Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 17 December 1894 — Page 4

TRAGEDY IN A BANK

It May Result Fatally to Least Three Persons.

Crimes—Two Men Shot ami Then Mul

let Is Sent Into His Own ItrainK Details

of the Horrible Kvent.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, III.. Dec. 17.—At 11 o'clock Sunday a tragedy was enacted in the private office of the Citizens' Htnbe bank of Council Bluffs which may result fatally for three persons. John Huntington, assistant bookkeeper and collection clerk, shot C. A. Cromwell of Minneapolis and F. N. Havden of Chicago, representatives of the Fidelity and Casualty company of New York and then emptied his revolver into his own brain, inflicting a wound from which he died two hours later. Cromwell and Hayden, it is thought, will recover.

Huntington was one of the best known men in Council Bluffs and numbered his friends by the hundred. Ho .vr as can be learned he hud 110 bad habits, and this is what makes his act fl'ite harder to explain. O11 the 2(i of hist Juiy a check of $500 was turned over to him by Ira F. Hendricks, one of the employes of the bank in the regular routine of business. Huntington cnarged up the check to the Union Kiockyards Rational bank of .South Omaha, and from that (lay to this nothing whatever has been seen or lizard of it. The day following Huntington left for a vacation trip of several weeks to New York city. The bank officials kept thinking the check would turn up sooner or later and deferred any uction. AH time passed on and it became evident that the bank was out

Jj-nVK), they sent a message to the Fidelity and Casualty company notifyins? it of the fact and suggesting that inspectors come 011 at once and make an investigation.

The bank officials claim that at the time they had 110 charges to make I against Huntington or any employe of thy bank. All of their employes were bonded in the Fidelity and they preierred that the Fidelity company should -znake the investigation rather than •muke it themselves. Messrs. Cromwell and Hayden arrived in the city last Friday and took rooms at the Grand hotel. They cross-examined each of I fcira bank employes through whose hands the missing chock had passed, anvi among the rest, Huntington. They claimed to have discovered that he had betiu spending more money than the snhiry of $45 a month which he was re©eiving would warrant, and on this, together with the fact that the check had I BEEN last seen in his hands, they based TIW-'IR suspicions. I

Huntington and the representatives I «fhe Fidelity company met Saturday I NIGHT and made arrangements for an©THCR meeting at the bank Sunday auuvjjiag, when the investigation was to BE resumed. At the hour appointed TINRY were together, and Cromwell and ILayden commenced to put the young I IUIU.i through a running cross-tire of QUESTIONS. President J. D. Edmundson I

Cashier C. R. Han nan of the bank WWI'W present during most of the inter- I The conference had not been in

The two wounded men ran out of the lank down First avenue and into the Grand hotel, blood dripping from them tfvery step. They were taken to their rooms and Dr. Donald Macrae, Jr., was •otarcmonecL He found that one of the bullets had taken effect in Cromwell's bock, just to the right of the spine, afrmt the waist line. It was found YRF/RMT four INNLK« below the surface and

From

High Government Authority.

No authority of greater experience on food products exists than Dr. Henry A. Mott, of New York. Dr. Mott's wide experience as Government Chemist for the Indian Department, gave him exceptional opportunities to acquaint himself with the qualities and constituent parts of baking powders. He understands thoroughly the comparative value of every brand in the market, and has from time to time expressed his opinion thereof. On a recent careful re-examination and analysis he finds

Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder

superior to all others in strength, purity, and efficiency. Dr. Mott writes New York, March 20th, 1894.

I find Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder to be superior to all others, for the following reasons 1st. It liberates the greatest amount of leavening gas and is consequently more efficient. 2nd. The ingredients used in its preparation are of the purest character. 3rd. Its keeping qualities are excellent. 4th. On account of the purity of the materials and their relative proportions, Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder must be considered the acme of perfection as regards wholesomeness and efficiency, and I say this having in mind certificates I have given several years ago respecting two other baking: powders.

The reasons for the change in my opinion are based on the above facts and the new method adopted to prevent your baking powder from caking and deteriorating in strength.

HENRY A. MOTT, Ph. D., L. L. D."

