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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21

whole affair ! saw only two robbers and
If there were more they were not about
the engine
Upon the person of the tramp killed
was found letter addressed to Harry
DAILY. 125 Wall-st.
After the Robbers.
Sheriff cline and the detectives. lnsley
and Benson. came back this afternoon
and reported at railroad headquarters
that they left Detective Bowler at Lank-
er's Hill on the Clearwater Park branch,
following the wagon track left by the
robbers. The officers who returned are
going to take another track. according
to plans agreed upon. The robbers arc
apparently heading in the direction OF
Ventura. Detective Auble returned late
this evening He saws there were at
least three robbers i'm the gang. Two OF
them drove in the blackboard and one
was on horseback Mounted officers foi-
lowed the trail plainly three miles west
of Cahunga pass. then turning on the OLD
Ventura road when seven miles from
the scene Of the robbery a binding sand
storm arose, putting a stop 10 fGrthar
proceedings
Along the trail the officers picked up
quite "A collection of tags which the rob
bCrs cut of. the tags showing that the
robbers made quite a hall Besides the
money packages carried off two Wells
Fargo boxes filled With valuable pack
ages were taken. The posse is still in
pursuit On reliable authority it can be
stated that Marshal Gard said To his
men that he will wager that he Will
have the miscreantS in twenty-four
hours Sheriff Cline states that he and
the deputies tracked the robbers TO a
point seven miles due west Of Roscoe,
where all trace was lost. Cline says all
the parties implicated in the affair rode
epparafo6
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21
MAY PROSECUTE WANAMAKER.
lie Is Accused of Violating the Alien
Contract Labor Law.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE names OF
observation-disclosures Wanamaker of
Philadelphia and Mrs. Ernest Hart. the
wife Of DR.. Ernest Hart, editor of the
Medical Record of London. Eng. figure
as the principal characters in an affidavit
that was made today before the United
States emigration authorities at Ellis
island. this city. Four Irish immigrants
in their sworn testimony make serious
charges against both and if their state
ments are true il is likely that both Mr.
Wanamaker and Mrs. Hart will be pros
ecuted for violation of the alien contract
labor laws. The immigrants are now at
Ellis island pending an investigation -
It was only by the merest chance that
the facts in the case reached the United
States authorities The four immigrants
were found today wandering about the
city endeavoring to trace their baggage
The affidavits tell how they signed con-
tracts to come here and work and detail
how they were sent to Mrs. Hart
manager of one of Wanamaker's
departments. The United States
immigration authorities say they will in
vestigate the matter thoroughly and pun
ish the guilty parties if the law has been
piolafqd
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PRENDERGAST GETS NOISY.
Makes n Stir During the Argument for
a New Trial.

CHICAGO. Feb. 16.-Prendergast, the
assassin. created a sir i'm Judge Bren-
taine's room today during the hearing
of the arguments for now trial The
prisoner had taken his seat quietly, but
when Attorney a. 5. Trude. who con-
Quoted the prosecution, enterd the court
room, Prendergast apparently grew
wild with rage. Sprinsing from his chair
he yelled at Mir. Trude and attempted TO
rush to where the attorney stood. Sew
erai bailiffs surrounded the excited pris-
oner and iorcibly took him TO his seat,
where he sat glaring at Mr.. Trude, but
creating no further disturbance rs the
hearing proceeded. PrendeTgast re
Attorney Truce and upon the Judge 5
quietly asked:
MIR. Trude. have you any feeling
against me2'
Not personally replied Mr.. Trude.
Il am simply doing my duty"
The prisoner then conversed with the
attorney for some time. but in so low
a voice that no one else in the court
room could hear what he said. After
a time ne was led back to his seat. where
he sat staring blanlly AT Chc court. ap-
parently paying no attention TO the plea
his attorneys were making for his life.
Judge Brentano. who Is presiding in
the case. has received an anonymous
letter threatening his life Half "a dozen
armed officers were in court today to
guard the Judge The letter warned the
court that unless he was lanient with
Prendergast he would be killed.
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STONES CRIME.
The History of the Murder of the Six
MrattcnS.


