The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-03-09
Crimes and Criminals.


The postoffice at Carlock, S. D., wae
robbed by unknown persons OF 5000 in
stamps and money. This is a new
Rosebud reservation town.
Arnold vanven, eighteen years old
shot and killed himself at his home in
st. Louis. He was the ninth member
of his family to die by suicide.
David Tennyson, wealthy farmer
of Frankfort, Kan, was shot and killed
as he sat close to his wife in his par.
lor, the murderer firing through the
window.
Frank Benin was stabbed In the left
side by Fred Heinze, farmer from
Clinton, Iowa, whom he attempted to
rob near the union depot in Chicago
according to Heinze.
Mrs. Nellie Leary, indicted for rifling
the mails, was acquitted by jury at
Helena, Mont. The defense was in
sanity. The indictment against her
and her husband was then nolled.
Alfred Knutson, Swede, was ar
rested at Billings, Mont, on complaint
of Andrew Halland, who charged that
Knutson had robbed him Of the sum
OF $72.75. The robbery, it is alleged.
took place In saloon
Maj. Putnam Bradley Strong was
arrested in Shanghai. China, recently
charged with obtaining goods from
various firms under false pretenses
The news comes in a copy of the
Shanghai Times of Jan. 20.
Former State Senator w. F. French
of Sacramento. Cal, accused of ac
cepting a bribe, was acquitted by a
jury in the supreme court. The case
was submitted without argument. The
jury was out thirty minutes.
Joseph Wilder, negro, was convict
ed in police court in st. Louis of hav
ing seized and hugged two white girls
on the street, and was fined $1,000, the
maximum penalty. He was unable to
pay the fine and was locked up.
Two men who are believed to be
part of a gang that robbed bank at
Kenney, ILL.,, were discovered issuing
from haystack two miles from Cisco
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to Monticello and lodged in Jail.
John Bailey, farmer living near
Fox Lake, ILL.,, was robbed OF $3,15C
in Chicago by pickpockets. Bailey
had just obtained the money by the
sale of a mortgage and was riding or
street car when his pocket was
picked.
After repeated efforts to secure g
final resting place for the body of Hoch
in one of the city cemeteries of Chi
cago, the two clergymen in charge
finally despaired and the body was in
tered in the potter's field adjoining
the county poor farm at Dunning.
Mrs. Dolly Carpenter and Grover
Baughman. charged with attempting
to wreck a train, were adjudged In
sane at Tiffin, Ohio, and taken to the
state hospital at Toledo. Mrs. Carpen
ter finally admitted her part in the
attempted wreck, after having stoutly
denied the charge.
Ben E. Valentine, wealthy Brook
lyn lawyer, was sentenced to an indie
| terminate term Of not more than five
years and three months in Sing Sing
prison for forgery. Valentine had
been convicted of forging his wife's
name to deed to property belonging
to his mother.
Banker Fred McCutcheon, on tria,
| at Ida Grove, Iowa. for receiving de
posits after his bank at Holstein, Iowa
was insolvent, was acquitted Of the
charge. McCutcheon's brother testi
fed that he received the alleged un
lawful deposits instead of the defend
ant, and the latter was cleared on this
evidence
Two masked men. one white and
one negro, seized Frederick Radal,
banker of Millville, N. j., while he
was in the stable near his house, and
after gagging the banker marched him
into his home at the point of pistol
The men compelled Radal to open his
safe, from which they took nearly s.,
900. The robbers escaped.