at Brooklyn police headquarters.
ThomasJ, Libby, proprietor of the West Point
house, al Proutsneck Scarborough Me-, a mar
ried man, came to a hotel recently with Lydia
Snow, who is reported to have worked at his
house. Shots were heard in his room and, On
looking over the door, both were seen lying on
the floor Entering the room, it was found
that Libby had fired two or three shots at her,
one of which had passed through her left
cheek and lodged in her head, and another
He then shot himself behind the ear, inflicting
slight wound.
Louisville special:-The individual who
forged draft on William Tarr & Co., Of Lex
ington, in favor of William Tarr, Jr, for S.
$50, was the same who played confidence
game ON William Kendrick & Son, jewelers. Of
this city, for $500 diamond ear rings. He
purchased S., coo worth of bonds from J. w.
4 D. S. Green, and gave a check on Lex
ingtod bank for payment He was not 6 wen
the bonds, however, because something wrong
was suspected He left the brokers' establish
ment and worked the jewelry store, then skip
ped for parts unknown. The swindler is des-
cribed as well-dressed handsome man Of
aorid complexion and sandy moustache.
At daybreak last Thursday morning five
hundred men filed the pavilion Of tho sport
ing house at Rockaway Beach, n Y, to wit
ness q fight with hard gloves marquis Of
Queensbury rules, between jim McHugh Of
Glasgow and Dave Fitzgerald of Toronto, for
81 600 and gate money. The men appeared in
the ring promptly. McHugh weighed 126
pounds, Fitzgerald 150 Preli1ninaries being
finished the men advanced when time was
called to the center Of the ring, and then COM
1nenced one of the most exciting fights on rec
ord, lasting three hours and thirty-fve min
utes, and ending in draw in favor of McHugh.
Along towards the end Of the fight the specta-
tors began to crowd the ring, and finally, at the
end of the forty-ffth round, they became so
obstreperous that the referee called on the Sec
onds to withdraw the men. Fitzgerald was
badly punished.