People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

A Freeport, 111., jury found Thomas Beverly guilty of killing August Altemeyer, and fixed the penalty at death. Otto Ilerbig was convicted as an accessory. On the pretense of examiningthe gas meter a thief secured access to St. Joseph's hospital at Omaha and robbed Father Baxaclier of $0,250 in notes and money. Burglars carried off $1,500 worth of merchandise from the stores of F. A. Barr and A. J. Atliay at Sparland, 111. Louis Galloway and wife, who lived near Edwards, Miss., were murdered by unknown thieves. Kidnapers of little Ray Wickham of Thorntown, Ind., who were surrounded in the woods, eluded their pursuers. An agent of a gang of New York counterfeiters was captured by a deputy United States marshal at Torrent, Term. Omaha police have arrested three men who : re alleged to have robbed Sandow and other hotel guests of several thousand dollars in money and jewelry. Mrs. William Flint of Utica, N. Y., shot her husband and his mother because of the latter’s interference in her aft'a irs. Dr. F. L. Ilarrod of Ilarrodsburg Kv., was killed by Sheriff Van Arsdall, whom he is alleged to have maligned during the campaign. Vigilantes came up with a band of horse thieves near Cantonment, 1. T., and capturing three of their number hanged them to a tree. Four of the alleged lynchers of exCounty Treasurer Barrett Scott are under arrest at O'Neill, Neb. Murderer Lambert, who was to have been hanged at Camden, N. J., has been granted a respite by Judge Shiras until March 4. George Lampkin, a meat seller, was killed on a street in St. Louis by J. S. Reap, whose daughter I ampkin had wronged