The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-10-20
CRIMINAL NEWS.

To- VI. CRIMINAL NEWSs
"A large force Of detectives Is seek.
ing some clew to the mysterious dis
appearance of Edward G. Cunliffe, en-
pIoyed by the Adams Express com
papy at Pittsburg, and 100000 which
the company has missed. 1t Is known
that Cunliffe, the suspected man,
signed for the money package con-
tanning the 100000 and that the pack
age never reached the money forward
ing Office of the Adams Express COM
pany.
While driving in a hack from a hotel
to a railroad, station at Sioux City, Ia,
3. H. barrow of Lead, s. D., aged
sixty, shot and killed his sons wife.
Lillian barrow, of Sioux Falls S. D.,
aged twenty-five, and then shot him
self, both dying instantly. 1t is al
legged that members of the family had
long suspected the relations between
e. II. barrow and his sons wife were
improper.
Judge Day in the district court at
Omaha dismissed the suit of Mae G.
Wood against United States Senator
Thomas C. Platt and the United States
Express company, in which she asked
$25, 900 for services rendered and for
q garnishment against the senator. The
court decided that Senator Watt had
no money in the possession of the tx
press company.
Rather than face trial on indictments
charging him with fraudulently taking
money from the Weissel estate Ar
mitage Matthews, lawyer and secre-
tary of the county Republican commit
tee, committed suicide in New York
city by jumping from a window in his
apartment to a stone paved courtyard.
Mary T.. Golding, cashier for the
Larkin Soap company, confessed IN
police court in New York city that she
had embezzled at least $4,000 from her
employers within four years and had
made use of it to support and care for
her father, mother and invalid sister
in Buffalo.
Frank G.. Bigelow, defaulting ex-
president of the First National bank
of Milwaukee, will be brought back
from Fort Leavenworth prison IS a
witness at the trial of Henry G. Coll.
formerly assistant cashier of the bank.
Robert Repicker, aged twenty-five
years, has been arrested in New York
city accused of having had three young
wives living simultaneously in the
same fiat building, each of whom be-
lieved that she was the only wife.
J.. A.. Erickson, president of the de-
funct Minot IN. d. National bank. has
been sentenced to five years at hard
labor in the government. prison at
Sioux Falls on the charge of making
false reports to the controller.
Congressman John Newton William
son, convicted at Portland, Ore, of
conspiracy to defraud the United
States government of its public do
main, has been sentenced to ten
months imprisonment. al $3.50
In a sensational pistol duel at
Tchula, Miss, w. A. Spratten and Jack
Glenn, two we'll known travelling men,
we're killed. Spratten, 1t is claimed,
accused Glenn Of cheating in a game
of cards.
. Robert Newcome, colored, ran amuck
at Chicago and before he was finally
captured by the police he had killed
one policeman and a woman and IA
tally injured another man.
Frank Leavell, a one-legged negro,
charged with attempting to enter the
room of a young lady at Trenton, KY,
was taken from jail by a mob of 1000
persons and lynched.
The profits of the alleged c%onspira-
tors in the operations based on the.
recent leak in the government crop
reports are placed at approximately
5000, 900.
Julia Beard, aged sixteen, twice mar
ried and twice divorced, committed
suicide at Kokomo, Ind, because she
could not marry a third husband.
Anthony Gauhn, thirty-five years
old, was asphyxiated at Chicago while
attempting to steal a gas slot machine
from a basement.