The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-31
SENDS UP BANKERS
JUDGE HALLETT WON'T LISTEN TO
THE LAWYERS

ceedinss to Get Their Clients Out of
Trouble sIickest Kind of Counterfeiter
Caught In Chicago Kansas City Police
| observation-disclosures and the X Rays
Bloody Murder Among the Italians
Murderer Palmer Taken East - Hen
Thief Gets shot-Crime News.
Denver, Jan. 30.-In the federal court
today Judge Hallett sentenced o. z. Mil
,er, president of the Miller Hernia Treat
ment company, TO imprisonment al hard
labor for ten years. c. H. Dow seven
years and Sidney E. McClurken FIVE
years. The three were recently convicted
of wrecking the COMMERCIAL National
bank, to which Miller was indebted for
$125, 900 when it closed in 1898. Dow was
president and McClurken, his brother-in-
law. receiving teller. They viii be taken
10 the penitentiary al Leavenworth, Kan.
Judge HaEett refused to certify to a bill
OF exceptions in the case and the prison.
ers' attorney will apply 10 the United
States circuit court at St. Louis for a
writ OF suDersedeas.
GILT-EDGED CONTEMPLATING.
Washington, Jan. 30.-Chief HaZen Of
the secret service has received the fol-
lowing telegram from Agent Porter at
Chicago: John A. Skoog wac arrested
last night by Policeman Mcdonald and
Rogers for offering one of the new coul-
terfeit twenty-dollar silver certificates.
He had four others in his possession. He
refused TO give the police any informa-
tor whatever. He was turned over 10
us this morning and soon gave his name
and address and confessed that he is the
maker of said notes and the only shower
of the same. The notes were made by the
Photographic process. He was also MAX
ing hundred kroner notes on the Sveriges
Riks bank, Stockholm, Sweden, date of
January =. 1892. We went TO his room
and captured his complete outfit, consist
ing of negatives, copper plates. paper,
ink, camera and press, together with
forty-five counterfeit twenty dollar silver
certificates and eighty hundred kroner
notes. Skoog had no accomplice. He
passed the first twenty here last Novem-
Der and has passed twenty-five since
then.all in Chicago. He left Sweden four
years ago for counterfeiting. He is a
very slick man and we have all there is
in it. He has been held in $1,000 bonds.
IN FOR A CENTURY.
Chicago, Jan. 30.-Judge Ewing has
pronounced one of the most peculiar SEN
fences upon Thomas Jackson. colored,
that has been heard in the criminal
court for several years. He sentenced
the man on five different charges direct
ing that as soon as Jackson has reached
fhe limit on one he shall begin the serv-
ice Of another. The charges against the
man was of burglary. and the limit OF
punishment in each case is twenty years.
Judge Ewing said the man deserved the
full limit in each case and that he would
recommends n r;c ~
ties. Jackson broke into five different
residences on the night of December %,
last AT the home of c. Christensen he
was heard by Lena, the I6-year-oid
daughter. She screamed and Jackson
slashed her across the face with a razor
In the residence of Herman Suhr he was
attacked by Mrs. Suhr. She had one of
her fingers nearly bitten off in the strug-
gle.
GOLD-LEAF BURGLARS.
Chicago, Jan. 30.-Burglars entered the
shop Of the A. H. Reeves Gold Leaf Man
ufacturng company, 159 Fifth avenue.
some time between midnight and this
morning and blew open the safe, secur-
ing $4,000 in god in various stages OF
nianusacture. The burglars entered the
soid-leaf shop by prying open the door
of the trunk factory next door and then
saving hole through a partition separ-
ating the two shops The plumber was
carried off in two telescope trunks stolen
lro!n the trunk factory.
HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN.
New York, Jan. 30.-Counsel for young
Joseph Hackett, son of a wealthy dry
goods merchant of Long Island City,
today filed an answer TO an application
made by his wife, Grace, formerly Miss
Ferris, for alimony and counsel fees.
pending the trial Of a suit for divorce. 1t
was to the effect that the wife had con-
fessed to him that her relations with
her own father had been improper. The
affidavit also states that as soon a.
young TacketI learned of the confession
he separated from his wife and that this
was the beginning Of the trouble between
them.
AMONG THE ITALIANS.
New York, an. 30.-Guiseppa Randeli.
p years old. shot and killed Rocco Di |
Sio shortly after midnight. Randella
also fired at Di Slo's mother-in-.aw, Mrs.
Angelo Nrelano, the bullet taking effect |
in her face. Randello escaped. Disio. |
who lived with his father and mother-in |
law in rooms back OF his shoe shop, had |
number Of fellow countrymen in his |
place playing cards and drinking. About !
fmdhigat the guests became quarrelsome |
and Disio ordered them out A little
later Mrs. Vrelano went out 20 lock the
shop door. Before she opened the door !
she looked up and down the street. In |
an instant pistol was fired, the bulle; |
making a painful wound on the cheek.
DISC. on hearing the cry of the wounded |
woman, hurried out. As he stepped llp- |
on the pavement a second shot rang ont |
and isio was hit in the breast. He STUN |
pIed back into the shop and fell dead !
He overturned the stove as he fell and |
set fire 10 the floor The police arriving |
soon after the shooting extinguished the |
names. They have made three arrests.
Randelo. against whom suspicion IS the |
strongest. is still al large He was Dislo's |
assistant III the shoe shop.
HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF.
Denver, Jan. 30.-Fred c. Riebe. aged |
A. years. fugitive from justice. shot
and probably MORALLY wounded his wife.
aged 81, at their home al 1919 Iarimer I.
street, this morning, and then killed him
self. Fer six weeks Risbe has been liv- 1
ing apart from his wife, who IS a mid
wife. Lasr night he applied 10 her for a |
reconciliation, saying that he had to 60 /
10 Omaha 10 answer a criminal charge. /
he esked ner 10 mortgage her horse and /
buggy and buy him a suit OF clothes. |
She refused. and locked him out AT
O'Clock today, he appeared al the house.
gained an entrance. and when Mrs. Rel
be a second time refused - mortgage
the horse, began shooting AT her She
was shot once in the left breast and once
in the back. but ran from the house and
gave the alarm. Before she did so. Reibe
placed the muzzle OF the revolver 10 his
righ, ear. pulled the trigger. and fell /
dead Mrs. Reibe was taken 10 the hos
pital and Will probably die.
DEUSTROW AND Y RAYS.
St Louis, Jan. 30-Eforls continue
undated 10 save Deus;row. the million