St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-27
CRIME RECORD.
Seth w. Tuley, a POstoffice Depart
ment Clerk, Arrested on Two
Counts.
A Young Connecticut Farmer Wants to
Marry Ella Larrabee, Noted
Burglaress.
osToFFIcE DEPARTMENT CLERK IN TROUBLE


alias Philip Nolan, postoffice department
clerk, was arrested yesterday on the charge
of violating the bankrupt laws of Indiana.
After his arrest it was learned that he was
wanted in Indiana to answer to another
charge, that of attempting to defraud life
insurance company. 1t is SAID six or seven
years ago Taley insured his life in the North
western Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Mil
waukee, for $1,000, and after paying two or
three premiums disappeared. That shortly
afterward his wife removed from Indian
apolis, where they had been living, to New
Albany, Ind. From the last named place
she filed an application for the payment OF
her husbands insurance. Accompanying
the application was what purported to-
be a proof of his having been drowned
while crossing a creek, aud of the interment
of his remains at New Albany. That the
insurance company was about to pay the
policy when they learned he had been. seen
subsequent to the date of his alleged drown
ing, and that since then they had been look
ing for him. In July last Tuley, who then
and since has called himself Nolan, aud said
he was from Texas was appointed under
the civil service rules in the postoffice de-
partment. Since his arrest he has admitted
his name as Tuey, and that he is wanted in
Indiana for attempting to defraud the insur-
ance company. He was sent to Indiana last
night.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 26.-President
Palmer, of the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance company, says S. W. Tuley's
brother, lawyer at New Albany, Ind, made
application for insurance money last winter,
the legislature of Indiana passed an act that
two years absence should be presumptive
proof of death, but the company refused to
pay on the ground of insufficient proof of
death. Mr.. Palmer says a Masonic Mutual
Benefit association in New Albany refused to
pay 81, 400 insurance on TuIey's life, on the
same ground. A suit by his brother, as ad-
ministrator, is pending against the North
western Mutual Life Insurance company.
President Palmer says the company will
spend four times the amount of insurance
money, if necessary, to prosecute Tuley to
the end.
NAUGHTY ELLA LARRABEE.
New YORK, Sept. 26.-In court at Brook
Ign Ella Larrabee pleaded guilty to burglary
of the third degree and was sentenced to the
pententiary for three years and six months.
She is twenty years old, handsome, refined
looking, but known to the police as pro-
fessional burglar. She has already served
two sentences, one of six months and an
other of one year for burglary. A young
Connecticut farmer read Of her In the pa
pers and came here to see her. He imme-
diately fell in love with her, and for the past
two weeks has prosecuted the judge, the dis
trict attorney and other officials with petitions
to permit him to marry her and take her
with him to Connecticut. Ella was willing
TO marry him if permitted.
WHO Is HE?
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. ga stranger
about twenty-five or thirty years of age, sui
cided at the Evansville 81 Terre Haute de-
pot here this morning. There was nothing
about him to indicate his name or residence
1t is thought he came from Louisville. He
is six feet high, light brown hair and is
blind in the left eye The eve is out He
had a ring on bis finger with the name
Emma" inside. He had a silver Elgin
watch in his pocket. Dark pants with black
coat and vest. The coroner has the body.
ROBBED AND MURDERED.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 26.-Sam
Hayes, cashier of the Greenwood Coal COM
pany, on the Cincinnati Southern railroad,
was found dead on the railroad track this
forenoon. His clothes had been riied and
his watch was missing. He was murdered
for the purpose OF robbery. Two bullet holes
were found in his head.
OUTRAGE ON A CORPSE.
KINGSTON, Ont, Sept 26.-At wake at
Verona, village on the Kingston d Penn
brooke railway recently, several men got
drunk and broke down the bed which con-
tanned the corpse and afterwards tried to
force liquor down the throat of the dead
body. Failing in this they threw the liquor
over the corpse and then departed.
THE FERGUS FALLS RAPIsT.
Especial Telegram to the Globel
FERGUS FALLS, Mimi, Sept. 26.-Warner
Marshall, the boy who was arrested for at
tempting to commit rape on the six year-old
daughter of Dan Woodwork, was arraigned
in the police court this morning. The state
presented its side of the case, as shown in
! last nights dispatches, and the defense
waived examination. The defendant was
held in $500 bonds to appear before the
grand jury.
WINNIPEG SUICIDE.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
| WINNIPEG, Sept. 26.-Norman j. Snyder,
a well-known citizen, blew his brains out a
few days ago. His body was found in his
room this afternoon.