The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-07-31
CRIMINAL NEWS.

nrawn, back to the Gene OF his
crime by a force he could not resist
A,,.1,st Eberhard, se%lf-confessed muir
dsrer of his aunt, Mrs. Ottillie Eber-
hard, a Viennese widow whom ne
lnred to a lonely. spot IN g Jersey
. few days ago and shot to death, was
cantured near Paterson, E..J.,$ Inc IS
nov . prisoner in the Hackensack Jail.
". r. Walker, who looted the Saw
mos hank of New Britain, Conn, Of
more han 100000 worth Of securi-
ties. pleaded guilty ON four counts OF
the indictment in the superior court.
1Ie was sentenced 10 not less than
ono wear nor more than four years on
the first count and not more than five
wears each on the other three counts.
In view Of more than one hundred
neople in the ballroom Of the Fort
lowry hotel at Bath Beach, u l.,
John Hanna, thirty years old, shot six
~teen-year-old Augusta Wall, with
whom he was" in love, and Ralph
MANI, twenty years old, with whom
she was dancing. Manz may die, u
the girl will recover.
Eleven persons were, shot, three Of
them probably fatally, by two despera-
does who, on being pursued by police
men and a crowd of citizens, fed for
two miles through a thickly settled ,
district of Jamaica Plain, a suburb OF
Boston. firing madly right and left. A
nosse pursued the bandits, killing one,
the other escaping.
Charles Savage, a negro, was ar
rested at Kansas City by p%ostoffce
authorities charged with stealing a
mail pouch in the Kansas City Union
station on June 6 last containing $780,
600. Being sent from Los Angeles to
a New York city bank.
Despondent because of i'll health
and fear of the fate which might
await her two little children if. they
were left alone to face the world, Mrs.
Gussie benson Of New York city
sought peace for all beneath the wa
tiers of the East river.
A nervy robber tried to hold up the
Ashland-St. Paul n%orthbound train on
the Chicago and Northwestern road
near Appleton Junction, Wis.,, but was
knocked from the engine by the fire.
man as he held a revolver to the head
Of the engineer.
A clash between deputies and negro
miners in the Blue Creek region,
twenty miles south of Birmingham,
Ala, resulted in one negro being shot
and killed and two deputies, Newsom
and Whatley, being seriously wound Y
ed.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
has returned indictments against
twenty-nine mail order houses, whose
illegal profits are alleged to have been
between s4,000,O00 and $4,000, 900, for
using the mails to defraud.
At Port Edwards, Wis, Daniel
Lynch shot and killed Richard Nom
menson, shot and seriously wounded
Miss Anna Sorenson and then tried to
kill himself. Jealousy was the cause
of the tragedy.
Returning to his wife's home at To-
ledo, o., after IN absence of sixteen
years Louis Armour, aged fifty, MUIR
dered the woman, fired a bullet at his
daughter and tried to commit suicide.
At Newark, N. j., Mrs. Dousette,
twenty-six years old, drowned her
twin daughters, eleven days old, in a
tub of water and then caused her own
death by a%sphyxiation.
Wealthy and influential citizens of
Chicago, who own property devoted
to vice, will be prosecuted. This is
the edict issued by the Chicago Law
and Order league.
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