Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-15
POLICE GIVE UP HOPE
OF FINDING ASSASSIN
Aarcerer cf Oena 1aaFaRa Never Cas.
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f4epe-Bursen To Dc Re-
leased FRIDAY.

The lAolice Of nayana. Ohlo, have
! gisen up all bcpe Of discovering the
azAAssaa vi Dona Gilman, ~A0ss body
@as S0amd On the coEnanons Of Airing
toa Heights, = subaEh Of Dayton. On
November - last The girl disap-
g~ared On the night Ut November 20.
while Gu her way home. and is sup-
losed To have be&.n criRaiaaily ~
saulied and stTangleL. A lev days
later David Curtis. u half Eilied news.
boy. confessed To the crime. His
statement. which entered into all the
details and circumstances connected
@ith the murder. was found To be a
tissue Of falsehoOd and the boy was
released. Mrs. Leah Gilman. mother
Of the victim. her daughter Fame
and son Coilins. were then arrested
and bound Q 90 the grand !a~y.
but released BY that body. The
Investigation Of the ease has been
the most expensive in the CRIMINAL
history Of Dayton. All Of the mem.
bers Of the Gilman family are still
living In Dayton. Mrs. Gilman tesla.
fed before the grand jury that she
saw her daughter followed In the
dark and murdered In n dream or Wis.
ion that visited her on the night Of
the crime.
Attorney General Hadley Of Nilsson.
ri has filed a motion 90 aua.a the
writ Of error issued by the rni'ei
States supreme court In the cas-. Of
"L0rd" r. Seymour Barrngscn. tn.
British adventurer who is under sen.
tence OF death In the st. Louis county
Jail for the murder Of James McCann,
a horseman. Hadley's motipn alleges
that there Is no federal question In.
volved. II 1t IL granted by the court
Darlington will be deprived Of his
last resource TO save him from the
gallows. since Governor Folk has de-
,clared that he will not commute his
sentence. Darlington served several
terms In English prisons before com.
Ing TO America. As Sir Frederick
,Sydenham Burgoyne he married Miss
Celeste Miller. a wealthy Brooklyn
girl. deserving her after getting pos.
session of all her money. Later In
Philadelphia he married another veal.
thy woman. leaving her on the hon
eymoon our. He then went TO st.
Louis. posing as Lord F. Seymour
Harrington. aud married Miss wilhel.
nina G. Cochrane. a wealthy Kansas
city girl. He was exposed, and sent
to the workhouse ON a misdepcanoT
charge. After his release harrington
met James p. Mccain. a rich horse.
man, who befriended him. McCann
was murdered In a lonely neighbor,
hood In st. Louis county. Suspicion
pointed to harrington, who was ar
rested. tried and convicted. An an,
peal was taken TO the Missouri su,
preme court. which affirmed the yer
dict. and later to the United States
supreme court.
Heber j.. Grant. an apostle of the
Mormon church. who was charged
with Illegal polygamous cohabitation
will not be brought to trial. the ease
having been dismissed at the reques,
OF the prosecuting attorney. The &C
ton against Apostle Grant was com
menced several months ago at the
instance of members of the American
or anti Mormon party of Utah. Lead
ing Mormons declare that the Ease
was brought in an attempt to In.
~fluence public sentiment In the Smoot
case.
J. Ralph Burton, the former United
States senator from Kansas who was
dismissed In disgrace and sentenced
to six months Imprisonment for IL
.tigation and prosecution of the Steun
legal practice before the p~ostoffice
department il. connection with st.
Louis get rich quick schemes, will
be released from Jail at Ironton, Mo.
next Friday. Burton Is forever lie
barred from holding public office. He
will establish a weekly paper at his
home in Abilene, Kansas.
Appropriations aggregating $100.5l
have been made by the Idaho legis
.lature to cover the cost of the inves
enbcrg murder case.
Nearly $1,000. 900 has been appro
priated by the Legislature of Colorado
to the cost Of calling out the
militia during the Cripple Creek ia
Dor war; several years ago..
Miss Jean Mitchell, the young Pitts
burg woman who was cruciied to a
sink in her apartments last Novem