Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-07-01
NUMEROUS TRAGEDIES
Tales Of Cruel Crimes Told by the
Telegraph.
THE VICTIMS OF FIERCE JEALOUSY
A Lover Mills HIS swesthezrt aud Him.
sstf-Aarsier al . chareh Dsos-
bloody Deeds Of Crime In
the sanBy south

LAwzEscs, Mass. June so--John
Raasel aged -. shot and killed his
sweetheart, Maria BnrexetL aged
Is, aad then shot himself through the
head, dying Immediately. Raasch
had been payiag attention TO Miss
Burckett for some time and was ex-
tremely Jealous Ne called at her
fathers house Monday evening aud
quarrslrd with the girl, leaving the
house ia rage. During the morning
Rausch called the girl out from the
Everett mill. where she was az work,
and after few words shot her through
the heart and then put a bullet through
his head.
THEY KEPT THEIR WORD.
SPARLANp. H.. June so. - About
twelve years ago an esteemed citizen
named John Carver died, leaving one
daughter and three sons. Subsequent
ly his widow. whom he had left some
Els, 000, married mere boy, Royal Fris-
by. Frisby at once developed into
first-ciass Tough and began spend
ing the money in debauehery. The
citizens have tT long time been in
a. A4-> anu s'ts]aiSs1v -
white cap" circular was sent TO him
and several sent to heads of families
with an attached prayer: Help Us for
Humanity's Sake" and signed by the
widow Carver and her three sons. The
original circular detailed how, while
yet the husband of Mrs. Carver, Frisby
ruined her daughter. and now she bore
him child in the house of his wife
her mother The father buried the
child in the yard within go feet
of the house. i!rs. Frisby was
compelled by threats 10 witness
the ercssest Of outrages by her nus
bard until her daughters shame and
the shame of her household became
public property. Then she secured a
divorce and Immediately thereafter her
husband compelled her daughter, with
second child only two weeks old, to
marry him. Sunday, not having heed
ed the warning of the circular, he
stepped out of his house, and before he
flied full of bucllshot and instantly
killed. The coroner's jury held Clip
Culver, of Henry Mrs. Laura Frisby
and her son, John Carver, for the kill
ing.
A SAVAGE STAB.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, juno S0.-A
shocking tragedy was enacted in the
quiet village of Germantown, Tenn,
Monday night, where a negro boy
named Pugh Prewitt was instantly
| killed. The killing occurred in front
of negro church, about half mile
east of the town, and though
there were 200 negroes in the church
| and, as usual, a number congregated
! about tire door, no one was found who
could identity the murderer. Prewitt's
body was found with butcher
knife nearly foot long sticking in
his breast Coroner Stockland essayed
to pull it out, but could not. A small
| line was fastened to the knife. but still
until loop was made in the rope and a
strong stick passed through it with two
men pulling at t that the knife was fin
ally ex,r;cated. The knife had passed
through the breast bone and had been
embedded an inch deep in the verte-
bra There was no actual eye wit
ness to the killing. Suspicion attaches
to a negro named Nose johnson, with
whom Pugh had q difficulty earlier in
the day.
| MISSISSIPPI PLANTER MURDERED.
| NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 30.-News
has reached this city that Mr.. L. Mann,
manager of the Shelly plantation, neal
Shelly Station, Bolivar county, Miss,
was murdered Saturday night He was
eating supper and the assassin shot
him through the window. A negro
tenant with whom Mann had quarrcled
is suspected. The negro has run away.
| KILLED HIS WIFE AND BROTHER.
| MOBILE, Ala, June 30.-From tho
backwoods of Baldwin county, Ala,
comes the report of a tragedy in which
Jesse Cartwright killed his brother
John William Cartwright, with buck.
shot and afterward cut his own wifc's