The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-11-29
Petty Crimfnalities.

Burglars made raid on the Bee line sta
ton at Hartwell station, Ohio. They chloro-
formed the station agent, his wife and children,
and stole $500 in cash and several hundred
dollars worth of railroad tickets. No clue.
| Detectives have succeeded in unearthing a
well organized gang of counterfeiters near
Warren, Pa. Two arrests have already been
made, and they expect to have the balance of
the gang in twenty -four hours. With the
parties arrested large amount of counter
! felt money was captured.
, E. II. Bruce, an employe of the so-called
National Detective agency, was arrested at
Sioux City, for obtaining money under false
pretenses. This agency has been established
for several months, and complaints have fire.
quently been made against it. Several vic
Tins began prosecution.
The duel between M. Andrieux and M Guy
OF, resulting from the charge made by the
latter in La Lanterne that the Mines trial
was the outcome of collusion between M.
Numa Gilly and M. Andrieux, was fought at
Paris. Swords were used and M. Andrieux
received q slight wound i'll the chest.
Rose aged thirteen years, daughter of John
Lapinsky OF Lake City, Mimi, was commit
ted to the reform school by Justice Mcbride
for breaking into the residence of Mrs. Albert
Glines while the latter was away on q visit,
taking various articles of value. Some of
the stolen property was found in the girls
possession. She pleaded guilty.
At Watertown, Dak., the police arrested
Jens Nelson, for drunkenness and placed him
in the city Jail, located in the fire engine
house. In half an hour the building was dis
covered to be on fire, and before assistance
death. The city hall was entirely Quilted, as
was also the residence of DR.. Stutenroth.
Nelson was Norwegian, about thirty five
years old and unmarried.
w. R. Hoskins of Eden Lake. Minn., had q
warrant issued at st. Cloud for the arrest of
George Scribner, who shot and killed his
son E. d. Hoskins at the former place last
month. The young men were threshing and
started to the house. Scribner's gun was
in the groin, causing death in q few hours.
1t was claimed to be accidental, though the
young men were not good friends. The case
will be tried next month.
Harry w. Horner and Henry,M Breden of
Brooklyn have been arrested for the murder
of Thomas F. Dunno, who was killed by a
blow on the head during chance quarrel in
front of the Herald building. Horner un-
dOubtedly struck the fatal blow, and Breden
was concerned in themelee. twill be claimed
on Horner's behalf that Dunno was intoxi-
Gated and insultGd HOrner, who knocked him
down and passed on, not knowing that the
blow or the fall had fractured Dunne's skull.
Horner's family live in Philadelphia, and are
respectable and well-to-do people.
The mystery in the murder of Eva Jane
Mitchell, the girl whose body was found on
Grand boulevard at Chicago, remains impen-
etrable. OF the four young men arrested on
suspicion, three established alibis sufficiently
substantial to warrant the police in discharg-
ing them in bonds of $4,000 each. But
grave suspicious have arisen in the minds of
the police against Tom Masterson, the flag
man at Thirty-ninth street and Michigan av-
enue. Masterson is the last man thus far
found who saw Eva alive. He tells an inn
probable story of his meeting with her, in
the light of his relations to the murdered
girl, prior to her death, and is still under ar
rest pending further investigation.
Two female horse thieves escaped from jail
at Hutchinson, Kansas. The sheriff of Ham
ilton county was at Newton, Kan., on other
business and had left the keys to the Jail in a
hotel. Some one got the keys, let the thieves
out and then returned the keys. 1t is six
weeks since these daring queens Of the road
earned extended nOtOriety by their bold at
tempt to steal vehicle and team Of horses
They had been stealing horses for q year,
having run on IA horses, including two splen-
did animals from Hutchinson. The girls are
Of dashing type, both blondes, and hand
some. Ida says she is the daughter OF q
Philadelphia minister, and Emma claims to
b the daughter ut q Wholesale clothing deal
er in Boston. Their real names are un-
known.