Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-17
CRIME

Ar Washington, Charles Knott shot
and killed Mrs. George Morris, and then
killed himself. He is beloved to have
been insane.
AT Fox lake. Wis, Michael Bloedel
was killed by single blow frem the
hand of Aleck Mcleod. His neck was
broken. Young Mcleod was at once
arrested.
THOMAS BALLARD, cf Omaha, who
killed Henry Norporten several months
ago, has been convicted of murder in
the first degree, and will suffer death by
hanging.
JAMES JoLITF, an aged and respected
citizen of Carmichaels, Pa, fatally shot
his son-in-law, Samuel Hathaway, Sun-
day, because he had tradu ced his wife,
from whom he is separated.
THE wife of John Rogers, of Howden
Warrick county, Ind, enraged at her
husbands attentions to her pretty cous-
in, killed her two children with an ak
and then drowned herself in a horse
trough.
PADDY GUERIN and Charlie Shaw, inn
prisoned at Syracuse, N. ", for house
breaking attempted to escape, but weIe
fired at by deputy sheriff and driven
back. Shaw was released last month
from Joliet, where he served an eight.
yesr term for bank robbery.
NEAR Franklyn, KY, John Daily, a
white farmer, shot and killed Ike Will
Jams one of his colored laborers. Will
iams requested payment of his wages,
and becoming enraged because Daily
could not pay him, made an attack on
him. when Daily shot him in self de-
Tense.
In BLOOMINGTON, William E. Wood,
the emit xzling Ashley House book
keeper, had preliminary examination
his bail being fixed at $4,000, in default
of which he was sent back to jail TO
await the action of the grand jury.
SHOWER ZIMMERMAN, OF Sullivan coun-
ty, ludlana, who, it is alleged. set fire
to a church because he was not allowed
to preach in il, was indicted for arson
ny the grand jury. Zimmerman is a
preacher.
EDWARD FINCH and his sister, age :.
respectively IS ana so. and cclored
boy of Is were murdered by robbers in
their house near Moncure. n. c.. early
Sunday morAing, their skulls being
crushed and threats cut. tits reported
that one of the murderers was arrested
in his dwelling while washing tbs blood
from his hands
WIN. h. BROOKS, who for four years
has been q society swell in LAUREL, Nd,
has been arrested for burglary. 1t is
said he entered the homes of the rich as
a guest and gaiRed information that
made him a success as rohher. He is
-
Harrison, an old horse chief, swindler
and escaped cenvict.
WIN. II. PUDNEY, the old sexten of
st. Georges Church, New York, who
had criminally assaulted two little
girls within the precincts of the sacred
adifice, was Friday sentenced to twenty
years in states prison. After sentence
was ,pronsunced Pudney sank to the
flocr senselIss, ard was carried to the
hospital.
TwENTY-NINE murderers from the IS,
| dian Territory are confined in the Unit
ed States jail Ut Fort Smith, Ark.
awaiting trial. Court convened on the
9Th instant, with criminal docked oi
| 1879 cases, all for crimes committed il
the Indian Territory. The jurisdiction
of this court extends over about q, ,00(
miles of territory, inhabited by men OF
all colors, classes and the worst crimin
els in the country.
PADDY GUERIN, alias George johnson
| and Charlie Shaw, confined st the court
house Jail in Syracuse, n. Y, for safe
robsery, sawed an opening in thsir eel
door, and were about to make their es
cape when Deputy Sheriff O'Neil, whs
discove rcd during the day that one ol