The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-06-18
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Fred Mohrle, who killed Constable
Sam Young in North st. Louis several
weeks ago, was assasssinated in&the
corridor Of the criminal court build.
ing at st. Louis by William Kane,
q former deputy under Young. The
shooting occurred as Mohrle was be-
ing taken to court to stand trial for
the death of Young and is the cul-
mination of a bitter political feud.
In several arrests made in Column
bus, Marion and Dennison, o., federal
inspectors and detectives who worked
in conjunction with them in the case
believe they have unearthed the big.
gest and best organized branch of the
Black Hand in this country, Marion,
o., being probably the headquarters
of the organization.
Corporal Lisle Crabtree fatally shot
Captain John c. Raymond, command
ing officer of Troop B, Second United
States cavalry, at Fort Des Moines,
shot and seriously injured First seq.
geant James H. Washburn and Cor
poral e. Such, who attempted to dis
arm him, and then fatally shot him
self.
A. Milton Holden, a member OF the
brokerage firm Of Fred S. Osborne &
Co. of Detroit, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head. It
is said MI. Holden had been worry
ing about business affairs and had he.
come Respondent.
The bodies of J.. Gooder Of Rock
Valley, Ia, and w. D. Toney OF Sioux
City, Ia, were found in a well on the
McNally ranch near Kadoka, S. D.
Michael Malone, who was in their en-
plcy, is under arrest, suspected OF
their murder.
Holding five men and two women
helpless under the muzzles of re.
volvers three masked men secured
$4,000 in gold from the clubhouse of
the Nellie mine on Bear creek, near
Telluride, Colo, and made their es-
cape.
While quarreling cver an account
Moses RaZchio, a Eebrew peddler,
fred two bullets into the body OF A.
H. Todd, senior member Of the whole
sale fruit firm of Todd & Kraft of Des
Moines, and then committed suicide.
Following an investigation of three
months BY an italian detective eight
alleged leaders of a so called Black
Hand society were arrested at Barnes
boro, Pa. charged with conspiring to
commit murder.
Ex-Sheriff Edward Callahan, noted
for participation in the feuds that
have disrupted 3reathitt county, KY,
for years, was shot from ambush at
Croc;ettsville and, it is believed, ia
tally wounded.
DR.. Jessie A. Bearsley is the latest
victim of an alleged "Black Hand"
plot in Chicago. She was stabbed in
the breast and stomach as she an
swered a knock at the back door Of
her home.
Near Honsdale, Pa, George Baker,
"a farmer, aged eighty-seven years,
was murdered by his brother-in-law,
Mark Van Dusen. aged eighty-six
years. Van Dusen then committed
suicide.
Quillie Simmons and Frank Sam
ue1s, colored, charged with the muir
der Of young Ben Smoaks two weeks
ago, were lynched at Smoaks, S. c.,
by a mob OF over 500.
Cecilia Zwinrer, q widow of Roch-
ester, n. ". took two OF her three
children into q Bedroom, lay down
after turning on the a and was as
p1yXiated with them.
In the eighty-seventh year of his
life John Howard was sentenced at
Chicago to serve nine months in the
house of correction on the charge IL
house breaking.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp. wife of G.. v
Sharp, a politician and manufacturer
Of Salem, O., killed herself and t.er
twelve-yeas-ol5 son .ldarlod.
Two mounted and masked men blew
open a safe in a saloon in the center
OF Butte. Mont, seized 5000 in cash
and ESCAPED.