Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-01-04
CRIME.

Jan. 1o-Several persons killed at Cimarron,
Kan, in fight over the county seat question.
Jan. l9-Three men hanged for murder by
posse Of citizens at Tiptonville, Tenn. Two
brothers at Bolar, Mo-, attempted to elope with
two daughters OF Henry Thomas, when the
latter shot and killed the young men and one OF
the girls, and was soon after lynched by mob
"A widow and her four small children near
Broolzfeld, Mo-, murdered by her cousin.
Jan. 29-John M. Clayton, recent Republican
candidate and contestant for Congress in Sec
ond Arkansas district, assassinated at Plum
merville.
Feb. 16-Joseph Chemeleck, Glenville, Mimi,
killed his sisterin.law and her two daughters
and then fatally shot himself. :. Frank L. Sill
vers Tecumseh, Mich, shot li and killed his wife
Feb. 20-Joseph Brogan, Upson, Wis,
drunken laborer, cut the throats of his wife and
his two little boys and then slew himself with
Mar michael Pebbles, wife and two chill
dren murdered while in bed near Paducah, Ky:
Mar. ls-Capt. F; w. Dawson, editor Of
Charleston Is. c. News and Courier, shot and
killed by DR.. II. B. McDow.
Mar. 15-Samuel Rumble, Italian Canyon, New,
shot and killed his father;in-law, his wife, his
Mar. 27-Ncholas Mead, hotel waiter in Bos-
ton, shot Mrs. Samuel Tuck and her boy, and
then killed himself.
Apr. 27-Nine men killed In q fight between
cowboys and settlers in Oklahoma
May ga man named Welwick, Blair, La,
shot his wife and two children, set fire to his
residence and then shot himself.
May 1S-Three officers killed In riotous dis
turbance at the polls in Forest City, Ark.
May 22-The body of DR.. p. II. Cronin, who
before, found in q catch-basin, in Chicago, the
man having been brutally murdered.
June "A. r. Rogers and wife, Topeka, Kan,
fatally shot by burglar.
July s-R. d. Johnson, Palouse City, w. r.,
killed his wife, son and daughter, and then him
SELF because, as he stated in note, he did not
want to live in this sinful world. :. Charles
Backmar, Blackmar, Mich, while drunk IA
tally shot his aged mother and her grandson,
then fatally wounded himself
July 12-August Rosenburg, Somerville, Mass,
murdered his wife and two children.
July 21-Hiram Hoadley, Jr, Edgerton, O.,
killed his wife, her father and himself domes-
Aug. b~Martin Burke, the Cronin suspect.
arrived at Chicago from Winnipeg in charge OF
Aug. 14NEx.Judge David s. Terry shot and
killed by Deputy U. S. Marshal David Nagle at
Lathrop, Cal.
Aug. 26-Stage attacked by highwayman be-
tween Gogebic and Bessemer, Mich, and two
passengers fatally shot,. -Four men killed and
many others wounded in a riot at Jardineville,
Ark.
Sept. .so-A. G. Poole. editor Of the Nemon
G,a5 News, and Sheriff Lee G. McAlpin fought
| o duel in which both were killed.
Oct. 21-Frank j. Bowman, prominent lawyer,
| shot and killed ut Ferguson, Mo-, by Is. M.
| Chambers.
Nov. s-The murdered DIR. Cronin's clothes,
| and case OF Instruments found in Chicago
| catch basin. An old quarrel between Colonel
| A. N. Swope and Colonel w. @. Goodloe termi-
mated in a desperate encounter at Lexington,
| KY, in which the former was stabbed to death
| and the latter fatally shot.
| Nov 18-Prosecution in Cronin case. Chicago,
| rested its case and the defense opened.
Nov. 25.-Defense in Cronin case, Chicago
| rested their case.
Nov. 27-Geo. Clough, Rockland, Me-, shot q
| woman and her niece and then took his OWE
| lie; jealousy.
| Nov. 29-State's Attorney Longenecker be
gan the opening address in the Cronin case
Dec. 7-Casper Clipsey. ST. Louis, fatally sho
| John Anson and his two daughters because his
attentions upon one of the girls had been forbid
Dec. ls-cronin murder case, Chicago, giver
to the jury. ,.
Dec. i6-After seventy hours deliberatlon jur.
| In Cronin murder case, Chicago, brought In yer
dict sentencing Burke, O'Sullivan and Coughlii
to imprisonment for life, Kunze for three year
and acquitting Beggs. 49,, :,
wife and three children and then himself
domestic troubles.