The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-04-27
Criminal Calendar,

The coroncr's jury in the case of Mrs.
Mills. who was shot and killed at Green.
wich. Conn, recently. has rendered !. yer.
dict Tint the shooting was done by her
husband.
hoch. associate editor Of Der Dem okrat,
at davenport. Iowa, was fonnd dead nj
his hotel, having takca laudanum with
suicidal intent. Excessive drink ing was
the cause. He was single and forty.sevep
years OF age.
Otto AGstinott, late cashier OF the pas.
senger and freight department OF the Atch.
ison, Topeka ~ Samte Fe raj lway at
Nickerson. Kan. has been arrested M
Bremen, III. He embezzlcd some OF the
company's y funds and fled.
w. A. ovcrmicr. of Templeton, Iowa,
who had been feeling despondent for some
time over business troubles killed himself
hy cutting his throat in the presence OF
lls wife. brother and two friends. He was
insane. Cvermicr was ono of the leading
citizens of Carroll county.
J. w. Whnrry, who bought the Minneha.
ma County Mail printing outfit from Pos.
tai Inspector Bath last fall, was arrested
at Sioux Falls, charged with forging a
mortgage on property in Missouri. This
mortgage WAS given to Mr.. Bath as secur.
1ty for the purchase money on the Mail of.
flee.
Mrs. Samuel Watts. q widow, murder.
ed nciuhbCr named Storm, near st. Lou.
IL. The tw" had u,arreled often over a
tence line. Storm went to the widow q
house and Renewed the quarrel. and while
storm $ back was turned the widow seized
ii gun and shot him dead. The murdereas
was arrested.
Two young men from Iowa were driving
an company with lveryman from Bur.
fington, Colorado, tn locate on claim. and
ns they were passin: the shanty OF an old
man named Baker they were halted. As thev
stopped Bakers wife told him to shoot
and without warning lie fired a charge OF
bickshot into the party. Three shots
pierced the lungs OF John ID, Morrison
and II entered the back of Z. B. McCon.
nell: The wounded men were taken to
burlington, hut they are not expected to
live. Baker gives his reason for the shoot
ing that he did not want uybudy driving
over his land.
W. A. Cameron, teller OF the Union Bank
OF Canada, at Winnipeg. was arrested at
Pembrie by Sheriff Hart on receipt OF a
telegram from the Winnipeg chief OF police
charging him with embezzlement. He had
$la'' on his person. He admitted that he
was short in his cash account with the
bank. He stated that he had been 5000
snort Tor some time. and, on learning that
the bank examiner would lie in Winniney
soon, decided to make haul. lie would
not make r. statement MS to the amount
oi the shortage. He said he had from $50.
900 to Ss0.OGn in cash in his charge every
day. He was receiving and paying teller.
j.. L. Smith WAS killed by his wife at
HALEY, Idaho. He had ior some time been
very cruel to his family, and on the day OF
''tile tragedy got drunk and threatezed to
whip hi. wife and children. The wife, fear.
.iMN her life, took the children n l,aby
and girl, aged four and six years.
Dtrcatetl to an adjoining room. The
md followed and the woman placed
,N\epiby on the floor beside her tslling the
'>0tner two to get behind her. She then
took rifle and putting it to her shoulder
begged her husband to desist, warning him
that il he did not she would shoot. with
an oath he husband took step forward
with urliited hand. The wife pulled the
trigger and Smith fell dead.
II is believed Cameron confessed all on
the strength OF assurances that friends in
Winnepeg would not be prosecuted. Al.
though Manager Balfour may have made
such a promise the authorities could not
acquiesce in compounding felony. Cam.
eron was allowed to keep 400 odd dollars
on his person. The bank all round viii
only be out about 5000. McKittrick de-
nes all completely with Cameron in the
robbery. aud Diamond claims to have
only had u casual aauaintance OF the fu.
gitiye boodler. 1t seems, however that
Cameron handed the valise containing the
money to Velie and McKittrick ON Friday
night before going to the livery stable and
that it was placed in the presence OF all
three in the sale. when found.
Two gamblers, names unknown, got into
u dispute with VIM. o'Hsarn. bartender
in John Breen's saloon, and another bar.
tender named Charles Green, at Spooner,
Wis. The talk was about the rishtiui
owner Of u handkerchief. and soon led to
a riot. both sides to the controversy
opening fire with revolvers ct about ths
same time. Twenty shots were fired and
tile walls OF the saloon showed many to
have been very wild. However. whom the
smoke cleared away . person was pros.
trstsd on the floor with hole through
ons Of his lungs, and big bullet had
scral,ed through one Of Green's legs and
lr"ka it. The gamblers broke for the
~"nds and the constable followed, and
H""n alter he had taken up the trail shots
vi" heard. and It is thought hs has been
Killed. O'Hssrn viii die,