People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

At Baltimore the police claim to have convincing evidence that Jerome Conceil, a 19-year-old boy, is the mur-

derer of his aaoptea parents, uapi. Frederick Lang and his wife. The postofflce department has Issued a fraud order against the Heliograph company, Mrs. Lieura Porter, manager, of St. Louis, Mo., charged with running a concern to obtain money under false pretenses. Detective Dubois, the Peoria, 111., officer who went to Hamilton, Ont., to take Sidney Slocum back, was attacked by thieves'and robbed of his gold watch, several valuable diamonds and money, the total loss being about S3OO. Friends of Dr. Fraker, in jail at Excelsior Springs, Mo., charged with an attempt to defraud insurance companies of $28,000, have abandoned hope of securing bail. At Baltimore John H. Messner was arrested, charged with the murder of Ezekiel Jolly. The Rev. William Hinshaw was taken to the penitentiary at Jeffersonville Thursday. He will be put at work in the shoe shop and will be made principal of the prison school. J. C. Davis of Rochester, N. Y., arrested at San Francisco and charged with fraud, has disappeared and forfeited his $4,000 ball. At Des Arc, Ark., Lon Ballow, a young business man, was shot and killed by his wife. At Muncie, Ind., Mrs. George Anderson died mysteriously and the coroner and police are investigating the theory of murder. The $25,000 damage suit of Mrs. Helen M. Gougar against Elijah Morse, M. C., for alleged libel, was reopened for a second trial in the United States circuit court at Boston.