People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Hazelrigg Nickell was killed and Henry Collins fatally wounded in a fight near Moorhead, Ky. Investigation of City Clerk Abner Grier’s books at Delaware, Ohio, shows a shortage of $926. Mrs. Jacob Schwartz, aged 24, committed suicide by poison in Louisville, Ky. Sam Nolan, aged 9, of Fort Worth, Tex., committed suicide because his mother teased him. The Ellwanger murder mystery at Crown Point, Ind., has not yet been cleared up. At Chicago a woman with a 3-year-* old child in her arms, deliberately waded into Lake Michigan and both were drowned. It is thought poverty was the cause. Edward Cutsinger’s house near Amity, Ind., was robbed during the absence of the fahiily of jewelry and other valuables worth $1,500. Willis Schmitz, 25, has left Clinton, la., leaving a note saying he was short in his account with Company E, lowa National Guards, of which he was an officer. Jerry S. Friel shot and killed Michael J. Shotts near Sioux City, la., and surrendered to the police, claiming selfdefense.