The following special dispatch was
sent The Sentinel by its Washington.
Ind. correspondent on the night Of Sept.
49, 1898 and published in this paper the
next morning:
THE most horrible crime ever COM
mitted in southern Indiana must be en-
tered against Daviess county.
billiard benson Wratten his wife,
mother and three children were muir
dered last night in the most cruel and
barbarous way.
THE Wrattens resided about nine
miles from this city in Harrison town
ship. They We're well-to-dO farmers.
The husband was down with typhoid
fever, but must have been asleep when
the horrible deed was committed, for he
lay on his back, his hands folded peace
fully across his breast with three ugly
gashes in his forehead.
Mr.. Wratten's mother. aged sixty-one.
was evidently the first killed. She was
lying upon the floor with both arms
broken, and a terrible struggle must
have ensued.
His wife was also found upon the
floor. and FIVE feet from her lay her little
daughter, Stella, aged six years.
The baby. three years old, was found
murdered in the kitchen
ETHEL. a girl eleven years old. showed
signs of life, but she has her skull broken
in two places. she has not yet attained
consciousness Upon her recovery will
depend all the evidence that may be
CLEANED about the atrocious crime
THE motive for the murder was proba-
bly, money it was known that Mr.
Wrattcn's mother had great deal Of
IL concealed about the house. II was
the window of her room that was broken
open and entered. while the struggle
which ensued awakened the other men,
bers of the family
"Old Mrs. Wratten had received pen
sion ever since she was a widow just
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AGAINST THE PRINCESS.
Decision of the French Civil Chamber
in the CoIonna Case.

PARIS, Feb. 1.-THE civil chamber
has decided the French courts incompe-
tent to try the suit of the Princess Co
lonna, daughter of Mrs. John w. Mac
kay. against her husband, Prince Colonna,
for a legal separation and the custody of
her children. The chamber made an or
der giving the children Professionally into
the custody of their father.
The court says that in a suit of this
kind the prince is actionable only in Ma
pies, and that it will be necessary for
the courts in that city to settle the
question of the temporary care Of the
children Of the marriage pending a final
decision there in the matter. In the
preamble attached to the judgment the
court recites that the children were
temporarily confded TO the care of the
princess on condition that the prince be
allowed to see them three times a week.
The princess had violated the decision
of justice and had prevented the prince
from seeing the children.
It further says that the princess has
now executed a project of abduction,
which she audaciously attributed TO her
husband.
The order appointing the princess tenn
pOrary guardian Of the children is with
drawn, and the prince is ordered to be
their guardian. II is ordered that all
the children be placed in the care of
their aunt. Princess Stigliano of Naples
Princess COlonna viii be allowed to visit
them on Sundays and Thursdays from
to o'clock in the afternoon.
1t is further ordered that the children be
handed over to the prince within twenty
four hours, and in the event of a fail
ure to comply with this order the prin-
cess viii be fined 300 francs daily for
three months. If at the end of three
months she continues to disobey the or
der the court declares that il will take
stronger measures to enforce its man.
date. The princess is condemned to pay
the cost of the action.
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BUD STONES DISMAL oBsEoUIEs.
No Hearse. No Pail Bearers-His Wife
and Children Present.


and Children Present
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Special.-
The remains of murderer James L. Stone
We're brought to Washington last night
at midnight.
The plain pine box in which all that
was left of the assassin was inclosed and
was directed to the care of Lou Parsons,
the proprietor of a livery stable in this
city.
The remains were taken to a drug
store and there an autopsy of Stones
brain was made under the direction Of
DR.. W. IS. Anderson. His brain weighed
fifty-three ounces and it was not dis
eased. The .convoluuons, however, were
almost wholly wanting in places, there
being a mere mark to show where they
ought to be- which shows a low degree
of intelligence. The wen on his neck.
when dissected, proved to be a dermoid
cyst, with no connection with the lynn
phatics or large blood vessels and, there
fore, did not affect his brain.
This morning the body was taken TO
Harrison township on SQUIRE Stones
farm. where it was buried. There was
10 funeral service, no hearse, no pail
bearers. The plain coffin was carried
by two men from the wagon 10 the
grave. At the grave were his father
his wife and children, the only mourners
His wife became hystericaI as the coffin
was lowered into the grave. and in a
moaning voice prayed for his soul, the
souls Of the Wrattens and OF the whole
world.
The rumor that the citizens of Harri-
son township protested against stones
interment in that township is unfOunded.
They simply objected to his being buried
in the cemetery. The grave is about zoo
yards from the cemetery.
The people Of Harrison township will
not modest his remains.
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PAINTERS UNCANNY GHOST
Returns 90 Haunt His Fellow ConvIcts
prisoners Scared.

