The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-02
FOUL PLAY.
A Prominent Farmer and His Wife
Murdered for Money.
A German Suspected and LyDehed for
the Crime.
A Bold Psnltsntiary Outbreak Nipped
in the Bud.
Forty-two Prisoners Determine to
Cut their Way to Liberty.

SANTA ANA. CAL, Jan. 27.-S. B.
Hitchcock, a prominent farmer, came
to Santa Ana last Monday with his
wife and acknowledged the deed to his
property to a German named Ansch-
lag They returned home, but not
having been seen thereafter, the neigh
bors grew suspicious of foul play and
instituted a search. Their dead bodies
were found yesterday long ways from
the house. Hitchcock and his wife
were side by side in a hole in the
ground, which had been covered over
With earth and straw. Hitchcock's
throat was cut from ear to ear and his
Wife's head was split open with a
Ratchet. 1t seemed evident that
Anschlag had murdered them to retain
the money he had paid them for the
land. A lynching party was at once
organized and started for Anschlag
and he was lynched before officers
could interfere.
LATER.
| Los ANGELES, Gala, Jan. 27.-The
accounts published this forenoon about
the lynching of the murderer of the
Hitchcocks, near Santa Anna, is incor-
rect. The murderer was hidden in
Anahiem over night to escape the mob,
and was brought to jail here this morn
| ing.
PRISONERS PLAN OF ESCAPE.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. pa desperate
plan of forty-two prisoners to escape
| from the Jeffersonville penitentary
was discovered yesterday by Warden
Patten by accident. A man named
Forbes who was in the plot was
frightened into giving the scheme away.
Every Thursday evening the men
are taken out, one range at time, in
| to the hallway and shaved. One
heavily armed guard is in charge and
according to the plan as soon as the
range was unpacked the forty
two prisoners we're to over
power the guard, cut his throat and
after locking his dead body in cell
they were to make bold dash for the
main corridor and liberty. 1t was ex-
pected that some of them would be
killed but as nearly all of them are life
prisoners or long term prisoners they
agreed to take tie risk. They were to
arm themselves with iron bars, clubs,
knives, etc., to be found on the way
and kill every man who opposed them.
Had the wardens vigilance not detect
ed the plot there would have probably
been many lives lost and one of the
most extensive prison outbreaks ever
heard of would have occurred.
ACCUSED OF FRAUD.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 25.-Indiana
fled suit to-day in the circuit court at
Jacksonville against David M. Allen.
who was steward of the Prison South
during A. J. Hoard's administration
Allen converted to his own use jan
uary 1st, 1875, and March LIST, 1877,
provisions and goods to the value of
SAC, 900, which it is sought to recover.
1t is also charged that Allen
conspired with Howard, Captain
Craig and others to defraud the state
out of articles to the value Of $50, 900,
for which Judgment is also prayed.
Other paragraphs charged that Mr..
Allen, in the purchase of supplies for
the prison, conspired with certain
firms, whose name are given to de-
fraud the state out of S100, 900.
SENT UP FOR TWENTY YEARS.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 25.-Frank EN-
erson was convicted of burglary in the
criminal court here to-day, and was
given a sentence of twenty years in the
penitentiary, the heaviest punishment
ever inflicted for that crime in this
city.
LOSSES BY FIRE.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 26.-The fire
which broke out in DalZel q Co. s
warehouse resulted in a total destruc-
ton of the building, together with an
adjoining structure on First avenue.
occupied by the Anchor Paste company.
DalZell s. Co. will lose $4,000 on the
building and stock. The paste cOmpa-
ny's loss is SO, GOO; insured for 81 900.
Wamhoff & Co., glass manufacturers,
81 600; Sheriff s. Co., brass finishers,
81 900. The insurance will nearly
cover the loss.
FOR THE DEFENDANTS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 26.-The suit for
$40, 900 damages, brought by Ulman,
Chicago grocer. against Colonial Lit
tier, secretary of the National Dairy
| Association, City Butter Inspector
| Howe, and others, for illegal prose-
cution, was tried before a jury in
| Judge Algar's court to-day, and re-
suited in verdict for the defendants.
| Ulman was one of some twenty local
dealers who were prosecuted and fined
for selling butterine for butter.
| BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
| CHICAGO, Jan. 26.-JameS w. Sykes,
until recently well-known seed mer-
chant and proprietor of large ware
house, was placed on trial to-day be-
fore jury in Judge Horizons court,
the charge being the issue of fraudu-
lent receipts. The amount of money
said to have been obtained by the
crime is $4,000, of which S96, 600 was
from the Merchant Loan and Trust
Company. and the remainder from the
Hide and Leather Bank.
A NERVY SHERIFF.
ARKANSAS CITY, Jan. pa Pur-
cell, l; T., dispatch to the Republican;
Traveller, says: Marshal Carr found
John McGrew, the murderer of John
Watkins, at noon to-day about twenty
five miles from the scene of
the tragedy. Upon being commanded
to throw up. his hands he opened fire
upon the marshal, and shot his horse
from under him. Carr then opened
fire upon McGrew, inflicting wounds
from which he died soon afterwards.
BRINGS SUIT.
, ST. PAUL, Mimi. Jan. 26.-John A.
Roeblings, Son s. Co., wire cable
, manufacturers brought suit in the
, district court to-day against the New
York Cable Construction Company
! and the St. Paul City Railway Com
: pany for 81 ,240, yet unpaid for the
! cable used in the road here, asking FOL
a lien on all the property of the cable
road, and that the same be sold Il
! satisfy the above claim.
8 BOUND OVER.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. ga Time
special from Missouri City, Missouri
reports that Barney Summary, VIII
/ attempted, with several others, to rol
o. a Wabash passenger train week ag
tonight, was bound over in the sun
/ of 81 900 at the conclusion of his e.
IS own case, but the evidence was strong
le " against him. He was lodged in jai
IN in default of the bond.
ct WHITFIELD HIS CHILD TO DEATH.
IS NEVADA, Mo-, Jan. 26.-John KIM
Id colored, was lodged in Jail this afte
ID noon charged with the murder OF b
7-months-old child. King whipped h
baby with leather strap and switC
before retiring at O'Clock last nigh
he When the parents awoke this morniI
he the child was dead. The body shov
10 marks of violence.
TRAIN ROBBERS RUN n.
40 MEMPHIS, Tenn Jan. 27.-Early
he December train on the st. Louis, AT,
To- Mountain & Texas road. near Geno
en- Arkansas. was robbed. The case W
al put in the hands of detectives and
All following clue offered by the fndil
M of s'slicker," man by the name