The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-09-19
Criminal DOings.

Ira Cobb shot and killed Alexander Wag-
goner, Jr., at Silverville, Ind. 1t was an old
rrel renewed. This is Cobb's second man.
Louis Superior, a tailor of Terre Haute,
Ind, hanged himself because his wife would
not give him 10 cents.
Mrs. Margaret A.. Di.lard, in jail at Easter,
Pa, has confessed that her paramour, w. N.
Bartholomew, murdered her husband at q
signal from herself.
Orson Snow, q son ofErastus Snow, one of
the twelve apostles of the Mormon church,
has been convicted at Beaver, Utah, of in
decent assault on IN eleven-year-o]dd daughter
of Bishop Fotheringham.
1t is charged in St. Louis that Charles E
Meade, Mayor Noonan's private secretary.
was guilty of forgery in signing the mayors
name to official documents, and that he was
engaged in the barter and sale of the mayors
influence without the mayors knowledge.
. In York county, s. c., W. B., Boyd, a white
man, shot his wife and then killed himself.
Mrs. Boyd lived only on hour after being
shot. She was the second wife OF Boyd. He
left several years ago with his first wife for
Arkansas. He returned without her, claiming
to have been divorced. The fate of the sec-
ond wife suggests that he may lave murder
ed his first wife. g.
Arthur Redmond, suspected of numbering
Duncan on the Sioux reservation last spring,
has since been confined in jail at Huron, Ont.
He dug ont and skipped. A good reward is
offered for his apprehension. He is five feet
eleven inches high with light hair, gray eyes
and q smooth face, wore a black coat, black
striped pants, dark brown hat and has no
money There is no track of the direction
he took. -
1t has been discovered by an Indian that
the horse thieves who broke jail at Chamber
lain, s. D., crossed to the Sioux reservation,
where they are safe from pursuit as far as
the officers are concerned, as white men can
not go upon the reservation. A band of
Sioux are said to BIZ close up0n the trail of
the thieves, and will surely overhaul them.
Should they do 40 q fight will occur, % the
thieves are determined that they will not be
rscaptured. j..
Monroe Gray, q well known school teacher
at East ~Carondelet, seven miles down the
river from st. Louis, committed suicide by
shooting himself with revolver. He had
been attempting to shoot himself almost
every night for several weeks, but was un-
successful. He left o letter to his children,
a daughter aged nineteen and a son of six
teen, describing his attempts. Gray's reason
for desiring death was melancholy over q
tragic breaking up Of his domestic relations,
about two years ago.. At that time, while
living in Columbia, Monroe county, Ill.,. he
shot and killed William Dilsch, O. Wealthy
farmer, together with his, own wife, having
surprised them in o compromising situation
in his own home. Gray was convicted Of
granddaughter nj sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for one year, but was ~pardoned by
Gov. Oglesby after serving one month. The
tragedy was one OF the most noted in that
section Of the state.
The romance OF poor young woman was
disclosed at Pierce City, No. when Marshal
Chappel arrested Mrs. Josephine Cox, alias
Joseph Cox, q first cousin ofFrank and Jesse
James, for incorporating in mele attire. Sls
Il the mother of two small children and her
home Ii IN Clay county, No. Under tho
name OF ] Joseph Cox she worked on o farm at
Aurora, No, several month"; until hef ssx
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