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

CRIME.

A mob at Tiffin, Ohio, made an attack on the jail in which Lee Martin, the murderer of Marshal Shultz was confined. The sheriff fired on the crowd, and two men were shot dead. Gov. McKinley ordered out the militia, and the riot was quelled. At Omaha Robert and James Broughton and Stephen Hall confessed to about twenty robberies and an attempt to kill a grocer whose store they had entered. At Cripple Creek, Col., John Adams, colored, was arrested charged with a murder committed in Louisville, Ky., in May, 1892. A' Uniontown, Ala., Frank Metzger committed suicide because he was not allowed to take the place of a brother in jail accused of murder. , At Mesa, Ariz., Dr. Rose was shot and killed by Sheriff L. H. Orme. Rose was caught in the act of attempted murder and refused to throw up his hands. At Quincy, Mich., Mrs. Will Ward, wife of the local ticket agent, threw herself in front of a train and was instantly killed. At Oaktown, Ind., an Incendiary burned the new public school building. Loss, $9,000; insurance, $4,000. At Findlay, 0., Charles Yocum was arrested, charged with forgery, by which he secured SI,OOO from a widow he had promised to marry. Specific charges of immorality have been preferred against the Rev. Albritton, presiding elder of the Toledo, 0., district, by seven members of his church. At Manistee, Mich., W. C. Denny, formerly cashier of the First National Bank at Little Rock, Ark., was held in $2,500 bond on the charge of embezzlement.