The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-08
Crimes.

Crimes.
Mrs. John Byers of Belmond, Iowa,
committed suicide by drowning in the
Iowa river. Poor health is given as
the cause.
Justice Sweet at Boulder, Mont,
has imposed a fine Of $40 and costs
upon James McTaggert for clipping
the queue from the head of Charles
App, an aged Chinaman from Basin.
William Bell, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Hamilton, Mont, committed
suicide by shooting. Bell used a rifle,
firing three bullets into his head, his
face being terribly mangled.
Albert Matte, bookkeeper and conf
Dental man for the Val Blatz Brewing
company of Milwaukee, at their Han
cock, Mich, branch, has absconded, it
is alleged, with several thousand dol
lars.
The grand jury at Asheville, N. c..
returned another indictment against
Congressman Blackburn, charging him
with practicing before the treasury de-
partment in violation of the federal
statutes.
The Breathitt county (Ky.) grand
jury returned indictments against
Judge James Hargis,. Ed Callahan, B.
F. French, John Smith and John Alb.
ner, charging murder and accessory to
the same in the death of James B.
NornIpo tu-0 voorc 400 Nor01,rp u-aC
killed in the court house door, the re.
suit of a feud.
After an expert accountants exam.
ination of the books of Allen c. Bates,
secretary of the Mississippi Elevator
and Grain company, who committed
suicide by shooting on Feb. IA, it was
made known at st. Louis that a short.
age of $751; 900 had heen revealed.
Bates was under surety bond in the
sun of $4,000.
walked into the isolated store Of
Frank Botto, an old Italian at Crosse
Point, a small town on the Texas &
Pacific railway, killed Botto and fatal.
ly wounded his two sons, fourteen and
thirteen years old. Mrs. Botto was
shot at but escaped and gave the
alarm. While she was gone they rob.
bed the place and made their escape.
Florence, twenty years old, daughter
of County Physician R. B. Allen, was
instantly killed and Mrs. Allen serl.
ously injured at Mount Pleasant, Iowa
~, h,1latc frnl OF fhnpn {r fhnir hor,e
by Carl Becker, a young farmer. Beck,
er's body was found on the outskirts
of the town later, where he evidently
had committed suicide. The cause is
believed to be unrequited love.
The main postoffice at San Diego.
Cal, was entered by robbers and the
vault was blown open by dynamite.
All the stamps were taken and the
Office wired for $500 worth from Los
Angeles. Postmaster 'Newkirk de-.
clined to give an estimate Of the
amount secured by the robbers, but it
is understood to be in the neighbor.
hood of $4,000.
A suitcase containing two bonds,
Nos. 1877 and 1873, of the Central Rail.
road Of Pennsylvania, each for $50, 1000,
and belonging to ex-Congressman
James Kerr, the Clearf1eld coal opera.
tor, was stolen recently from a Penn.
sylvania railroad train. Detectives To-
Gated the case, minus the bonds, at
the boarding house of Charles Cato,
an Italian, at Retort. Cato was ar.
rested.
Bob Butts and George B~ridgewater,
young white men living at New Pitts
burg, Ohio, drew their revolvers and
made George Donovan, a negro, dance
a clog. Butts and Bridgewater, after
emptying their r%evolvers, began to
jeer the negro, when he turned and
fired five shots at his annoyers. Butts
was shot in the lung. B~ridgewater was
shot through the stomach and bowels.
Both men died. Donovan was arrest.
ed.
Domestic.