People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Deputy County Assessor L. D. Bailey of Julien, Cal., and F. B. Brackett of San Diego are missing aad it is feared they have been murdered for their mony. Andrew J. Martin, a wealthy farmer of Cowan, Ind., was arrested charged with forging the name of John Richmond to a note for SI,OOO. He gave bail for trial. New York police discovered the body of a colored woman terribly mutilated, evidently the work of voodoos. Samuel Frasier, who figured in the attempted hold-up of the Cincinnati Southern train, has been imprisoned at Somerset, Ky., on a charge of stealAndrew J. Campbell, prominent in business and social circles at Lexington, Ky., was killed by a burglar. James Mcßride murdered Mrs. David Rockford at Springfield. Mass. Seymour Jackson, cashier of Godbes’ bank at St. Ensenada, Cal., has been arrested on suspicion of having robbed the bank of $12,500 March 20. The Kansas legislative committee to Investigate the charges against Warden Chase of the state penitentiary has decided to begin the hearing next Wednesday. Hawley E. Webster, late postmaster at Brockport. N. Y„ pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of $1,372. He was sentenced to pay the amount and to spend eighteen months in jail. Extradition proceedings have been instituted to get J. C. Coleman, the diamond robber recently arrested in Canada, from the authorities there and take him tq Waynesboro, Ga.. for trial. William Buster, an aged German farmer of Garrison, lowa, tried to poison a family and is in danger of being lynched. Mrs. Scoville-Lederer and Miss Cora Smith were errested at Des Moines charged with the murder of Michael Smith.