Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-07-14
Deeds of BLOOD

Martin O'Hare murdered his wife in a
most brutal manner at Portland, Me-, on
the 10TH and left her naked body on the
floor. He is now under arrest.
While the preliminary trial of Sidney
Davis, colored, was in progress at Morgan,
Tex, on the morning of the 10th, a mob
500 strong overpowered the court and took
Davis out and hanged him. He assaulted
one OF the most respectable women in
Basque County. He confessed his guilt.
John w. Deter was killed near Hartford
City, Ind, on the 18th, by Charles Weis-
man. Deeter mistook Weisman for an
other man and attempted to thrash him,
with the above result.
At st. Louis, on the 10th, Chyo Coon
and Chyo Chiagk, two of the Chinese high
binders convicted during the winter term of
the criminal court of numbering Lou John
son, Chinese interpreter and detective,
were sentenced to be hanged August 27
next.
A man named Small, son of prominent
farmer living near Carthage, Mo-, was found
murdered near that city on the 8th. There
is clue to the murderer.
Henry Meyers, an old Baltimore shoe
maker, killed his son in q quarrel on the
9th.
Miguel Chacon, the Cuban negro, who
shot and killed Mrs. Maria Williams in June,
1884, was hanged at New York on the 9th
inst.
Samuel Archer, the notorious outlaw, was
executed for his crimes at Shoals, Ind, on
the 9th inst.
The third tragedy within two weeks oc-
Cured at the Parker House in Latrobe,
Pa, on the night of the 9Th. During q
quarrel well-known character named
Palmer was shot and instantly killed by q
person in the crowd. No arrests.
Charles Anderson and John Robertson,
neighbors, fought with shotguns near their
homes in Edgefeld County, 8. c. The
former was killed and the latter mortally
wounded.
During picnic at Highland Lake Grove,
near Boston, bad whisky produced the
usual result. One officer was seriously and
perhaps fatally hurt, and about twenty at
tendants were badly bruised.
Max Schmitzer, one of Leavenworth g
prominent business men, committed sui
eide on the 9Th, at his residence, by shoot
ing himself in the temple with g. revolver
He died instantly.
Neighbors called at the residence Of Harry
Wildman, a prominent farmer living a few
miles northwest of Tuscola H., and find
ing the doors locked and no one apparent
ly about, went in through the window
where they discovered Mrs. Wildman lying
on bed with her throat cut from ear to
ear. Wildman could not be found and by
some it was thought he was also murdered
and his body hidden. He was afterward
found in cornfeld, where he had cut his
throat with a penknife, after numbering his
wife.
William Henry, Of Troy, N. Y, whom
the dispatches credit with the paternity of
twenty-four children, grew weary of life and
ended it with razor.
George Parker, colored, attempted to as
sault a white lady in Hancock County,
T. IL L.
tured by neighbors and lynched.
On the morning of the 4th, on Mayors
plantation, ten miles below Vicksburg. Miss,
Bob Jackson, colored shot and killed his wife
and mortallyswounded Charles Mcclellan,
colored, whom he found in his house when
he returned home. The verdict of the cor
oner's jury was that Jackson accidentally
killed his wife while shooting at Mcclellan,
and that the shooting of Mcclellan was
iustifable.