The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-02-07
Petty C~riminaIities.

A coroner's jury at Kansas rendered q ver-
dict declaring that j. w. Bodgood, the sup
posed victim OF an assault on Grand avenue,
came to his death by an accidental fall. 1t
was at first supposed that he was murdered
by some one who wasjealous of his attentions
to a disreputable woman, in front of whose
house Bodgood was found lying unconscious.
Twenty tramps, after a begging and thiev-
ing tour of Eau Claire, Wis, appeared in the
suburbs and too possession of q Wiscon-
sin Central section house. They collected
their booty, consisting of several bags ofpro-
visions and other plumber. A platoon of
| police raided them. They resisted and a
lively battle followed. Shots were fired, and
finally the whole gang were captured and
jailed except one.
As James M. Williams was passing the
Commercial hotel. at Auburn, Neb., BENJAMIN
Skillman, who had been hiding in the shadow
OF the building, sprang out and shot him in
the hip with q revolver. TIL two men then
clinched and after a short struggle, Skill
base of the brain and killing him instantly.
Skillman escaped. Williams was charged
with seducing Skillman's sister.
A Bohemian ono too drunk to tell her
NAME. clasping to her bosom q thinly clad
little girl, aged about 8 years, was picked up
by the police on Mutt court, Chicago. They
were almost frozen to death. After q time the
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been out drinking beer together, having the
child with them, and on their way home she
had fallen to the sidewalk too DRINK to pro-
coed further. She said her drunken husband
had left her. The mother will recover, but
the child may not survive the exposure.
They will be kept at the station until the
husband can be found,
Some time ago two men named Banks and
Winters were arrested at Dubuque for bur-
glary, but on trial were acquitted. They
were not released, however, but were brought
to Anumosa, and after a preliminary hearing
were held to the district court on u charge
ofrobbing Charles Weigel's jewelry store sew
eral weeks G Both are professional
cracksmen and each has served three terms
in the penitentiary. Banks made his escape
once by getting a fellow convict to cover him
up in q load of manure that he was hauling
outside the prison yard. He was rearrested
in New Jersey after q long search. Winters
tried to escape several times, and once when
| q guard found him cutting a hole through
the roof of the cell house he wal shot in the
leg, from the effects of which he still walks
lame.
II. B. Roe, an employe of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway, at Austin, has
been missing for some time. He drew his pay
one afternoon, and did not return home that
night. His wife thought itstrange, and early
the next morning made anxious inquiries for
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of him could be found. The matter was kept
| quiet, hoping that he would return, his young
wife not believing that he would desert her,
but now she states that she knows that he
has gone and she is nearly crazed with grief.
Various theories are given for his strange de-
parture, one of which is that he has another
wife living in the East, and that she was about
to arrive upon the ground in q short time,
and not caring to meet both at the same time
Roe left for parts unknown.