People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Louis Pischitt was sentenced at Menominee, Mich., to five years in prison for arson. W. G. Sherman, recently elected assessor, committed suicide by hanging at Oshkosh, Wis. William Anderson stabbed John Lorton in a fight at Ramsey, 111., and Lorton is not expected to live. Julius Lichtenberg, ex-school inspector, was convicted at Detroit, Mich., of accepting a bribe of slooin awarding a contract for school fiifVtiture. H. J. Lephardt was convicted on a similar charge, James Walsh acquitted, and M. H. Davis fled the country. A steerage passenger r ir-f Stapel on the Adript'o, from New York to Liverpool, committed suicide May 3 by jumping overboard. Joseph Bruyere, 67 years of age, a merchant of Green Bay, Wis., committed suicide by hanging in his barn. Volney Beard was shot and killed in Lexington, Ky., by Albert C. Hail. The latter had discovered illicit relations between his wife and Beard. August Teffer, married, shot and killed Clara Herbold, aged 26, and then killed himself at Philadelphia, Pa. She would not elope with him. John Flood, ex-cashler of the defunct Kelly Bank at San Francisco, accused of embezzling $167,600, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. It Is claimed that regularities amounting to over $1,000,000 have been discovered In Chicago’s pay rolls. A big sensation is promised in the Investigation. Thomas Barnes, a tourist from Jacksonville, 111., was found dead in a chair In his lodging house at Los Angeles, Cal The coroner is investigating. At Wampoo, Ark., an attempt was made by Constable John Green to serve a warrant on Milt Harper. Green received ten buckshot and Harper twen-ty-three. Both men died, i Benjamin. Radcliffe, who shot and killed the entire school board of Park county, Colo., was removed from Buena Vlstajall to escape an attempt at lynching by vtgll&nUs.