The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13
CRIMES OF MANY KINDS.

The safe i'm the State Bank of Kasota,
Minn., was blown by two men and $400 in
silver taken. The robbers escaped on a
handcar-
The Missouri House has passed the Sem
ate bill making chicken-stealing felony
and providing penitentiary sentence as a
penalty. 1t now goes to the Governor for
his signature.
at Cincinnati Thursday on the charge Of
numbering his wife. After hearing the tes-
timony for the prosecution the defendants s
counsel said that no testimony would be
offered in defense. The court then held
Geiger TO answer to the grand Jury with
out BAIL.
Frank z. Brady. erstwhile secretary Of
the Imperial Building and Loan Company,
OF Toledo, which he wrecked, has been SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary for
altering the company's books to deceive
creditors; A motion for for an new & trial was
tionally in Toledo courts for over two
years.
E. A. Bates and G. H. Stearns, alleged
to have swindled farmers of the West and
Northwest to the extent OF $4,000 were ar
rested at Chicago on Thursday. They are
said to have received carloads of produce
to sell on commission and to have appro-
priated the proceeds. BY frequently chang
charged, eluded the officers for many
months.
Burglars Wednesday night effected an en-
trance into the Denver & Rio Grande Office
at Colorado City. Col, and blew open the
safe, but failed to get any money. A heavy
charge of nitroglycertn was put into the
safe, which not only demolished the strong
is the tenth attempt In the past six years
at this place. none OF which has been sue
cessful.
r. r. Gamey, Conservative member for
the Manitaulin island district, known as
New Ontario" has caused sensation in
the provincial Legislature, says a New
York Herald dispatch from Toronto, Ont,
by charging that he had received $4,000 to
give his support to the Liberal government.
The charge is the first of its kind which
has been made in the Ontario Legislature
In twenty years. Premier Ross promised
full investigation.
Mute evidence OF what the police believe
to have been a double murder committed
forty years ago was discovered Thursday at
Potomac street and Arkansas avenue, st.
Louis. by sewer diggers. Two skeletons.
pronounced by physicians to have been
women, were revealed, and the skull of one
was split in two. Evidence still remained
that the bodies had been buried in wooden
boxes. Forty years ago notorious road
house occupied the site.
Robert Hamilton, formerly an employe OF
the Southern Railway, was arrested Thurs
day at his home ten miles south OF Fairfax
Courthouse. Va, on the charge of causing
the wreck of the New York and Florida
express at Ravensworth, Va, last month,
in which two men were killed and a number
injured. HamlltOn was neld Tor the action
of the grand jury. He is said to have ad-
mitted that he committed the crime. He
is thirty years old and unmarried.
A resolution appropriating $4,000 for the
apprehension of the murderer of Policeman
Paul Mendelsohn, OF Waterbury. who was
killed Sunday night in an attack on a troll
ley car. was adopted by the Connecticut
Legislature Thursday. President Young.
| of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting
Company, announced at Waterbury Thurs
| day that the company would pay 5000 re-
ward for information leading to the con-
| yiction OF the murderers. The rewards
| now amount TO $l9,i00.
wray Taylor, Hawaiian commissioner OF
| agriculture and forestry I'm the territory
| is wanted for embezzlement. A police
agent left Honolulu on Wednesday on the
| steamship Alameda with extradition papers
/ and a warrant for Taylors arrest Taylor
| sailed on Jan. 3 for San Francisco for the
purpose OF consulting with the California
| Board OF Horticulture. He was heard from
| regularly up to the middle OF February
| and was expected to return here on Feb
| IL. IL 10 believed that Taylor went East
| from San Francisco and crossed the At
laptic-