Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-22
MAIL POUCH ROBBERY,
Heavy Robbery Of Registered
Mail For St. Louis
A Brutal Negro Lynched in Georgia-A
Vendetta in OhiO-A Wealthy
Woman Robbed of
Diamonds.

ST LOUIS. Aug. 19.-The fast mail over
! the Pennsylvania railroad arrived here
at LAS O'Clock yesterday morning and 8
few minutes later il was announced that
the through pouch from New York con-
! tanning the registered mail for st. Louis
| had been stolen. The wires were set to
! work and at two O'Clock message was
received stating that the pouch had been
! picked up in he yards at Terre Haute, Ind.
| The postal clerks take supper at Terre
! Haute and the theory is that while the
men were al supper the car was entered
| and the pouch stolen. The pouch con-
| tanned over SO, 600. Tut the message failed
/ TO state the condition of the pouch when
! found. Postmaster Hyde, however, re-
ceived dispatch from Terre Eaute stat
! ing that the pouch had been found. cut
/ open and rified. 1t was the through reg
| istered pouch from Albany, n. Y. The
amount of booty the robbers secured is not
known, but Is believed to be about
| $4,000. The pouch was stolen while the
clerks were at supper and was not missed
until the train reached Efin CHAM, Iii.
The letters are reported as bearing for
the most part remittances for cattle trans
actions and in this case they would prob
ably contain large sums of money. Many
OF the packages probably had remttances
covering the value of several carloads Of
cattle and this would swell the total
amount up to considerable figure. Checks
were doubtless sent in some and in these
cases no loss will be sustained aside from
Inconvenience and delay.
NEGRO LYNCHED.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 19.-Walter As
burg. colored, alias Berriam, was lynched
ct Polar, ten miles west of here, yesterday
morning for assault upon Lulu Kissman,
a seventeen year-old German girl. She
was terribly beaten in the struggle, but
she successfully resisted him. Her cloth
Jag was torn from her body, her
face beaten and gashed and one
eye closed. The finger prints of the
negro were left on her neck. The floor
and furniture were covered with blood.
The girls cries attracted colored man
who was passing and he rescued her. As
burg sprang through door and escaped
but in the next house he knocked a woman
down, seized double barreled gun and
fled to the woods. In an hour the
whole town was in arms and mounted
posse started in pursuit About mid
night the negro was found at low dance
about a mile from the scene of the as
sault He was taken back to the girls
house and she Identified him as her assail-
ant. He confessed the crime and begged
for mercy. Three hundred masked men
hurried the fiend to an open field where
he was strung up to tree and his body
riddled with bullets. Across his body
was piuned a paper with the Inscription:
"This is the way we protect our homes"
The authorities attempted to interfere and
prevent the lynching but the masked
crowd was so great that they could do
nothing.
A FEUD STARTED.
LIMA, O., Aug l9-Brenton Crist and
his wife. who live on n farm about seven
miles east of this city and were wealthy,
some time ago adopted Ella Hardin, whom
the neighbors claimed they treated cruelty, |
and Friday John Leatherman succeeded |
in getting her away and secreting her. !
When Crist went for her Leatherman |
opened fire on him with a shotgun and !
drove him away. CrIst went home and |
securing his gun laid in ambush for |
Leatherman. During his absence Mrs. !
Crist swallowed carbolic acid and died |
Yesterday after suffering terrible agony. !
Crist vows that he will kill Leatherman |
on sight.
DIAMONDS STOLEN.
NEW YORK, Aug. I9-Mrs. John P. |
Richardson, wife of a wealthy resident of |
Chattanooga, came to this city with her
husband a few DAYS ago and discovered /
on her arrival that she had been robbed of |
all her diamonds valued at over IS. 900.
There is no clew to the robber.