The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-23
Grimes and Criminals.

James Bebee Smith, local editor Of the Re-
publican ofSpringfeld, Mass, was shot and
instantly killed by his brother-in-law Royal
B. Sturtevant. fie was mistaken for burg
lar.
Nelson Colbert. colorod, was hanged at
Washington for the murder of Philip Went
sell. IN October last. His neck was broken
by the fail.
At present there is much interest Centered
in the proceedings of the Webster county,
Iowa, grand Jury who are Investigating the
charges ofconspiFacy preferred against seven
teen river land settlers by the land owners
because the settlers organized TO work the
land from which eviCtiOns were made. One
hundred witnesses have been subpPnaPd and
the case has been under consideration for a
week. The accused settlers are being exam
ined. Ar Indictment is thought improbable
as two of the seven grand jurors are them
selves river land settlers.
A terrible crime was committed in
the town of Osceola, Wis George Loomis,
q farmer forty-fve years old, cut his wifcs
throat and killed himself. Loomis has been
of Bnsound mind for some time, at times be-
ing very wild in h1s actions, but has never be.
fore been considered dangerous. In the fore
noon he sent his little daughter to n neigh
boris on some erTand. When the child re-
turned she found her mother and father ly-
ing on the floor of the dwelling, their throats
cut, and a blOod-stained knife in the hands
of the man, explaining who committed the
crime.
The trial OF Christian Olson DahIe, idicted
for murder ended in a verdict ofmanslaugh-
ter in the second degree, at Columbia. Mimi
The case was we'll fought by the defense on
the theory of deaf tn from causes other than
lnjury sustained in the fight with Dahle.
The state had to contend against unwilling
witnesses, most of them relatives of the de-
fendant and the deceased, who were cousins,
and who were reluctant to tell anything that
would tend to convict James Rowland was
convicted Of selling liquor to minor and
was fined $25 and thirty days in jail. The
minor was the defendant DahIe and the fight
with his cousin followed the drinking at Row.
lands.
An entirely new and unique confidence
game was played upon n farmer named John
Waterhouse of Alma, Kan, at the union de-
pot at Kansas City A man with brass but
tons on his coat represented to Waterhouse
that he was a conductor of afreight train on
the Union Pacific railroad; that he was tired
of the business and would sell his position
for So Waterhouse gave up the $40. and
received an order from the stranger to run
the train. He was then taken down in the
yards and placed upon the caboose of a
freight train already made up. When the
conductor Of the train boarded the caboose
Waterhouse told him to get out, as he was
in charge. The brakeman gently lifted
Waterhouse up and threw him on the track
WateFhOuse is looking for the stranger,
Richard Boeckh, young German was ar
rested at Albany, N. Y, for challenging to {
duel Henry Willard, the we'll known fnancier
Boeckh, q slightly built young man, wheI
arraigned before the magistrate, frankly ad
mitted sending the challenge, and also tina
he would have shot Willard ii he had got th
chance He smiled all through the proceed
iugs and conveyed the impression that h
Yves deranged Boeekh was committed t.
iaiI to await the action of the grand jury
He said he had O reason for sending tn
challenge. but he would not divulge it
There is a rumor that when Willard was j
Germany u few years ago he was the gues
of Boeckh's parents, and Boeckh's father
said to have given Willard SO, 900 TO carr,
to the young man. This story does not re
ceive much eredence.