People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

At Newkirk, Okla., all the officers of the defunct Newkirk Bank and of Jay county have been indicted. Creditors claim the failure occurred through their connivance. At Rochester, N. Y„ Maj. William Walbridge, 83 years old, took his life. At Tacoma, Wash., it is learned that there is a shortage of $109,000 in the accounts of ex-City Treasurer Boggs. At San Francisco, Cal., George O’Brien, laying claim to being the son of a wealthy Chicagoan, is in jail, charged with forging a $lO check. At Churden, lowa, the safe of the United States Express company was blown open and sl6 stolen. The trial at Washington of Cesar Celso Moreno, charged with criminally libeling Fava, the Italian ambassador, resulted in a verdict of guilty. Notice of appeal was given and pending it Mr. Moreno was released on $3,000 bail. At Aurora, 111., four warrants have been sworn out against the managers of the Aurora cotton mills for violation of the child labor law. Henry Hilliard, a negro, who had assaulted and murdered the young wife of a farmer, was burned to death in the public square at Tyler, Texas, in the presence of a crowd of 7,000 people, including many women and children. Counsel for H. H. Holmes, who had retired from the case, were readmitted at the request of the prisoner, who was unable to stand the severe strain of conducting the case himself. William Thorpe, of Pennsylvania, bought 1,400 acres of land in Luzerne County and improved it with buildings. The people in the vicinity have burned the buildings and fences, claiming that 1,400 acres is too much for one man to own. Closing arguments in the Durrant murder trial at San Francisco drew out such a crowd that judge, jurors and attorneys had to fight their way into the courtroom. At Waterloo, Ind., Frank Perrett was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years for killing his father-in-law, John Foetz. At Vanlue, 0., burglars blew open the safe in Uriag Sillika’s general store and took SI,OOO, half of it in gold. They escaped In a hand car. At a negro riot near Shreveport, La., two were killed and several injured. C. B. Mangum wanted $317,000,000 from the United States treasury at Washington, D. C., and got in jail. Convicts in camp on the Fort Worth road made a break for liberty. The guards killed one and wounded two. Several escaped.