Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-29
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

| Two COLORED men, Brown and Robin.
/ son, residing near Montezuma, Iowa,
| whipped to death 6-year old grandson of
Brown on the 23d of December. The
brutes suspended the boy by his heels and
wore out half dozen switches on his
naked body and then washed his wounds
| in salt and water. When the brutes were
arrested and lodged in Jail at Montezuma
it was with difficulty that n lynching was
avoided.
SARAH VICTOR, serving life-sentence
in the Ohio penitentiary for having poi
soned her brother to secure his life insur-
ance, received as her Christmas present her
| pardon from the Governor, after serving
| twenty years of her sentence.
An indefinite rumor is telegraphed from
Chicago that on Christmas day detectives
effected the arrest of jim Cummings, the
supposed author of SO many letters con-
| Tossing himself to be the perpetrator Of the
| st. Louis and San Francisco express rob-
berry in October last.
BURGLARS entered the jewelry store Of
| Julius Kruger at Galena, ILL.,, early on the
morning of the oath and robbed the safe of
$3.50 in money and 50. 500 worth of jew
elry. They made their escape.
| .aAT Osborn, Ohio, Mack Haddix, farm
er 10y, while on Christmas drunk, board
ed a locomotive standing i'll front of the
round house ready for its run, and open
ing wide the throttle sped away at the rate
| of thirty miles IN hour, till he collided
with freight train, wrecking number Of
cars aud damaging fifteen others. He es-
capped serious injury himself. He was ar
rested charged with the larceny of loco
motive valued ut IS, 900.
Two Ind an Territory citizens, Sam Star
and Aen Foreman, drew revolvers to settle
an old d ference. Foreman got in the first
shot, his pistol ball piercing Stars heart.
As Star fell be fred, the bullet of his re-
volver breaking Foreman's neck. Both
men died almost instantly.
THE President has granted pardon in
the case of All Hoot and Smootz, two
| Umatila Indians who are now confied in
! prison at Salem, Ore, for the murder OF a
white man. They are in bad health and
are not expected to long survive their re-
lease. John S. Williams, colored, of Nat
chez, Miss, who is serving q term of i'm
prisonment for perjury in a pension case,
has also been pardoned.
THE jewelry store of j. r. Elliott, on
| 1lat
of $4,000 worth of diamonds in a bold
manner on the evening of Dec. 20. The
store was brilliantly lighted, when two
masked men alighted from double cutter
in front of the store, and, armed with an
ax and other heavy implements, stepped to
the window. They barred the doors with
plank to prevent egress by the proprietor
or clerks. The robbers then smashed the
grabbed a tray containing twenty four dia-
mond rings. The other man seized very
valuable 27i carat diamond. Both men
then rushed to their cutter and drove furi-
ously away.
ON the 21st inst. the President granted a
pardon in the case of Tampa, Lowich and
Hietitet, three Pima Indians, now UNDER
going sentence Of five years Imprisonment
in the Arizona Penitentiary for murder
Gus assault on two white men in that Ter
tory in 1883.
OBEY E. OWENS, Receiving Teller Of
the Third National Bank of St. Louis,
No., who in 1852 embezzled 100000 Of
the funds of the bank, and who has been
serving a sentence Of five years in the
Chester, ILL.,, penitentiary for that crime,
was pardoned on the 21st inst. by the Pres
ident. He served about half his time.
S. E. PERKINS refused to testify in the
investigation Of the charges of forgery and
conspiracy in connection with the tally
sheet of the late election in Marion County,
Indiapa, and has been jailed for ninety
days for contempt