The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-02-01
DOINGS OF THE WICKED.

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road at Ell Paso, Tex. is short in his &C.
counts several thousand dollars. He has
left for parts unknown.
Mrs. Clara Hoffman, state president of the
w. {. T. u, who has been investigating tho
Missouri penitentiary, alleges that women
convicts are treated like cattle and adduces
proofs of immorality at the institution.
Potts, the noted Des Moines 'searcher,"
was sentenced to three years in the penitent-
tiary on the Indictment for perjury growing
out OF one of his liquor seizures. Hamilton,
his co-defendant, was acquitted.
Eastman Battise, q notorious desperate
and h~ighwayman, was shot and killed by
Deputy United States Marshal Ladd near
Goodland, in the Indian territory while resist
ing arrest.
Green Braxton, a negro, was hanged for
murder at Montgomery, Ala. The drop was
sprung before the black cap was put on, and
Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Parkes fell with the
negro. The deputy was painfully hurt by the
"Tug" Wilson, q printer known all over the
country, and who was employed on the Pion-
Ger Press several years g q. was found dead
on the top Of the Constitution building at
Atlanta, Ga. He had been on q protractsd
spree.
Judge Mills sentenced C. Baldwin of Winni-
peg Junction to thirty days and to pay q
fine of $50 for contempt of court in getting
q witness for the state drunk. Baldwin was
indicted Tor running a blind pig, and the wit
ness was to testify against him in q recent
term of court.
! The cause of the shooting-o of Jesse Thomp-
son, the wealthy mill owner of Midwife Geo.
by Norrsll was the emoval of the latter re-
Gently from his position as agent and tele-
graph operator at Midwife, ~presumable at
Thompson's instance. Norrell was taken to
Waynesboro to escape the demonstrations of
not arrived there at last reports 1t is feared
that tho murderer was lynched.
A. N. Nelson was shot and killed by his
wife, at Abbeville, s. c., who then attempted
suicide by shooting herself in the head. She
is still alive but in a critical condition. Mel.
son had bought his wife q pair of shoes and
lost them while on his q home while under
the influence OF liquor. His wife sent him
back to hunt for them and Upon his return
unsuccessful she killed him. A %coroner's jury
rendered a verdict of death at the hands OF
unknown parties, the evidence being meagre;
but the woman admits the killing.
Two masked men bound and gagged the
night clerk, L. L. Roy, at the p~ostoflce at
Albuquerque, N. NJ. pounded the combina.
ton knob off the safe with a sledge hammer
and robbed the vault Of $4,000 in money
and 81, 900 in stamps and several hundred
dollars worth of jewelry. All the register
bags were cut upen n the frst-class packa.
ges taken. The amount of this loss is not
known, but tho postll aster thinks the rob
beers secured several thousand dollarsmore
A railroad passenger train was stopped
near Tulare, CAL, by two masked men. The
robbers climbed over the tender to the engine
and compelled the engineer to stop the train
They then compelled the engineer. and fireman
to go with them, M ordered the express.
man to open the door. The amoun taken
ia not known, but rumored~ to be several
Thousand dollars. The robbers made the
engineer and fireman accompany them some
distance from the train. A tramp stealing q
ride was mistaken for q trainman, and the
robbers shot him in the head. There il nc
trace of the robbers yet.
Richard A. E. Goebler of Butte, Mont, wal
buncoed out Of II 500 in New York abou,
Nov. /. He succeeded in having one of th,
bunco men indicted. Lewis Davis went OF
the mans bond, but the bond was afterward
found to be OF no value. Goebler then pro
cured q warrant for Davis arrest, and me-
Davis upon the street, whereupon Gosblel
pulled out q pistol md halted him until !.
policeman came along and took the pair *
Recorder Smith to plead to an indictment
for perjury found against him. he pleadet
not guilty and was remandsd for trial.