The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-11-16

for Day they were Just In time to ses his a.
sailaat plunge q dagger into his left beast
and see him TALL into tie pavement dead and
his murderer rushing away. Tho poIics wert
soon on the spot and g. description OF the
murderer led to tho arrest Of William H.
Warier, engineer at the postohice. Later be
street station BY Wieland and -TowIafd- a.
the murderer.
Charles AudSgah was the most Influential
citizen In the Polish district uf Jsfsey CITY,
until be got Into fight With another Pole,
and the two hld duel on the street, result.
mgtn the shooting Of q little gfri, who wus
standing In hallway near by. He waa
convicted OF atrocious assault and hattery,
and was sentenced to one year In the peni.
tentiary. During his trial his wife q very
his side, and showed her affection for him in
many ways. she believed that her husband
was defending herself when the shooting oc.
cured. When Ne was convicted, shs thought
he would BE- Aned and released When Judge
hpptncutt pronounced sentence on him,
teaIs came to her eyes ahd she broke down
rortpietelys She wns taken home In q car.
nags. and was SO sicE that it was Thought
lest to send her to st. Francis Hospital
She died there, the physicians soy, Of a
broken heart.
Aman supposed to be Tascott, the muir.
derer of Mr.. Shell. the Chicago millionaire,
has been taptHred in the northern part oi
Amherst county: Virginia. Thomas A. Watts,
Trustworthy citizen who lives in Amherst,
visited Lexington for the purpose of notify.
Ing the Chicago authorities that man an.
swersnG the description pi Tascott had : been
arrested about twenty-five miles from Lex.
ington in the wild and sparsely settled por
tion ofthe cotinty. Watts has a full descrip
tion o. Tascott and a tintyp~ ofthe prisoner
and they agree. exactly. The man under
arrest HAS been living around the neighbor
hood some time, working at anything he
could get and looks like q tramp. When,
by accident, Watts obtained a description oi
Tascott he got several mountain men to.
gcther, md after n conference decided to
arrest the man, and he is now well guarded
ut Allwood, an out of way pOstoftice in the
county, Watts hns seht n full description
and tintype to Chicago. He il very conf.
dent he has the right man, and says he will
be produced when wanted.
AnschlaR, the murderer of tho Hitchcocks
and of old man Feugh, has prepared writ.
ten account Of his life and crimes, which fills
two columns of Il Sun Francisco paper 1t
differs little from the confessions that he has
made, except thnt lie gives new detnils of the
bntchery Of the Hitchcocks, the unfortunate
Illinois couple whose fruit farm lie coveted.
lie anys that when he saw tho deed of the
farin made ont and signed to him by Hitch.
cock, who expected to get his money in two
days. he was seized with the impulse to kill
them. as he thoughthe would have no trouble
in holding the land. He killed the husband
in the barn withtwo blows of n sharp hatchet,
and then went to the kitchen and murdered
the wife in the same way. Then he hauled
the bodies two miles. buried them, changed
his clothes md cnlmly went to work on the
farm, where he was arrested. lie did not
hive sense enough to even put away Mrs.
Hitclcock's hest dress, which she had
hid out rendy for church next day. The
murder of Feugh was also to get posse ssion
Of the lnnd and money he was supposed to
have boarded.