The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-23
NAIL POUCH ROBBERY.
Heavy Robbery Of Registered
Mail For St Louis
A Brutal Negro Lynched In
Vendetta In OhiO-A Wealthy
Woman Robbed OF
Diamonds.

81. LOUIS, Aug. 1a.-The fast mail over
the Pennsylvania railroad arrived here
at las O'Clock yesterday morning and a
low minutes later il was announced hat
| the through pouch from New York COM
tanning the registered mail for St Louis
bad been stolen. TIE wires were set to
work and at two O'Clock q message was
! received stating that the pouch bad been
! picked up in tho yards at Terre Haute, Ind.
The postal clerks take supper at Terre
Haute and the theory is that while the
men were at supper the car was entered
and the pouch stolen. The pouch con-
tanned over $40, 200. bus the message failed
to state the condition Of the pouch when
found. Postmaster Hyde, however. re.
ceived dispatch from Terre Haute stat.
ing that the pouch had been found. cut
open and rifled. 1t was the through reg
istered pouch from Albany, N. Y. The
amount Of booty the robbers secured is NOT
known, but is believed to be about
$4,000. The pouch was stolen while the
clerks were at supper and VA not missed
until the train reached Effingham, Ill
The letters are reported as bearing for
the most part remittances for cattle trans
actions and in this case they would prob
ably contain large sums OF money. Many
OF the packages probably had remittances
covering the value Of several carloads Of
cattle and this would swell the total
amount up to q considerable figure. Checks
were doubtless sent in some and in these
cases no loss will be sustained aside from
Inconvenience and delay.
HGR LYXCHED.
SAVANNAH. Ga. Aug. 1a-walter As
burg. colored. alias B.rriam. was lynched
at Polar, ten miles west Of here, Yesterday
morning for assault upon Lulu Kissman,
a seventeen-year-old German girl She
was terribly beaten in the struggle, but
she successfully resisted him. Her cloth.
ing was torn from her body. her
face beaten and gashed and one
eye closed. The finger prints Of the
negro were left on her neck. The floor
and furniture were covered with blood
The girls cries attracted . colored man
who was passing and he rescued her. As
burg sprang through q door and escaped.
but in the next house he knocked a woman
down, seized a double barreled gun and
fed to the woods Iu an hour the
town was in arms and q mounted
posse started in pursuit. About mid. |
night the negro vas found at a low dance
about a mile from the scene of the as |
sault He vas taken back to the girls
house and she identified him as her assault |
ant He confessed the crime and begged !
for mercy. Three hundred masked men !
hurried the fend to an open field where
he was strung up to q tree and his body |
with bullets. Across his holy
was pinned q paper with the inscriptions:
"This is the way we protec: our homes."
The authorities attempted to interfere and
prevent the lynchinS but The masked
was so great that they could do
nothing.
FEUD STARTED.
LIMA, O., Aug. 1@-Brenton CIist and
his wife. who live on a form about seven
east Of this city and were wealthy,
time ago adopted Ella Hardin, whom
the neighbors claimed they treated c. u-lly.
Friday John Leatherman succeeded
in getting her away and secreting her.
W hen Crist went for her L-atherman
opened fire ON him with q shotgun and
drove hin away. Crist went home and
his gun laid in ambush for
Leatherman. During his absence Mrs.
.rist swallowed carbOlic acid and died
yesterday after suffering terrible agony.
On sight
STOLEN.
NEW YORK. Aug 19-Mrs John p.
wiD Of q wealthy resident Of
came to his city with her
husband a few days ago and discovered
N her arrival that she had been robbed OF :
Ill her diamonds valued at over s.. 600
CheEe is no clew to the robbery-