The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-07-04
Crimes and Criminals.

John F. Beggs, the Clan-na. Gael man, has
finally been arrested.
The police of Chicago have entered upon a
vigorous war against the gamblers of that
| city, and about fifty men nave been arrested
Aft Grizzard. u gambler, was lynched at
Milan, Tenn, by negroes from which he had
won all their money.
A. ID. Russell, u fugitive Alabama murder
er, while resisting arrest, accidentally killed
his accomp lice, Pink Pye, and was himself
shot to death by the officers.
Mamie Stewart was stabbed sixteen times
at Kansas City by Mrs. Hannah Pickett,
wife of a local missionary, and will die. Both
are cOlOred.
William T. Harley, tried in Minneapolis
for completely in the great wheat steal.
pleads guilty OF petit larceny and is fined
800. Holcomb gets O year in state prison.
&. W. Norwood of Birmingham, Ala, a
contractor on a railroad in Kentucky, was
murdered by two Italians. The murderers
were taken from the officials and shot to
death.
DR.. Eugene Thayer, a we'll known organist
Of New York City, committed suicide at Bur
lington, VT, by placing the muzzIe of q re.
volver in his mouth and blowing the top of
his head off.
George McCann, who was awaiting tria
for the murder of his wife, Saturday, June
Is. by crushing her skull with a Ratchet
while she lay asleep in bed, hanged himself in
his cell at Philadelphia.
The divorced wife of J. Thatcher entered
the Hayes schoolin Chicago, forcibly dragged
her little daughter Hettie from her books,
then chloroformed her and carried her away
in a cab. She took this means to obtain
custody of her child.
Henry Geirnup was waiting in Jail on a
charge of burglary until the fall term of
court. He was given much liberty, and used
to drive the COW to pasture. He desired to
plead guilty to theft and receive his sentence.
but was not allowed to do so. Then he went
to the pasture with the COW and is probably
going yet, as he has failed to return.
W. H. Irwin, a demented freight brakeman,
took possession of an Oregon Railway &
Navigation engine at Wallula, threw open
the throttle n ran her ~furiously toward
Walla Walla. When he ran out of steam
there he was overtaken by a pushing engine,
was sent to the insane asylum. Elijah Smith
and other prominent officials of the Oregon
Railway and Union Pacific were at Walla
Walla at the time, but were detained. This
saved them from certain death, as they
would have been run into If they had gone
at the time us intended.
The lawyers and police oil St. Paul ore
busy unearthing q scheme of fraud of as yet
unknown proportions and which would have
approached the gigantic if it had not been
discovered at an early stage. The scheme
consisted in borrowing money or fraudulent
| titles to real estate. In the one case, the par.
~ticulars of which are known, it was found
that o piece of real estate in st. Paul belong
ing to A. Uihlein of Milwaukee had been
lraudulently conveyed by somebody person.
ating him to q Mr.. S~tensgaard, who. armed
with this apparently clear title to the prop
erty and O policy Of little insurance, mort
gagged it to secure a loan ola large amount
of money from the local agents of Penn
s~ylvania capitalist. How many swindles OF
this kind have been ~rerpetrated is not yet
known.