People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

The body of Barrett Scott, the defaulting treasurer of Holt county, Nebraska, was found in the Niobrara river, a rope around the neck and the hands tied. “Parson” Shaw and five other moonshiners were captured in a raid by federal officers in Pike county, Arkansas. J. P. Campbell was fatally shot near Danville by Frank Richardson, for whom he had been lying in wait. W. M. Scharf, one of the captured Momence bank robbers, has made a detailed confession to the officers Samuel Hotelling, a young farmer of Rolling Green. Minn., killed his wife and her parents and was slain by pursuers. Mrs. Coates, a widow of Mifflin, Ind., confessed just before death to the murder of Jacob Wintermyer twelve years ago. Mrs. Ferdinand Wiegand, wife of a butcher at Jacksonville, 111., tiring of his abuse, fatally shot him in self defense. Dominic Paflinsk, who wrecked a train near Heafford J unciion, Wis., killing the engineer, was sentenced to twenty five years. G. W. Wallace, charged with alienating the affections of Mrs. W. H. Classen, was fatally shot by her husband on a train at Edmond. O. T. During a family quarrel at Cowden, 111., Jesse Severe shot and killed his father-in-law, Joseph Nantz. Wejeech Waleczewski was arrested at Green Bay, Wis., charged with having murdered his wife and burned the body at Eaton. M. Morrison, city marshal of Crawford, Neb., killed three men and is being pursued by a mob which may lynch him. One man was killed and three others injured, two fatally, in a saloon row at Mitchell, 111. Charles Beckwith of Elkhart, Ind., tried to persuade his wife not to go to church, and, failing, fatally shot her and killed himself.