People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

C RIME.

Post master Hnrnisloii at Vernal, Utah, lias been arrested, liis accounts j showing a shortage of $2,800. A blood-besmeared knife, supposed to have been carried by Durrani, the I alleged murderer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams, has been found at Mount Diablo, Cal., at which place I Durrant was arrested. A. J. Lusk, cashier of the First National Bank of Wichita, Kan., was arrested at Long Beach, an ocean resort near Portland, Ore. He is charged with ■ embezzling SBO,OOO two years ago, for which he escaped on a technicality once and then fled. It is now said the shortage of Ainsworth U. Spofford, librarian of Congress. will be at least $35,000. The detailed report of Treasury Expert Myers has shown so serious a condition of affairs that Secretary Carlisle has laid it before tlic President for action. It is charged at Santa Fe, N. M.. that Congressional Delegate Thomas R. 1 Catron at»d his law partner. Charles' R. Spear have attempted hy bribery ! and intimidation to prevent certain ; persons from appearing as witnesses in the case of the murder of ex-Sheriff Chavez. A gang of robbers held up a passenger train on the Chicago & West Michigan railroad Tuesday night. They blew open the express car and saTe with dynamite, hut secured no booty. The passengers were not molested. The investigation into alleged abuses j committed at the Dunning insane asy- i lum commenced at Chicago Tuesday. ! Gross cruelty was proved against many I of the attendants. A gang of bandits took possession of the Union Pacific east hound overland flyer Tuesday night. The amount of money they secured Is not known. Samuel Lewis was lynched at West Palm Be.ach, Fla., the mob also killing Jailer Gustave Kaiser. A boy named Montz, of Mexico. 0., was crushed to death under the wheels of a farjn wagon. Jacob Ross, a wealthy farmer of Racine Bounty;, Wisconsin, was fatally kicked by a horse. Con Sullivan slabbed to death Patrick Sullivan, a lad 24 years old, at Houghton, Mich. The Rev. O. D. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist Church at The Dalles, Ore., has been arrested for obtaining money by false pretenses by tbe sale bt

Experts have reported that the accounts of ex-County Treasurer M. W. Stewart of Wyandotte County, Has., are short $33,885. Foster Holbrook, one of the most desperate of the Christian gang of robbers, has been captured and is in jail at South McAlester, I. T. Deputy Marshal Charles Baird, of South McAlester, I. T., captured Foster Holbrook, one of the Christian gang's trusted lieutenants, and lodged him in jail. Holbrook is a desperate man and has half a dozen charges of murder hanging over his head.