People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

.¶ A. Moses of Chippewa Falls, Wis.,was shot by two would-be robbers, to whom he had just sold a revolver, .¶ Mary Wagner, a school teacher of Rockport, Ind., is in jail, charged with forgery and securing money by false pretenses. .¶ John Schronbrick and wife of Ai, Ohio, were tortured by masked robbers until they revealed the whereabouts of $6,200. .¶ Tom Graves, a mountain desperado, was fatally shot by officers in a running fight in the streets of Richmond, Ky. .¶ Levi Bruster and Abraham Turpin, colored waiters in a Terre Haute, Inch, hotel, exchanged shots and the latter was fatally wounded. .¶ At Becker, Ind., the home of C. A. Bennett, a constable, was wrecked by dynamite. The occupants escaped unhurt. .¶ Omaha’s police board has suspended the chief, and will investigate charges of corruption against the force, .¶ Two masked men held up a train near Antelope, Cal., but were beaten off by the engineer and fireman, .¶ Daniel Hairston and wife, of Alton, I. T., were fatally injured by white robbers disguised as negroes, .¶ The wife of Rev. Isaac Aldrich, pastor of the Congregational Church of Wayne, Mich., has been arrested, charged with immorality. .¶ At Franklin, Ind., James Truelock, Thomas Kirk and Lee Martin were sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for grave robbery. .¶ "Bill" Dolan and his band are surrounded by a posse of marshals in a cave in the flatiron country, Oklahoma. .¶ A 13-year-old girl is under arrest at Terre Haute, Ind., for setting fire to her adopted mother’s barn. .¶ David Miller, of Osnaburg, Ohio., was fatally shot by two negro highwaymen, whom the villagers threaten to lynch when caught. .¶ It has been discovered that hundreds of forged naturalization papers were used at the election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. .¶ Joe Dean was hanged at Fairburn, Ky., for murder. George Magee was executcd at Frankfort for a similar crime.