The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-01-24
Petty ~Criminalities.

Lawson N. Fuller, W. H. Cotterill, J A.
Robertson a few more men have been closely
connected with the Friend electric sugar
fraud, stated that upon second consideration
they had determined not to make public for
present a state ment regarding the presentsta-
tus of the defunct concern.
Ole G.. Olson, the defaulting treasurer of
Wolsey schooltownship, was arraigned before
Justice Grant at Huron, Oak. Olson waived
examination and gave bonds in $500 to
await the action of the grand jury. Since
his arrest the amount of the defalcation has
been made good.
William Veasy, a farmer near East Pales-
tine, o., shot Dick Perrott, a well known ru-
raj politician of South Beaver, Pa. A year
or more ago, Perrott betrayed Veasy's
daughter, and it had troubled Veasy ever
since that PerrOtt, did not right the wrong.
Meeting Perrott with q rife he fred on him.
Perrott's wound is not serious.
In Judge Boyd's court at Limerick q report
er named Reeves, who acted as the Limerick
| agent of q number of Cork newspapers, re-
fused to testify concerning notes which he had
taken of speeches made at Parnelite meetings.
He said he did not desire the notoriety of an
informer, and would let the court search the
~wspaper for the information sought after.
He was committed to prison.
A dispatch from Waterford says that four
teen persons who were sentenced to a months
imprisonment for participatingin a Manches.
ter martyrs demonstration there were taken
to prison. They were escorted to the jail by
many policemen, a crowd with a band of
music following them. The police charged
upon the crowd, using their clubs, and quite
o conflict ensued. Several persons were badly
injured.
The body of Rev. w. L. Parker, rector of
Christ Episcopal church, Oswego, N. ",
who mysteriously disappeared Nov. 80 i'm
| u,oIio fo1v n ffor h01isp r. oruso NJ hic MN
was found OH the lake shore near there. The
violent gale brought the body to the surface.
1t is now certain that the unfortunate man,
who constantly gave to the needy more
than he could offord, committed suicide to
escape his creditors.
The grand jury reassembled at Indianapolis
after two week adjournment. Judge Woods
decision at given to the grand jury on Nov.
13 regarding W. W. Dudley's case, and prac-
tically told the jury that they could not re-
turn an indictment unless it was proved that
the instructions as contained in the famous
letter were actually carried into effect by the
Revised Statutes, Sec. 1851. The charge was
very long.
Will Dowell, living at Andrews, six miles
west Ut Huntington, Ind, who had boosted
that he could not be scared by the White
Gap movement, was visited by seventy
masked men. They put q rope around his
neck, threw the other end over q telegraph
pole and hoisted him up. He was shortly
afterward lowered, when he slipped the moose
and escaped, but was soon recaptured. His
cries brought citizens to his rescue and
the White Caps fed.
Ex-Sheriff Hobensack OF the Union county
Ohio, who lives near Mount Hickory, had q
terrible experience with two robbers. Hear
ing a noise in his barn he went to investigate.
Two men set upon him, shooting him twice
and 'intiicting seven wound with a knife.
They threw the wounded man into q man
ger and set fire to the barn, which was de-
stroyed after Hobensack had been rescued
by, members of his family. The injured man
will pro badly die. Suspicion rests upon two
colored men. F
Henry Gillespie, a worthless negro. who has
figured for years here in police courts, cut
from ear to ear the throat of his former mis-
tress, Nellie Evans, producing q fatal injury
and then slashed HIS own throat. The WON.
IN is white, and a few months ago married
a maj who ia now in jail. Gillespie tried to
persuade her to live with him, but she re
fused. He entered the house where she wal
and drew a razor. A fearful struggle ensued
in which the woman's fingers were nearly sew
cred from the hand Finally he over-poweree
her and repeatedly drew the razor across hel
throat. It'll thought Gillespie's injuries al,
not fatal. 4 ~ ssa
James b. butcher, night Waterman a.
Tyler's flower mills, Manhattan, entered hi
wie's bed room the other morning and com
menced firing at her with o revolver. TIL
first shot missed her and she sprang out d
bed. A struggle ensued, md in the scrim
mage the revolver went of, the ball strikin,
butcher in the hand. He then deliberatel,
pressed the muzzle Of the revolver agains
his wife's neck aud fired. She fell, but i'm
mediately sprang to her feet and ran out o
J the house to o neighbours. butcher sturne'
the revolver against his head and sent o bul
let through his brain. Mrs. Dutc1,er is yer,
badly wounded, bnt there isa chance for he
recovery.
A sensational arrest was made atSt. Louis
which promises to result in the exposure q
{ baby-farming with all it's heartless cruelt,
A woman who gave her name as Jane Suffer
called ut the ~cofoner's Office and gave motto