People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

John Swan, alias John Mitchell, of Columbus, Wis., aged 60 years, was arrested in Worcester, Mass., for Polygamy. Sheriff Schlukbier, of Beaver Dam, Wis., has gone after the prisoner. The deceived woman is Miss Sarah Alice Wilman, formerly of Beaver Dam. George A. Cushing committed suicide near the home of his faithless wife in Townshead, Vt. The woman refused to allow the body to be brought into the house. Mrs. Cushing became infatuated with A. A. Ross while living in Montague, Mass., four years ago. Her husband left her on this account. Fred J. Pickard, member of a good family at Alexandria, Ind., and a candidate for appointment to West Point, committed suicide by shooting. White railroad tie cutters at Moss Bluff, Fla., who resented the introduction of negro laborers, raided their cabins at night, killing three and wounding many more. Gov. Altgeld has issued his warrant on the requisition of the governor of New York for the surrender of Bert G. Hawley, wanted at New York city for the larceny of S3OO worth of property from Benjamin L. M. Bates. Hawley is under arrest at Chicago. David Wyatt, a farmer of Brazil, Ind., was held up on a lonely road by two masked men and robbed of his money and a new overcoat. Kirk Franks, of Decatur, Ind., quarreled with his father about some work, and inflicted fatal wounds upon his parent. He has been arrested. Daniel Courtney, aged 60, who shot his son-in-law, Frank Swaney, after the latter had threatened to kill him, was tried at Youngstown, Ohio, and acquitted. T. B. Roberts, of Allegheny, Pa., committed suicide at his room in the Tremont house, in Buffalo, N. Y., by shoot- • ing. He received a letter from his firm discharging him. Tom Martin, an aristocratic young planter, entered a restaurant at Montgomery, Ala., where his wife, her brother and two other women were dining and shot himself. The wound is fatal. Walter Brobt, general timekeeper for the Clover Leaf railway, was arrested at Frankfort, Ind., on a charge of forgery. In a dispute over money matters at Burlington, lowa, Henry Martin killed W. I. Schuch, a fellow workman, and escaped. Attorneys for the defense in the Keller murder case will ask for a change of venue from Parke county to Vermillion. Ind. Joseph Risco and Andrew Bocoskl, Mich., arrested and tried for attempting to burn their store on October 29, have been acquitted. Burglars made an unsuccessful attempt to rob a safe in the office of Carney Brothers, wholesale lumber dealers at Grinnell, lowa.