The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-16
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

AT Burlington, Kan, yesterday, Jim Har-
ris was found guilty OF murder in the first
degree for the killing, last April, of j. II.
Allen. a wealthy Ottumwa merchant. This
will mean a life sentence, as capital pun
ishment does not prevail in Kansas. The
jury was out but nine minutes. Mrs. Allen
was first tried, charged with instigating the
murder of her husband, but was acquitted.
Harris'S defense was insanity.
The inquest over the body of Welsey
Baine, whose body was found lying near
the tracks of the Fit. Scott 81 Memphis
Railroad at Kansas City Saturday morn
ing. was concluded yesterday, the jury re-
turned a verdict that them an was muir
dered by George Allen and Mary Baine,
wife of the deceased. and recommending
that they both be held FOR the crime. They
were Immediately placed under arrest.
An alleged poolroom, occupying the en-
tire sixth floor of the buildings at AZ and "A
Bond street, New York, was raided, last
night, by the police, under the direction
OF representatives of the committee of
fifteen. Seven arrests were made, six
of them on a warrant issued by Justice
Jerome, of the Court of Special Sessions.
He accompanied the raiders to the build
ing, and held the prisoners in $1,000 bail
each.
Ora Rolls and Deputy Sheriffs Ashcroft
and Seymour, three Of the eleven men on
preliminary trial at Scranton. Miss, for
the lynching of John knox,, who killed his
stepsOn, were committed yesterday TO the
Circuit Court, which meets in April, Ash
croft and m without bond and Rolls
on bond of $4,000, which. however, he could
not satisfactorily furnish, and he. with the
other two, went to jail. The others were
dismissed.
Gilbert ]. Moffett pleaded guilty at Coun-
cal Bluffs, Ia, TO swindling accident insur-
ance companies, eight or ten leading rail-
way companies of the West, the street-rail-
way companies of Omaha, St. Paul. Mimi.
Chicago and st. Louis. IL is said that Mof-
fetIs scheme was TO feign injury by acct
dent on street railway and steam railway
cars and TO recover damages from the rail-
ways, at the same time drawing relief
money from the various accident COM
panies. He was ''raiiroaded' to the peni-
Tertiary for a year and a day.
Robert Walsh. said 10 be the missing son
Of a prominent lumberman residing at Sagi-
nav. Mich, was murdered i'm a garnet room
at No. 415 SouIn Sixth street. st. Louis. in
the course OF a quarrel over the spoils OF a
robbery. This is the solution OF a mystery
that had enveloped the discovery OF the
lifeless body of a stranger, lying with his
skull crushed, I'm his lonely room on the
morning OF March IL. His slayer is still at
large. but his name and description are
known by the police and his arrest Is ex-
pected TO take place soon.
In trying TO prevent Frank Bakers es-
cape from the courtroom. at Duluth. yes
terday. Deputy Sheriff Frank l.. Magic was
shot in the head and hand by Baker. He
may die. Baker was brought into court TO
answer TO the charge of mi rob-
berry. He made a sudden dash for the door
him and threw him to the floor he shot the
deputy. He then Kept the crowd at bay
with his pistol as he ran out of doors. His
Neutrality-suspicious. liberty was brief, for he
was caught several blocks from the court
room.