Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
Crlmes ana lcrlnInals,

The steamship Erin, IRON London came In
to New York with murderer in irons. Pat
rick Kelly. seaman, had stabbed TO death
Sailor Johu Parry and John Chapman.
Kelly was taken ashore under arrest.
John Gibbs, who robbed the depot at Madi.
son Lake, Mimi. was taken 70 Mankota and
lodged in Jail The money was not recovered.
Gibbs Is printer, and Was implicated In n
THEFT in Kasota hist summer lie viii have
TO appear before the grand jury in December.
W. N. Han, agent OF the Minneapolis Eleva.
tor company at Ogden Iowa. has ahsnonded
with 8 300 belonging to the company, and
LEFT local merchants for about $500 more.
Every effort Is being made to iind him bRtso
far without success.
d. Webb assaulted C. A. Smith at Blue
Earth City, Mimi. with an AK. dealing him a
blow On the leg which will probably lame him
for iiie. Webb was abusing his family, 8hou
he had driven into the street in their night
cloths. Smith. trying TO protect thcm, met
the above fate Webb is under arrest.
Henry Conrad Ebert was hanged in the
county jail az Jersey City. When the trap
was sprung the knot slipped around under
The jaw and disarTangcsi the cap 70 that
Eberts Face was exposed TO view as heslowly
Ftrnngled to death. When the body was cut
afterwards taken to Mount Olive and ere
mated The crime for which Ebert was
hanged was the brutal murder of his wife.
The body Of Nels Anderson was fouadlying
near the Milwaukee main line track near Red
wing. Tho head was badly maagied and the
throat cut In the pockets were found an
empty purse, some keys and u knife. Hehad
been despondent, and bad told parties here
that IL he went away be would never return.
The wound in his throat was probably self
inflicted. but il can hardly be believed shat
the fracture of the skull resulted from con-
tact with an engine.
Judge Reddick of Arkansas delivered a
charge to the grand jury, in which he urged
theIq TO make a full Investigation of the race
troubles that have recently made Crittenden
county an armed camp. The court first
calls attention to the letter received by prom
inent white citizens ordering them TO leave
the county on pain OF death for non-com-
piance, and instructed the jury to indict for
conspiracy every person found to have been
concerned in sending the letters.
A daring daylight robbery was attempted
between Marquette, Mich. and the new state S
prison building. J. r. Grip, one of the con
TRAITORS, started from the bank to the prison,
and when near the prison was set upon by
four strange men. He was struck upon the
head with q club and badly beaten. The
robbers. knowing il was pay day, demanded
the safehci containing the money. But Mr..
"Trip bad decided to pay on next say. But
for this postponemcnt the robbers would
have got several thousand dollars.
Some light is thrown upon the mysterious
suicide of q. IL. Spencer. who ended his life
June 10 at a hotel at Marquette, Mich, by
taking earbolic acid. Copies of the two let
ters which he left for his wife and which the
coroner refused to open have been received.
In them he begged forgiveness for the trouble
he had made her, and said his brain was
turned, and that he killed himself TO keep out
Of the mad house. Ii is understood that
there was a woman IN the case who has al
ways borne an unspotted reputafion. She is
well and fayosably known. highly connected,
and her identity is withheld because there is
no proof OF her eomplicity in the circum-
stances lending up TO the tragedy.