The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-06
CRraTEs AND CASUALTIES.


CRIMES AND CASUAL TIES.
AT Anderson, S. c., a great sensation
was caused, on the 9th, by the arrest of
Mrs. NJ. Z. Reese, one Of the most repu-
table ladies o, the place, on a charge Of
arson. The detectives claim that she is
the author Of several attempts to burn the
town.
On the 27th the trial of Deacon" Calden
Robinson for the murder of his wife, was
begun IA the New ork Court of Oyer and
Terminer. Elizabeth Whitehurst the
dead woman's sister, whose throat the
murderer also cut was the first witness.
NEAR Wilkesbarre, Pa, United States
officers succeeded, on the Goth, in arrest
ing Wilson Kline, alias Henry Smith, and
Clarke Bellies, said to have been connected
with the robbery of about seventy small
pOSt-offices throughout the country.
IN Stafford County, Va, on the 9th,
Garfield Johnson, aged eight years, was
shot and instantly killed by his twin
brother, Grant, during the temporary
absence of their parents from home.
AT Marc uette, Mich, Louis NicoH, a
stone cutter who had been discharged for
drunkenness by Smith & Wilson, con-
tractors, appeared at the works, on the
26th, and shot Mr.. Wilson, with probably
fatal effect. He then walked home, and
shot himself in the mouth, inhicting a
mortal wound.
FAILING to receive his wedding suit on
time George H. GobsOn, who was TO have
been married in Boston, on the 2Sth, was
so disappointed that he shot himself, in
flicting a wound from which he died the
next day.
On the morning of the 2sth Prof. Francis
T. Lantry, OF Maulins, n. Y, was found
dead, with his throat cut, in a room at the
AstOr House, New York City. The suicide
had ev-a lToyUad Savara1 Grains OF r11prnbiua
before using the razor.
THEODORE CASTER, a farmer, who had
just sold n team Of horses, was attacked
near Kingsley, Mich, on the 27th, by
| three brothers named DrOste. He shot
one dead, fatally injured another, and
thinks he got some lead into the third,
who escaped.
JoHNsoN's block Of two stories, at Dun
dee, Mich, occupied by Z. G. Kenyon, dry
| goods, and L. 1. Flint, groceries, was
! burned on the 2Sth. Loss, SO 600; insur-
! ance small.
MRS. GEO. MARSHALL, aged sixty eight,
/ living in Council Bluffs, Ia, committed
| suicide, the 2Sth, by shooting. De-
! ceased remarked few days previous that
| she thought she had a cancer, and it is
4 thought that brooding over this caused
| her to commit the act.
JOSEPH GREENFIELD, who stole furs
| valued at s., 800 from his fathers store at
/ 679 Broadway, New York, was charged
with theft in court, on the 2Sth, by his
| father, and committed in default of bail
for trial.
] THE Union Windmill Company's shops
| at Albion, Mich, were partially destroyed
by fire on the night of the 27th, causing a
loss of $4,000; insurance, $6,0O0
! DURING the Republican National con-
vention Hon. Nj. :. Smith, eX-mayOr of
the city Of Philadelphia, was robbed of his
! watch, cham and diamond stud at the Ire
mont House, Chicago. The stolen prop
ertY was valued at about $1,000.
A FEW weeks ago Albert Z. Krane,
cashier for HIrsch 4 Co., importers of but
| tons at Nos. 427 and 429 Broadway, New
| York City, disappeared. Investigation of
his accounts revealed that he had apprO-
! priated Sc, 600 of the firms money. De-
J teCtives were put on his track, and he was
traced to Montreal. where he is now under
arrest awaiting extradition.
On the 2sth Mrs. J. J. Griffith and Mrs.
| DR.. Walker, of JennertOwn, Pa, started
in a buggy to visit relatives in the coun-
try. Each lady was accompanied by q
! little daughter. While descending q steep
hill the horse ran away. The Griffith
child was killed by heing thrown from the
buggy, and both ladies were probably
fatally injured.
THE American burglars, Porter and
]
land for robbery, were arraigned at the
Bow Street police court London, on Jht
29th, where they we're identified by the
owners OF the establishment at Munich
Bavaria, which they robbed some time
ago. The prisoners were remanded unit
the 30th.
DAVID STRAToN, n notorious desperado
and one of the leaders in the Hatfield
Mccoy feud, was captured by Captain
Burnett, a detective Of Charlestown, w
Va, and is now in Jail.
On the 2Sth, at Melville Gardens, Hing
ham, Mass, where a thousand East Bos.
ton people had gathered for a picnic, q
boat containing a party of four was upset
in a small lake aud Maggie Campbell
aged nineteen, was drowned.
NEAR Marley, Tenn, Wendell Whit
comb, while engaged in killing rats in hi
barn, on the 2Sth, with shotgun, acci.
dentally shot his two young daughters
who were looking on. One of them wa
instantly killed and the other fatal,
wounded. The father is Frustrated witt
grief.