Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-06-07
Criminal Calendar.

A clue has been discovered that may
possibly lead TO the arrest of the murder.
.rs OF Reuben Drake and his family at yir-
oqua. Wis. Suspicion points to two par
tics who left that section.
Willie r Lee the young man who at
tempted to kill his step-father, Banker
Rawson, last October. in Chicago, while
leaving church, was denied a release from
iail on a writ of habeas corpus.
Luther Holman pleaded guilty at Boz
ton OF conspiring to murder his sister.
brain had Affected his brain. He was sen.
fenced to two years in the house Of eorrec.
ton.
At Cox boarding house Albany. N. Y
Joseph Shsrer, who was employed at
KieIer'e resturaHnt, shot and killed Lizzie
Mccarthy, to whom he was engaged to be-
msrrisJ, and then shot himself. He can
not live jealousy was the cause OF the
act.
Frank Lindquist, q farmer, while intoxi.
Gated raised disturbance in saloon at
HoIdrese. Seb. he was ordered by VIM. Knit.
us 10 keep auiet. Lindquist therenpon drew
a revolver and shot knifns fatally through
the head He then shot himself throu Oh
the head. killing himself instantly.
An Augusta (Me) dispatch says that
time ago while he and his family we're alb
sent and all his political and business cor
rcepondenee and private papers involving
financial operations. which were in his Ii.
brary. were oyerhauled and a portion OF
them distracted.
Julius Il. Griswold a drummer for a Bal.
| timore oil firm. committed suicide at Cam
bridge, Nd. He had been drinking heavily
and a eolored man saw Griswold jump
into the river from the wharf. A plank
was thrown to him but GriswoId refused
to be saved. The body was hooked up
with oyster rakes and sent to Baltimore.
Emmett V. Rhoades, cashier OF the First
National Bank at ST. Paris Ohio, has
been found short in his accounts. and the
bank has suspended pending an inyestiga-
tion by the controller of the currency.
RI q. Hes was arrested for violating the
hai.k laws. The shortage, $40, 600. will
be made good by Rhoades' bondsmen.,
The family OF j. A. Allen, OF Council
Grove, Kansas, consisting OF his mot her,
vile and two little girls, aged eight and
eleven years respectively, were poisoned
with arsenic placed. in the coffee pot. The
youngest child died. Allen was not effect
ed, as he did not drink OF the coffee. and
circumstantial evidence points strongly to
him as the perpetratcr OF the crime.
tHaFlea L. 0enffus, Jf., son OF wei
known brewer in Cleveland. Ohio, attempt
ed suicide by stabbine himself in the left
breast with large dirk knife. He died
soon alter. Gertie Prothero, a woman
with whom Gehring was staying at the In.
ternational hotel. was placed under ar.
rest. Gehring WAS thirty three years old
and corporal in the Cleveland Greys.
Judge Gould oil Monticello, Indiauia,
sent telegram to Gov. Gray, requesting
that military be furnished to guard the
jail at that town. where Chamberlain. ths
murderer OF Ida Witteaberg. Is confined.
as a visit from a lynehing party was fear
ed. The governor at once ordered tbs
Carroll veterans OF Delphi to proceed tc
Monticello. and Adjt Gen. hoontE al
once started for the scene.
Miner Perkins, who has been in Jail al
Grand Rapids. Wis. since last. December
charged with the murder OF his wife in q
logging camp seven miles vest OF Pittsyiile
surprised everybody when his case was
called by pleading guilty. Last December,
while assisting his vile as cook in a log
gine camp. he shot and killed her because
he believed her intimate with another man
He was sentenced to life Imprisonment II
the penitentiary at Waupun. he asked
the judge TO give bin twenty minutes in
which to make q little speech. His request
was granted, and he told his story, claim
ing that his wife was intimate with othe,
men and IN his rage be shot her.
The body of Daniel wiliord. missing 70,
several days WAS found IN = well half G