People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

In the Hayward trial at Minneapolis Adry told of his brother's attempts to secure his aid in murdering Miss Ging. Notes and mortgages to the value of $125,000 were stolen from the safe of the Long-Bell lumber company in Pittsburg, Kan. An unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up a Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe passenger train near Overbrook, I. T. James Graybeal was convicted at Laporte, Ind., of killing William Jon s and his punishment fixed at thirteen years’ imprisonment. Oliver Kehley, a boarding-house keeper of Princeton, N. J., has absconded with $40,000 belonging to students. At Richburg, Ky., Henry Denson was murdered by his stepson, Jean Burke, as the result of a family row. Jabez Wiggins, who murdered three persons while resisting arrest, was hanged at Augusta. J. K. Cumberland, who killed two men in lowa and one in Kansas, was hanged for the former crimes at Fort Madison, la. United States officers have discovered that Italians have flooded the coke regions of Pennsylvania with bogus money. In cross-examining Blixt the attorneys for the defense in the Hayward ease outlined the theory that Miss Ging was murdered by a gang of green goods men. Herman Thiele was convicted at Hockford. 111., of killing John Van Valkenberg and sentenced to four years' imprisonment Jim French and Slaughter Kid, the lost of the Cook gang, were killed while trying to rob a store at Catoosa, I. T. Joseph Grant, an aged resident of Richland, Mich., wounded his wife With a revolver and killed himaetf.