The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
SINFUL STFTINGS.

The actual loss by the Pryor Creek (Ind. T.
train robbery was only S1,217. No clue to
the robbers yet.
Samuel Kuchhoffer. cashier of the Great
Western Type foundry, Of Kansas City, was
arrested charged with embezzhng between
$4,000 and $4,000 OF the company, funds.
A young girl named Clara B. Pierce was
murdered near karthaus, Pa, it is believed,
by young, unknown man seen with her in
the morning
The New York grand jury has returned an
Indictment for murder in the first degree
aguinst Mrs. Hannah B. Southwood, who
shot and killed Stephen Pettus Later she
was arraigned and pleaded guilty.
Herman Cohn, OF J. Susskind & Co., New
York bankers VINO swindled depOstors OF
about $4,000. was arrested at HOboken,
y. !. Cohn was to have sailed for Hamburg
next day.
The jury in the Pettus murder inquest in
New York found that Pettus came to his
death by pistol shot wounds inflicted by
Hannah B. SouthTorth. The prisoner was
held without bail to await the action OF the
grand jury.
Charles J. Shogren. acollecter and clerk for
the crockeryware firm of Pitkin & Brooks Of
Chicago, has fed, presumably to Canada,
with 81 900 in money and checks belonging
to the firm. Shogren is but twenty years of
age and was in the employ of the crockePy
firm but two weeks.
George Murray, a negro, who is subject to
fits of insanity, ran amuck through East
Houston street New York. He cut two Ital-
ian peddlars on the head with hatchet;
chased several men and women, and was
Just about plunging his hatchet into the
mead of a young woman when citizen
knocked him down with a stone and held
him until policeman arrived
Eight men were arrested at AFdmore Ind.
Ter. for the robbery of the Santa Fa train
Monday night Nov 25th. But little can be
learned regarding the evidence, which they
say is positive. There are women in the case
Most OF the men are gamblers of Ardmore
and Purcell, and were taken north. 1t is
thought a number Of arrests are still to be
MADE.
The police have discovered that a man
named Ingalls,, who acted as the custodian
of the relief fund raised in Spokane Falls at
the time of the big fire there, has been in Win.
nipeg. Ingalls, skipped out with $4,000 or
more fthe funds last summer, and is now
scattering his ill-gotten gains in Winnipeg.
He put in few lively days in Winnipeg
having visited questionable places, gambleJ
aSay a good sum of money, and finally, as
a w4Gd-up. treated number Of his friends
to a grand supper at one OF the leading
hotels in the city. Ingalls, is well connected in
the East. He has started for Toronto.
VII. Harvey vac hanged at Guelph, Can
ada The execution wac one of the worst
nieces of bungIing ever witnessed. The weight
which lifted the body was not heavy enough
and the scaffold was 20t high enough to giyG
suficient rebound to break the condemned
mans neck, and his struggles and contor
fions as he was slowly stranging to death
we're frightful. To add to the horror of the
hanging the knot slipped and the gurgling ir
the mans throat as his life was being chokeC
out could be heard outside the Jail walls. ThG
crime for which Harvey paid the death pen
atty was committed March 26, 1889, wher
he killed his vie and two daughters.
The third trial ofWiliiam Rose for the mur
der of MosesLufkin ended at Redwood Falls
Mimi, in his conviction. AneF an absenc
of an hotiT from the court room the jlTy re
turned and rendered a verdict of guilty q
murder of fae first degree against the defend
ant The court then ordered the prisoner tt
stand up and asked him if he had anything
to say before O sentence was passed upoT
him. He said had Ia doing SO, h
charged that hishe iai had been partial one
that the officers of the court had combiRDI
together for his conviction, and. turning 4
the large crowd present with d wave OF hi
hand. he said: "In spite of this audience ant
you, am as innocent OF this crime of whicl
/ have been convicted as you are? Ate
stating that the trial had been mpaFtiaI ant
Fl | that convicted criminals were in tn
habit of Expressing their innocence, and tha
the verdict of the jury had been warrented b.
the evidence Judge Webber sentenced Rose t.
be executed within three months from thi
date, at time to be appointed by the gov
ernor.