The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-08-08
The World OF Criminals.

John Metcalf butcher, has been arrested
at GAINESVILLE, Wis. on the charge Of murder
ing Miss Isabel Everson, aged eghty-five
years, at Edgerton few days ago.
Miss Lillian Dumont, a respectable young
lady OF Brooklyn, stepped from ball room
into a toilet room and hanged herself. No
cause is assigned.
James Benjamin, farmernear McConnells-
Vile, Ohio committed suicide because, as
member of jury, he was compelled to rem
der verdict against his will
railroader named Harry Lee and a
courtesan named Sadie Taylor were arrested
at Peoria, H., on the charge of causing the
death OF John Kowalk and Hahah Shearer
Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royce, lately of the
WiIlimantic Conn Savings institute, was
arrested on new charge of embezzlement of
$4,000 from the institute and making false
entries.
Robert Engel, German arriving in New
York May 0, was found in a vacant house
on the lake shore near Big Lake, MINI, with
pistol shot wound in his chest which will
probably prove fatal. He says he shot him
self, having NJ friends here and having been
robbed of his money in ST. Paul.
A female burglar, about sixty-fve years
old, was arrested after a severe struggle at
Braintris, Mass. in the residence of Horace
Abercrombie, having effected On entrance
through the bulkhead. She would give nc
name, but stated that she had subsisted il
the woods on berries for the past few weeks
and had no home.
AC. Brown, a horse thief from Iowa, es
capped from the city jail at Albert Lea, MINI.
in a slick manner while policeman was put
ting two other prisoners in the cells. Brown
got out into the corridor, and as the police
man failed to lock the door of the outsid,
cell, Brown escaped by walking out into tn
fire companys rooms and jumped through {
window. About an hour after his escape tn
sheriff of Grundy county, Iowa, arrived will
a requisition, but bis bird had flown.
A few sharp words and the hasty use of
revolver, and an apparently happy younS
and certainly handsome couple, husband ant
wife were lying dead, each shot directl!
through the heart At Baltimore the neigh
bOrs of William DOlan, q bookmaker, livinI
on East Lanvale street, were awakened b,
the sound of four pistol shots. The hous
was broken open, and there stretched on tn
floor were the bodies ofMr. and Mrs. Dolan
Az LHeEe W6Te pOWu0F ndTkB Oh UHe man
shirt, and as the pistol was near his body
he must have done the shooting.
C. NJ. Hull editor of the Boliver Count,
Democrat and L. A. Weissinger, editor O
the Boliver County Review, both published
at Rosehale. Miss, became involved in per
sonal difficulty in which Hull was killed. Ba.
blood had been existing for some time be
tween the two men. Hull was from Jackson
and Weissinger from Winona, Miss. Will
Hull was returning from his dinner he wa
shot by Weissinger with shotgun. tn
charge entering his breast, killing him. Weis
singer is in jail
A mob of disguised men numbering hbou
fifteen or eighteen went to the house of G. "
Brown, farmer on Fishing creek, West Va
and aftertying Mrs. Brown, her husband an
the children, proceeded to subject the hous
to thorough search, presumably for stole
goods. Nothing of the sort was found an
in their rage the mob heated Q lot OF tar in