The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-13
MOTION TO ADVANCE
DURRANT'S CASE rs MADE IN THE
SUPREME COURT.


Shoots ut Her Alleged Betrayer-Burg-
lars XIII Two women-Negroes Fight in
JaiI-sheep Men Killed In ldaho-Anti-
Saloon Mans Narrow Escape-Mrs.
Atkipson's TriaI-Other News of Crime.
Washington, Oct. 12.-Attorney General
Fitzgerald OF California, in the United
States supreme court tOday moved 20 ad-
vance the hearing of the case OF w. H.
T. Duurant, under sentence Of death in
California. The case is before the su-
preme court in the shape Of an appeal
from the decision of the First circuit
court refusing 70 grant Durrant's motion
for writ of habeas corpus.
FRENCH JACK THE RIPPER.
Lyons, France. Oct. IA shepherd
named Vacher has been arrested at Bel
Icy, department of Ain, forty-four miles
from this city, charged with committing
a series of so-called Jack the Ripper muir
ders He has confessed 10 killing three
shepherds, three girls and two old wo-
men, Vacher, the authorities say, was
formerly confined in an asylum for the
insane. The series of murders attributed
10 him commenced in 1894 and they ap-
pear to have been actuated by purely
bloodthirsty instincts, as the victims
were all poor people. They were terribly
mutilated after their threats had been
cut and all the women were criminally
assaulted.
MAN THAT RUINED HER.
Cleveland, O., Oct 12.-May c. Darling,
19-year-old girl. entered the office of H.
CT. Powell, an attorney in the Cuyahoga
building today, and, pulling revolver,
fired al him. She missed and desperate
struggle then ensued between the man
and the woman. Occupants of adjoining
offices separated them. Miss Darling
claims that Powell ruined her. He denies
it. She was arrested.
BURGLARS KILL WOMEN.
Camden, n. j., Oct 12.-Mrs. Emma
Nane. aged 60 years, widow Of Captain
Eli Vane, and her daughter, Mrs. Sarah
NJ. Shaw, aged 10 years, were shot and
killed early this morning, it is believed |
by burglars. Mrs. Vane was instantly |
killed and Mrs. Shaw expired in less than !
half an hour without recovering con- |
sciousness. The two women lived al No |
242 Lynn street in the lower part of Cam I,
den, near the river front. 1t was about |
4:30 O'Clock when the attention Of the po- |
lice was called to the crime. Eli Shaw, a |
son Of Mrs. Shaw, was seen a the third |
story window Of the house and was shou. |
ing for the police at the top OF his voice. !
The young man has been laid up with ty- 1
phoid fever and in a statement 10 the po-
lice said thar he was awakened shortly |
after o'clock by pistol shot. He made |
his way down stairs and at the bottom
Of the third-story stairs found his mother
bleeding and unconscious. He ran to the /
window and gave the alarm. When the
police entered the house they found Mrs
Shaw sitting in chair in the sitting
room dead, with a bullet wound in her
head. Mrs. Shaw was at once removed 10
the Cooper hospital, where she died in a
few minutes without making any state
ment. The shock incident to the tragedy
has caused relapse in the condition OF
Mrs. Shaws son and IL is feared will re-
suit fatally. An examination of the
house showed that rear shutter had
been forced open and bureau drawer on
the second floor had been ranSacked
NEGROES FIGHT IN JAIL.
st. Louis, Oct. 12.-There was a riot
among the prisoners in the Jail al noon
today, during which twenty desperate
negroes engaged in a desperate fight
among themselves. 1t occurred during
exercise hour, when the bull pen was full
OF prisoners. Fearing that somebody
would be seriously injured. Deputy Jailor
Wagner turned in the riot alarm 10 the
police. who overpowered the combatants
and placed them in dungeons The fight
started over crap game in which so
cents was involved.
FIGHT WITH CHEAP MEN.
Pocatello, Idaho. Oct. 12-News has
jlst been received from Long Valley. in
Washington county, saying that there
has been a battle between he settlers
and he shepherds in which three men
were killed, and one dangerously wound.
ed. II seems that fifteen OF the settlers
warned the sheep men 10 leave the valley
and when they refused made an attack
upon the sheep camp. Thirty shots were
fired by the settlers ana a man named
Barber was killed. The sheep men then
returned the fire, killing three of the SET
tiers The rest Of the attacking oartv
fed. The rouble is The ougrowth Of the
strained relations between the settlers
and sheep men.
HIS ANTI-SALOON WAR.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct. IA special
from Bismarck. y. D., says that an al
tempt was made las: nigh; to murder Ed
i,or Moifa7t, of the Settler. five shots be-
ing hired by some one unknown. This is
he second attempt on his life and tire.
weeks ago his presses and type wsra
dumped into the Missouri river. He has
been making a bitter war on The saloon
and gambling element. There is gres.
excitement and IL The shooter i ,au,ybt
he Will be severely dealt with.
SINCLAIR mccoy DIES
81 Louis. Oct l2.-Sinclair Mccoy. the
New York travelling man who sho, him
sef IN the head While stopping AZ he
southern hotel. on September Is. died a.
the Muianphy hospital today. He SIR
Nived his self-infiic;ed wound rwen.v-
three days and he surgical operation for
the removal Of the bullet from his hrsi,
three ana a half days. Mrs. Mccoy. Who
mas been az the bedside OF her husband
since me shooting. will take The remains
10 New York for interment. Al The in
quest This afternoon Mrs Mccoy testified
tnat early in The summer her HUSBAND
sanered from nervous prostration n
'heE nome, 62S West One Hundred sn3
1hiTIy-eigh1h street, New York. he Iaf.
for Pittsburg Seu-er,ha- s,,s - -