The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-01-17

It Il believed that the murdsrsrs q Pay.
master j. Brainsrd Mcclure and Hugh Elan.
negan, who were disseminated on the noun.
tains near Wilkesbarrs, on Oct. 10 last and
the Pinkarton detectives Of Philadelphia. Ii
is known that one arrest was made and that
the prisoner spent the night in the private
cell Of the Pinkerton agency headquarters.
The man was removed to some unknown
place. The statement is given that this
prisoner made a confession IN which he i'm.
plicated an other person, and, it is believed,
The prisoner is supposed to be "Red Nosed
Nike" an Italian laborer who was employed
on the new railroad that a being built
near Wilkesbarre, on which Mcclure was EN-.
ployed as paymaster.
At Auburn, N. Y, FIVE inmates Of the cr,mi.
nal insane asylum here made q desperate
break for freedom. One attendant had been
left in charge Of the hall in which were forty.
prisoners. At q favorable opportunity the
five men sprang upon him, and, in their
eagerness to secure his keys, tore the clothes
from his body. With the KEYS the gang
opened the door leading into the yard.
Here they encountered another attendant
and another battle took place. The officer
broke his musket in pieces over their bodies.
The insane men ~triumphed, but gained the
open air only to be met by q third attend
ant, who fred into the gang, disabling
one of them. This shot alarmed the other
keepers who, after O desperate fight, secured
the madmen n returned them to their
cells.
The discovery Of supposed murder and
suicide on the fourth floor shocked the ten.
street New York. The relationship that the
man and the woman in the tragedy sustained
towards each other made the double crime
unusually disgusting. The murderer was
William Mann, an artist, aged f'ty-two, and
his victim was his own niece, Carrie Jones,
the wife of Stephen Jones and the mother of
band did not live with her and, instead, she
lived with her uncle. The woman's son
rushed out Of the house and calling a police
man sold hiR father and mother were both
dead upstairs. An officer vent into the
house and found the man and woman both
dead, with bullet wounds in their bodies.
What preceded the murder could only be
gathered from the story of the woman's son
aud the woman's sister.
"BilI" Ryan the train robber, a member of
the famous James gang, has been granted q
Communication of his twenty-fve-year term by
Governor Moorhouse of Missouri. The gov
ernor in granting the Communication says:
Ryan was but O boy, and came of an hon.
orrd and respected family Of Jackson county.
He was no doubt guilty of violation of the
law, but from statements submitted and
other information I believe he was the least
guilty member of the band. A man who was
much deeper stepped in crime, and who was
more guilty was pardoned out of prison to
convict him, and he hat been punished more
than any member of the gang" Ryan he's
been confined in the penitentiory since Oct.
16, 1881. He was convicted of completely
in the Blue Cut train robbery on the Chicago
& Alton railroad in that year. The testimo-
ny on which he was convicted was given by
Tucker Basham, q member of the James
rang. Ryan will be q free man April 16
For some time O gang Of burglars has been
operating successfully on safes in the small
towns of Northern New York and Vermont,
and recently they have visited ~Champlain,
N. T., and La Cole, Canada. They broke in
tow in Quebec. There were three men in the
party and they stole q horse and wagon and
started for Stanbridge station, whore they
boarded Conductor Church's train. As the
train was drawing out of the station two OF.
fcers of East Stanbridge drove up just in
time to see the burglars smiling at them
from the wind ow Of the rearcar: TIL officers
enue officer at st. Andrews, tt arrest the
burglars and he found them. The train had
started, and as the burglars make no resist
ance. Officer Smith asked an assistant to
watch them while he went into the baggage
car to see if any of the stolen property was
on board. In q few minutes he returned.
His assistant had disappeared. On the
armed with revolvers. As o o Us the officer
appeared, they fired two shots at him,
through the glass door. One of the bullets
went through his hat. When the train
reached a little station near st. Johns, the
burglars disappeared in the woods.