Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-12-28
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The Jones county calf case has been
again decided by the supreme court.
The costs, amounting to S2,sS6.S4, must
be paid by the defendants.
At Chicago recently Judge Brentano
for the Meadowcroft brothers, bank
ers, convicted of receiving deposits
after the bank was insolvent. They
were each sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary and fined SIS. They were
at once taken to Jail
Miss Fanny Markell, aged "a,
jumped from the high wagon bridge
over the Mississippi river at Clinton
to instant death The fall broke her
neck, She had hallucination that
she was responsible for the death of
Monte Shoemaker, near neighbor,
who was killed by the cars a few days
ago.
independence dispatch: Exon
gresham S. II. Weller, called "Calam-
lty" Weller, who represented the Fifth
Iowa district as greenbacker in the
eighties, has been found guilty of
obtaining money under false pretenses.
Weller is now editor of a populist
newspaper in independence. He will
appeal the case. The trouble came
from the purchase of a pair of horses
two years ago.
Thomas Pratser and Mrs. Lun-
dey, of Rulo, Nebraska, have been
arrested at Red Oak. having eloped
early in November. They We're stop
ping at boarding house. living as
man and wife. Mrs. Hall Mcmillan, of
Glenwood, arrested the clippers on the
charge of adultery and the grand jury
indicted them. Pratter left wife and
three children, and Mrs. Lundey a
husband and child.
Mrs. Barbara Dietrich, aged So
years, committed suicide in her room
in the Windsor hotel at Davenport by
taking arsenic. She had been married
twice, had had rather an unhappy his
tory, and lately has been nervous, rest
less and full of suspicion of her rela-
tives. She left a note saying her own
children had deeply wronged her, but
this was wholly imaginary on her
part. She lived an hour and half af-
ter being discovered, and was able to
talk, but could not be saved. She
leaves one son and three daughters.
One night last week safe in West
Liberty was blown open and $50 in
silver secured by the robbers. Two
men suspected of having committed the
robbery took No. train of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific and got off at
Iowa City There they boarded No 2
train. cast bound When the train
reached West Liberty, the city marshal,
deputy and number of others boarded
the train and attempted to arrest the
suspected parties, but they were held
at bay with drawn revolvers. The
train proceeded on its way, the city
marshal and deputy staying on the
train. When the train neared Moscow
one of the robbers threw up the car
window and threw out hatful of
silver and also a large package of
papers and then pulled the bell rope
and endeavored to stop the train.
| Conductor Donahue held to the rope
| and prevented it from working. One
| of the robbers, however, drew a stick
| of dynamite from his pocket and lean
/ ing out of the window dropped the
\ dynamite on the rail. The rear trucks
of the car passing over it caused an
! explosion, almost throwing the car
from the track and breaking all the
| windows on one side of the car. The
engineer grew alarmed and stopped
/ the train. The robbers backed out of
/ the car, holding the train crew and
! marshal at bay with drawn reyolyers,
/ Jumped off the train and disappeared
/ IN the woods. A posse of fifteen men
! armed with Winchesters and shotguns
/ started after them. The robbers sur
rendered and were lodged in Jail at
West Liberty.
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Hart, the self-confessed murderer OF
the little Good children at Paulding,
Ohio, was taken to Defiance from
Bryan, where he had been confined in
| jail, and was placed on trial. The
hearing occupied less than half ar
hour. Hart pleaded guilty to each o.
the indictments against him and was
not moved when Judge Shook sen
fenced him to be hanged on the seconc
4 Friday in April, 1895. The prisoner
attorney appealed to the court fol-
mercy, but Judge Shook was not in
clined to give the prisoner anything
less than the maximum penalty.
stole His Own Child.