People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Bridgeport, Conn., banks have recently received a number of counterfeit certified checks. All were signed E. S. Morris. At Kansas City Thomas Nolan, foreman of the Railroad Transfer company, and two teamsters were arrested charged with robbing railroad companies of $20,000 worth of goods during the last two years. Robert Poole, colored, was hanged at Spartansburg, S. C., for the murder of Will Long, colored, in 1889. A prisoner in the San Francisco jail is said to be awaiting an opportunity to kill Theodore Durrant, the alleged murderer of Blanche Lamont. A Nashville, dispatch says: Alex Harris, a white convict escaped from the Sewanee mines eighteen years ago, when he only had two months of time to serve. Yesterday he was recaptured in Dekalb county and returned to the penitentiary. He had spent most of his years of liberty in North Carolina, and had only recently returned to his old home, where he was recognized and arrested. At Winchester, Ky., B. Fulton French has been indicted for the murder of Judge Combs. A Wisconsin Central through passenger train was held up at Waupaca, Wis., Thursday night. The safe in the express car was attacked with dynamite but the robbers were unable to open it. John I. Moore, a farmer living near Paris, Ky., has disappeared. He mortgaged his property for $33,000 and sold cattle valued at SIO,OOO before leaving. At Trinidad, Colo., three men and a woman, charged with the robbery of the postoffice at Blossburg, N. M., September 11, were arrested. They gave their names as Charles Black, Thomas Rivers, John Edwards and Louisa Vans. Robert Moody, who chopped his way Into a friend’s house at Duluth, Mino., in search of his wife, who, he said, had been enticed away, was fined S6O in the police court, and put under heavy bonds to keep the peace.