The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-24
Grimes and Criminals.

james Bebee Smith. locai editor of the Re.
publican ofSpringield, Mass., was shot and
instantly killed by his brother-in.Inw, Royal
b. Sturtcvant. tic wns mistaken for n burg.
lar.
Nelson Colbert, colored, wus hanged Mt
Washington for the murder of Philip Went
sell, IN October last. His neck was broken
by the fall
At present there is much interest renterc,l
in the proceedings of the Webster county,
Iowa, grand jury who are investigating the
charges ofconspiracy preferred against seven.
teen river land settlers Ivy the land owners
1mcause the SETTLERS organized To work the
land from which evictions were made. One
hundred witnesses have been subprnucd and
the case has bfen under consideration for n
week. The accused set.l .lers are being exam.
incd. An indictment is thought improbable
as two of the seven grand jurors are them
selves river land settlers
A terrible crime was committed in
the town of fOsceola. Wis. George Loomis
a farmer forty-fve years old, cut his wifc's
throat and killed himself. Loomis has been
ofunsound mind for some time, ut times he.
ing very wild in h,s actions, but has never BE-.
fore been considered dangerous. In the fore
noon he sent his little daughter to n neigh
boris on some eriand. When the child re
turned she found her mother and father ly-
ing on the floor of the dwelling, their throais
cut, and blood-staned knife in the hands
Of the man, explaining who committed the
crime.
The trial OF Christian Olson Dal,Ie. idictcd
for murder. ended in a verdict ofm anslaugh.
ter in the second degree, at Columbia. MINI.
The case was well fought by the defense on
the theory of dea til from causes other than
injury sustained in The fight with Dahlc.
The state had TO contend against unwilling
witnesses. most of them relatives of the dc.
fcndant and the deceased, who were cousins.
and who were reluctant TO telanythine that
would tend to convict James Rowland WAS
convicted ot selling liquor to Il minor mud
was fined So nnd thirty days in jnl. The
minor was the defendant Dahlc, and the fight
with his cousin followed the drinking ut Row
lands
An entirely new and unique confidence
game was played upon Il farmrr named John
Waterliouse of Alma, Kan, at the union de-
pot ut Kansas City. 4 man with brass but
tons on his coat represented to Waterhouse
that he was a conductor of a freight train on
the Union Pacific railroai that he was tired
ofthe business and would sell his position
for so. Wnterllouse gave up the $40. and
received an order from the stranger to run
the train. He was then taken down in the
yards and plnced upon the caboose of u
freight train already made ur. When the
conductor Of the train boarded the caboose
Waterhouse told him to get out an he was
in charge. The brakeman gently lifted
Waterhouse up and threw him on the track.
Waterhouse is looking for the stranger.
Richard Boeckh, young German was ar.
rested at Albany. n. Y. for challenging to ~
duel Henry Willard, the well known fnuncier.
Boerkh, slightly built young man. when
arraigned before the magistrate, frankly ad-
mitted sending the challenge, and also that
he would have shot Willard il he had got the
chance. He smiled all through the proceed.
ings and conveyed the impression that he
WIS dsrnnged: Boeckl was committed to
jail to await the action of the grand jury.
He said he had a reason for sending the
challenge. but lie would not divulSe II.
There is q rumor that when Willard was in
Germany y few years ago be va. the guest
of Boeckhs parents. and Boeekh's father is
faid to have given Willard $4,000 to carry
to the young man, This story does not re.
ceive much credence.
A scheme rivaling the famous electric
sugar refining swindle was exposed in Chicago.
The perpetrator s IL smootl,-mapneretl
young fellow named John Archibald Comm,
whose papers Indicate that he has been oper.
ating not only in Chicago, but also at Kan.
eas City, st. Louis and Cincinnati. Conn is
now missing. and it il said that gool
many thousand dollars belonging to various
,listillers and liquor dealers have Disappeared
with him. Comp stopped at the Metropolitan