People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Isaac F. Abbott, cashier of tin |)over. N. 11., National bank, killed Hinself when it was discover-cil thal |e was a defaulted The bank lui> closed its doors. ■ It is now believed the Ilritish losses ibrough .1. F. M. P erce’s bond swinJting operations will aggregate §8,001),>OO. Wade Ilamp'on and John Ilovey negroes, of Cairo. 111., quarreled about a nickel, and the foiinor killed the flatter with a club. Three men were arrested at K; nsas City for defrauding railroads by selling tickets over a bogus line. A man answering the descripti >n of \V. \Vi Taylor, the defaulting treasurer of South Dakota, was arrested at Memphis, but subsequently re eased. 1 Maurice Hoar, a farmer livin' near Ifartlnnd, 111., was tortured by masked hen until he revealed the whereabouts jf his money. . . • James Johnson, a farmer who lived pear Dublin, Ohio, was killed by robbers while complying with their demands for his money. ; An unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up a train at Indianola, Miss. Two passengers were wounded by a fusillade of would-be robbers. ' ihd lis wife fatally wounded by thieves at Belleville, Ind. | Mr. and Mrs. Orson W. Rollings |yere found'dcad at Minneapolis under [suspicious circumstances. ■ 1 ' The Merchants’ National bank of leiiance, Ohio, was robbed of from 15,000 to §50,000 by burglars, who en tyred the vault through the ceiling. William W. Taylor, treasurer of '•Uth 1 akotn. has absconded with ■t.'-O.Oto. The bank at Redfield, of vbich he was president, has closed its ■oors.