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

CRIME.

I Thomas Hayes of Brtghtwood, Ind., j was found dead in a barn, apparently murdered. Henry Long, who lived near Purvis, Miss., shot his wife and his brother-in-law and blew out his own brains. In a drunken brawl among Hungarians at Maltby, Pa., Mrs. Anna TonIsh was fatally stabbed by George line. ; Her husband, Alexander Tonish, received nine knife wounds. ! At New York Charles Janda, 20 years old. a Bohemian tailor, shot and instantly killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Camilla Janda, and then committed • suicide. The postoffice at Montpelier, Ind., j was robbed of S2OO in cash. The explo- ! sion aroused the police, who wounded ■ one of the robbers, but all escaped. J. F. Maranda, city treasurer of Spring Valley, 111., pleaded guilty at Princeton tcf embezzling $3,000. He had ; unsuccessfully tried to fix the blame on i ex-Mayor Jack. ! The parsonage of the German church at La Porte, Ind., was robbed, and the Rev. C. A. Loeber of Chicago, who was a guest, lost SIOO. Banker M. A. Thayer was placed i under bonds for $12,000 at Sparta, Wis., charged with obtaining deposit money ! unlawfully! j A new trial was denied Julius Schwa- ! backer, son of the millionaire distiller, and convicted of burglary at Peoria, 111. James Miller, superintendent of police at Muncie, Ind., is charged by ten of his patrolmen with accepting bribes from criminals. John Kelvee, leader of the mob of strikers that attacked the Pratt mines in Alabama last July, precipitating a fight In which a deputy sheriff and four negro miners were killed, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to one year’s Imprisonment. Edward Fady, John James Fady, Stephen Fady and John White were drowned while shooting at Catalena, Trinity Bay, N. F. John Brown, colored, was sentenced to twe years In prison at Waukegan, 111., for stealing an overcoat. . Carl Shaw, treasurer of Blaine county, Ok., has been impHsoned for embezzling $7,000. . G. W. Moffatt, of Bradford, 111., shot and killed himself because of despondency.