The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-01-06
THE CRIMINAL. RECORD.

JAN 23-Eight masked men robbed train in
Texas. securing $4,000
14-Thomas J. Cluverius hanged in Richmond,
Va, for the murder of Fanny Lillian Madison.
16.-Bell and Hoffman confess to wrecking Mis-
souri, Pacific express.
e5-Frauds amounting to $4,000 discovered in
Cincinnati's city government.
e9-Cashier Schroeder. of the Jersey City Ger
mania Savings bank, absconded with $4,000
FEB John l. Lisle. discount clerk of the
First National bank of Baltimore, absconded with
,0O0-Boodle Alderman o'Neil, OF New York,
found guilty. Later he was sentenced to Sing
Sing.
John De Leon, New York, astrologer, con-
victed of abduction, sent up for fifteen years.
4-Charles Ogden Ferris Tichborne claimant)
sentenced to five years imprisonment for pension
frauds.
15,-Isaac H. Vincent, defaulting treasurer Of
Alabama, captured in Texas.
28-Mrs. Roxalana Druse hanged at Herkimer.
NY for murder Of her husband. William Druse.
31.-w A. Clark, New York postofice clerk,
detected in theft of 900 in registered packages
MARCH 17.-Walter E. Lawton, New York phos-
phate dealer, defaulted in 81 100000.
2s-James Hunter, of James & John Hunter,
of Philadelphia, defaulted in $4,000.
A.-Janitor Titus Of New Jersey, confessed to
killing lilly Smith, and his sentence was COM
muted to imprisonment for life.
26-Discovery of body of unknown young
woman murdered at Railway, N. j. celebrated
Railway mystery.
APRIL 11-Warrants issued in Pittsburg, Pa,
for the arrest of 400 Pennsylvania railroad en-
ployes, charged with stealing goods from freight
cars.
Case of Chicago Doodle officials came up.
This matter excited great interest at the time.
Of tnn
court having been found guilty of malfeasance.
| McGarrigle, the leader, escaped some time after
this, and is in the happy land Of the Dominion at
| this time, safe from justice.
| 14-The woman banker, Sarah Howe, left her
| Boston customers in the lurch to the tune 0.
| $4,000.
%.-Jacob Sharp arraigned for bribery in the
| road franchise.
| MAY 1.--James NJ. Taggart, paying teller Cnicn
| Trust company, OF Philadelphia, defaulted in
100000.
| 5-Celebratetl Standard Oil conspiracy case be-
| gun in Buffalo, lasting some days and ending in
| verdict against the Standard Oil.
19-S4Ooo train robbery reported from Texas.
| MARQUIS de Mores, the dressed beef man, placed
under arrest, charged with conspiracy.
JUNE 22.-Craig Tolliver shot in fight with DR..
Logan in Rowan county, KY
sl-Capt Jack Hussey, the Castle Garden, New
York life saver, died from shots fired by Police
man Hahn. Hahn was afterward acquitted.
29-Jacob Sharp convicted.
July 14-Jacob Sharp sentenced to state prison
for four years and fined S., ,O0O
| l3-Pranzni, the notorious Frenchman, SEN
fenced to death in Paris.
31,-McGarigle, who escaped from. Chicago, ar
rived in Canada.
Aus 1890 indictments found against the
bank robbers at Ozark, Mo-; 1G indictments were
for murder.
SEPT 1-Pranzni triple French murderer, was
guilotned.
1.-Frank McNeally, bank clerk at Saco, Me-,
Nov. 1O--Jesse Pomeroy, boy murderer, los
at Concord, Mass.
l4-Second trial of John Arensdorff, charged
with the muyter of the Rev. Mr. Haddock, wa
begun at Sioux City, Ii. Arensdorf was ac
quilted.
2.-Henry V. Leslie and James A. L. Wilson, o
Philadelphia, sentenced to six and eight years
respectively, for embezzling 100000 from Della
ware and Chesapeake Canal company.
2-Ex-Vice President Harper, of Fidelity Ma
tional bank of Cincinnati on trial for wreckin
the bank. At the conclusion of the trial, beln
found guilty. he was sentenced to ten years
prison.
e9-New York court of appeals reversed Judg
Barrett's decision in case of Jacob Sharp, an
granted him 4 new trial. Sharp was released tn
next day.
DEC S.--Marion La Touche, French banker
committed in New York for swindling women