CHICAGO. Feb. l6.-The prisoners in
the county jail are alarmed. or pretend
TO be. over the stories of visitations by
the spirit Of George II. Painter. who
was hanged there on Jan. &c The spirit
OF the murderer is alleged TO make un-
canny calls al his old quarters. a number
of the prisoners claiming 10 have seen
the ghost. Prendergast, the murderer
of Mayor HARRISON is said 20 be especial
" alarmed and i'm great terror Of per-
sonal visitation from his late neighbor
in murderers' row.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21
MISTAKEN FOR A BURGLAR.
A Young Lady shoots aud Kills Her
sister.

PADUCAH. Ky, Feb. 1i-At Alban-
dana. Ballard county. last night, Ida
Powell, aged thirty. thought she heard a
burglar at the window, and drawing A
PISTOL from beneath her pillow fired. A
cry and fall followed Investigating, she
found that she had shot and killed her
sister. Patty, aged tllirty-eight, who had
risen and gone to the window for some
purpose.
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The murderer is metaphysical Won
der. for after numbering the Wrattens
in cold blood with an AK and corn-knife
he not only assisted is preparing the
bodies for burial. but acted as one of
the pall-bearers at the funeral. OF
course he was not at first suspected. It
was his wife's testimony that indicted
him. There was no robbery, and Stone
has never assigned a motive for the
crime, claiming it was simply an insane
in1pulSp
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21
HUNG At MIDNIGHT
The Wratten Murderer Elk
plates His Bloody Crime.
james z. Stone Execute j
in Jacksonville Prison.
THE DEATH WARRANT READ
The Prisoner and His Spirit
ual Advisers.
His Last Letter to His Wife
and Children at Home.

Details Of a WelI-Arrangcd Program
The First Execution in the Southern
PcnitentiRry Under the New Law
The History Of stones Crime in
Numbering an Entire Family of Six
PcrsOns-What Led To the Discovery
Earth
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21
THE TRAIN WRECKED.
The safe Blown Open and Two Men
Killed.


The train was scheduled to leave Ar
cade depot at 10:40 O'Clock. but was
slightly delayed. Owing to the delay
most Of the passengers settled them
selves comfortably for the night. Many
OF them were fast asleep before Bur-
Bank was reached. The express messen-
ger. postal clerks and trainmen were
busily engaged in arranging matters for
the night. Ever since the train robbery
and wrecking at Roscoe a few weeks
ago the train hands on the overland
train have had apprehension about the
place and appeared to expect repetition
OF that outrage. Engineer Thomas gave
"A long blast Of the whistle as the train
approached the switch this side Of Ros-
coe. His face bldnched as he discovered
a man standing beside the switch with a
fiaring torch and his face assumed n
more livid hue when he discovered that
the switch had been left open. He put
on the air brakes and whistled for
brakes, but il was Of no avail. The
train was going ~ an unusual rate and
the momentum IL had acquired precluded
the possibility Of Immediately bringing
II TO a standstill to avoid disaster. About
the same time the engineer noted the
man with the torch. ne heard the sharp
cracking of revolvers and many bullets
whistled past him. breaking the windows
OF the cab Almost instantly the en-
CINE crashed over into the ditch. At
this point there is a fill. which runs
nearly fifteen feet high. Knowing the
character Of the place, Engineer Thomas
jumped and ran, miraculously escaping
injury. Fireman Masters was not 80
lucky. however, being pinioned between
the cab and tender and was horribly mu-
tiisted and crushed.
Fired Into the Train.
the train two men wearing SLOUGH hats
and black masks leaped from the heavy
bushes alongside the track. There are
s-arllo dicferanoas Of t.Linlnn arlanrc- thnse.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21
CRUSHED IN A MINE
Thirteen Men Buried Near
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
While Trying to Prop Up
the Roof.
NOT A SURVIVOR LEFT
To Tell the Story OF the Hor-
NOT A SURVIVOR LEFT
To Tell the Story OF the Hor-
rible Disaster.
The Victims Covered by Hun
dredS or Tons OF Debris

