The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-09
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Judge Lands, in the United States
district court at Chicago, fined the
Standard Oil company Of Indiana $685.
240, 900 for violations of the law
against accepting rebates from rail-
roads. The fine is the largest ever
assessed against an individual or any
corporation in the history of American
criminal jurisprudence and is slightly
more than 131 times as great as the
amount received by the company
through it's rebating operations. The
case will be carried to the highest
courts by the defendant company.
In1amed with passion, which seemed
to increase after the lynching of James
Reed, the negro murderer of Police
IA John H. D%augherty of Crisfield,
Md, the mob which put the negro to
death and buried his body in the
swamp at the edge of town returned
to the spot later, dug up the body and,
amid yells and curses, burned it, after
Kidding the corpse with bullets.
Burning with hatred for their dead
ly enemies belonging to the rival On
Leong Tong society a band of New
York Cinnamon numbering a dozen or
more and said to be members of the
notorious Hop Sing Tong organization
entered a narrow alley in Boston's
Chinatown and drawing revolvers
opened fire upon fifty Cinnamon, kill
ing three and injuring seven.
: A coroner's jury at Colorado Springs,
Colo, has decided that both Miss
Laura Matthews and Amos r. Rum
baugh committed suicide. Miss Mat
thews killed herself because of unre-
Quilted love on the part of c.. A. Coey,
the Chicago millionaire, and Rum,
baugh, who had been drinking heav-
lily, killed himself because of infatua-
ton for the girl.
Indictments have been returned In
the United States district court at
Chicago against A. Booth & Co., gen
orally known as the fish trust;" the
New York, Chicago and st. Louis Rail-
road company and the Lehigh Valley
Railroad company charging them with
violation of the first provision of the
Elkins law prohibiting rebating.
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners and n
of the co-defendants of William D.
Haywood, just acquitted of the murder
of former Governor S~teunenberg, has
been released on $25, 900 bail. A mo-
ton for the release of George A. Pet
tibone was denied and his trial was
set for Oct. /.
The grand jury which has been in
vestigating the death of Mrs. Pet Ma
gill, the first wife of Fred Magill, who,
with his second wife, is in jail at
Clinton, ILL.,, returned one indictment
against Magill and one indictment
against Mrs. Faye Graham Magill, &C
cusing them of the murder of Mrs.
Pet Magill.
The excitement caused in New York
city by the recent atrocious crimes
against women and children has been
greatly increased by the discovery of
the body of an eight-year-old girl in
the cellar of an East Side tenement.
The child had been assaulted and then
murdered.
Six Armenians, all said to be men,
bcrs of the Hunchakist society, have
been arrested in New York city fol-
lowing the police Investigation into
the recent assassination of H. s. Tav-
.shanjian, a wealthy Armenian rug
merchant.
Thomas Black, the most prominent
lawyer in Kenton, o., a leading Repub-
lican politician and mayor for two
terms, is in Jail on a charge of forgery.
He gave himself up to the sheriff and
asked to be placed behind the bars.