People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Edward Andres, the St. Louis engineer who attempted to commit suicide by jumping from a ferryboat into the river at Camden, N. J., hanged .himself in jail. Edwards’ son arrived from St. Louis a few minutes after his father’s death. Two men, one a negro, were arrested at Assumption, 111., on suspicion of having stolen a large quantity of cutlery which they were trying to dispose of. An unknown boy, shot and killed at Washington, Ind., by Joseph L. Carr for stealing watermelons, has been identified by his father, Elias C. Dagley, who lives in Knox county. A man whose name is not given, but who was first reported to be Luke Hawley, a Detroit stevedore, was shot and probably fatally wounded in a saloon row at Springwells, near Detroit. At Akron, 0., a large number of burglaries during the past few months were explained when the police discovered a regular robber’s den in a little hut constructed under an abandoned mill. It was filled with merchandise of all kinds. Will llockqday, a drummer, representing a St. Louis dry goods house, was arrested at Mammoth Springs, Ark., upon an indictment charging him with criminal intimacy with a young girl under the age of consent, a'penitentiary offense. Experts are at work on the books of Alfred W. Fitz, the missing treasurer of the Chelsea (Mass.) Wire Fabric company, who disappeared Aug. 12. W. J. Whitney, who claims to be a traveling detective, is held at Washington, Ind., on the charge of bigamy. Two months ago he married a Miss Fretz of Odon, and it s how alleged that he has a wife at Toledo, 0., and another at Hicksville. O. Tom Berry, a noted horse thief from Nebraska, was arrested at Newton, Ks„ by Sheriff Judkins, and is being held awaiting orders from the Nebraska authorities. Berry is said to have carried on his horse-stealing oerations in that state on a large scale. Hill Carter, a colored ex-convict, shot and fatally wounded his divorced wife at Vincennes, Ind. He was pursued by a posse and shot several time before being captured. He cannot recover. Henry Fulton, aged 40 years, shot himself at Manitowoc, Wis., with a shotgun, nearly blowing his head off. Despondency caused by ill-health was the cause. His wife when notified of his death beeame insane. John Preale, an expressman of Philadelphia. tried to drive through a parade of the Coat Pressers’ union' and a riot ensued. Max Fox, one of the crowd, had his skull fractured