ONE OF THEM ALREADY DEAD

The Assistant Itookkeepcr ami Collection

Clerk Uses His Hcvolver to Hide His

progress for more than JO minutes when I HRA .tiagton rose from his chair, pulled

•A L:

/-olver and commenced firing at the I«jjr *sentatives of the Fidelity company. THE revolver he used was A 41-caliber «inu belonged to the bank and had been KEPT in the desk of G. F. Spooner, the paving teller. The first three shots were FEUD at Cromwell, who had taken the LEAD LA the interrogation, and all three took effect. The fourth struck Hayden AMI 'THEN Huntington raised the weapon *0 fairs own head and fired. He fell to *HE floor unconscious and remained so ixiitii his death at 1:10 p. 111.

extracted, xno second biuiet STRUCT I the left side of his cheek, plowed its way around the right side of his neck, and came to

imbedded itself

stop after just missing

the carotid artery. The third struck him in the right wrist, he having thrown up his hand to strike the revolI ver out of Huntington's hand. It broke 1 one of the bones of the forearm clear in two and imbedded itself

the bone,

almost severing it. When the ball was taken out it was cut almost in two from S the pointed end down. Cromwell will probably lose the use of his right liaud on account of

a stiffening of the

wrist

I joint as the result of the fracture of the bones. Hayden fared better. The bullet I 6truck him in the neck, and after passing around about

quarter of the way

a panel in the door,

where it was afterward found. His wound is not considered of a serious nature, but A variation of half an inch would have killed him.

The bullet that took Huntington's life entered the skull just behind the ear, and lodged back of the right eye, where its presence was shown by a discoloration of the lid. His having the weapon in his possession showed he had planned it all out before hand, and his coolness, in the face of the terrible deed he was meditating, is surprising, all of the men who were present

the interview testi

fying that the}* had not the slightest idea anything out of the ordinary run of things would be thought of by the young man.

The parents of young Huntington were

once summoned. The aged

mother was beside herself with grief. The death tlieir son was affliction enough, but the honest old people appeared to be grieved more that their son should have committed the two crimes of robbing his employers and then attempting to murder, than over the mere fact of his death. "That he is dead is bad enough," said his mother, "but that he should do such a thing is terrible."

J. D. Edmundson, the president of the bank, was seen and asked for his version of the affair. He said: "Huntington, Cromwell, Hayden and I were I sitting in. the private office. Cromwell was

the northwest corner of the

room, 1 in the northeast, Hayden about the center and Huntington between Hayden and myself. We were seated about a table that stands against SHE north wall. Mr. Hannan, the cashier, HA I been sitting between Havden and Huntington until a few minutos before the shooting took place,

'II he went

out into the front part of the bank. Hayden and Cromwell had been questioning the young man ver}' closely about his mode of living. On one occasion he had deposited $70 in the bank, and Cromwell aslced him where he got it. Huntington said he borrowed it, but when asked of whom he borrowed it he could not remember, and said that it was none of their business, anyway. He was also unable to say of whom he got the money to pay back the loan. Up to that time I had had the most implicit confidence in Huntington's honesty,. but I must confess his evasive answers made me doubtful of it. "I saw that some tiling unpleasant was about to occur and got up to leave the room. Just as I got up Huntington did likewise. He passed behind Hayden, and I supposed he was going to get a drink at the water tank. There was nothing in his actions that indicated nervousness or excitement. I was about half way between my chair and the door when I heard a pistol shot, and looking around I saw Huntington standing between Cromwell and Hayden, and a little behind both, with his revolver pointed at the former. I hurried out of the private office and as I went I hoard several more shots fired. I ran out and gave the alarm, and when several of us went into the private office we found Huntington

lying

011 the floor with

blood streaming from a wound iu

tho

back of his head and the two other men Buffering from the effects of his deadly aim. "We have always considered John an honest voung man, and if there was any weak point in his character it was a little tendency to extravagance. Of course the amount he was in the habit of spending would not have been extravagant to a man of means, but was rather more than a young man ought to spend who draws only $45 a month."

