Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-04-29
NOT0RMAN SHOT.
IAN Aged Man Refuses to Give Way
to a Street Car.
4 BATTLE WITH Two DISPERADOES.
A Condemned. Murderer, on New Trial,
Gets Imprisonment for Life-A CALI
f0rnia Murderer Hanged
Crushed to Death.

ST. LOUIS, April 24.-James E. Thorp,
a motorman. was shot by Ira STAINS
bury in front Of the city hall yester-
day. Stansbury was in buggy which
he was driving on the street car track.
Thorp ran an electric car up behind
the buggy and sounded the gong for
Stansbury to get off the track. STAINS
bury was driving fast and refused to
turn out Thorp ran his car up to the
buggy and bumped it off the track.
stansbury dispassionately stopped his
horse, lowered the hood of his buggy,
produced a revolver from under the
seat and carefully shot the motorman
through the thigh. When arrested by
an astonished policeman, Stansbury
was perfectly calm. He said he had as
much right on the street as car, and
that no motorman had any franchise
to run him down. Stansbury is II
years old and has been q resident Of
81. Louis 50 years. Twenty years ago
he was proprietor of the largest sad
dlery and harness establishment in the
city.
A BATTLE WITH TWO DEspERADOEs.
Ell RENO, Ok, April PA merchant
from Cloud Chief, county seat of
Washita county, 80 miles southwest Of
Ell Reno, gives the particulars Of a
shooting that occurred at Cloud Chief
between Sheriff Morrison and Deputy
Smith and two desperadoes named
Richardson and Reese, under indict-
ment in that county for horse thieving.
The parties were in saloon raising
row, when Deputy Smith stepped in to
arrest them. Sheriff Morrison stepped
in Immediately afterward, at which
Richardson pulled u gun, but Nor
rison had been there before and got in
three shots first, after which the re-
bellion became general. Richardson
is buried, Reese is in Jail and Morrison
slowly recovering from few holes in
his back put there by Reese.
TO BE IMPRISONED FOR LIFE.
CLINTON, Ia, April "a. Christian
Eckerlebe, who was convicted and con-
demned to death for the brutal murder
of Miss Nina Kiel, near Bellevue, July
4, 1894, and granted a new trial on ac-
count Of the technical error Of juror,
got new lease Of life last night. The
jury, after being out 80 hours and
taking $50 ballots, returned verdict
Of murder in the first degree, with
penalty of life imprisonment.
MURDERER HANGED.
SAN QUENTIN, Cal, April 24.-Frank
Kloss was hanged yesterday for the
murder of William Deadly, over two
years ago. The men had quarrel in
a saloon and had parted. Kloss re-
turned, found Deadly asleep in chair,
and stabbed his victim to death. Kloss
made no statement on the gallows yes
terday, but had previously tried to
justify his crime on the ground that
he was intoxicated.
CRUSHED TO DEATH BY A SAFE.
ST. LOUIS, April 24.-John Noble, 4s
years old, was crushed to death by the
accidental falling of safe on stair
way in East st. Louis yesterday
Patrick Butler fellow workman, aged
46, received injuries that will prove
fatal. Herman Koehler had a hair
breadth escape.
A FATAL PRAIRIE FIRE.
GUTHRIE, Ok, April 24.-While Milton
Bradbury, living near CARRIER, was
fighting prairie fire on his farm, his
six-year-old son was caught in the fire
and burned to death.