Efforts ut Rescue Prove Of No Avail,
the Parties Attempting IL Being
Compelled 10 Give Up in Despair
of the Pit-Namcs of the Victims.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21

James Z. Stone. who so cruelty butch
cred the Wratten family of six persons
near Washington, Ind, on the night Of
Sept. is last. was tried, convicted and
sentenced at one sitting. He was hanged
at an early hour Friday morning in the
Jacksonville prison.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21
Southern Pacific Train
Wrecked and Robbed.
The Express Car Blown
Up with Dynamite.
MOST DASTARDLY CRIME,
Fireman Masters and an I'm
known Tramp Killed,
Both OF Them Being Caught
Under the Engine.

Perfect FusiIIade of Shots by the Rob-
hers 10 Intimidate the Passengers
and Train Crew-Escapc of the
Criminals TO the Mountains with
Their BOoty-One of the BOIdcst
Grimes on Record.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21
schooner Fortune wrecked.

PROVINCETowN, Mass. Feb. "a
The wrecked schooner Fortuna has gone
10 pieces on Race Point and the debris
strevvs the shore for miles. All the crew
have been taken i'm charge by the Sea-
mems benevolent society. The names of
the drowned are:
JAMES ArLEAN Of Glocester. married.
leaves a widow and seven children.
ABRAHAM BOWEN OF Gloucester. re-
Gently married.
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Fired Into the Train.

At the moment Of the overturning Of
the train two men wearing SLOUGH hats
and black masks Ieaped from the heavy
bushes alongside the track. There are
some differences Of opinion among those
who were on the train as to the number
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-02

Sanford, Jim" Sykes and man named
Eaves made books on trotting races,
cricket games, reg2ttas and everything
else they could turn their hands 70.
Then the oId-time firm Of Kelly 81 Bliss
took hand at 1t, and the art gradually
spread with the growth OF horse racing,
until now it is a recognized institution
at almost every race track in the coun-
try. It is an enormous institution, too.
At the Brighton Beach track, where
there is a notable absense OF heavy
plungers, it is nothing notable for each
bookmaker to handle. or stand to win or
lose, So, 600 on o race. That Is MOD
crate and fair estimate. There are usual
ly about sixty bookmakers at Brighten.
This amounns to q consolidated bet or
$50, 600 on each race. There are usu-
ally six races day, which makes over
a million dollars wGgered by bookmak-
ers and public every afternoon. On one
unfortunate day few weeks ago Mr..
NJ. F. Dwyer lost $4,000 single handed,
yet there was no undue excitement over
it. The ring roared right on, and Nj. +.
Dwyer, big plunger as he is, was swal-
lowed up and forgotten in the wild how
of green backs. Had he lost the same
amount at faro or roulette or poker the
country would have rung from end to
end with the news.
Book making has been almost revolu-
tionized during the past ten years. Inc
public has become educated and wise
In it's bets. In former times, before
the study of "form" became q
science, Is to l vas regarded as tre-
mendous odds against horse. In
those days every horse in a race was
backed, and making "round book
was an easy affair. People could not
realize that any one horse in a race did
not have anything approaching 10 TO l
chance TO win. They bet on "long
shots" with the same confidence that
plunger will not regard an odds on
favorite. In those halcyon days or
bookmaking, before the newspapers
published an index OF a horses ability,
the well known "Pittsburg Phil" kept
an index of his own. He watched the
horses, iotted down their performances.
figured weights and distances, and In
this way beat the bookmakers out OF a
fortune before they knew how he did It,
AHEAD OF THE TIMES.
He was ten years in advance OF the
times. But "Pttsburg PILLS" glory
has departed. Go to any bookmaker
and he will tell you that there are a
hundred freqnenters OF the race track
who bet quite as heavily as Phil. "
This young man was the pioneer In
the study OF "form," and that is the
way he made his money. Every bet
ting man at a race track nowadays
carries what is known as dope
book" or a complete record OF what
each horse in training has done or is
able to do. This is what makes book
making a rather dangerous venture.
In the average race nowadays, In
field Of say ten horses, the book
maker will take in nine-tenths OF
his money on three or four horses at
the outside, and the chances are that he
will not get in dollar on the others.
You can readily see the difficulty OF
keeping on the righvside Of the ledger
under such circumstances. The mod
ern better is very smart, and he will
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-02
|BOOKMAKING
IS AN ART.
HOW TIE BooKMAKRRS CALCULATE THE ODDS
AND MAKE THEIR BETS
50 That They Must Win in Any Evsnt-Evsry
Man Thsir Pos-You Nus! Know all About
Form and Weight Before You Can Cope with
Them.

