New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-26
Criminal Doings,

George O. Cannon surrendered himself in
court at Salt Lake City and was sentenced to
slx months in the penitentiary and fine of
$500 on two indictments of unlawful cohab-
itation.
After weeks of persistent search on the
part OF the local officers a part of the band
OF horse thieves that has been operating in
the Black Hills has been run down and cap
tured, and the Others are still being pursued.
Allen Anderson, ofScotland, Oak, was con-
vlcted OF bigamy at the Bon Homme Cd. ID
district court and sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary. Anderson married Alvina
Jacobs this spring while having wife and
children in Rhode Island
Mrs. c. j. DeLeon, an elderly widow, com
mitted suicide at Chicago by attaching q
rubber tube to the gas jet and inserting the
other end beneath the bedclothes, which she
tucked closely over her head and body. De-
spondency at the recent death of a favorite
daughter is supposed to be the cause of the
act.
In the case of Josephine Hubbard against
W. FL. Hubbard. which has been on trial at
Milwaukee for several days the jury
brought in a verdict in favor of
the plaintiff, generating her from the
charge of adultery and finding the defend ant
guilty of the same charge. The case was q
very sensational one.
The farm of III. M Mason, one mile south
of Valley City, D. T., was the scene of a fight
which may prove fatal to one of the partic-
pants. Two farm hands got into gu ariel
which led to q personal encounter, in which
pitchforks and knives were used. One of the
men received a wound in the back two inches
deep and six inches long and his condition is
critical The other combatant has been
jailed to await the result Of his victims inju-
ries.
Officers and posse of men have been
searching for two days among the hills sur
rounding Helena, Montana, for traces of the
woman, Annie Lundstrom, who is supposed
to have been murdered by her lover, Bryson.
All prospect holes, deserted mining shafts
and other likely places in the immediate
vicinity have been carefully scrutinized, but
no clue has been discovered Bryson is still
in Jail, and refuses to say anything beyond
denying his guilt.
A bloody ARRAY occurred in court room
at Kokono, Ind. Action for divorce was
pending between Samuel Pruett and wife and
both parties were in court waiting for the
case to be called. While the court was oc-
cupied with another case, -Pruett drew 8 re-
yolyer and fred two shots into the body OF
his wife and third into j. C. Blackidge The
womanis shot in the left breast, near the
heart, and in the right shoulder, and will
prabably die. Blacklidge is shot in the right
buc LIS Dire nOU ldUdl Il
was arrested. He claims the shooting OF
Blacklidge was accidental, the bullet being
| intended for another man who had invaded
the sanctity of his household He admitted
that he intended to kill his wife.
Trembling, and with a look OF seventy-one
years on his back, Rev j. s. Greene walked
slowly into a Chicago Justice court to hear
the formidable array of wives and witnesses
testify against him. A chair was given him,
and, seated in the Furthermore end of the
dock, he bowed his head on his hands, clasped
over the knots of a large headed cane His
revere was undisturbed until the court said.
Zone thousand dollars to the crimina al court. y
The evidence showed that he had married
Marguerite NJ. Gilbert, a shorthaired brunette
dr.essmaker, thirty years old, at ST. Cloud,
MINI, Aug. 80 of this year. Ellen G. Britten
OF Chicago was the Doctors housekeeper from
November, 1886, until March II, 1857, when