People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Lewis H. Brown, who claims that if he had his rights he would be the occupant of a baronial hall in England, is under arrest in New York, charged with defrauding a hotel of $125 worth of board. Garcia, the Mexican who was hanged at San Quinton, Cal., for murder, left a confession that he had slain eleven men. In a dispute about land near Lexington, Ky., Daniel Warner shot and killed Patrick Higgins, and then committed suicide. Joseph Fassatl and his wife, who was a colored woman, were tarred and feathered at Walla Walla, Wash., by fifty masked men. A jury In Perry (Ok.) found the presiding judge guilty of drunkenness, instead of the defendant, and assessed costs on the court. W. B. Brown, alias Charles Wilson,, is under arrest at Denver charged with raising money on forged telegrams from Marshall Field & Co. Andrew Yeoman, who was shot by P. M. W. Baldwin at Jacksonville, Fla., cannot llve., v He denies Baldwin’s charges, as does Mrs. Baldwin. United States deputies have cornered the Llp-Wyatt gang In a cave, arrested Belle Black and Jennie Freeman, and are preparing to blow up the cave with dynamite. Dick Johnson, a colored prize-fighter of local renown, was shot and killed at Helena, Mont., by William Bigerstaff, another colored man. Miss Mary Taylor, driven Insane by the death of a sister, committed suicide by poison at Le Roy, 111. The jury was unable to agree In the case of L. M. Vanauken, charged at Mason City, la., with forgery while county treasurer. H. M. Benedict of Chicago, held at Pierre, S. D., In the Taylor case, will be given a hearing on habeas corpus at Sioux Falls. James Maloney, a workman on the Hennepin Canal, was convicted at Princeton, 111., of illegal voting. It was a test case. There are twelve others to be tried. At Omaha. Neb., Mrs. Ish killed a sewing machine agent named Chappell who she claimed had insulted her. The town of Cameron, W. Va., was almost destroyed by fire Sunday. Two students at Princeton university were shot by a colored waiter named Collins. They are both In a precarious condition. Joseph Sampson was expelled from membership In the city council at Sioux Falls, S. D„ for converting $716 from the city to his own use. J. A. Jones and Thomas Barnes, brothers-in-law, engaged in a pistol duel on horseback near Crawford. Neb. Jones’ horse was shot from under him. He continued the battle afoot and was killed. George Green, colored, of Lexington, Ky., killed his wife and her stepfather and fatally shot himself. He was angry because his wife had left him. W. F. Kronkl, a wealthy contractor of San Antonio, Tex., and his wife were found drowned in a creek near that city. It is thought they were murdered.