Hayden, one of tho wounded men, in conversation about the affair, said: "We had only been talking a few minute^. AND no A'JCUNALICN LAD US. V_T L^EN

made, .but cue questions we

hatt oeen

asking W9re very pointed and were easily taken by him as leading UD to a direct charge of theft. At times he had talked loudly and in a somewhat excited manner, but just before the shooting he cooled down, and we had not the slightest intimation of what he was about to do. He suddenly got up without any show of anger, and pulling out a revolver commenced firing, first at Cromwell, then at me. We had no weapons and were not prepared to defend ourselves, nor isjit likely we should have thought of doing so even if we had been armed, the shooting was done so rapidly, and it Was all over so soon."

T. N. Hayden resides at 5545 Monroe street with his wife and one son, 20 years of age. The first news Mrs. Hayden received of the shooting was at 5 o'clock in the afternoon when a telegram was received from her husband telling her not to worry if she heard anything about the tragedy as he was all right. Hayden has lived in Chicago for many years. His father is genex*ai traveling auditor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road. Hayden was for some years assistant general traveling auditor of the same line.

PRESIDENTIAL OUTING.

Cleveland Will Spend Few Days Hunting on the Atlantic Coast.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. President Cleveland, accompaueid by Dr. O'Reilv, Captain R. D. Evans and Mr. Charles Jefferson, left Washington yesterdav I evening on an Atlantic coast line train for a hunting trip on the coast of South Carolina.

The town of Georgeto is the destination of the presidential party. It is a small town on the coast north of Charleston and

the head of the bay

into which the Great Pedeo river empties. Fine duck hunting is afforded there and a few deer are occasionally shot. The trip has been iu contemplation since early fall, and is taken at this time in the hope that the outing will benefit the president and eradicate the remnant of his rheumatism, which still lingers with him. The party will return in about a week.

Bit Will Create a Grand Itush.

ARMOUR, S. D., Dec. 17.—Information has been received here from Washington confirming previous reports that the Yankton reservation would not be opened for settlement until next March or April. The reservation contains over *00,000 acres of land, about 125,000 of which will be thrown open to settlement, the rest being allotted to the Indians. It is thought there will be a grand rush for land when it is opened, as the bulk of it will make excellent farming land.

Freight Trains Crash Together.

HOUSTON, Dec. 17.—During a dense fog yesterday morning two heavy freight trains crashed into each other on the long bridge of the Southern Pacific railroad. Fireman Clements and Conductor Heard were badly cut and bruised, the former fatally. Just after the wreck Peter Carroll, foreman of the bridge and building department, fell from the bridge and was fatally wounded.

Attempt to Wreck a Train.

UPPER SANDUSKY, O., Dec. 17.—An attempt was made early yesterday morning to wreck the New York and Chicago limited train on the Pennsylvania railroad by pulling the spikes from the switch and blowing the light out. Other obstructions were also placed in the switch. The discovery was made just five minutes befox-e the train was due, which runs 50 miles an hour.

Colored Coachman Fatally Stabbed.

ROANOKE, W.

Va.,

Dec. 17.—Doc

Hampton, a colored coachman, was fatally stabbed yesterday in the Mechanics' club by an unknown negro. The clubrooms were searched by the police, but nothing definite lias been learned about the crime.

Supremo Court Judge Prostrated.

OSKALOOSA,

la.,

DCC. J7.—Complete

paralysis of the right side prostrated Judge Seevers last night. He was a former member of the Iowa supreme court for 14 years and prominent in Iowa since an early day.

Duel With i'islol,.

BENTON, Ala., Dec. 17.—A duel with pistols' took place on the street here last night between Tom ttt. Clair and Reuben Maul. St. Clair was killed, Maul slightly wounded and a negro woman seriously wounded.

Didn't Know »l. Was Loaded.

OLIVE, Ills., Dec. 17.—Yysterday morning a very distressing accident occurred, by which a child, A years old, was shot and instantly killed and

Nos.

its

playmate severely wounded. Carbonetto Boneaico, living with the family of Frank Vacca, was examining a shotgun preparatory to cleaning it, and not thinking it was loaded, snapped the hammer. A heavy load of shot was discharged with the foregoing results.

