The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-06-20
Crimes and Criminals.

Seth Murray, q tenant on q farm near Vim
eennes, Ind. shot and killed his wife, after
wards ending his own existence with Prussic
acid.
Frank Crause, aged eighteen, is locked up
at the armory, Chicago, charged with max
ing two attempts to wreck trains on the
Chicago & Alton road.
The body of Thomas Kinney was found in
the streets of Indianapolis recently, the
neck broken and skull crushed. The police
are excited over this murder mystery.
Cole Younger, q notorious Wyoming out.
law, has been drowned in that territory while
fording q river. His pal, Ernest Williams,
has been arrested pending O search Tor
Younger's body.
The Chicago News claims to have informa.
ton of a gigantic conspiracy to rob the city
of 1926 900 in taxes. This, it is claimed,
was to be done through the assessors Offices
of the West and South sides.
Anton Swarzwalder, well known as the in
ventor of q wheat cleaner, and q resident of
Belleville, ILL.,, has been arrested on O charge
of bigamy, the complainant being q Miss
Stack, whom he married for her fortune.
Louis Burke, who butchered Alexander
Montgomery with IN ak at Highbridge Wis.
Ia st February for alternating. his wi'e's af-
f%ections, must be tried again for murder.
After being out an hour and q half the jury
decided that at the lime of the murder
Burke was not insane-this defense having
been put in. As q result another trial must
be had
A middle-aged man named Boarg was
found hanging by the neck in the rear of
Anton Preschler's saloon at La Crosse, Wis.
He had used a strap to do the deed, the
buckle serving as q knot. The suicide had
been working two OF three months past tor
Sine Burner, u few miles from the city, and
was paid $40. 1t is believed that he was
robbed of most OF this while drunk, and that
this was the cause of the suicide.
The cattle thieves near Chamberlain, s. D..
are daily becoming more bold and aggres-
sive, and with the present feeling of the far
mer toward them, no mercy will be shown
any Of the rascals that may be caught. At
Crow Creek agency the other day two strang-
ers, white men, mounted on strong, large
horses, were discovered by some Indians in
an attempt to run off cattle belonging to the
government: When first observed the men
were in the midst of the herd ~endeavoring to
seperate some of them from the balance of
the herd. Finding out that they were dis
covered they quickly turned their horses and
made for the bluff along the Missouri and
escaped. ~.
Word was brought to Kimball, OAK, OF
the elopement of George Warn and the wife
Of Charley Booth, both of Plainaeld town
ship. Warn is only about 20, while Mrs.
Booth Is but Is. rather handsome, and has
been married about two years. They took
two m~ortgaged horses, which they rode bare
back. Officers have been dispatched after
the horsesand riders. They were afterwards
arrested at Yankton and lodged in the coun-
ty jail. G. H. Morrill,, of the White Lake
Times, who is al intimate friend of both,
| was instrumental in effecting their capture.
The runaways will be taken pack n Warn
will have to answer to the charge Of horse
stealing. sgs
RUDE Polk Jr. and George Andry, two
young men of st. Augustine, Texas, fought
o duel to the death with bowie knives, for q
woman. The men attended q party md left
together. apparently the best Of friends.
While on the way home they quarreled over
one OF the girls, and they dismounted and
drawing their knives, fought it out on the
roadside. Polk was killed in q few minutes.