Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-03
Criminal.

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fatally shot Dick and O.. p. House dur
ing a quarrel.
Gustav Kindt, a bank robber seventy
years of age, has been captured by the
Philadelphia police.
.. Heiher, a prisoner in a New York
police station, committed suicide by
hanging himself with a handkerchief.
The four men captured while at
tempting to rob the bank at Montfort,
WIS, are believed to be noted criminals.
Frank Richardson, a wealthy bust
ness man of Savannah, Mo, was shot
and killed by a mysterious man at his
home.
w. Irving Swith. recently appointed
consul at Singapore, committed suicide
by the use of a knife in a Philadelphia
hotel.
State S~enator-elect w. f. Meyer of
Red Lodge, Mont, is charged with at
tempting to kiss by force the daughter
of a ranChinan.
John Murray, head of a gang Of silk
thieves. who have secured booty worth
$4,000 during the past six months, was
captured in Chicago.
Hobart Clayton, a Kalamazoo, Mich.
boy, explained a t~wo-days' absence
from home by stating that he had been
kidnapped by two masked men.
Between 5000 and $4,000 was secured
by a gang who dynamited the vault of
the Dalton City, Ill. bank. No trace
of the robbers has been secured.
Frhnnpno IVahh Jav of +bo
Ffnck Manufacturing company OF
Waynesboro. ILL.,, was arrested, on the
charge of embezzling $4,000 to $12. O00.
Edward V. Higgins Of Coldwater
Canyon, Cal, has confessed that on
Dec. 4 he murdered his mother and
William Sheehan. a sheep herder, with
an axe.
Private James McDonough, at Fort
Washington. while frenzied with drink,
stabbed three soldiers with a bayonet
and then escaped, to be captured later
by Washington police.
John Kappleman. a private watch
man at Louisville, was found near his
place Of employment with his brains
beaten out. His pockets had been
rifled of the wages paid hin the night
before.
Four masked men entered the farm
residence of John Thompson, near
Lebanon, Ohio, bound, gadded and
tortured Thompson and his wife till
they surrendered $500 in money, their
| jewelry and silverware. The robbers
then escaped with Thompson's rig.
Former Banker Edward S. Dreyer Of
Chicago, convicted of the embeZzlcment
of 1916 O0 of the funds of the West
Park board while treasurer Of that
| board, and who has been fighting i'm
| prisonment in the courts for over two
years, will, Ii is announced, go on the
lecture platform as soon as he is re-
leased on bail.
Former Policeman Patrick Furlong
of Chicago, who, in February, 1900,
killed Edward Leach, q brother officer,
and was sentenced to the penitentiaTy
for fourteen years, has been pardoned
by Gov. Tanner. and took his Christ
mas dinner with his family in Chicago.
| Furlong, who is of Irish P~arentage, and
Leach, an Englishman. became in
volved in an argument about the Boer
war.
An attempt to poison at least one
| member Of the family Of w. B. Bell or
| Everett, Wash, by means of poisoned
| candy has come to light. Mrs. Bell dis
covered, in a refrigerator. the cover or
q large pail, partly filled with choco-
late drops, placed exactly where she
was in the habit OF placing luncheon
| for her eight-year-old son. The CANDY
| contained paris green n mercury,
there being enough in one piece TO XIII
a man.