Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-12
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

Ten Cinnamon were taken near Tia
Juana the other night. They had come
rom Ensenada, and will be taken to Los
Angeles for trial.
Young Wallace and his accomplice,
who robbed Editor Wallace at New York
of $50 900, have been sentenced to eight
years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
At Boston Michael Connors shot his
wife, and she will doubtless die. The
couple had lived unhappily together, and
separated some time ago. They met on
the street, and quarrel resulted. Con-
nors is 40 and his wife AZ years OF age.
The trial of Tom Young for killing Sam
Tourton, which commenced at Redding,
CAL, June 10, has just closed, the jury
acquitting him. Public sentiment has
been with Young, who killed Teurton be-
cause of an indecent assault on his four
teen-year-o!d daughter.
Discovery of extensive robberies Of
mail while in transit between Council
Bluffs and Davenport, Ia, was made
some time ago, and two railroad en-
ployes at Wyandotte junction have been
arrested. The face value OF the mail
matter lost is over half a million.
At the Western hotel, Columbus, Ind ,
John F. Petilliott, son OF ex-Mayor Pet
tiiliott, and a prominent silonnkeepor,
shot and killed his wife Two weeks a 20
she left him, went to the hotel and was
serving as waitress. He walked into
| the dining-room, drew revolver and
shot five bullets into her head and brf asst
She died almost instantly. PETIT lliott is
in Jail, and there is talk of lynching him.
Sheriff Hale is still keeping up still
hunt for Samuel Dunn, the missing en-
greer who caused the death of thirteen
people by running his train in the open
draw of the Webster-street bridge, Oak
land, Cal May 80. Hale received adj
vices few ,ys ago that Dunn had been
arrested down South and WAS in jail
awaiting lis orders. Sin e that time
Mr.. Hale has received no word about the
matter, and believes the authorities
caught the wrong man.
At Truckee William c. Smith, aged %,
shot his grandfather, John ]. Gosney,
aged "a. Smith had a difficulty with a
man on the street, and they came to
| blows He then fastened home and g 1t
a Winchester rife. The grandfather at
/ tempted 10 ulbdrn MIN, Wn6Q Tie gun
was discharged. The bullet struck G s.
ney in the forehead, but glanced upward
along the skull, inAicting an ugly but no.
dangerous wound. Smith immediate ly
ran from the house and concealed him
self in the willows below town Officer
Teeter pursued and disarmed him, being
compelled to knock him down with a
rife before he would SUR nder. He is
now in Jail. 1t is thought that Gosn y
will not prosecute his grandson.
Shaved Head Bob, the Indian who shot
and killed another Indian named Big
Mike in Burney valley, California, in
December, and who has since kept hid
den in the mountains, was found and ar
rested last week and brought back by
two Constables They oyefhauled h m
with several other Indians in a cabin.
The differs had lively time making the
arrest, ami for awhile it looked as if a
war would he necessary. The Indian
and his father were in the cabin, and met
the officers at the door with Winches er
rifles. Bob showed fight, but one of the
officers compelled him to throw down his
gun. An old squaw present secured the
rifle, and was going to shoot, but upon
being confronted with a six-shooter she
surrendered.