The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-12
THE CRIMINAL RECORD,


JAN. 2a.-Eight masked men robbed a train in
Texas. securing $4,000.
H-Thomas j. Cluverius hanged in Richmond
va, for the murder of Fanny Lillian Madison.
6.-Bell and Hoffman confess to wrecking Mis-
souri, Pacific express.
a5.-Frauds amounting to $4,000 discovered in
Cincinnati city government.
25-Cashier Schroeder. of the Jersey City Ger
mania Savings bank, absconded with $4,000.
FEB. John l, Isle, discount clerl. Of the
First National bank of Baltimore, absconded with
SlOO,O0O-Boodle Alderman O'Neil of New York.
found guilty. Later he was sentenced to sing
Sing. {,
John De Leon, New York, astro!oger. con-
victed of abduction, sent up for fifteen years,
4.-Charles Ogden Ferris (Tichborna clamant
sentenced to five years imprisonment for pension
frauds.
15.-1saac H. Vincent defauting treasurer of
Alabama, captured in Texas.
2o,-Mrs. Roxalana Druse hanged at Herkimer.
N. Y, for murder of her husband William Uruse.
31.-W. A. Clark, New York postyitice clerk.
detected in theft of $4,000 in registered packages,
MARCH 17.-Walter L. Lawton, New York phos-
phate dealer, defaulted in ST., 100000
23-James Hunter, of James & John Hunter,
of Philadelphia, defautcd in $4,000
A.-Jantor Titus, of New Jersey, confessed to
killing Tilly Smith, and his sentence was COM
muted to Imprisonment for life
26,-Discovery Of body of unknown yonne
woman murdered at Railway, N. j. celebrated
Railway mystery.
APRIL ll.-WalrantS issued in Pittsburg Pa
for the arrest of 400 Pennsylvania railroad en.
poyes, charged with stealing goods from freight
cars.
Case of Chicago Doodle officials came up
This matter excited great interest at the time
Several are now serving out sentences of Il e
court, having been found guilty of malfeasance
McGarrigle, the leader, escaped some time after
this, and is in the happy land of the Dominion at
this time safe from justice
1.-the woman banker, Sarah Howe left her
Boston customers in the lurch to the tune of
$4,000.
2-Jacob Sharp arraigned for bribery in the
matter OF the Broadway (New York; surface rail
road franchise.
MAY l-James NJ Taggart, paying teller Union
trust company of Philadelphia, defauted il
100000
5.-Celebrated Standard Oil conspiracy case be-
gun IN Buffalo, lasting some days and ending in
verdict against the Standard Oil,
19-S4,OOO train robbery reported from Texas
Marquis de Mores, the dressed beef man, placed
under arrest, charged with conspiracy.
JUNE 22.-Craig Tolliver shot in fight with DR..
Logan in Rowan county, KY
2l.-Capt Jack Hussey, the Castle Garden, Few
York, life saver, died from shots fired by Police
man Hahn. Hahn was afterward acquitted
29.-Jacob Sharp convicted.
July H.-Jacob Sharp sentenced to state prison
for four years and fined 5000
13,-Pranzini, the notorious Frenchman. SEN
fenced to death in Paris.
31.-McGarigle. who escaped from Chicago, ar
rived in Canada.
bank robbers at Ozark, No.; Is indictments were
for murder.
SEPT 1.-Pranzini triple French murderer. was
guillotined.
Frank McNeally, bank clerk at Saco, Me-,
absconded with S2i9.5OO. bonds and money
Nov. l0.--jesse Pomeroy, boy murderer, lost
his eyesight in his attempt to escape from prison
at Concord Mass.
1i.-Second trial of John Arensdorff charged
with the murder of the Rev Mr. Haddocls, was
begun ut Sioux City, Ia. Arenstorlf was ac-
quilted
2.-Henry V. Leslie and James A. L. Wilson, of
Philadelphia, sentenced TO six and eight years,
respectively, for cmbezzling 100000 from Della
ware and Chesapeake Canal company.
9.-Ex-Vice President Harper, of Fidelity Ma.
tional bank of Cincinnati, on trial for wreckine
the bank. At the conclusion of the trial, being
found guilty, he was sentenced to ten years in
prison.
29.-New York court of appeals reversed Judge
Barrett's decision in case of Jacob Sharp, and
granted him a new trial. Sharp was released the
next day.
DEC s.. Marion La Touche French banker.
committed in New York for swindinQ woman