The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-08-01
Criminal DOingS.

mortally stabbed Special Police Officer Hen
ry Call, who had arrested him.
William Bushnell, who a%bsconded from New
York with $35, coo ten years ago and was
recently captured in Chilli, has escaped.
Tony Cohen, a clerk in A. H. King g clothing
store ut New York, took 81, 900 of his en-
ploysr's money anG. eloped with Frieda
Siegel, q cash girl in q restaurant.
1t is thought that Capt. Ryan, OF the
Philadelphia bark Mary p. Kitchen, has been
murdered by the crew. The ship has arrived
at Montevideo under another name.
Chauncey Knifin, twenty-five years of
age, shot himself dead at Lake Mahopac, N.
Y, after firing three shots at his vie Annie,
aged eighteen. The young woman will die.
Domestic trouble.
James Gibson and James Connors, indict-
ed for robbing both the Negaunee and Calu-
met postofaces in Michigan, made q key
from q piece OF broom handle and then the
turnkey came in with breakfast, unlocked
the door and made q dash for liberty. Two
short term men also struck out. One held
back and were captured inside the Jail, de-
laying the turnkey until the Others were out
of sight.
A White Cap outrage occurred six miles
south of Brodhead, Wis. The victim was a
wife-beater, a rich farmer named Perry Mel
son, known az the stinglest man in Southern
Wisconsin. He had beaten his wife terribly
of late and was caught going home by O
gang of White Caps, who thrashed and tar
red and feathered him. They then warned
country in ten days or they would return
and kill him. He contemplates leaving.
Taylor Crum, attorney for Murderer
Thomas Brown, at Moorhead, Mimi, in
formed his client of the action of the supreme
court in affirming the decision of the lower
court. On hearing the news he manifested
the sumo Indifference which mas characterized
him since his conviction. He stated that he
would not lose any sleep or appetite on &C
count of his having to be hanged. A petit
ton will be circulated asking the governor
to commute the sentence to life imprison-
ment.
6. The famous desperate St. Lopki was killed
in tho Indian Territory by the Indian cap
tain of the Creek Indian Light Horse COM
pany. St Lopki was a Ute Indian, a men,
Der of the notorious Westley Barnett band
of outlaws and one of the dreaded
dssperadoes in the territory. 1t was he, who,
while under arrest n in irons, murdered
Deputy United States Marshal Philips and
posse, q year ago, by beating them down
with bis handouts. One of the Light Horse
company was mort ally wounded in the fight,
before st. Lopki was killed.
Three cattle and horse thieves, members
of q notorious band of Mexicans who have
committed many depredations in A%lbuquer-
que, were captured by Deputy Sheriff Charles
Lowens and posse and imprisoned in a va
can't house near Kelly, N. M. Before the
capture of the thieves, three in number, engag.
ed the posse in battle, during which their
leader and Deputy Lowens were shot dead.
At night a party of cowboys proceeded to
the house where the remaining two thieves
were Imprisoned, overpowered the guard and
hanged the prisoners after riddling their
bodies with bullets.
Col. RogerJ. Page,.a prominent lawyer and
editor of the Times Register at Marion, N.
c., was shot and instantly killed at that
place just after alighting from the midnight
train which brought him from Round Knob.
He had gone q hundred yards from the sta
ton and wasleaning on the arm ofhisfriend,
Judge Haywood, of Texas, while on his left
was another friend, when some one came up
behind him and shot him through the neck,
which was broken blythe ball. His as%sailant
ran, mounted q horse and fled the town. A
%coroner's inquest was hurriedly held. render
ing q verdict of death by a person unknown.
Ayoung man had threatened to kill Col.
Page, and was seen following the dead man
at the station that night.
In the supreme court at Calgary, N. w.
T., William, alias Jumbo Fisk was placed
in the dock to receive his sentence. He
made no reply when asked If he had anything
to say: "Judge Roleau said the Jury had
given him all the benefit they could
when they brought in q verdict Of man.
| slaughter, but he had been within o hairs
breadth Of ending his life on o scaffnld for
causing the death of the poor unfortunate
squaw whom he had. SO cruelty mutilated.
His honor stated that owing to his friends
and relatives, but especially his aged
mothers pleading, he would be lenient with
| him. Sentence Of the court wei fourteen
years imprisonment, with hard labor.
s The bodies of three men, one colored and
two white. were found near Whiting station,
Lake county, Ind. Examination developed
that each Of them had q fatal wound exact
" on the back Of the head. One OF them
whom found was entirely nude with the OK
ception ola shirt, and this fact, together
with other evidences, goes to show that the
| deed must have. been committed while the
victims slept. Near the colored man was
faund Q pocketbook and several bank notes.
| Mhoathsy sare, where they came from, 81
now theye6msthers 10 unknown to any one.
One rapport eays they have been in Whiting
for several daYs, and Wers ssnticed on the
Irrailroad and nAydsred and Fohbed,l@bat the
noSt plalsfk1s theory II that they were
stocknaen passing through With q load oi
hvs stock md perhaps tTamps on the train