New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-26
Mans Wicked beings.

The coroners Jury at Birmingham, Ala,
held an inquest on the body of Irene Halves,
found in the lake, and return verdict that
deceased came to her death at the hands Of
her father, r. R. Halves.
George Barton, about sixty years of age,
shot and killed himself at Faribault, MINI.
MI. H9rton was an old resident of Rice
county at the time of his death he owned
q farm in Warsaw, and one in Mortified.
Mr.. Barton and his wife parted some time
ago, and he had just made arrangements to
live with his daughter, Mrs. A, A. McLaugh-
lin.
AT Glyndon, Mimi, while L. B. Peterson
was waiting in a caboose used as a waiting
room two tramps went into the caboose,
presented a revolver at his head and demand
ed his money and valuables. Notsubmitting
one of the highwaymen choked him. taking
his watch and $40 in cash, leaving him in
sensible, in which condition he was found by
the operator and baggagemen. The robbers
escaped.
At Howards Chapel, Morgan county, W.
Va, George Mason and John Lamp became
involved in difficulty over a watch trade,
Mason drew a knife and sta bbed his opponent
in his shoulder. Lamp defended himself with
similar weapon. The men slashed each
other in most brutal manner. Finally
Lamp drew his keen blade across Mason's
neck, serving the juglar vein and killing him
instantly.
Frederick Won Oberkampf and Thomas
Mack on trial for wholesale robberics from
street letter boxes were found guilty at
Chicago, and will each doubtless receive q
long sentence to the pententiary. After the
decision Mack claimed to have been unable
owing to lack of money to avail himself of a
mass of evidence in New York Oberkampf,
on leaving the court for Jail, sought an in
terview with the postoffice Inspector, and is
said to have given up valuable information
| The sheriff of Christian county, Missouri
| hascompleted the gallows upon which William
| Walker, the king of the Bald Knobbers, is to
| be hanged on the 2Sth inst. The other three
members of the band, David Walker, son OF
| the king. r. Joseph and Wiley Matthews, who
| are also to be executed until Feb IL Sher-
| if johnson having received word that an at
| tempt at rescue will be made by the mem
| bers Of the old gang, has swornin 100 special
deputies to guard the jail and take other pre-
cautions to prevent trouble
| The dispatches in the papers of the shoot
ing of E. 81. Morse, cashier of a bank at San
Bernardina, Cal, has created considerable
comment at ST. Cloud, Mimi This is the
same name as the attorney and loan agent
in that city who represented the Minnesota
! Loan and Trust company and who after
embezzelng $40, 900 or SIS 900, mysterious
| ly disappeared about year ago. 1t has
been surmised that he was in California, as
his parents reside there. The query now is,
were there two e. III. Morses or was this m an
shot in California ST. Clouds missing citizen?
Joseph Ford, who murdered Nellie O'Con-
,nor, in New York is q member of an emf.
nently respectable family. He was given to
frequent sprees, during which, although with
| O wife and five children and happy home
he would seek the company of abandoned
women. He has lived with a woman of that
class, and, in order to satisfy her demands
| forged and uttered a mum Der of checks
signing the name of rich relative. A war
rant was issued for the arrest on a charge OF
| forgery, and an officer was looking for him
| at the time the murder was committed.
! A man claiming to be y aek the Ripper
was arrested at Montreal on the charge O
assa ulting a woman. He assaulted Florence
/ Newcomb on the street at night and was ar
rested and taken to police headquarters
| When he was asked for a statement the pris
| oner said: 8 | am Jack the Ripper. have
Just arrived" AS he said this he laughed
uproariously. He afterwards gave his name
as John Langhorn of London, Eng, ant
/ said he was twenty five years old. Amurder
4 ous-looking knife and a letter signed JACK
the Ripper was found in his pocket. Tn,
police say the man is a crank.
4 A bold attempt at bank robbery was made
| in Denver Col, at the Peoples Savings bank
while part of the force was absent at lunch
A stranger entered the bank and engaged il
conversation with the cashier. His pa
sneaked in at the back door, entered thu
vault but before he had secured any money
Mr.. Stannard, the bank teller, noticed him
rushed to the vault, covered the thief with
his revolver and ordered him to hold up his
4 hands. He held them thus until the patro
wagon arrived and took him to Jail. In the
excitement the first robber escaped. The ONT
captured wore q pair of boots made of felt
He refuses to give his name, but it, is sup,
posed that he is an Eastern crook, several oil
them being inIthe city.
There began to appear recently in the