The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-10-04
Criminal Doings,

himself as solicitor OF New 1Ork perloQica',
hus swin,lled IL number OF residents of tho
City of Mexico by spurious drafts.
Phil. Armour aud other members oi the
Chicago beef combine who refused to testify
before Vests committee are likely to be Or
rested for contempt when congress meets.
Robbers entered the railroad depot at
Brighton, Pa. hound and gagged the agent,
woman. and secured large amount OF
money and vuluablcs.
The body ofAlmon S. Holtzlaw, % telegraph
opekator Mt Cincinnati, with wealthy rel
ativea in Washington. was found in the riv-
er ut Constance, Ky. Wounds ON the head
indicate that he was murdered.
The governor OF Texas has received no
particulars of the big express robbery on the
Gulf, Colorado &Santa Fe, near Fort Worth,
1t is r,mored here, however, that the robbers
succeeded in getting away with Mt least
$4,000.
suicide at Odessa, Prussia, whereupon his
widow became insane and killed her five
children. She threw the bodies OF three Of he
children out Of a third story window and
taking the other two in her arms jumped
from the window and was instantly killed
j. II. Crittcnden, u cattle owner from Can
yon Ferry, twenty miles North OF Helena,
N. r., committed suicide in camp nea
that place few days ago by shooting himself
through the head with rifle. He was out
ON roundup when the deed was done, and
it is supposed lie grew Respondent over not
being nble to take care of his cattle this win
ter. He leaves II wife and four children.
The New York Star says that A. Bentley
Worthington, alias Gen. Ward, of Dakota,
and Mrs. Plunkett, the Christian scientist,
about whom scandal was recently ventiat.
cd, eloped from New York u few days ngo
and are supposed to have gone to Australia.
One Of Worthington's victims is now in
matrnity hospi,u ul at Minneapolis.
Deputy Sheriff Rhodes of Polk county Tex.
as, and Constable Welterson of Tyler coun.
ty we're killed at Warren Texas while at
tempting to arrest man named John Bell,
said to be a cattle thief and refugee from
Montgomery county. The officers were
shot through the hend and died Immediately
Bell remained OH the battle field for nearly nn
hour, preventing anybody from removing the
dead bodies until he saw fit to leave them.
Fort Fay, Cabcll county, West Virginia, is
in possession oftoughs. They stoned the
house of Elliott Nestcr, when he fired on them.
They then made the mayor issue warrant
for his arrest. He was dragged out of bed q I
2 O'Clock in the morning and beaten almost
todeath. The mayor dismissed him, whereup.
on the gang beat the mayor who resigned.
The marshal has also resigned. The gang has
terroriz ed the whole town.
Bishop Abram A. Kcmbal died in kanosh'
in Millard county, Utah. lie was q promi
nent man i'll the Mormon church, and had
n numbcr Of wives He was sent 10 the Utah
penitentiary last November to serve six
months sentence, but was parioned out by
ri psident Cleveland last December, because
he was q consumptive His father, Heber G..
Kembal, is the man who had fifteen wives,
and used to refer to his wives as heroes
A brutal assault was made at Empora,
Kas.. upon Sister Comilla at the Sacred Heart
convent by I'm unknown man, who followed
l,er, it is supposed, from her home in Terre
Haute. Ind. While in the hospital at that
place he made Il similar assault because she
would not marry him, and the sister was re-
moved to the convent there ut her own re-
quest. Sister Comila was unconscious all
night und did not recover until morning. The
man escaped.
James Dennis shot himself Mt Mankato.
The ball entered the center of the forehead
and passed through the head, lodging just
under the scalp behind. He has been in the
employ Of the American Express company
for some time. For the last six months he
had been drinking quite freely, and during
the lost two days he was on u genuine spree
and was discharged. Dennis was twenty
three years old and popular among the
young men in the city. The deed was COM
nit ted in Lees bus barn in the presence of
one OF the stable bows.
Anumber of prominent ladies of Chicago
have formed IN association and have hired
n lawyer to prosecute the gamblers OF the
city under the state law. The work was be-
gun with the arrest of John Norris the pro-
prietor of "a gambling house on Clark street.
The attorney for the ladies says that there ia
every reason to believe that the gam blers will
very soon become frightened, as the sta "
against gambling is very severe. They are
taking steps to convict. not only the gam
l,Icrs themselves, but also the men who own
the buildings where gambling houses are
run.
Mrs. Josie Gurley, who was convicted ut
Chicago of abducting little Annie Redmond
and sentenced to Joliet prison for five years
for the crime, has made a confession, which
she claims, is the only true story regarding
the abduction Of the Redmond child Mrs.
Gurley had just been informed of Harvey
Gurley' carce ration in Wisconsin for big.
amy, and her anger against Gurley, to save
whom from prison she had perjured herself,
she sail led to the confession. She says
that Dick Ryan. Gurlcy, Mrs. Parsons and
Annie Allen were, in connection with man
named McGee, gettingup u theatrical troupe,
and wanted II little girl 10 dance md sing.
Ryan planned the abduction and Gurley was
promised 81 900 for his services in commit.
ting the crime. Annie Allen was the one who
enticed the Redmond girl away from home.
Mrs Gurlpy did not know the child had been
abducted until some time nfterward, und
WINS often threatened with death if she said
anything about it.
Thomas Haywood who lived on Mrs. Will.
iam's place, near Decatur, Ala, went to her
house. md, presenting revolver, demanded
that she sell her place, flee with him to the
North and there marry him. Being at the
mercy OF the black flcnd, she apparently con-
sen.cd to his demands and he, elated Mt hia
success returned to his quarters, threatening