New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-02
Petty Crim1nalities.

W. 81. Webb, who murdered his wife at
Brandon on Sept. was hanged at Winnipeg
He met his doom without finching. and pro-
fessed to have received religion. Death was
instantaneous
On a farm near North Loup, Nebraska,
Sheriff Nicholl arrested q man answering the
description of the supposed murderer of
Miss Mehitable White of Concord Mass A
large reward had been offered for him. He
denies his guilt.
Prado, the murderer of Marie Aigutant,
his mistress, was gnillotined at Paris in the
Place de Ia Roquette. He preserved q firm
pemeanor to the last. He refused to make q
confession, and also declined the services of
the chaplain. The death was witnessed by
some 200 artists, newspaper men, lawyers
and politicians, who possessed influence suf-
fcent to obtain admission within the sentry
lines to the Place de la Roquette. He died
with much the same bravado as Pranzini,
his former chum and counterpart.
A amber named Jack Calvin got into a
dispute with another man in Helena, Mont.
Jack Harris, q well known gambler and ath-
lete interferred and took the strangers part,
when another quarrel ensued between Calvin
and Harris, the latter knocking the former
down. Calvin secured q dagger and followed
Harris to Dell Dicks saloon to fight Harris.
A scuffle followed, both men falling to the
floor, when Calvin pulled his dirk and stab
bed F,arris in the left side, the blade cutting
through rib. The wounded man now lives
at the hospital in q critical condition. Gal
vim is in Jail. Sympathy seems to be with
Calvin. rs Harris is regarded as bully, and
shot a man at Great Falls last year.
In front Of the guillotine board stood
upright to a height of five feet. Four hurley
men dressed in blouses of blue and white,
striped stockings. sprang forward, seized the
condemned man, hurled him onward against
ho1 oht H,1po +;
by their weight bore, the struggling victim,
| face downward, to the top of the low plat
| form. That board worked on a swivel and
| ran on rollers. In an instant it had been
! wheeled forward until the neck was under the
glistening knife, upon which the morning
| was sprung, and the keen steel struck the
neck as it might have collided with a rubber
| car spring. 1t went through, and the head
| of Prado lay among the shavings beyond
One of the boldest 70 bberies ever commit
| ted in ST. Louis, occurred on Olivetstreet,
near Sixth, the busiest part of the city.
Henry Ashoff, with Roseuhelm, Lewis & Co.,
| wholesale millinery, had drawn 81 300 from
| the Bank of Commerce. He had the money
| in three packages-one of 81 900 and two OF
| $50 each. At George Neil's hat store, 625
| Olive street, he was jostled by three we'll
] dressed men and found $500 of his money
missing. He gave the alarm and one man
WAS aIIeSleu.-a 1 He prisoner SaVe sbHe hume
/ ofC w, Ward, but afterward admitted his
name was Clifford w. Ely, and stated that
he travelled for Price, the collar and cuff
/ dealer, Chicago. The money was not found
| on the prisoner
james Green, of W olcott, Wayne county
i N. Y. who cut his wifes throat after hitting
! her on the head with a hammer. and then
cut frghtful cash in his own neck, succeed.
| ed in escaping from his watchers anu getting
possession of q razor, inflicted another deep
cut on the opposite side of his neck from the
| first, and died in q few moments. He had
made frequent attempts during the day to
tear open the first wound, but was held on
/ the bed by two attendants Mrs. Green will
/ probably die. When asked why he attempt
l ed to kill his wife, Green would only reply:
Because wanted to" Green's son, a
young man, says his father was jealous with
| out cause, and that women gossips are to
element in the village over the tragedy.
I Judge Robert A. Johnston committed
i suicide at his residence in Avondale near
Cincinnati. About two months ago, his es.
i Unable wife, daughter of the late Judge
j Ewing, died after long and painful illness
/ Since then, Judge Johnston has been known
to be broken with grief, though he has ut
1 tended nearly as usual to his duties He
resided with his married daughtes, Mrs
i Harries Hurlbert, and after dinner visited
i the grave of his wife at Spring Grove
| cemetery In the morning, he rose, and with
out dressing himself, took a revolver which
| ne had in his room, and deliberately fired {
I ball through his head, causing instantaneous
/ death He was well established gnancially
/ happy in all his domestic relations and hat
( no known cause for this act, except for hif
Overwhelming grief at the loss OF his lifelong