Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-07-16

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/ PORTSMOUTH. Eng. July l3.-
The Prince of Wales Ambassador
ChOate and several British officers OF
high rank. Were the guests of Admiral
Cotton aboard the Kearsarge today.
SAVANNAH. Mo, July 1.-THE
Chicago & Great Western passenger
train ran down a freight engine OF
the same road near here today. The
dead:
JOHN BROWN. engineer of passen.
| ger,
' WILLIAM STEWART, fireman.
Both of the above were from Des
Moines.
Probably fatally injured:
THOMAS HOWARD. engineer
of freight. Des Moines.
WILLIAM BENSON. fireman, OF
Des Moines.
A score of passengers were severe
ly Jared. The freight engine was
running backward ahead of the pas
senger on a bad piece OF trace when
it was run down.
| DENVER. Colo. July 14-This is
the last day of the Christian En-
deayor convention, and this morning
| the Union depot was the scene of n
sirging mass OF humanity. Fully
1900 people up to o'clock today
left for various points, and the rail
roads were taxed 10 their utmost A
heavy train went around the loop.
Five trains went to Boulder, four
trains up Platte canon and seven ex-
| ira trains over the Denver a Rio
Grande to Colorado Springs. Glen
wood and the south Although the
rush at the depot was enormous there
| was no accident. All the Christian
| Endeayorers were congratlating them
selves over the freedom from an acci-
dent of serious nature when the
| great tent with six thousand people
Under it collapsed late yesterday af.
ternoon in the windstorm and buried
the crowd under its folds. Only sew
en- people We're hurt and none of them
seriously. Thanksgiving meetings
We're held last night and this morning
for the escape from death.
| LONDON, July l4.-Samuel Her
bert McDougal. known as the 'Moat
fiouse' murderer" was hanged today
| in Chelmsford prison.
The execution closes career of
| crime that was surrounded by as
| many circumstances of mystery and
sensation as the brain of a novelist
| ever invented. The deed for which
| he paid the penalty of death was the
murder OF Miss Camille Gaelic Hol-
| land woman of Independent means
who not only gave him her affection
| but trusted him so far as to buy the
lonely Moat Farm, where they might
| i've together in peace. He betrayed
| her trust. and with scarcely conceiva-
| bic baseness, drove her out into the
stiffness of the night to blow out her
| brains, that he might become possess
| ed of her property, which he succeed
ed in doing by forging her name to
her checks.
Douglas was decidedly varied ca
reer, and one full of incident He
was a man of smart military appear,
ance, pleasant of speech, and polite of
manner attractions which enabled
him to win affections of undiscerning
ladies both in America and England.
whom he lured to their ruin. or his
early life, prior to his joining the
army. little is known AS a member
of the Royal Engineers he was sta
| TONED for considerable time in Nova
Scotia. When he first landed in Hall
fax he was accompanied by wife,
who suddenly became i'll and died.
sne was buried the following day
Three weeks after the death OF his
vile Dousal sailed for England, and
returned five weeks later with another
woman. whom he introduced as his
wife.
1t was stated in Halifax that this
woman had considerable fortune
She seemed on her arrival to be in ex.
cellent health, but shortly afterwards
she had fits of vomiting and coughing
In two weeks the woman was dead
and on this occasion also the remains
were buried the following day When
Dougal finally left Halifax he pc rsua-
ded young woman to accompany him
and she afterwards returned to that
locality with story OF betrayal The
| man was next heard of at Aldershot
and in various other parts of Eng
land. Later he went to Ireland and
there married again.
Shortly afterwards he was appoint.
ed to some minor office at Dublin Cas-
| tie, and among his duties was that OF
banking money. While employ ed in
Ireland he forged the checks OF two
well known members OF the aristocra-
| cy. For this crime he served twelve
| months in prison. In 1894 he again
turned up with young woman whom
he had met through the agency of a
| matrimonial advertisement The two
| lived together for considerable time
| IN countryhouse on the outskirts oil
The village OF Wellington, in Bucking.
| hamshire. Dougal devoted his time
10 chicken farming, and all went well
| until another woman arrived on the
scene and caused breaking up OF the
establishment.
| Ultimately in 1898 he made the ac
| quaintance of Miss Holland. the
daughter of a Liverpool merchant
who as the evidence OF the trial dis.
closed, was possessed OF considerable
means in her own right. How precise.
| ly )Dugll first Securad an intrnIn.