New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-31
Criminal DOings.

Criminal Doings.
Lee White, a negro thief at Kansas City,
mortally stabbed Special Police Officer Hen
ry Call, who had arrested him.
William Bushnell, who absconded from New
York with $50 900 ten years ago and was
recently captured in Chilli, has escaped.
Tony Cohen, clerk in A. II. King g clothing
store at New York, took 81 900 of his en-
ployers money anG eIoped with Frieda
Siegel, a cash girl in a restaurant.
1t is thought that Capt. Ryan, of the
Philadelphia bark Mary P. Kitchen, has been
murdered by the crew. The ship has arrived
at Montevideo under another name
Chauncey Kniffin, twenty-five years of
Y, after firing three shots at his wife Annie,
aged eighteen. The young woman will die.
Domestic trouble.
James Gibson and James Connors, indict-
ed for robbing both the Negaunee and Calu-
met postofices in Michigan, made a key
from piece of broom handle and then the
turnkey came in with breakfast, unlocked
the door and made dash for liberty. Two
short term men also struck out. One held
back and were captured inside the Jail, de-
laying the turnkey until the others were out
ofsight.
A White Cap outrage occurred six miles
south Of Brodhead, Wis. The victim was a
wife heater, a rich farmer named Perry Nell
son, known as the sting1est man in Southern
Wisconsin. He had beaten his wife terribly
of late and was caught going home by a
gang of White Caps who thrashed and tar,
red and feathered him. They then warned
country in ten days or they would return
and kill him: He contemplates leaving.
Taylor Crum, attorney for Murderer
Thomas Brown, at Moorhead, Mimi, in
formed his client of the action Of the supreme
court in affirming the decision Of the lower
court. On hearing the news he manifested
the same indifference which mas characterized
him since his conviction. He stated that lie
would not lose any sleep or appetite on ac-
count of his having to be hanged A petit
ton will be circulated asking the governor
to commute the sentence to life imprison-
ment.
Three cattle and horse thieves, members
of notorious band of Mexicans who have
committed many depredations in Albuquer-
que, were captured by Deputy Sheriff Charles
LoWens and posse and imprisoned in a va
cant house near Kelly, N. M. Before the
capture of the thieves, three in number, engag-
ed the posse in battle, during which their
leader and Deputy Lowens were shot dead
At nightla party of cowboys proceeded to
the house where the remaining two thieves
we're imprisoned, overpowered the guard and
hanged the prisoners after Kidding their
bodies with bullets.
Col. RogerJ. Page,!a prominent lawyer and
editor Of the Times Register at Marion, n
c., was shot and instantly killed at that
place just after alightIng from the midnight
train which brought him from Round Knob.
He had gone hundred yards from the sta
ton and was leaning on the arm ofhis friend,
Judge Haywood, of Texas, while on his left
was another friend, when some one came up
behind him and shot him through the neck,
which was broken by the ball His assailant
ran, mounted a horse and fled the town. A
coroner's inquest was hurriedly held, render
ing verdict of death by a person unknown.
A young man had threatened to kill Col
Page and was seen following the dead man
at the station that night.
In the supreme court at Calgary, N. w.
Il T., William, alias Jumbo" Fisk was placed
in the dock to receive his sentence. He
made no reply when asked if he had anything
to say: ssJudge Roleau said the jury had
given him all the benefit they could
when hey brought in a verdict of man
slaughter, but he had been within a hairs
breadth of ending his life on scaffold for
causing the death of the poor unfortunate
squaw whom he had so cruelty mutilated.
His honor stated that owing to his friends
and relatives, but especially his aged
mothers pleading, he would be lenient with
him. Sentence of the court was fourteen
years imprisonment with hard labor.
5 The bodies of three men, one colored and
two white. were found near Whiting station,
Lake county, Ind Examination developed
that each of them had fatal wound exact
" on the back OF the head. One of them
when found was entirely nude with the ex-
ception ola shirt, and this fact, together
with other evidences goes to show that the
deed must have been committed while the
victims slept. Near the coIored man was
found a pocketbook and several bank notes
Who they are: where they came from, or
how they came there is unknown to any one
One reportsays they have been in Whiting
for several days, and were enticed on the
railroad and murdered and robbed but the
most plausible theory is that they were
stockmen passing through with load Of
live stock and perhaps tramps on the train
committed the deed and threw the bodies off
in order to allay suspicion. The bodies were