People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

J. L. Leonard, a young attorney, hanged himself in his barn at Bucyrus, Ohio. The only cause assigned is poor health, which caused temporary insanity. Supervisors of Fulton county, Illinois, have offered a reward for the apprehension of persons supposed to have burned the court house in December, 1894. In a battle with tramps, who had murdered a companion, at Ashlpnd, 0., the engineer and fireman of an Erie train were wounded. Five of the vagrants; having many gold watches, were captured and locked up. O. R. and N. company’s passenger train two miles out from Teoa, Wash. The intention of the wreckers was to hurl the train into the creek, twenty-five feet below. Over 200 delegates to the Ep worth League convention were aboard the train. Frederich F. Rech, of Detroit, Mich., aged 73 years, and afflicted with an incurable malady, cut his throat. The bones of 9-year-old Howard Pitzel, supposed to have been murdered by H. H. Holmes, have been found in a house at Irvington, Ind., which had been rented by Holmes. Identification is complete. A. W. Ralston, once of Chicago, was held to the grand jury at Omaha, Neb., on a charge of swindling. J. C. Prevost, Registrar of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, has disappeared, and is alleged to have en;oezzled trust funds. George Heckathorne, 20 years old. attempted to shoot a number of the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio. ir. a spirit of mere wantonness. J. B. Hobbs, lately treasurer of Worth county, Mo., killed himself with a revolver at his home in Grant City. There was a shortage in his accounts. The warrant in the case of Percy Brooks charged, at Memphis, with the murder of Cornelia Brayor, has been withdrawn and all proceedings against him dropped. It appears that Brooks’ connection with the case was purely accidental.

W. W. Kittell, a pension office clerk, shot and killed himself in Pittsburg, Pa., while on leave of absence. Unrequitted love Is alleged to be the cause. Near Independence, Ore., the wife of James Tettherow drowned her G-jcav-old boy, and then threw herself into the river, but was rescued. She is thought to be insane.

John Dane, the notorious forger, was sentenced to live years in the penitentiary in West Virginia. D. J. McLeod, a carpenter, shot his divorced at Malden, Mass., and killed himself. She will recover. Burglars entered the nouse of A. G. Tyng, Jr., at Peoria and stole two watches, four diamond rings and SIOO cash. A bloody batle took place at the Middlesboro paper works at Lexington, Ky., in which James Lyle cut Peter Sullivan to death. Lyle took to the mountains. Sullivan’s friends vow they will hang Lyle to the first tree if caught.