It would probably astonish the regu-
lar race track habitue to know that not
twenty per cent OF those who bet on
races understand the intricacies OF
bookmaking. They know we'll enough
how to figure "dope" and handicaps
and all that pertains TO the running OF
9 horse. They also know good odds
when they see them on the board, but
the art of percentage" and "shaves"
and round books" aud "gambles" is a
mystery to them.
Do not imagine for a moment this
business calk and calculation is an easy
one. Do not think that when you see
bookmaker on his stand with legs
crossed in airy fashion, twirling his
mustache after the manner OF Brum'
mel, that his lot is happy one. In
every white face beneath him he has an
implacable enemy, ready to snap him up
on any false move he may make. Every
fist full of greenbacks lourished under
his nose is blow aimed at his bank roll.
Thousands of hawlike eyes are upon
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-02

I'd rather have Sylvester, with his
rashness aud repentance, than liter
AIRY man who has TO go out among the
neighbors to get fresh mess OF fulsome
praise every little while in order TO sus-
tain life.
The most unhappy wife ever knew
married q genius. IL was the wedding
of a sweet little duckling to swooping
eaglet. While he was an eaglet he and
the duckling hunted Tgrasshoppers to-
gether, but one daY the young eagle saw
with his keen and flashing eye hum
ming bird on the corner Of a golden
cloud, and he scared away. He was not
at home for supper, and ever after that
he turned up his Roman nose at the
tame life OF the dueklet. He began TO
notice the width Of her yellow feet and
10 compare her parenthetical legs with
the slender ankles Of the thrush, and the
gentle call OF his domestic wife grated
harshly on his ears after he had been
soaring around in the thin air for a
week listening to the lark and living on
channels chops among the snowy man
tied Alps. while his plumsge was patted
with applause.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-02

army. was young man of23. Eighty
six years later. April 5. 1869. having
reached the great age,of 100, be was
gathered to bis heroic fathers at the
town Of Freedom (not inaptly Damed),
Cattaraugus county, N. Y. His name
was Daniel F. Brakeman, and he was
the last OF the Revolutionary pensioners
under act OF congress.
The last OF the Revolutionary pen
sl0ners on the regular roll was samuel
Downing. OF Saratoga county, n. Y,
who enlisted as a private 10 1850, when
only IA, and died in 1867 az 101.
Only 81 years ago there walked
among as one who bore 3 musket at the
surrender Of CORVALLIS, yet lived to
hear the tihings of the surrender at
ApPOmattOxl
These Incidents furnish no date, OF
course. on which 20 base exact fore
knowledge of the time when there shall
remain IN the land Of the living only
single soldier OF the great armies that
were disbanded in 1865, but il Is not
unreasonable to suppose that, even II
none Of the veterans Of the war is