The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-06-08
Criminal Calendar.

a clue has been discovered that NAV
bnssibly lead to the arrcs: Of the murder.
.rs OF lieuben Drake and Ills family at vir-
oqnn. Wis. Suspicion points to two par
tics who left that section.
Willie IL. Lee the young man who at.
tempted To kill his stcp.fatlcr, Banker
Rawson, last October, in Chicago, while
leaving church. was denied 70 release from
Jail on IL write hnbcas corpus.
Luther Holman pleaded guilty at Bos.
ton of conspiriug to murder his sister.
Physicians testified that congestion of the
brain had affected his brain. He was sen.
fenced to two years in the house OF correc.
ton.
AtCox boarding house Albany, n. y.
Joseph Sherer, who waa employed at
kicIer's rcsturaunt, shot and killed Lizzie
Mccarthy, to whom he was engaged TO be-
married, and then shot himself. He can
not live. jealousy was the cause of the
act.
An Augusta (Alc.) dispatch says that
Mr.. Blainc's house was broken into some
time ago while lie and his family were all,
sent and all his political and business cor
respondence and private papers involving
financial operations which were in his Ii.
brary, we're overhauled and IL portion OF
them abstracted.
julius Il. Griswod adrummcr for n Bal
timore oil firm. committed suicide Mt Cam
bridge, Md. lie had been drinking heavily
and Il colorcd man saw Griswold Jump
into the river from the wharf. a plank
was thrown to him but Griswold refused
to be saved. The body was hooked up
with oyster rakes and sent to Baltimore
Emmett V. Rhoatles cashier of the First
National Bank at st. Paris, Ohio, has
been found short in his accounts, and the
bank has suspended pending an investiga.
tion by the controller OF the currency.
Rhoades was arrested for violating tho
bank laws. The shortage. $4,000. will
be made good by Ehoades bondslnen.
The family OF j. a. Allen. OF Council
Grove, Kansas, consisting OF his mother,
wife and two little girls aged eight and
eleven years respectively. were poisoned
youngest ciiild died. Allen was not effect
cd. as le did not drink OF the coffee, and
crcumstantal evidence points strongly to
him as the perpetrator OF the crime.
Judge Gould OF Monticello, Inl;lnia,
sent Il telegram to Gov. Gray, reuuestin.
that military he furnished to guard the
jail at that town. where Chamberlain. the
murderer OF Ida Wittcnberg is confined
as visit from a lynchins party was fear.
cd. The governor at once ordered the
Carroll veterans OF Delphi to proceed to
Monticello. and Adjt. Gen. Noontz at
once started for the scene.
Miner Perkins. who has been in jail at
Grand Rapids Wis, since last December.
charged with the murder OF his wife in II
logging camp seven miles west Of l'ittsvlle,
surprised everybody when his case was
called by pleading guilty. Last December
while assisting his wife as cook in log.
cins camp. he shot and killed her because
he believed her intimate with another man.
He was sentenced to lie Imprisonment in
the penitentiary ut Waupmn, lie asked
the Judge to give bin twenty minutes in
which to make a little speech. His request
was granted, and he told his story, claim.
ing that his vile was intimate with other
men and IN his rage he shot her
The body OF Daniel Wilford. missing for
several days, Was found in Il well half IL
mile from his home in Jackson township,
Benton county, Iowa. Marks on his head
showed that he had been murdered and
suspicion pointed to Dan Ridge who was
arrested ut Republican City, Neb.. and
= when accused OF the murder blew his
brains out. Wilford was murdered for his
money. having drawn considerable from
the bank that day.
X. c. Capel, q druggist at DEBORAH, Iowa.
was arrested at Chicago, charged with