The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14
CRIMES OF ALL KINDS.

Safe blowers cracked the safe of the At
lanta (Ga.) Office of the Standard Oil Com
in checks.
James III. Rowe, jr., formerly city clerk
of st. Marys, o., was arrested Friday on.
the charge of embezzlement Of public funds.
The amount, as set forth in the affidavit,
is $3.50.
Harry A. Barrows, formerly disbursing
officer of the Census Bureau, who was dis
missed some months ago for embezzlement,
was sentenced to three years in the peni-
tertiary at Washington on Friday.
Charles Longwell prominent In society
and as an attorney, Is under arrest at To-
ledo on four charges of embezzlement. 1t
is claimed that he appropriated to his own
use money that he was TO handle as attor.
ney for an assignee. He declares that he
kept certain parts of the money as his legal
fee
Hanging to a fence post on the Thompson
farm, half way between the tracks of the
Louisville Jockey Club and Wathen's trot-
ting track, a man was found dead Friday
morning. In his pocket was letter adj
dressed to r. Sergeant and signed by the
oliver Snyder Machine Company, of Pitts
burg. Pa
Wray Taylor, commissioner of agricul-
ture and forestry of Hawaii, who is want
ed for embezzlement. left San Francisco
but 1t has been ascertained since that he
went over the Santa Fe route. his baggage
being checked to New York. The funds
which Taylor handled amounted to s163.0OO.
G. w. Cox, alias Walker. said to be a
Kentucky "moonshiner," was locked up in
the county Jail at Grand Rapids. Mich.
Friday night on charge of breaking into
bonded warehouse at Covington, KY, six
sg he by Deputy
Three Oaks, Mich, where he had been
working farm laborer.
Prompted by jealousy. Mrs. Mildred
Sharp Friday shot and killed her husband
fl,2fr in In1r CIV
City, Mo. Mrs. Sharp fired two shots. The
first missed its mark, but the second en-
tered her husbands heart His shirt was
burned, indicating that the woman had
held the revolver close to his body She
threatened to commit suicide. but was dis
armed
Mrs. Kit Brady, principal witness in the
Anna Snyder murder case at Toledo, has
become violently insane as the result Of
breeding over her knowledge of the muir
der. A police official admits that this new
turn of affairs will prevent the possibility
that existed of solving the murder mys-
terry Mrs Brady was the only one who
saw the murderer leave the dead girls
presence.
Considerable excitement prevails at
legged gang of white-cappers Eleven men
are under arrest charged with being MEM
bers OF the gang and implicated in the
killing Monday night of j. III. Brown, of
Memphis, who was at Wynne i'm the inter-
est OF detective agency. For two weeks
the neighborhood southwest of wynne has
been terrorized at night and the citizens
have determined TO help the sheriff to main
tain order.
August Krauss, the wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Bellefontaipe, st. Louis county,
Missouri who killed his wife and six chill
dren with sledge hammer. died Friday.
After killing his family krauss cut his
throat. but did not injure, himself with
the hammer, as first reported. The dead
in this tragedy are August Krauss. thirty
eight years old, father and murderer; Mrs
August Krauss. thirty-seven years old, the
wife and mother; Carrie. aged eleven; Amy.
aged nine; Philip. aged seven; George. aged
six; Mary. aged four; baby boy, aged three
months.