New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-04-25
Criminal Calendar.

The coroners jury in the case of Mrs.
Mills, who was shot and killed at Green.
wich, Conn.,, recently, has rendered a YER
dict that the shooting was done by her
husband.
Koch, associate editor of Der Dem okrat,
at Davenport, Iowa. was fonnd dead at
his hotel, having taken laudanum with
suicidal intent. Excessive drink ing was
the cause. He was single and forty seven
years OF age.
Otto Austinott, late cashier OF the pas
senger and freight department. OF the Atch-
ison, Topeka & Sante Fe raj lway at
Nicherson, Kan, has been arrested at
Bremen, III. He embezzed some OF the
company s funds and fed.
W. A. Overmier OF Templeton, Iowa,
who had been feeling Respondent for some
time over business troubles, killed himself
by cutting his throat in the presence OF
his wife, brother and two friends. He was
insane. Overmier was one OF the leading
citizens OF Carroll county.
j. w. Whorry, who bought the Minneha-
ha County Mail prin ting outfit from Pos
tai Inspector Bath last fall, was arrested
at Sioux Falls, charged with forging a
mortgage on property in Missouri This
mortgage was given to Mr.. Bath as secnr-
lty for the purchase money on the Mail Of.
fce.
Mrs. Samuel Watts, a widow, murder.
cd a neishbor named Storm, near ST. Lou.
is. The two had quarreed often over a
fence line. Storm went to the widows
house and renewed the quarrel, and while
Storms back was turned the widow seized
a gun and shot him dead. The murderess
was arrested.
Two young men from Iowa were driving
d..
lington, Colorado, to loca tie on a claim, and
as they were passing the shanty OF an old
man named Baker they were halted. AS they
stopped Bakers wife told him to shoot,
and without warning he fired a charge of
buckshot into the party. Three shots
pierced the lungs OF John D. Morrison,
and IT entered the back of e: B. McCon-
nell. The wounded men were taken to
Burlington, but they are not expected to
live. Baker gives his reason for the shoot
ing that he did not want any body driving
over his land.
W. A. Cameron teller OF the Union Bank
OF Canada, at Winnipeg was arrested at
Pembrie by Sheriff Hart on receipt OF a
telegram from the Winnipeg CHIEF OF police
charging him with embezzlement. He had
$433 on his person. He admitted that he
was short in his cash account with the
bank. He stated that he had been $500
short Tor some time, and, on learning that
the bank examiner would be in Winnipeg
soon, decided to make a haul. He would
not make a statement us to the amount
of the shortage. He said he had from 500
600 to $4,000 in cash in his charge every
day. He was receiving and paying teller.
Two gamblers, names unknown, gotinto
q dispute with VIM. O'Hearn, bartender
in John Breen's saloon. and another bar
tender named Charles Green, at Spooner.
Wis. The talk was about the rightfnl
owner OF q handkerchief and soon led to
a riot, both sides to the controversy
opening fire with revolvers at about the
same time. Twenty shots were fired and
the walls OF the saloon showed many to
have been very wild. However, when the
smoke cleared away a person was pros
trated on the floor with hole through
one OF his lungs, and big bullet had
scraped through one OF GREEN'S legs and
broke it. The gamblers broke for the
woods and the constable followed, and
soon after he had taken up the trail shots
were heard, and it is thought he has been
killed. O'Hearn will die.