The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
CRIMINAL

At Buffalo, Ala, D. Good and Ford
johnson had terrible cutting duel. Both
will die. They were drunk and alone.
Teller Ritter, of the First National Bank
of Evansville, Ind, has been arrested and
held in bonds for trial on q charge of mis-
appropriating $4,000.
At Chattanooga, jesse Fryerson, convict
ed of the murder Of Policeman Musgrove,
was sentenced to be hanged April II,
new trial being denied.
Teller Ritter of the FIRST National bank,
Evansville, has been arrested and held in
bonds for trial on charge contemporaries
ting $1,000.
During family quarrel at Paris, Tenn,
Thomas MCGEE shot and killed his father
in-law, John AKRON, an aged farmer. MCGEE
made his escape.
An expert accountant has been examining
the county books at Grinnell, Iowa, and
find shortage of S. 600 in an ex-anditors
accounts and $3.50 in those of the clerk.
Ex-Secretary Gibson, Of the whisky trust,
walked into Judge Shepherds court in Chi
cago and gave $25, 600 bail for his appear
ance in court.
A crowd of Italians went to the Office of
the chief of police OF Chicago and asked for
protection for one of their number, Joseph
demned to death by the Malta.
William H. Dwyer, member of we'll
known business firm of St. Paul and Du-
luth, was acquitted at West Superior on a
charge OF manslaughter. He was accused
ofkilling E. V. Mundy, late county clerk,
of that city.
Near Bartoma, Ind, Mrs. James Bass
was hrutally murdered by Anderson Ro-
selle, colored. Mrs. Bass was supposed to
have some inside knowledge Of forgery
which Roselle had committed and he MUIR
dered her to shut her mouth.
Three masked men entered the store of
H. B. Utter at Kansas City, Kan, with
drawn revolvers, drove three customers in
to corner, and then made Mr.. Utter open
the safe and hand over his cash. The rob-
bers secured SIS and escaped.
The body of Henry Slade was found with
in few feet of his front gate at Terre
Haute with bullet hole through his breast.
Slade was night engineer at the Wabash
rolling mill. There is no clue to the muir
derer.
Two prisoners q white man and negro,
were taken from the Jail in Gainesville,
Alaehua county, Fla, and hanged. They had
been arrested ten hours before for compile
ity in numerous assaults committed in the
uS1SAUO1uVOo uuLAuS tu0 kAsSS Two weeks.
A Special from Carks, Neb., says: An
other chapter in the Cowles murder case
was enacted, when the banker was
released on technically in the fling Of q
complaint charging him with wife m1rder.
He was rearrested in a moment on . new
information. The Pacific bank, the prop
erty of CoKles, and one Of the oldest fnan-
cial Institutions in the state, was sold.
A big seizure of smuxgled opium vas
made on the steamer City ofPuebls BY
customs officers at Seattle. Ono hundred
and ninetv-two fve-tael cans were captured.
It was packed in largo box Of sawdust
which had been shipped from San Francisco
At Victoria B. G., the opium was put into
this box. The box was billed to Rev.
Charles Mitchell, Helena Mont. Tho
opium is worth about 81 900.
Seven of the worst prisoners in the coun-
ty Jail at Smithport, Pa, escaped. When
Tailor Dan Dwyer entered the jail to lock
the prisoners in their cells for the night he
was pounced upon by two Of the. prisoners,
choked and pounded into insensibility, !
while other prisoners put an iron bar in
fhe grating again preventing Mrs. Mn.