The record-union., 1891-05-10
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
TRAIN HELD UP ON
THE SANTE FE ROAD.
A Doctor Arrested In Boston on a
Charge of Numbering Josa-
phine Barnaby.
Special to the SUNDAY UNION.

! Special to the SUNDAY UNION,
| GUTHRIE %. T.), May 9.-The south
bound passenger train on the Santa Fe
road was held up tonight at about 11:30
O'Clock by five masked men. The gang
is supposed TO have been the notorious
Dalton boys, who have been seen in this
neighborhood recently. They boarded
the train at Wharton, and detached the
engine and express car, and then pro-
ceeded two miles south and robbed the
| express car of all the money it contained.
1t is believed that the amount stolen is
not very large.
The passengers were not molested, but
a more frightened lot cannot be imagined.
The bandits informed them when they
proceeded down the track with the
engine and express car'that they were to
| remain with the coaches in order to
secure themselves. They obeyed
A DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR MURDER.
Boston, May 9.-The Globe will say to-
morrow: By order OF Colorado authori-
ties, DR.. T. Thatcher Graves is tacitly
under arrest for the murder of Josephine
A. Barnaby. Through adroit detective
work, the necessary evidence to insure
! the Indictment has been secured and Dr.
Graves is now bound West, not for the
purpose of giving testimony before the
| Grand Jury, but to be within the iuris-
diction of Colorado, where he will be
| formerly indicted on Tuesday next if
evidence obtained and now in the hands
of the State, if Attorney Stevens of
Denver is to be believed.
DR.. Graves has confessed sending a
mysterious bottle to Denver and to writ
ing an inScri ptiOn upon it. He asserts
that the bottle contained pure whisky
when it was mailed in Boston, and that
any poison therein contained must have
been added after the package left his
possession.
TWO MEN SHOT DOWN.
NEWPORT (Tenn.), May 9.-Two neigh
bors, Berry Holt and William Holloway,
had trouble over tract of land. Yester-
day law suit was decided in favor OF
Holloway. This morning, while William
Holloway, Jr., and Pleasant Holt were
moving fence according to the decision.
Rufus Holt, son of Berry Holt, shot them
both and fed.
KILLED BY HIS WIFE.
CHICAGO, May 9.-While in Jail in the
suburban town of Austin this evening
Alfred Townsley, gambler, was shot
and killed by his wife, who has Of late
been separated from him, residing in La
fayette. Ind. The charge against Towns
ley was that Of many times repeated
criminal assaults upon his 1S-year-Old
stepdaughter, whose father was Towns
ley's brother. Mrs. Townsley was ar
rested. There was no witness to the ira
gedy.
BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH.
HAzLEToN (Pa.), May 9.-Mrs. Don
nelly, aged 1l0, committed suicide to-day
by setting fire to her bed. She had of
late been intirm, and the neighbors. who
have kept her for the past twenty years,
decidedi to send her to the almsiouse,
where she would receive good care. She
suspected this, and rather than suffer
what she considered an indignity, burned
herself to death
KILLED HIS MISTRESS AND HIMSELF.
LoGANsPoRT tInd.), May 9.-Martin
Grener killed Anna Kiester, his mistress,
and afterwards himself here to-day with
pistol. Jealousy was the cause. Grener
was formerly member of the City
Council.