The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-11-06
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Crimes and Casualties.

The PARDON lSOafu. Slttlns Ill New
Orleans last week. declined to commute |
the sentence of Grover G. Johnson. |
sentenced to hang in Shreveport.
While trying to arrest two jewelry |
robbers in st. Louis last Friday. Chief
of Police Martin O'Rrien. of that city,
was shot and is said to he In ser
iouS condition. The robbers escaped.
Sterling Harris. fifteen years old.
was sent to the WATTS Home in New
Orleans last Saturday after being sus-
picione,l by his mother Of .rpbbing her
bank box of $>:, in cash and u diamond
pin valued ut $til'.
Tom Frazer. forty years Of age,
town marshall ut Winfield. was shot
and killed in that town last Saturday
by Lone Gum. IL town character, who
had been removed from the audience
ut Il football game for drunkenness.
Gum surrendered to the sheriff after
| the shooting.
John Armstrong Charloner, recently
victor in twenty-twO-year fight in
New York to be declared S;lne. is to 20
on the stage. He announced last week
that he will appear i'll IL broadway
tlle:,ter in his own play. Robbery Tn
der Law" written tive years ago as IA
part Of his crusade for lunacy law re-
FORM He will take the part of the
hero. Hugh Struttield.
Sheriff BinfOrd, Of Houston, Texas,
departed from Alexandria this state)
last Friday with L. j. Berger. alias
Love. who is wanted in Houston on
several charges Of forgery. He is also
wanted in Montgomery County. Texas,
on Il charge of bigamy. Mrs. Berger
No. was with the accused in Alexan-
dria and accompanied him hack to Tex
as along with the sheriff.
i A Helena. Ark. dispatch Of last Fri
day says that o. =. Rratton, the Little
Rock white man charged with barratry
i'm connection with the negro uprising
during October. has been released by
the court on his own recOgnizance
The grand jury also returned last weel
thirteen additional indictments charg
in. negroes with murder and night rid
ing, which brings the total indictment.
to date in connection with the riot.
up to 12o.
: Floyd Gray. private detective. causet
! the arrest in Tloelo. Ohio, last weeI
, of four men whom lie charged witt
= conspiracy to kidnap Edsel Ford, sol
Of Henry Ford. the automobile manu-
facturer. The detective says he learn
! ed of the conspiracy while acting a
; janitor in Toledo hotel and posing
: an px-convict The kidnlplers, h
;, says. planned to place young Ford i
- Il cement vault under Il certain hOus
= with two weeks provisions. and shout
:, the father fail to pay $2OO,OO rinSo,
:. money. the boy was to he allowed t
:, die Of starvation.
v In tatterS-his bare feet shown
[. through holes in his wOrn-Out shoes
T. Davis Goldhaber. member of Ne
le York'S "Alimony Club. knelt one d;i
last week before Justice Kendrick an
Il begged that he be freed from IA del
\ tors prison that he might 80 to wOr
10 and earn alinory for his wife. Mr.
~ Goldllaher. in silk dress and we;iril
n furs. asked that he he kept in jail unit
,s he could produce bond for 500 II
n hack payment. 1t seems that the ma
If can be held in Jail under the New Yol
x law until he can make bond :.,larante
ot ing the payment of alinlony. or unt
to the wife relentS.