New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-31
Mans Wicked Doings.

David Sellers and wife, living about six
miles east of Mount Gilead, Ohio, were MUIR
dered and the house fired to hide the evil
dences of the crime. Sellers was wealthy and
known to carry large sums of money on his
person. There is no clue
Louis Smith, a colored man, who lately
came to Washington from Minneapolis to
act as coachman for Mrs. Bean, is under ar
rest for alleged burglary. He is said to have
broken into the house of man named
Cowie, and was caught by two young ladies,
the daughters of the family.
The mail pouch that left Boston recently
and arrived in Chicago next day over the
Michigan Southern railroad was robbed of
all the first class mail matter it contained
The stolen package consisted of registered
letters, and the superstition is that large
amount OF money was secured by the thief.
Mrs. I. ]. Lynch, ayoung and wealthy
lady, threw herself from the window of her
room in the Hotel Bristol, New York, and
was Instantly killed. Mr.. and Mrs. Lynch
had just returned from Europe, where Mrs
Lynch had gone for the benefit Of her health
She had been suffering from severe case of
typhoid fever for several days.
Two mem bers of the city police force were
arrested at Fargo, no complaint of Joseph
kuehl of Sargent county, charging them with
having robbed him of $5OOwhile coming from
Moorhead together in acarriage. Kuehl him
self was arrested on the charge ofhaying rob-
bed another party Of $25.
Two beautiful daughters Of game keeper
have been found murdered in forest near
Leakan, Moravia The breasts of one of the
girls were severed while the other was pinned
to the ground with q spike driven through
the abdomen. The motive for the crime is
supposed to have been jealousy.
George Purdy, q young man, was riddled
with bullets and killed one mile northeast of
Lebanon, Ind, and persons who witnessed
the shooting from q little distance say that
it was a political murder. Purdy was shout
ing for Harrison, and some unknown men
driving up from behind commenced firing
their revolvers at him.
benjamin Carter was hanged at Rawlins,
Wyoming, for the murder of John Jeffreys.
boy. At his request, newspaper reporters
were not present at the execution Carter
walked to the scaffold unsupported. His
last words Were Il am going to leave you;
but will see you again. Goodbye His
neck was broken by the fall and death was
instantaneous. The crime for which Carter
was hanged occurred in the fall of 1886. One
night he entered the tent where jeffrey and
several other cowboys were sleeping. He or
dered Jeffrey to get up, and when he did so
Carter shot him through the head. He was
captured the following day and narrowly es-
capped lynching.
"A sensation was created at Racine. Wis,
by the announcement that W "A. Booth,
secretary and bookkeeeper of the Fish
Brothers Wagon company, had suddenly
disappeared, and was short on his accounts
from 81 900 to IS, OOO Booth left the of
flee with a lot of drafts, which he was to have
deposited with the bank, but failed to do SO,
Instead, he cashed q certificate of deposit on
his own name for 5000 and made q futile
effort to cash the company's note in his
favor for $4,000. The first intimation OF
any crookedness was received upon investi-
CATION of the books where entries were made
which Mr.. Booth could not explain 1t is
believed his shortage will reach any where
from So, 900 to IS, 600.
Exp postmaster McNamara, Of Minot, Oak.
was brought before Justice Sullivan, and in
view of the recent developments in the case.
his bonds were reduced to $500, which were
readily produced. The case has attracted
considerable attention, as the postmaster
was in jail on q warrant charging him with
the embezzlement of So, 500 The examine
ton OF the books was evidently made in q
very careless manner, and it is doubtful if,
after his books have been correctly audited,
the shortage will not amount to very much.
if anything, The postofice inspector who
examines the books was said to have been
considerably under the influence of election
fluid while at Minot, and this is probably the
reason the case was handled in this way.
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