The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-07-02
CRIMINAL NEWS

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Emmett r. Roberts, in reality ROD Pa
ri Emmett Eastman, a failed brokfns
- the New York Consolidated e..
rhanpe. suspected of the murder OIL
beautiful Mrs. Edith Thompson Wood.
iii at st. Michaels, Nd. commlttsesdl3
suicide when cornered by q posse near
the scene Of the murder. HE sen
destruction leaves untold t~heS reaso
for the killing Of a girl .whoghad owe
In the highest social circles ofgls sll
more, Washington and Los #Angeles-
q beautiful, talented girl who nag nag
been a protege of Lyman JS $a elN.
Of former Governor Frank BrownSoI
Maryland.
The body of H. ]. Leadbeater,I !
farmer residing near Mankato, Mirr,
who disappeared two months ago, was
found buried in a potato patchaon ms
farm. Frank Smith, a hired man, a ecs
cording to the authorities, hassSc con-
fessed, saying that Mrs. Leadbeater6
killed her husband with an axe, prob ROB-
ably to put him out of the way
she might we'd another man. Smith
Mrs. L~eadbeater and Mrs. Charles
Swandt, sister of the woman, are I'M
der arrest.
Baited and i%ntimidated by detect
tives Chung Sin, one time roommate
of Leon Ling, told Of Elsie SigeFs
murder in New York city. Under the
terrific pressure of the third degree
the little Chinanan admitted that he.
had seen the body in Leon Ling's
room, that he had touched 1t while lt
was still warm, that he had smelled
drugs and had watched Leon L1ng's
preparations for placing the body in
the trunk where it vas found.
While mentally deranged w. R. Pur-
year, aged twenty-nine, a machinisI
in the engineering department oftbgsA
Ohio state university at Columbus,
shot his wife, killed his brother-in.
law, Fred West, and then committed
suicide. Mrs. Puryear will recover.
Sanford Robinson, personal; counsel
to F. Augustus Heinze, was convicted
in the United States circuit court at
4<CN IOlh S4Iy v llAlCQAa6 IC Ho0I6
ministration Of Justice in advising a
grand jury witness to evade the sery-
ice of a subpoena.
George Quincy Of Quincy, I'LL, shot
and killed his father, DR.. Seneca Cur
ney, aged seventy-nine years; wound.
ed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Seneca Cur
ney, Jr., aged t~hiyty-seven, and then
killed himself by sshding a bullet into,
his right ear.
Fifteen masked men took Albert
Reese, a negro, from Jail at Cuthbert,
Ca, and hanged him. Reese attacked
Miss Mary Taunton, chopped off one
Of her arms and inflicted other dan
gerous wounds which will cripple her
for life.
After shooting and killing his six
year-old brother Theodore, Cecil Hop.
kins of Modesto, Cal, twelve years
old, buried the body in a hog pen
at his home after stuf1ng the boys
mouth full of sand.
Warrants have been issued at De-
troit for the arrest of Cameron Currie
and Louis H.Case Of the brokerage
house of Cameron Currie & Co, witch
failed last July with liabilities Of
about s1,500,O00. ss
Two bandits entered the night ONCE
Of the United States Express. company
at Green Bay, Wis, and at the point
Of revolvers compelled the man IN
charge to open the safe. They secured
$4,000.
In a battle at Sumrall, Miss. g.
McMellon, q justice Of the peace and
local Methodist preacher, was killed
BY Jake Bond, who was seeking to
keep q companion from arrest.
Bendik Bendikson, a farmer resid.
ing near Preston. Mimi, shot and
killed his wife and, when the coroner
and sheriff arrived at the house, shot
himself and died Instantly.
One man dead and another fatally
injured and another dangerously
wounded is the result Of q race riot at
Springfield, Ill, in which Turks and
syrians participated.
Four persons are dead at Opelousas..
La, as the result Of what doctors say
must have been a brain storm" that
affected Gilbert Wilson. q hitherto
law abiding negro.
Another bomb, the thirtieth Of d
mysterious series during the last two
years, wrecked the saloon Of Manning
& Bowes at Chicago. causing a loss Of
125.Oo0.
Burglars secured $2.208 from the
E4tlzens. Natiopal bank q Locke, NIX.
MISCELLANEOUS AfmS
eix srHed ras1, believed Is bo fron,
Victor. Colo, hstd % Cssvsaksr Ar.s