Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-12-26
CRIME NOTES.

A MdEy vine, OIllO DOCduSC Illo
sweet heart Tilted him Dudley Wright,
aged "a, probably fatally shot himself
At Hinton, w. Va, w. E. Jordan
from Birmingham, Ala, was arrest
ed, charged with numbering a man in
California.
All of the six land Office districts in
Oregon will be investigated by the fed
eral grand jury which convened yester-
day in Portland.
At Lima, Ohio, n j. Farran, for
whom rewaSd is offered Al topeka
Kan. for the theft of al automobile
has been captured.
At New Castle, Ind, Haley Gipe has
been sentenced to twenty-one years in
the penitentiary for killing Mrs.
Starbuck and her child
At Terre Haute, Ind, David Spicer,
driver of an ice wagon. shot ana
killed Ed Haney. saloon keeper, as a
result of quarrel.
Angelo Giardini and MS wife are
dying at WIestland, Pa, the result OF
murderous assault by the woman's
i father, Guisseppi Varino.
i Burglars after smashing a safe in
the office of the Beloit Lumber com
pany, found that it had not been locked
and contained only books.
i At st. Louis Edgar Evans has been
convicted of murder in killing his re-
puted wife, and his punishment was
fixed at thirty-fve years il prison.
At Petersburg, Ind, Constable Will
lam France, who killed Attorney Thur
low Grim while the latter was at
tempting to escape arrest, was acquit-
ted.
Wilbur Shewell, alias Wilbur Char
vile, Ind, was sentenced to three
years in the Ohio penitentiary Tor ar
son.
Because his parents objected to his
marriage to Sullivan young woman
Oliver Waters, aged 25, committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid, az
Pana, Ill.
At Petersburg, Ind, Former Con-
gresham A H. Taylor was fined $50 in
court for making an assault on T. H.
Dillon, another attorney, during an
embezzlement trial.
At Perham, Mimi, Peter ZillOwsk1
aged II, was arrested on the charge
of numbering his father, John Zil-
kowski The family reported that
the father committed suicide
S. w. Jacobs and G. J. Van Anden
pleaded guilty in the federal court at
Chicago to the charge OF perpetrating
one of the largest insurance swlndles
ever uncovered in the United States.
Intensely dramatic was the situa-
ton when Caesar Young's widow took
the witness stand in the Nan Patter-
son trial in New York. Nan herself
testified that she did not snoot Young.
Mrs. Chadwick was arraigned in the
fedral court at Cleveland pleaded not
guilty and returned to jail. Beckwith
and Spear entered the same plea,
gave increased bail, and were re-
leased.
William Holden, who last month in
an attempt to rob the bank of Platte
Center, O., shot and wounded Cashier
Schroeder, was found guilty at Colum-
bus, of an assault with intent to COM
nit murder.
An appeal to the United States SUI
preme court against extradition to
Iowa has been granted to Thomas Den
nson, the policy king, charged with
completely in the Pollock diamond rob-
berry at Omaha.
/ Indictments have been returned
against Albert Patton ana Thomas
Bracken for the murder Of Samuel
Weakley, the nonunion iron moulder
who was killed at Cincinnati IN Octc>
Der in labor trouble.
Robert N. Ford, on trial for embez-
Element at Warren, O., was found
guilty. Ford was engaged in the
banking business with his brother at
Burton, the bank going into receiver
ship some months ago.
At Salinas, Cal, Private William
Allen of the ninth cavalry, colored,
has been convicted of the murder OF
Sergeant Tooley Of the fifteenth in
fantry at Monterey last October and
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Attorneys for State Senators Frank
H Farris and C. A. Smith, charged
with bribery in connection with the
Missouri making powder scandal, filed
a motion for change OF venue from
Cole county on grounds of prejudice.
At Winchester, KY, in the Marcum
damage suit Robert Cheney and James
Nance, both prisoners held for murder,
Testified that James Hargis had tried To
hire them to kill Marcum. Other
witnesses gave evidence tending to i'm.
plicate Curtis Jett
At Cassopolis, Mich, the jury in the
Golf will case, involving an estate Of
5000, returned a verdict for the son,
now a resident of Oklahoma, and the
Spiritualist organizations to which the
bulk of the estate had been devised are
deprived Of it.
At GAINESVILLE Cuckoo" Collins, a
sprinter claiming Chicago as his home