People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

At Janesville, Wls., the wife of George Van Etta, one of the wealthiest men in the city, eloped ‘with a horse jockey named Goldie. At Jamestown, N. Y., Charles Douglass is under arrest charged with the murder of Mrs. Winslow Shearman and daughter in December, 1894. At Washington, Attorney-General Harmon argued the cases of W. H. Clune, Isaac Ross and Philip Stanwood on appeal from a sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment from California for interfering with the mails during the strike of 1894. George Kalllkey, of Bottineau, N. D., killed his wife, who had refused to live with him. He was arrested while in a barber shop preparing a disguise to aid in escape. The court of appeals heard arguments at Albany, N. Y., in the case of Erastus Wlman, charged by his late partners in the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co. with forgery. '’Fred Johanssen, who killed a companion at Bryant, lowa, while returning from a dance, was sentenced to sixty days in the penitentiary and fined S2OO. He appealed the case. William Thompson, released from Joliet penitentiary at the expiration of a term for robbery at Sycamore, 111., was rearrested and taken to Rockford for trial on a similar charge. Charles Douglass, of Jamestown, N. Y., has been arrested on a charge of murdering Mrs. Winslow Shearman and her daughter, Mrs. Cynthia Davis, last December. They were his neighbors. Ex-Banker Burr, of Stevens Point, Wls., has exhausted three days in an effort to secure bondsmen, but is still in charge of the sheriff. United States Judge Newman, at Atlanta, decided that "Crazy Bull,” the Indian of Buffalo Bill’s company, must go back to Baltimore to stand trial for manslaughter. He is charged with having caused the death of a small boy. At Rockford, 111., Dr. E. E. Gould, a dentist, who is under indictment for arson, has disappeared. He was under bonds of SI,OOO. At Lebanon, Pa., Major B. Frank Hean Is said to be missing, with SIO,OOO. At Los Angeles, Cal., Ferdinand B. Kennett, once chief of Police of St. Louis, was found guilty of manslaughter for killing Detective A. B. Lawson last June. Mrs. Pltzel gave her testimony against Holmes at Philadelphia Wednesday. The detells have been often published.