The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-12
RESUME OF THE NEWS
Brief
Criminal.


Robbers made a raid on the First
National bank Of Howard, s. D., but
were scared away before they secured
any booty.
j. Walker Franklin was arrested at
Birmingham, Ala, by detectives while
taking part in the services Of the Sal
walton Army, on the charge of bigamy.
Enraged by jealousy, James G.. Clay.
ton, a negro, shot and instantly killed
his wife and James Harmon, also a
negro, who boarded with the Clayton
family in New York.
While awaiting the arrival Of a pa
troll wagon, after his arrest in st. Louis
on a forgery charge, Thomas G.. Con-
nor, forty years old, committed suicide
by drinking carbolic acid.
Mrs. Mary A. O'Hare walked into
Olney's pond in the rear of her home
at Leicester, Mass, with her eleven.
months old baby boy in her arms. Both
were drowned. No cause is ascribed.
Peter Mcintyre, a private in the
coast artillery, was stabbed and kill
ed in the barracks at Fort Totten,
Whitestone, L. l., by Private William
Snyder. The murder was the result
of a quarrel.
Herbert Mccartney committed sui
eide by taking poison, after admins.
tering a fatal dose of the drug to his
seven-year-old son. Dependency over
being separated from his wife is the
only cause given.
In an effort to put a stop to the ep-
idemic Of crime which has been 9
source of terror to Des Moines all sum-
mer, Judge McVey sentenced Alonzo
Watson to prison for twelve years for
highway robbery.
Ralph Anderson of Cherokee, Iowa,
has filed an information charging Mrs.
George Filler with %abducting Bessie,
his eleven-year-old daughter. The two
left for Sioux City. The motive is not
stated, but it may be blackmail.
Samuel Beaver, for many years pay
ing teller of the Bank of California,
shot and killed himself in San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Beaver had been ill for q
long time and was placed on the re-
tired list of the bank on account Of
his sickness. This is supposed to be
the cause of his committing suicide.
Although her bondsmen have made
good the claim of the government, the
case against Miss Nellie Woodley, who
was formerly postmistress at Hansel,
in Franklin county, Iowa, will be
probed by the federal grand jury. She
is charged with a discrepancy of more
than $1,000 in the postofice money Or
der funds.
Angered because his wife refused to
become reconciled after their separa.
ton two weeks ago, August Fielders
went to the home of his mother-inlaw
in st. Louis, and, after arguing some
time with his wife, shot her in the hip
with a revolver, fired an Intellectual
shot at her mother, and then commit.
ted suicide on the doorstep.
A young Armenian woman was shot
on the street at Brantford, Ont, by her
father, who then shot himself. Both
will die. The woman came here from
Hamilton and was married. The
father, who opposed the marriage, fol-
lowed his daughter here, and meeting
her and her husband on the street be-
gan shooting with the above result.
He fired at the husband, but missed
him.
The skeleton of a woman with a
bullet hole through the skull was
found by laborers digging a cellar in
st. George, on Staten Island, New
York. Coroner Schaefer reported to
the police and ordered an investiga-
ton. The body had been buried a foot
and a half deep, which, the police ar.
que, shows it was a hurried burial. The
coroner believes the woman was shot
more than two years ago..
Mrs. Clarence Markham Of Cam
bridge, near Rock Island, ILL.,, in a fit
of temporary insanity killed her seven
children with an axe, after which she
placed their bodies on a bed, saturated
1t with coal oil and set fire to it. She
then hacked her throat with a knife
and threw herself on the burning bed.
Neighbors rescued her, but she was SO
badly burned that she died soon after
she had made a confession.