People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

White screwmen attacked negroes *ho had taken their places at New Orleans. Many shots were fired and two of the negroes were wounded. Mattie Meadows of Lewiston, W. Va„ used a razor on her aged father and a woman of whom he was enamored. Harry Hayward, the convicted murderer of Miss Ging, was sentenced to death at Minneapolis, an unruly mob cheering the while. Albert E. Keith, a letter carrier of Ann Arbor, Mich., who had been discarded by his swetheart, killed himself. Incendiaries are again at work near Anderson, Ind., and blodhounds have been employed by the farmers to run them down. Unknown miscreant attempted to wreck a fast express train on the Nickel Plate road near Valparlso, Ind. Mrs. Mary Caruthers, living near Paris, Texas, poisoned her two children that she might elope with a hired man. Harry Hayward was tound guilty of the murder of Catharine Gtng at Minneapolis. Two of the witnesses for the defense have been arrested for perjury. Henry A. Wing, for thirty-eight years cashier of the Grafton, Mass., National bank, killed himself by shooting. Scatterfleld white cap gang of Anderson, Ind., burned the barn and stock of Isaac Goodman, against whom they had a spite. Six masked robbers visited the home of George Wagner of Exeter Borough. Pa., and burned him in an effort to extort money.