The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-10-03
The World Of Criminals.

Fletcher Winant, member OF q wealthy
New York shipping firm, committed suicide
by shooting. No cause assigned.
An attempt was made to rescue Edward
Dayton, one of the Rio Grande Western
train robbers, nov confined in Jail at Ogden,
Utah. One ofthe would-be Jail deliverers was
wounded, but all escaped.
A passenger train OF the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe was stopped by train robbers
eight miles below Fort Worth, and it is re.
ported that they stole at least 10000 from
the express safe and from some of the pas
sengere.
Capt. A. 81. Bogardus, the wellknown rife.
shot, has commenced suit in the Sangamon
circuit court against Adam Forepaugh, claim.
ing damages in $4,000 for the use of his
name and Autograph in connection with the
Forepaugh show when he was not with it.
At Cairo. ILL.,, B. B. Curtis, a merchant, and
john allace, a mail carrier, quarreled over the
removal ofCommissioner Tanner, and Wallace
was struck on the head with a molasses jug,
receiving an injury from which he died an
hour later.
Rev. Charles Woodruff, pastor of the Unit.
ed Brethren at Boylestown, Ind, has disap.
| peared, "a has also Mrs. Louisa Covett, the
| pretty wife of q wealthy farmer. The WON.
an, before leaving, collected considerable
money due her husband.
At Mount Alton, sixteen miles from Brad.
ford, Pa, John Quinn shot and killed his wife
with a Winchester rife. The cause is said to
be unjust jealousy. Quinn claims that his
wife had been intimate with a man named
pror~or flor uhNntinr hio xuifo 0r,;np
| started after Brennan, with the Winchester
ON his shoulder, but was disarmed by Con.
stable Washburn, and taken to Smithport
and lodged in jail.
The confidence operators who swindled
Farmer Fred Glenn of Streator, ILL.,, out Of
IS, 900 have been landed in jail. There is NO
doubt that the two men are noted confidence
men, as they are wanted from Boston to
Missouri. The states attorney Of Morgan
county, Ill, thinks they are the men who
swindled q man in Grant county out of ST.
900 since the Glenn robbery and just before
their capture in Indiana, n that they are
the same men who took in farmers q year
ago in the same county for $4,000. 1t is e.
timated that their operations have Melted
them $50, 900 during the present year.
James Quale, who absconded from Burton
q smaAttowni in the Wisconsin lumber regions
about o year ago with S35, 900 belonging to
his employer and fed to Europe, has been
brought back. For a long time the where.
abouts of the embezzler were unknown,
but some weeks ago he was located at q
small town in Saxony. and Detective
Thompson was sent after i'm. He has been
living q high life of dissipation since he LETT
home, but still no had q large amount of the
money in his possession. The prisoner said
he expected and is wiling to suffer punish.
ment for his crime, and his principal regret is
for his family.
One night two tramps broke into a store
| at Holland, Grundy county Iowa. A con
to arrest them he was knocked down, his Ian
| tern smashed and the store set on fire. In
| thu excitement the tramps made their escape
| Next morning the sheriff tracked them to
! Reinbeck and located them in a box car. A
| Meet, the section foreman of the Chicago, St
Paul & Kansas City railway at Reinbeck
| entered the car to drive them out, when one q
| the tramps shot him.. The bullet entered hi,
neck, just missing the windpipe, and was cut
out at the back of the neck. At the last re
| port Meet was not expected to live. TIL.
tramps were arrested and taken to Marshall
town for safe keeping, as threats Of lynch
ing were freely made.
Just as q Northern Pacific freight train wal
pulling out of Glendive on the Northern Pa
cifc road, q brakeman heard groans coming
from a Blue line tank car. Investigation
showed that two men who were stealing
ride had been overcome by the fumes arising
from the crude oil in the bottom of q tank
One was already dead, and the other diet
soon after being discovered. At the coroner
inquest it developed that the first victim wal
John Brandon, q stonsmason from st. Louis
whore his widow and family live. The othe
was Harry Ledgerwood, q b~oilermaker. VIII,
/ formerly lived at Mandan. Oak. Brandon
had 925 ON his person. and Ledgerwood$34
Both were buried in the town cemetery a
Ii Gl6ndive. 1t ID thought the men got into tn
fank.just ~ the train was pulling out, an,
WsFs immediately overcome. .
Hnon. Baruch, i Spanish Hebrew. who
was stated had run away from Austria viii