The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-05
CONSTITUTE 4 CRIME.
Jay Gould and Russell Sage Charged
With Larceny
By the BOndhOIdsrs Of the Kansas
Pacific Road.
The Statute Of Limitation an Obsta-
Gle to Successful Prosecution.
AHundrsd Families Rendered Home
AHundrsd Families Rendered Home
less by Fire.

charges MADE against Jay GOULD and
Russell Sage, by the bOndholders of the
Kansas Pacific railroad. "This is an
application to present to the grand
jury a charge of larceny against Jay
Gould and Russell Sage under section
hfty-four of the penal code. In my
opinion the acts with the commission OF
which the defendants stand charged,
constitute a crime. a possible OBJ
stacle to a successful prosecution Of
the persons complained of, is the
statute of limitations. Yet there
are strong reasons for believing
that the obstacle is not insurmOunta-
bic. The statute under which it is
sought to prosecute may be so con-
Strued as to enable the people to pro-
coed Notwithstanding the statute of
limitations, and such construction
would have much support in reason
and common sense. The question is
so close and the interests involved here,
as well Of the people as of the defend
ants, are so important, it seems proper
TO leave the determination OF this
question Of law to the courts, and in
order to effect this result the facts
should be laid before the grand Jury,
and, If proven, an indictment found
and tried"
ARRESTED FOR PASSING BOGUS CHECKS.
CHICAGO, Dec. 3I.-James King, a
Montana, MAS arrested last night on a
charge Of obtaining money under false
pretences. Checks for 500 were shown
TO have been drawn by him against the
First National bank Of Chicago. Mr..
King never had an account there. He
says the checks were signed by him
while in a semi-stupor, the result of
drugged WHISKY, imbibed after he had
been inveigled into private poker
room. He had been allowed to win at
first, but afterwards lost all his cash,
and he does not know how much more.
The complainant against Mr.. King is
VIM. Wharton, loan broker, who got
the checks in payment OF a debt, and
asserts that he was assured by Mr..
King that tho checks were all right.
ONE HUNDRED HOMELESS FAMILIES.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3l.-A fire
which started yesterday afternoon, dis
troyed half the town of Houma, in Terre
Boune parish. The burned buildings
include twenty-eight business houses
and one hundred dwellings. 1t is be-
lieved the less will exceed 500, 600. The
insurance is insignificant. A hundred
homeless families are being cared for
by their more fortunate neighbors.
COSTLY CHURCH EDIEICE BURNED.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 31.-Immanuel
Presbyterian church, one OF the finest
Sacred Edifices in the city was totally
uCbJIOyCA ny uIO az oil carly uOuI LLlb
morning. Nothing but the bare stone
walls are left. Loss, 500, 600; insur-
ance, $95, 900.
BEAT HIS WIFE NEARLY TO DEATH.
Ell PAsO, TEX, Dec. 30-John
Corners, who lives in FL Paso, but
keeps saloon in FL Paso Del Norte has
been arrested charged with beating his
wife on Christmas day. He beat her
nearly to death with a chair. The list
Of wounds comprise two ribs broken,
one of them puncturing the right lung,
the right arm broken in two places, the
nose broken, the left hand cut in ward
ing of a blow aimed at her with knife,
the breast bone broken, about twenty
distinct minor cuts about the face, head
and hands, and the body bruised and
blackened from head to foot. Corners
struck the woman twice with a chair
Monday morning while she was lying
in bed with wounds received Sun day.
Corners then crossed to Mexico but
returned to-day and was arrested.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 2S.-The second
chapter in the case of Bonnie
Simpson, the boy who was deserted
last week by his father on a train and
taken to the police headquarters here
on his arrival at Cincinnati, was given
last night. At the Central station
Simpson had met in the cars two men,
Manning Light and Charles Bick-
smith, both travellers, the former a
recent resident of of this city. Light
sertion, and turned him over to the
police. 1t developed that the child
had relatives in New York and on
Monday night, after telegraphing east,
Detective Crawford placed young
Simpson on the cars with a ticket for
New York. Last night Peter Gorien,
who is a relative of Light, took
to the Central station a postal
card dated Lawrence, Kansas,
from Blacksmith to Light. 1t stated
that Blacksmith had learned of the
death Of the older Simpson, but gave
no particulars. The police authorities
concluded, after hearing the boys
story, that he had been cruelty deserted
by his father, who had taken unusual
means for abandoning the child, Little
Bennie's story was extensively pub
lished at the time, but evoked no
response from the missing father.
This later information of Simpsons
death gives rather mysterious closing
to the affair. The police will endeavOr
to throw more light upon it.
THE OLD NAN TURNS UP.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2S.-To-day'S
dispatches from Cincinnati indicating
that the little boy, Bonnie Simpson,
whose arrival from Georgia
last week, in company with
two strangers, who had taken charge
of him after the mysterious disappear
mination to-day in the arrival in this
city OF the boys father, Alexander
Simpson. Mr.. Simpson was greatly
disappointed at not finding the
boy here. He denies the
statements that he had deserted his
child, and said that he had stopped of
the train at Way Cross. Ga, and it had
ls1s 6i% theFs n H esrn %as % tSa
the boy had started for Jer-
sey City. 1t seems that Mr..
Simpson and his wife are separated
and both of them are trying to keep
possession of Bennie, who is years
old. Mr.. Simpson will at once COM
municate with the Cincinnati authori-
the boy.
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2s.-Count Carlos
Vetter, consul from Venezuela to Slut
CART, Germany arrived in Chicago from
Caracas, and had conference with
Mayor Roche yesterday. The Count is
the father of Signor Vetter Rivas, who
was arrested by some of Captain
Schaack's policemen II November on
suspicion of being an anarchist, and
who, as he claims, was sent to the
Bridewell for three weeks without the
usual formality Of a trial, and without
being permitted to say a word in his
own defense. The young man resented
this to such an extent that he immedi-
ately entered suit against the city for
$4,000 damages for false imprison-
ment. The count assured the mayor
that his son was not in the least sense
to be associated with revolutionary
agitators who were attempting to dis
rupt the social and political systems of
America. He also stated that he did
not intend to relinquish the suit com
menced by his son, but would see to it
that it was pressed to a successful con-
clusiou.
OBJECT TO POLICE.
ASHLAND, Wis, Dec. 2s.-There