The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-07-19
Crimes and Criminals.

Near Ohiowa, Neb., Bernard Krugg was
found dead in his cornfeld. He and his wife
were at work in the cornfield and got into q
quarrel, when the woman killed him with u
hoe. She is now in Jail.
edward A.. Deacons was hanged at Roches-
ter, N. Y, for the murder of Mrs. Ada Stone
ut East Rochester Aug. 16, 1887. Deacons
was a tramp, and committed the crime be.
cause Mrs. Stone refused to give him food.
Fred A. Forsythe, manager of the Webster
house, at Portsmouth, N, H.. went to his
room, undressed, tied one end of q strip OF
cloth to his feet, the other to q trigger of his
CUR placed the muzzle in his mouth and blew
his brains out. Havingt to vacate the Webster
house, by q recent suspicious fire on the pre-
misses, is supposed to be the cause.
A Stranger was arrested at Hastings Neb.,
under suspicious circumstances, His valise
contained a large quantity of valuables' and
evidence was discovered which is likely to
unearth a gang of thieves. Shipping bills
found in his pockets show that one e, A.
Gibbs had recently forwarded goods to Joe
Brown. st. Paul, Mimi, from Exeter, Suffer
and other points in Nebraska, and some of
the goods found in his possession have been
identified as stolen from parties in these
places. The supposition is that the prisoner
belongs to q gang operating between Hastings
and Lincoln.
Laurel Fork meeting house, near Jellico,
Tennessee, was the scene of q terrible tragedy.
1t was d collision between the Rose and Fus-
ton clans. A feud had been in existence be-
tween them for some time. Recently a volley
of firearms was discharged outside of the
church door. When the smoke cleared way
it was found that Ewell Lawson and his son
John, aged thirteen, belonging to the Rose
faction, were dead, and that three Fusion
boys, Tom, Jim and Enos and John Porter,
belonging to the other side, were seriously
and perhaps fatally wounded. Adozen Others
were wounded.
The remarkable caso of Joseph Muir, the
rich Philadelphia manufacturing jeweler, who
telegraphed to New York city from Long
Branch asking that detectives be sent down
to protect him, and stating that his relatives
were attempting to place him in ar asylum,
reached q climax when Mr.. Muir was brought
to the city and placed in the insane ward in
the Bellevue hospital. Several physicians
agreed hat he was out of his mind. His
principle delusion is q wild idea that his
mother-in-law and other of his wife's relatives
are his enemies, and he has tried on several
occasions to murder them.
A sixteen-year-old daughter of Joseph Mar
tin, secured desk room six weeks g in the
Office of an advertising firm at Detroit, Mich.
One evening she dropped into an office ad-
Joining where she worked and had q small
check cashed. This movement was repeated
after this in various places. Her most re-
marknble exploit, however, was an attempt
to collect $3.50 of q New York correspondent
of the firm. For these and many other like
| attempts to get money the girl had but one
excuse-that she had told her mother she
wns ut work, getting Sc q week-and there
fore she felt obliged to obtain at least that
amount Of money in that way each week.