Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-12-14
CRIME.

CRIME.
TWenty-SeVen persons were indicted
at Portland. Or. for smuggling China
men.
CrackSmen broke into the Dawson
County National bank at Lexington,
Neb.. but failed to secure much money.
In the trial of Anna Wagner, at In
dianapolis. Charles keesters testified
to the girls affection for him.
Harvey Pate and Frank Stiers, who
are to be hanged at Danyille for muir
der. professed religion and were
baptized.
John Kersey. farmer near Oswasa,
Hardin county, was found shot and
dead at his well, and had been robbed
of $50
H. l.. Garrett of Toledo, Ohio, was
sandbagged and robbed of S545 and
his watch. He was unconscious for
many hours.
Curt Davidson, the murderer OF
Birdie Baugh, the daughter of his en-
ployer, died in his cell in the county
Jail at Canton, Ohio.
John Dunlap of S25 West Lake street,
Chicago, shot and killed his wife at
$50 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
then shot and killed himself.
John Murray, the Grand Trunk
freight agent at Niagara Falls, is miss
ing, and auditors are working on his
books which are said to show a short
age Of nearly $1,000.
George ?. Scott, formerly publisher
of a commercial paper at Kansas City,
has eloped with Miss Belle Rich, his
typewriter, and carried off $500 of the
retail clerks funds.
Of morphine, killed his two children,
then put a bullet in his own brain.
Farmers living near Bremen, Ind,
were victimized by two swindlers who
presented two bogus kilograms for
which they demanded payment.
Thomas Axworthy, who was city
treasurer Of Cleveland, Ohio, and left
q shortage of $500, 900, died in Hamil-
ton, Ont, where he had of late eked
out a mere existence as a small dealer
in coal.
Captain A r. Bell, editor of the
Liverpool (Ohio) Crisis, was taken to
the penitentiary at Columbus to serve
a sentence of a year and a half for the
shooting of Surrey Robinson.
Burglars sawed a hole in the floor
of Lambert Brothers jewelry store,
No. 96S Third avenue, New York, and
carried away stock valued at between
"a 200 and $4,000.
The wife of Michael HenLessey, of
New Milford, Conn, who was held in
the fireplace by her husband ten days
ago and terribly burned, is dead.
Hennessey must now answer to the
charge Of murder.
John Y. McKane, the Gravesand
boss now being tried at New York
for defying the orders of co1Irr during
the recent election, will have a stand
trial before his church at the cOnclu-
sion Of the present proceedings.
O. 3. Sawyer of Palestine, Tex, shot
his wife in bed and then shot himself.
The man is dead and the woman will
die. Business troubles were the cause.
John Delfino died in the electric chair
at Sing Sing, n. Y, at II :43 A. NJ. for
the murder of Mrs. Carolina Gessel
in Brooklyn, December q, 1892.
Death was painless and instantaneous.
J. w. Fuller, the bank swindler, held
in $4,000 bonds at Richmond, Ind, has
been identified as man who attempt
ed to realize on a fraudulent check for
$4,000 on the First National bank of
South Norwalk, CT.
Alfred Henderson, ON being sentenc-
ed to life imprisonment at Fort Madi-
son, Iowa, begged to be hanged, and
took poison in court. EmeticS were
administered by force, and he refused
to tell how he got the poison.
A 3-year-old daughter Of James D.
Williams, grandson of the late Cover
nor Blue Jeans" Williams of Indiana
was burned to death at the family
residence in Vincennes, from contact
with an open fire in the yard
Elder Dinsey, who proved himself a
muscular Christians at a revival meet
ing in Clay county, Ind, where some
young men were making disturbance,
has been fined so for assault, and as
an appeal has been taken the affair
promises no end of contention.
Howard w. Ream, who posed as a
nephew of Norman B. Ream and
victimized a Chicago hotelkeeper some
time ago, is wanted by the Here
Schoffs, the Rhode Island boatbuild-
erS. Early last month Ream ordered
4 S15O,OO0 steam yacht of the boat
firm and they had begun work On it
before they discovered that he was a
swindler.
William Kairer, a retired baker at
Camden, n. Y, was shot dead, and
his son gave information to the police
that burglar whom they had dis
covered in their house did the shoot
ing. The murder is now believed to
have been committed by his son, Will