The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-04-22
CRIMINAL NEWS.

~ubUBUN16 VI
John Keller, aged sixteen, was muir
dered and his mother, Mrs. Frederick
s. Keller, was fatally wounded at
their home at ST. Paul by William
Williams, aged twenty eight. No rea-
sonable cause has been assigned for
the shooting beyond the statement OF
Williams that he wanted the boy to
go away with him and that the mother
refused her permission. The police
say that Williams is a degenerate and
q sexual pervert and give this as the
motive for the crime.
Four men. three of whom are en-
ployss of the Schwarzschild & Sulz-
berger company and the other an at
torney for that corporation, were
named in an indictment returned by
the federal grand jury investigating
the beef trust. 1t is charged that the
four men INSTRUCTED and impeded Dep
uty Marshal Bach in his efforts to
serve a subpoena upon Edwin B. Fish,
a clerk employed by the company,
who recently returned from Canada.
United States Senator Burton. of
Kansas has been reindicted by the
federal grand jury at st. Louis on
the charge Of accepting fees tn the
amount of $500 from the klalto
Grain and Securities company of st.
Louis, in whose behalf. it is alleged,
he acted as an attorney before the
Destodice department at Washington.
BY q vote Of s to 2 the supreme
court of Pennsylvania has decided
that Mrs. Catherine DAM must hang
for the, murder Of her husband, Will
lam q. DAM, George P. Hossey. .
negro voodoo doctor, Is also under
death sentence as an acc0mplice.
Two miners, Elias Hankinson and
John Eckdahl, were killed and several
seriously injured in q riot which &C.
Cured at the Hull-Rust mine at Hib'
bling, Mimi. participated in by q gang
Of strikers. The men were employed
by the Oliver Mining company.
Charles M. Chamberlain, cashier Of
the Chamberlain banking house 1T TIE
cumseh, Neb., who defaulted a few
years ago and, after getting away
with about $4,000, became q fugitive.
has returned to his home and surren-
dered to the authorities.
The indictment charging Nan Pat
terson with conspiracy with ]. Nor
gan Smith and Mrs. Smith wrongfully
to obtain money from Caesar Young
has been dismissed at the request of
Assistant District Attorney Rand Of
New York city.
charged in the Indictment was the
verdict brought in by the jury against
G. D. Crawford, the boxcar murderer,
who killed Fred Lundin at Elk River,
Mimi. Nov. 20, 1904.
Mrs. s. W. Wider, the wife Of a
newspaper man, shot and killed Mrs.
H. G. Douglass of Colorado Springs
In the National hotel at Cripple Creek,
Colo. Jealousy is supposed to be the
cause of the crime.
Six safeblowers robbed the private
bank of Oscar Candy G Co. at Cheru-
busco, Ind, of $3.50. Mrs. Candy,
wife Of the banker. was shot in the
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toned outside.
Sheriff ]. M. Poag of Tate county.
Miss, was shot and killed by q mob
Of masked men who entered the jail
for the purpose of nberating James
White, q prisoner held IN charge Of
murder.
A man claiming to the former Boer
general, w. J. de Jough, has been
sentenced to a year in the Bridewell
by Judge Barnes in the criminal court
ct Chicago for passing worthless
checks.
Clarence H. Merriam. an investment
broker and brother-in-law Of Rev.
Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka. Kan.
committed suicide at a Boston hotel.
No cause for the suicide is known.
After a family quarrel Antony Spa
racio. an Italian Of Geneseo. N. Y.
shot his wife. her mother and her
daughter and then shot and killed
himself. The wife will recover.
T. William Armsington. aged thirteen.
10 under arrest at Malta. Mont.
charged with killing his stspfather.
William Sitx.
Z H. 8. Adams, William Hoch and
Riley Henson were killed In Q quarrel
over land neat Poplar Blu6, He.
FoREloM Jews.
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