People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Perry Jones, a farmer living near Stillman Valley, 111., committed suicide by taking poison. Despondency was the cause. Noah Strevel’s mother was on the stand at Fort Scott, Kas., to testify in defense of her son, charged with murdering his father. W. R. Smith, in a fit of jealousy, attempted to kill his wife at Allendale, 111. He stabbed her, but help arrived before she was seriously injured. Andrew Roney, who killed George Smith, at Whiting, Ind., March 19, by hitting him over the head with a beer bottle, was acquitted by a jury at Crown Point. Ind. Corporal Henry, stationed at Fort Russell, Wyo., shot and killed himself. James Dupont was arrested near Perry, O. T., charged with a murder near Lexington, Ky., in 1893. William Abbey shot himself at Peoria, 111., and will die. Jacob Graham, 16, committed suicide In his father’s barn near Wabash, Ind., by hanging himself. James Quint, a farm hand living near Chatham, 111., shot and killed himself. No cause is known. Emil Sanger, brother of Walter Sanger, the famous bicyclist, was shot and killed by Robert Luscombe, his brother-in-law, at Milwaukee Saturday. William Neumann, a railroad brakeman, was arrested in a Fort Wayne church while attending the funeral of Mrs. Dugan, whom he is charged with murdering. ( Mme Vermilyea was arrested at Toledo, Ohio, charged with smuggling 3,000 corsets into the country. An unknown man was found hanging from a tree at Farmersburg, Ind. He had evidently committed suicide. Thomas Noonan and Charles Meyers were sentenced at Peoria, 111., to five years each in prison for robbing the postoffice at Forest. 111. Sloan Hurst, colored, who killed Lemly Rapley, was hanged at Abbeville, S. C. George Ray, a disreputable negro, was hanged near Jensonton, Ky., by white caps. It now appears that T. Carlin, agent for the Denver & Rio Grande express at Victor, Col., gave out the story of being robbed of $1,200 in order to conceal a misappropriation of that amount. J. I. Hughes, of Palouse City, Wash., was shot fatally by Raymond Pieffer as the result of a family quarrel. Thomas King, of Chicago, was kicked off a Northern Pacific train near Spokane, Wash., and both legs were cut off. His injuries are fatal. A negro brute was hunted down by a posse near Pareons, Tenn., and riddled with bullets.