People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

The jury in the Davis train wrecking case at Lincoln, Neb., was unable to agree, and was discharged by Judge Holmes. Postmaster Mcßain of Owosso, Mich., was assaulted and almost murdered by an unknown thief. William Loeber has confessed that he murdered the Milwaukee cattleman. Ferdinand Moritz, but claims that the shooting was accidental. James Cooley of Spartansburg county, South Carolina, was whipped by wnue caps for teasing his mother. Nath Reed, alias Texas Jack, who participated in the Blackstone, I. T„ train robbery, is under arrest at Fort Smith. Two tramps who offered stolen goods for sale were captured at Battle Creek, Mich., after an exciting chase, darii g which many shots were fired. Cornelius Stagg, proprietor of the Wayside resort of San Francisco, was murdered and robbed by unknown thieves.