Miss Stevenson Rapidly failing.

ASHRVILLE, N. C., Dec. 17.—Vice President Stevenson, who has been here for a week with his sick daughter, Mary Stevenson, returned to Washington last night. Mr. Stevenson is liable to be recalled to Ashevillc any hour, AS Miss Stevenson's condition is extremely critical, in fact, I&S conceded that her recovery is impossible. Her strength is gradually failing, and the end may come any day.

Communication by Bottle.

ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 17.—The United States lighthouse tender Columbia has returned from Tillamook rock, it being her second unsuccessful attempt to land supplies and workmen. The lighthouse tender bottled his report and cast it into the sea, where it was picked up by the steamer. He says the repairs have so far been made on the disabled lamp

tho top of the tower as to admit of lighting it.

Collision of Hose Carts.

ROCHESTER, Deo. 17.—In responding to an alarm of fire yesterday afternoon hose carts

and 9 met in collision

at a street corner. Both carts were going at full speed, and the firemen were thrown in all directions. Louis Rice, the lieutenaut of No. 6, was instantly killed, his skull being crushed, and Captain Frank Grafton of No. 9 was seriously injured and

may

lied

dio.

of Heart Disease. SwtS

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 17.—Joseph L. Shipley, for 20 years editor and part owner of the Springfield Union, died suddenly of heart disease shortly after midnight.

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NOVELIST NO MORE.

Death of Kobert Louis Stevenson at Apia, .' Samoa.

AUCKLAND, N. Z., Dec. 17.—Advices from Apia, Samoa, of date of Dec. 8, are to the elfect that the well known novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson, had died suddenly from apoplexy. His remains were interred on the summit of Pala mountain, 1,800 feet high. At the time of his death Mr. Stevenson had half completed the writing of a new novel.

KOBERT LOUIS STEVENSOW.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson WAS born in Edinburgh Nov. 13, 1850. He was educated at private schools and at tho University of Edinburgh, and was called to the Scottish bar, but traveled and devoted himself to literature. One of his earliest works was an account of his travels in California, but the work which established his reputation as a writer of fiction was "Treasure Island," published in 1883. Among tho most popular of his works is "Dr. .Tekyll and Mr. Hyde." which was dramatized and played at tin Lyceum theater in London in 1888, and consequently in the Unitod States. Among his other works are "Kidnapped," "Tho New Arabian Nights" and "The Black Arrow."

Some time

ago Mr. Stevenson, who

was suffering from lung trouble, wont to the South Pacific for liis health. He became enraptured with tho Samoan islands and decided to take up his residence and spend the rest of his days there. He took an interest in Samoan affairs and has written many letters to the newspapers in favor of the natives as against the treaty powers under whose direction the government of tho islands is conducted.

DEATH OF JAMES GILLFILLAN. He Was Cliicf Justice of the 31iunesota Supreme Court.

ST. PAUL, Dec. 17.—^.ftor an illness of several weeks, Chief Justice James Gillfillan of tho Minnesota supreme bench, died yesterday in his 65TH yoar. He was born in 1829, and

iu childhood

came to this country with his parents, setting in New York. He studied law at Ballston and Buffalo, and was admitted to the bar

1850 at Albany.

In 1857 he began the practice of his

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EVENINGIREI'I'KLICAN

REPUBLICAN OFFICE,

s. 1

he WAS appoiiiieu by Governor M~arshaH to fill the vacancy on the supreme bench caused by the retirement of Justice Thomas Wilson, serving one year, and again in 1875 he filled a term by appointment, but since that time has been regularly re-elected, his last term expiring with the present, year. Chief Justice Grilllillau held high rank among jurists.

The cause of death was kidney trouble^. Mrs. Gillfillan and six children survive him. The funeral will bo held from Christ church (Episcopal) tomorrow under the auspices of the Loyal Legion.

Steamship Disabled.

VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 17.—The steamship Portland, formerly the Haytian Republic, returned here tnis morning leaking badly and with her rudder damaged, the result of two terrible hours off Cape Flattery last night. She was coal-laden and bound from Nanaimo to San Francisco. The sea constantly swept over her, and for a time it was feared would extinguish hor fires. She refused to answer her helm, but was finally brought about and brought inside Tatoosli light. Several large steamers,

arrived.

ported overdue, have

WHOLESALE POISONING.

