Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-08
CRIME.

CRIME.
MurderOuS plans of anarchist miners
In Pennsylvania were frustrated by Il
hundred arrests.
In Chicago Harry Hull shot and
wounded K. T. Reeve, for whom he
had worked and who owed him 81
wages.
County Attorney Madigan of Red
wood county, Mimi, convicted of per
jury, was sentenced to three years and
three months in state prison.
Detective Charles Arado was shot
and killed by Officer John A. Bacon
as the result of a saloon brawl, i'll Chi
cag0.
Burglar Betz, wanted in Rockford,
ILL.,, was arrested in a courtroom at Du-
buQuc, Iowa, and sent back.
-Four Infatuated women horsewhip,
ped Albert Livingston and drove him
out Of Benton Harbor, Mich, for at
tempted assault.
An attempt to establish an alibi for
the defendant and continuing the
attack OH Mrs. Hoerel were features of
the Couahlin trial i'll Chicago.
William Porter, Il colored farm hand,
robbed his employer of $500 near Cen
tralia, ILL.,, and inside of seven hours
had been arrested, tried and sentenced
10 the ~penitentiary for five years.
Three hiShWaymen escaped from The
Billings Clont.) Jail, after knocking
down the jailer. The latter fatally
Governor Matthews, of Indiana, par
doned Henry Myers, convicted of COM
plicity in stealing notes. A petition
for him was signed by 1,500 names.
Mrs. Ethel Boyce has been arrested
at Muncie, Ind, for treating her j.
year-old child in an inhuman manner
the child she burned her fingers until
they were blistered.
Drank A. Lappen, who owed over
5000, 900 in Milwaukee and who left
tic ClIN ~ dNOlu dlltSL olt ScN dl Ii
documents charging him with securing
money under false p~retenses, is now
a leading merchant of the city of
Mexico.
benajah Williams, of Chicago, eX-
president of the defunct Dulaney Clock
company, Of this city, was arrested at
Valparaiso, Ind, on an Indictment
charged with miSrepreSenting the con-
ditions Of the company, by which
Valparaiso citizens were induced to
iake stock to the amount of $4,000.
Franklin Barrett of 237 Spring street,
i, .ew York, who describes himself as
a lawyer whose speciality is the OBJ
tanning of patents, was held for trial
at the Jefferson Market police court
yesterday, charged with Swindling by
the issuing of false patent papers.
John f. Moore, treasurer of Whit
by township, Ont, who disappeared
is short in his accounts $4,000 1t is
alleged that he forged the names OF
the president of the village and clerk
of the municipality for a large sum.
IlSOES - II DulN -
John Dryden, provincial minister of
agriculture, is one Of his bondsmen.
ID. @. Ramsey, grand chief of the
order of railway telegrapherS, will
soon be triede in the district court of
Linn county, Iowa, on a charge of
countenancing and lending aid in the
wire-cutting on the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids and Northern road during the
strike in 1892. During the strike wires
were cut a number of times, and it
was first thought that it was the work
Of Strikers, but no proof could be found
81 SubStantiate the assertion.
iOficer Wandahl. who shot an I'M
fnOwn man that resisted arrest at
DSkalOoSa. Iowa, has been held under
ISL, 900 bonds for manslaughter. Many
I excited miners came into the town and
[ declared that the dead man belonged
TO their fraternity. The cool-headed
efforts of the mayor and several citf-
zenS prevented the crowd from lynch
ing the policeman. 1t is believed that
the man killed by Wendam was a
member of a gang of tramps who
came to that place for the purpose of
releasing a number of their friends
from the jail.