New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-21
Petty Criminalities,

Mrs. Matilda Hellerman was shot and
killed at Philadelphia by Peter Kretchman.
widower who lived in the next house The
only explanation he gave was that his wife
who died about three weeks ago, had been
ruined and driven to her death by Mrs. Hell
lerman;
While political meetings were in progress
ut Taylorville, H.. unknown parties pro-
cured quantity of sulphuric acid, which by
means OF syringe was injected into about
fifty horses belonging to farmers. Five of
the animals have died, and the others are
rendered useless. There have been no
arrests.
The supreme court of Missouri affirmed the
verdict of murder in the first degree against
William Walker, chief of the notorious Bald
knobbers' organization is Southern Missouri.
He will be hanged Dec %. This decision
also affects three Others of the leaders of the
gang who were convicted about the same
time Walker was.
The coroner's jury, after three weeks in
vestlgatlon Of the causes of death of G. N.
Thompson and Jacob Lee, killed by falling
walls at the insane asylum, at Yankton, Da-
kota, returned a sealed verdict, which has
been placed in the hands of the district at.
torney. The responsibilities for the death of
the two men has been located by the jury, but
who the parties are remains secret until they
ore in custody.
N. d. Vaughn, a blacksmith, was murdered
IN front of the Palace theater at Denver
Vaughn was on his way to work and stepped
into the saloon attached to the theater for
cigar. While there q quarrel arose beteewn
several allnight loungers Vaughn interfered
to restore peace. One Of the men named An
derson, followed Vaughn to the street and
shot him through the head, killing him in
stantly. Anderson and his companions are in
Jail.
Hawleyville, Page county, Iowa, is in a
high state of excitement over the determined
attempt at murder and suicide by O disap-
pointed lover, Stephen Franks. Franks
sought the hand OF Miss Carrie Love and
she accepted him, but refused his additional
request for a speedy marriage He called on
the young lady, and once more vainly urged
her to consent to a speedy union. Enraged
at her refusal, Franks drew a revolver and
fired at his finance twice, the last shot TAX
ing effect. She fell, and Franks, believing he
had killed her, shot himself. Neither is con-
sidered fatally wounded.
serious sho oting ARRAY occurred at
Burk's mining camp in Northern Idaho
Charles Garrett, colored, and Joe Morgan,
white, were drinking in a saloon, and en-
gagged in an alteration. Both men drew re-
volvers and opened fire. Though the COM
batants could not see each other for smoke,
after the first few shots, they blazed away
until their revolvers were emptied. james
shannon a by-stander, was vas. shot in the
stomach and cannot live; William LYMAN,
another spectator, was shot through the
shoulder and CARROTS arm was almost
shot off. Morgan came out of the fight with
out scratch and escaped to the mountains
Two farmers, Hiram Rotten and William
Ashley, living in Custer county, Nebraska,
called on a neighbor named Holstein to see
him about some furniture which had disap-
peared from the school house in that dis
trict. They failed to return, and their
nelghbors became suspicious and instituted
search for them. They saw hogs eating. at
some object in haystack in Holstein's field,
and going to the spot found the dead bodies
OF Rotten and Ashley. Rotten's face had
been badly eaten by the hogs. Holstein can
not be found, and it is believed he took with
him the team and wagon in which the muir
dered men drove to his house.
A sensational incident transpired in the
district court room at Helena, NJ t., when
Martin Brown was found guilty of burglary
into the Montana Central Office some months
ago and stealing o lot of railroad tickets.
During his trial he displayed great excite
ment and impudence, conducting himself in
such a manner that his counsel finally be-
came Disguised and abandoned their efforts
to save him. After the jury had found him
guilty Brown made an attempt to escape
from the court room, and the officers had to
use violence to subdue him. Judge McCon-
nell sentenced him to twelve years in the
penitentiary, and as he pronounced the sen.
tence the prisoner began to curse and swear
at him, using the foulest epithets ever heard
In a court room.
Chauncey Goodrich, an old man employed
as a laborer in the Ansonia Clocl, works in
Brooklyn, N. Twas arranged in court in
that city upon a charge of attempting sui
eide. Mr.. Goodrich was a prosperous clock
maker in Bristol, Conn, for number OF
years and amassed a comfortable fortune
In 1858 he was elected state senator, and
again in1STO he filed the same office. Sev.
eral years ago he invested some money in
Union Pacific stock and quickly made 500
600. He then came to Brooklyn to live and
had q clock factory in Warren street. But
the mania for speculation seized upon him,