The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-22
DUESTROW TO HANG
Millionaire Murderer Can't Buy OF
Jack Ketch.
MADE A DESPERATE FIGHT FOR LIFE
The World Will be Hid of Him On febru-
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Hang-Crime News.

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Hang-Crime News.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. :0-The su-
preme court handed down this morning
a decision affirming the decree of the
lower court in the case of Arthur Due
straw, known as the St. Louis million
aire murderer, who killed his wife and
child. Judge Hirzel. OF the Franklin
county court, in which Duestrow was
convicted. will re-sentence the prisoner.
The decision sets the date of execution
for February 16 next.
The court also affirmed the sentence Of
Peter Smidt and Samuel Foster, who
killed Bertram Atwater. Chicago art
ist, at Webster Grove. a suburb of ST.
Louis, year ago.
| AGAINST TRAIN-ROBBING
Washington, Jan. 20.-Some interest
ing facts concerning train-wrecking were
presented to the judiciary committee Of
the house today by Representative Hub
bard of Missouri, who has introduced
bill to provide the death penalty for
the crime. Mr.. Hubbard showed that the
number of train hold-ups in six years
were 1873, in which seventy-three per
sons were killed and fifty-eight wounded
| by shots. The record for 1896 was TWEEN
| ty-three hold-ups, in which thirty-two
| passengers and traipmen were killed and
| many injured, four robbers killed and
| two injured. The bill is a very severe
one and fixes the death penalty or i'm
| prisonment for not less than ten years
| for all hold-ups or attempts at train
| wrecking.
WATCHING FOR BUTLER.
San Francisco. Jan. 2O.-The police au-
thorities of this city, with the detectives
| from England, are anxiously awaiting
| the arrival of the sailing vessel Swan
| hilda. on which Butler, the multi-mur
derer of Australia. is supposed to have
escaped as sailor. Arrangements have
been made with the police oucdeperso
| been made with the pilots so that red
| lights will announce If the fugitive is
aboard the incoming ship. From this
time until the ship swings into port po-
lcemen will be on duty day and night
waiting and watching for the murder
| charged sailor. who is believed to be
aboard the vessel Elaborate arrange
ments have been made to prevent any
possible escape on the part of Butler
The various tugboat owners have been
officially notified that the criminal is be-
ieved to be aboard the ship, and the
captains are requested to hold no COM
munication or passing messages between
the tow and the vessel, until first beard
ed by the police.
HE BIT THE BoS'N.
San Francisco. jan. 2O.-There is a
sailor at large in this city who escaped
from an English vessel and. perhaps, the
hangman's rope. only because the mas
ter of the vessel, the Forfarshire, could
not wait for the converting of the court
at Cape Town. Powels is the mans
name. and he is charged by Captain
xv,.A
swain, Joseph March, so badly in a
rough-and-tumble fight aboard ship that
the latter died of his injuries. The sail
or remained aboard the Forfarshire I'M
til she arrived in this port a short time
ago. He came ashore in the first boat,
leaping out at the landing, and disap-
pearNd.
TANNER REVERSES ALTGELD.
Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. Ex-Governor Alt
geld honored the requisition of the gov
ernor of Tennessee for the surrender of
j. S. Buchanan, who was supposed to
be under arrest at Uhbana. and wanted
at Dayton, Rhea county, Tenn, for al
legged embezzlement. Attorneys for Bu-
chanan appeared before Governor Tan
ner, went over the case with him, and
claimed that Buchanan was being per-
secuted, not prosecuted, and asked that
the reQuisition Issued by Governor Alt
geld be revoked. as Buchanan mad never
been arrested. Governor Tanner ordered
the requisfton revoked and eXpunged
from the records.
PARDON DENIED:
Washington, Jan. 19.-The president
has denied the application for pardon in
the case Of Houston Whiting, sentenc-
ed in West Virginia in 1888 to eighteen
years Imprisonment for murder, on the
ground that the sentence was lenient
and the convict's conduct has hardly
been moderately good in prison.
CONSUL DIDN'T CARE.
San Francisco, Jan. 19.-Private advi-
ces have been received in this city from
Cali, United States of Columbia, telling
of the arrest on November 25, last, of
two young Americans-H. K. Spring
and c. w. Nelson-while enroute to
their homes in Southern California, OH
a charge of numbering j. c. Hubbard
also an American. From all accounts
thus far received. there was little, if any
grounds for suspicion against either OF
the accused. Spring and Nelson were in
carcerated in a dungeon for twenty-five
days. and were then released on bail
through the interceSsion of George C.
Hall, an American resident of California
who heard of the unfortunate predica-
.nent of his countrymen. During mis- i'm
prisonment young Spring was taken Ill
with fever, and had he not been re-
leased would probably have died in pris-
on. According to a letter written by
Nelson to the father of Spring. who re-
sides at Colon, in this state. the United
States consul took little if any interest
in, fhn acf nf &c fr1-