The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-02-22
DOlNGS OF THE WICKED.

DOlNGS OF THE WICKED.
Editor p N. Carson, of the Hnsting, Neb.,
Volksfreund, has left town after swipdIing
various people out of between $4,000 ind
$1,000.
An unknown woman registered ut the Union
Hotel at st. Cloud, Mimi, and obtained lodg-
ing. Next morning she had disappeared, leav-
her baby, about weeks old, behind. She
had concealed it under the bed covers, and
when found, the little one was almost sufo-
Gated.
Six miles below Dunning. a small town in
the western part Of Nebraska, Samuel Iusco
demanded the payment of a debt from q
neighbor named Samuel Alstott, and when
the latter refused, drew a revolver and threat
ened to kill him. Alstott ran to the house,
got a shotgun. killed 1nsco, and then we mt
to Dunning and surrendered.
When the cas- against the men indicted for
attempting to bride the Cronin jury was
called at Chicago, before Judge Waterman,
the o u remaining defendant pleaded guilty.
Tho court called them up and told them
what they were liza bic to in case he enforced
the full penalty Of. the law, but that he would
hear evidences to determine what mitigating
or ~aggravating circumstances there were.
A Larkins, alias B. Sampson, who last May
swindled the Sioux City Savings bank out of
$4,000. was sentenced to the penitentiary
for Eve years on q plea of guilty. Larkins
stated to the court that lie had tried to live
q christian lie. but that domestic troubles,
a mad dog bite IL years ago and a sunstroke
five years ago. had made him subject to tenn
porary fits OF insanity, during which his ex-
ploits among banks had been executed.
The bodies of Farmer Jones and his wife,
an aged couple, tenants on a farm at Sey.
mour park, neal Omaha, were found buried
beneath q straw pile. They had been muir
dered by unknown parties who drove of
their live stock. Frank Ofitt and Jerry Dee.
two employees in the South Omaho stock
yards, ave been arrested n charged of
the murder. 1t is said that they sold some
of the stolen cattle to q South Omaha COM
mission house.
William Dohn, aged IS years, got drunk
and went to his house, while border
ing on delirium tremens He pulled out o
22-calihre Victor revolver and shot ut his
wife, inficting u painful wound in her hand.
Then placing the pistol at his own head, he
fred and the ball vent through his BRAIN
dealer in iron ~cornices. Drink and jealousy
of his wife is the cause Of the tragedy.
The Redman and White Cap spirit seems
to be coming to. the 'front.' again in certain
parts of West Virginia at Rockport, Wood
county, Charles Smith and his wife were
both taken from their home and un merciful-
~ beaten with hickory switches and compel
led to leave the county and state. The fami-
~ passed through Parkersburg and told q
horrible story of their suffering and treat
ment. The wife says that after whipping her
husband the mob caught her while she was
trying to escapefrom the house with their
children n tied her to q tree. She was then
beaten until the blood came.
A revolving crime was committed at Bur
lington, a quiet mining village three miles
west of Butte, Montana. Mrs. Bryant kept
a boarding house for miners and, being an
Industrious woman, had saved about $500.
which she kept in a trunk in her bed room.
She had three children, the eldest a boy,
Thomas Bryant, aged about sixteen. His
father about q year g went to Australia,
nd Mrs. Bryant was to have joined him this
spring. Thomas frequently quarreled with
his mother and had a quarrel with her that
morning. Shortly after she found him in her
bed room r,fling her trunk, and o stormy
scene ensued. The only witness to what fol-
lowed is the two-year-old daughter OF Mrs.
Bryant, h says that her mother ani Tom
had q struggle, md that Tom drew q pistol
and shot his mother. The boy was arrested.