The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-03

climate went to Colorado Springs to
further recuperate.
SOMETHING of a sensation was created
at Fort Dodge a few days ago by the
announcement of the elopement of
Mrs L. S. Crucenbery and Win Brown.
Mrs Crucenbery called at the home of
her husbands mother, leaving her two
children, aged three and four years,
while she went on shopping tour.
She did not return that evening and
her disappearance was reported to the
police. Later it was developed that
Will Brown, a handsome young man
ABOUT town, was also missing, and
mutual friends have found that they
left the city together. This is the
second time Mrs. Crucenbery has left
her husband, having been taken back
and forgiven on the previous occasion.
JUDGE SHlHAs, in the federal court
at Dubuque, rendered decision in the
case of John Mcdonald, in bankruptcy
from Wright county. When\ the de-
PENDANT went into bankruptcy he had
pending an application for patents,
and after becoming a bankrupt, the
patent was granted. The question
then arose as to whether this patent
should become part of his assets.
Judge Shiras in his opinion rules that
the trustee in bankruptcy is not to
take as part of assets of a banlsrupts
estate, the latter's patent, issued to
the bankrupt after the date of adjudi-
cation, although the application there
for had been filed in the patent office
before the filing of the petition in
bankruptcy.
The jury IN the case of George
Wright, on trial at Muscatine, return
ed verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree and fixed his sentence for
life in the penitentiary. This was
!, WEIGHTS second trial. Last July he
the attraV q = 49, ~ . Z! :!
mill foreman, with whom he hae
maintained secret relations for some
time. The crime was committed upon
the eve of the departure of the woman
and her husband for a new home il
another state, the fatal shot bein 6
fired while the WON an stood in tn,
doorway of her home in the presenc
of her husband and seven witnesses
Wright has family. His attorney
pleaded insanity.
The grave robbing case at Rapi
City, ILL.,, just below Clinton, w!,er
the body of Mrs. Casper Maurie
was taken from the grave and shippe
to the medical school at Keokulk, ha
taken on sensational turn, A. d
Farber having made a complete con
fession. Farber was brought home ;
few days ago from Sheridan, Wyo
and volunteered to testify for tn,
state at the trial of young Donahoo
and made a clean breast of the Who'll
affair. All three boys reside at Hills
dale, a few miles from Clinton. bona
hoo and Farber We're medical student
at the Keokuls medical college. Chas
Jasperson, the other young man VIII
was dragged into the crime, apparent
| ly willing tool of the other two, a
one time resided in Clinton, and ha
relatives there. At the hearing til
last witness introduced by the. stat
was surprise, it being no other thai
A. ID. Farber, the supposed principa
in the crime. He said that Mrs. Maui
ier's body was stolen from the gray
in consequence of an agreement h'
and Charles Donahoo made with Prot
Zimmerman, demonstration of anatom
at the Keokuls Medical College, to ge
a subject, for which they were to ge
from SIS to $50, according to the fresh
ness of the body. Jasperson and Far
Der are now prisoners in the kock Is
land county Jail, and Donahoo, VIII
comes from one of the oldest and hes
connected families in the upper end O
Rock Island county, is out on 81 so
bail.
| MAYHEM, on trial at Burlington TO
the murder of Lennie Fields with
penhnlfe, was found not guilty. TIL
charge was changed to manslaughtel
under the evidence
r. j. EDMoNDs, a merchant at Haw
thorne, was held up as he was closing
his store a few nights ago and assault
|sed by an unknown man, who beat hin
! on the head with club and robbie,
him of $50 in silver. An effort to ge
Edmonds's pocketbook, containing $50
from an inside pocket, was unsuccess
full. The robber got away. Edmond.
was severely injured.
In the district court at Humboldt
the jury in the case of the state o
Iowavs. n. r. Larimer, charged witt
seduction, returned a verdict of guilty
4. ERNEST MEYER, German farmer O
Woodbury. county, who, March 1C
stabbed and killed his brother-in-law
Chris Bauer, in a drunken rage, wa
sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and tn
cost of the trial. The man had bee
indicted for murder, but the jury onl,
found him guilty of assault with in
| intent to commit great bodily injury
MEYERS the son of a wealthy retire,
] farmer OF Davenport.