One Huiidred and Fifty l'ernous Suddenly Stricken.

BERLIN, Dec. 17.—Great excitement has been caused at Freiberg, Saxony, by what appears on its face to be either criminal negligence or a wholesale attempt at poisoning. One hundred and fifty persons were suddenly stricken with all the symptoms attending arsenic poisoning.

An investigation showed that all had partaken of rolls from a certain bakesliop, and an analysis revealed that the rolls contained arsenic. One child has died from the effects of the poison. The family of the baker, who sold the rolls, did not escape, some of the members being quite ill. Inquiry has been opened in the case of the child who died.

liurdcau Laid to Itest.

PARIS, Dec. 17.—President CasimirPerior, the ministers, diplomats, senators and members of the chamber of deputies assembled in the court of honor I of the Palais Bourbon yesterday, to pay the last token of respect to M. Auguste I

Burdeau, president of tho chamber of deputies, who died 011 Wednesday last, There were 110 religious services. All the high oiiicials, with the exception of I President Casimir-Perier, went

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I -J Died of Kxposure.

profession iu this city. Ho served in I home in the town of Waupun last Moutlie Seventh Minnesota regiment through the Indian wars and during the rebellion, being promoted to captain and later was made colonel of the Eleventh Minnesota, but when tho war closed lie was commandij'J. A division. In L^'H)

JffeiOs

bom

the

cemetery. The route was lined with a silent and respectful crowd. At the grave a large body of troops and a squadron of the republican guard 1 marched past. The body was then interred. 1

WAUFUN. Wis., Dec. 17.—The Schultz children, who disappeared from their

day, and for whom hundreds of men have been searching daily, were found dead'yesterday afternoou in the woods two miles from the homestead. They lost their way during last Monday's snowstorm and died from exposure.

A CALLER rOR MR. DE MEDICI.

An American Art Lover Who Proposes to I Sec Him In Person.

There is a lady tuft hunter in an up town boarding house who has the foreign title fever of the most pronounced type. She paralyzes the other roomers by tho easy, matter of fact way in which she tells the names and titles of her distinguished callers. One night it was the Prinro Bombastcs Deadbeati. The night before it was tho "Dook" Indebto, and the next night it will be the Count Freakivitch. She has been across our great salt water privilege several timo and has contracted the broad gaugo stylo of murdering tho English language. There is reason to believo that she bewails her fate at having been

111 plebeian America.

The other evening while her parlor was filled with princes, potentates, "(looks," counts and bald heads in the absence of crowned heads she incidentally remarked that on her next visit to civilization she would get more works of art and among them a work of "Venus

dici." "\ou must bo vareo partioulare and not let the Paris clever venders sell you ze imitashion," said a "dook" by way of precaution. "Oh, I shall guard against that," she replied gayly: "I shall call uponMr. de Medici himself. I can get letters of introduction to tho greatest artists in Europe."

And then there was a silenco like that before a storm, and the titled admirers of the tuft hunter could scarcely conceal their laughter.—New York World.

The Niffht Conductor's Courtship.

The conductors on the night runs are usually more genial than those who look after tho fares in tho daytime. Just why this should

bo so

is not quite

clear, but the fact that most of them conduct

airs of the heart with young*

women who are engaged in domestic service during the daytime may have something to do with it.

In making

signments the aim usually is to put the married men on the day runs and the single men 011 at night. As soon as the evening dishes are out of the way the lady in whom ho is interested boards his car, and between one end of the

line

and tho other they manage to have a lengthy tete-a-tete. TL^I gripman is more fortunately situated than the conductor in this respect, as his little chats are not subject to frequent interruptions, as the conductor's are.—Chicago Tribune.

Steamer Delayed.

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Home anxiety has been caused by the non-arrival of the Mai lory steamer San Marcos. She was expect^ to reach here Saturday

the latest. The steamer has not boeu reported since leaving Galveston.