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

CRIME.

At Cincinnati J. F. Woodward, forger; B. F. Ford, Stewart Pacoy, John Foster and James Clark, burglars; and Albert Gerkens, pickpockets, escaped from the county Jail. At Mexico, Mo., G. S. Elliott and Rolla McNama, the absconding cattle dealers, have been captured. They went away with $40,000 of other people’s money. After eight attempts in the past week, Incendiaries succeeded in destroying the Speed home for friendless children at Cleveland, Ohio. At Washington aboard the steamer Norfolk, just before it left the wharf, W. H. Collier shot and killed himself. He is thought to come from California. Dr. E. A. Cary aged 38, of Chesterton, Ind., committed suicide by taking morphine. 11l health caused the deed. Joseph R. Campbell, a machinist in the employ of the Moline Plow company at Moline, 111., committed suicide at the Cottage hotel in Moline. At Decatur, 111., Elisha P. Allen pleaded guilty to two indictments, each charging him with an attempt at murder last September at Warrensburg. He shot his step-daughter and attempted to shoot his wife. He was sentenced to the penitentiary. Sentence in the case of Theodore

Durrant, convicted or murdering Blanche Lamont, has been deferred until Nov. 22. Thomas H. McDonald of Lawrence, Mass., has been sentenced to nine months in the workhouse for aldermanic bribery. William Hawkins of Canastota, N. Y., shot his wife and then himself. He Is dead, but the woman will recover. Domestic troubles was the cause. Grand Juror H. O. Summerhayes, accused of disclosing testimony In the Freeman-Westinghouse patent case at San Francisco, was sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court. At Baltimore the police claim to have convincing evidence that Jerome Conceil, a 19-year-old boy, Is the murderer of his adopted parents, Capt. Frederick Lang and his wife. The postoffice department has Issued a fraud order against the Heliograph company, Mrs. Lleura Porter, manager, of St. Louis, Mo., charged with running a concern to obtain money under false pretenses. 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. 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 ball.