The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-12-18
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Shouting that lie was John tho
BAPTIST, come to save the world an
aged insane mar held the town of
Edgewater, n. j., in terror for nearly
an hour. He rushed down the main
street, waving a revolver and shout
ing. held up half a dozen citizens,
robbed the tills OF three business
establishments, stole a team of horses
and exchanged many shots with u
hastily formed posse. His wild career
was checked when he was bowled
over by shots fired Ivy members OF
the posse.
More than a score Of persons were
injured, five of them seriously, and a
hundred more were thrown into a
panic when u bomb was hurled into
the air shaft of a tenement house i'll
New York city. The house was badly
wrecked. 1t was occupied exclusively
by Italians and it developed that
threatening letters had been received
by many OF them during the past few
months.
Two buildings were wrecked IL
windows were shattered for a block
around by the terrific explosion of a
bomb in an alley in Wabash avenue
near Sixteenth street, Chicago. The
wrecked buildings adjoined the Coli
scum, where the First ward ball, the
annual revel against the holding of
which this year much opposition has
been made, is scheduled to be held.
Maggie Garcia, eighteen years old,
and Francis Martinez, who was sus.
pected of having murdered the four
members of the Garcia family, were
found dead twenty miles west of the
Garcia ranch in the extreme eastern
part of Las Animas county, Colo.
Both had been shot. Apparently Mar.
tinez murdered the girl and then ON
mitted suicide.
After a brief hearing of the Her
mall Billek murder case Acting Gov
ernor l.. Y. Sherman of Illinois grant
ed the condemned man a new lease of
life by giving MIN a further repriese
until Jan. 90, 1909, the sixth day that
has been set for the execution of he
defendant, who has been in Jail at
Chicago for more than two years.
In the very shadow OF the city hall
in Kansas City and less than a half
mile from the business center a riot
In which religious fanatics and police
We're the participants and during
which 100 shots were fired resulted in
the death of one policeman and a
child, the fatal injury of three and
slight injury of two other persons.
Francis d. Hirschberg, prominent
in the Roman Catholic church, also
we'll known in club and business cir
cles and as a director of the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition company,
was shot and killed at his home in st.
Louis. Whether his death was the re-
suit IF murder or suicide has not been
determined.
Frederick A. Hyde of San Fran
cisco, recently convicted Of conspiracy
to Gefraud the United States of large
tracts of land in Oregon and Wash.
ington, was sentenced in the District
of Columbia court 20 pay a fine OF
$4,000 and to serve two years in the
~penitentiary.
Charles A. Ekstromer, Swedish. vice
consul in ST. Louis, who committed
suicide, was short in his accounts as
manager CT tie 81. Louis office of the
West DtsiuFeotant company, accord
ing to a statement made by Emil
Taussig, president Of the company.
The East Side bank at Portland,
Ore, was neld up and robbed by three
masked men. 1t is understood that
they secured about $1G.5n0. President
Newhall and his 20 were just closing
for the day wher the robbers entered.
of San Francisco, has been convicted
of bribery. The verdict was returned
after the deliberations Of the jury had
been prolonged throughout a period
of twenty-four hours.
After thirteen hours deliberation
the jury in the case vt Charles q.
Davis, charged with the murder at
Omaha of DR.. Frederick T. Rustin,
agreed upon a verdict of not guilty.
William Latura, a Memphis white
man, walked into q saloon in that
city and, drawing an automatic revolt
yer, killed three negroes and wounded
four others.
Three men held up westbound Great
Northern train No. 4 a mile and a
half east of Hillyard. Wash, robbed
tho mail car and made their escape.
r. F. Cargell, a cattle dealer of
Clyde, N. D., was buncoed out of 81
600 by Minneapolis confidence men.