The Bottineau pioneer., 1890-04-26
DOINGS OF THE WICKED,

DoINGS Or lHE WICKED.
Steve Jacobs (colorcd). ch arged with barn
burning, was taken from jail in Fayetteville
Tenn, and lyuched.
Lem Goldman q St. Louis stock broker,
has been arrested, charged with defra uding q
iewelry firm out OF SO, 900 worth ofdiamonds
He is a nephew of Moses Fraley, the great
wheat speculator who recently failed
In Cleveland Mrs. John Schumacher, aged
forty five, went to the attic, pounded her
head with hammer until almost uncon.
scious, and then hanged herself from door
hinge.
w. 8. Johnson and bride of Chicago were
robbed on q train near Mcfarland station,
Kan, of $500 worth Of jewelry, and O color
ed waiter named Babcock h us been arrested
on suspicion
Abraham Kelly and Samuel Logan, young
married men of Springfield, KY, and lifelong
friends, quarreled ter bantering each other
about their wives. Kelly secured a shot gun
and killed Logan instantly.
John L. Sherman. of Kansas City has been
arrested on the charge of numbering his
partner, W. c. Wrightman, real estats
broker who mysteriously disappeared some
time ago. No proof has ever been discover
ed that Wrightman is dead.
In New York. young Frenchman named
Charles A. George was assaulted and mortal
ly injured by his mother-in-law, Croates
Reilly. She fractured his skull with an Ak
and escaped. George had been quarreling
with his wife, when his mother-ln.law inter.
fered. ...a- H.. =, ...,.. m - -
The general term handed down an opinion
in the case of Dilworth Choate the reporter
now in Ludlow street jail in New York under.
going sentence for contempt of court, in
entering and concealing himself in the jury
room where the Flack jurors were deliberat-
ing. The opinion dismisses the writ of cer-
tiorari applied by the Choate's counsel
Asa R. Waterman, manager Of Jacobs,
Lyceum theater, Brooklyn, shot and in
stantly killed Peter Doran, twenty-nine
years old, in front of the play house Water
mans wife, who is very pretty woman, is
corting her home when the husband fred the
fatal shot. Waterman was arrested, but re-
fused to make O statement. 1t is supposed
that jealously promped the murder.
John Rhodes, a we'll known farmer living
near Greencastle, Pa, shot and instantly
killed his nephew, William Rhodes. The un-
Gle taunted his nephew about the latters
crippled son and the young man threatened
to shoot him. Rhodes then stepped into the
house, got his gun and fred ut his nephew
The load struck the young man fair in the
forehead and blew the whole top of his head
OF. The uncle Is now in Jail at Chambers
burg.
A woman named Celia Clay was ar
rested at New Orleans for street walking.
Her rcputed husband Harry Clay, remon-
strated with the officer, and was severely
dubbed. He was. carried to the hospital in
q critical condition. Celia, after heing placed
IN In 9 cell, set fire to her clothing, and when
crisp, and the flesh peelng off in strips She
was removed to the hospital in dying CON.
| dition.
Vernon L. Everett, student at the Chica.
| go Medical college, and the son of DIR. J. I
Everett of Grinnell, Iowa, left his home on
| the evening Of April 8, saying he was going
| to see sick man on Halstead street and has
| never re turned or been seen since by any one
| who knew him. The tough" character o.
| Halstead street at night has aroused the
| fears of his friends that the summons was O
decoy, and that he was waylaid, murdered
and robbed on bis way to or from the sick
| mans house. -
Ben Elsey (colored) was hanged in the jail
yard at Birmingham, Ala, for the murder o
j. W. Meadows, a railroad conductor, in Jan
nary, 1889. In addition to this crime HI
murdered and robbed an old farmer and hi
wife in Douglas county, Co.. about Eve years
ago shot policeman in Atlanta, and in De
cember, 1883 robbed and murdered an Ital
ian peddler near Birmingham. Elsey anG
four companions found Meadows drunk or
the street late one night, and carried him in
| to ths woods, two miles from Birmingham
| There they robbed him Of everything he had
and, after dlyi1ing the plumber, crushed his
head to 9 pulp with heavy stones.
f Detective j. G. Burke Of San francisco hae
arrived in Eldora, Iowa with Charles MARI
and James Rice, who he has just arrested II
Visnlin Cal, charged with tho murder OF Hen
~ Johns, the miliionaire land king and STOCK
farmer, who VAS found murdered in 1885. i
win bs remembered that, while returning
home through the woods at midnight on
May ~, 1895, Johns was waylnid and shot
down within forty rods of his own home
Detectives hare since that time worked on th
case. Both prisoners are very well known Il
this county although what evidences ha
has been found against them has not aa "
| been made public There II considerable in
terest and the feeling expressed and the bol.
exploits and deeds of the Rainsbargers VII
~ revived md exposed. s ss