People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

At New York Andrew Tinks, a Hungarian, while intoxicated, attempted to murder his 15-year-old stepdaughter with a hatchet, because she rejected his advances, and then committed suicide. The girl is in a dangerous condition. The affair almost created a panic in the tenement in which it occurred. John Bell, a bridge builder, from Cartersville. 111., was shot and killed near Fort Smith, Ark., by a one-armed gambler, Joseph Hunter. The tragedy was the result of a quarrel. An unknown tramp died in the jail at Beloit, Wis., soOn after the police had picked him up unconscious at a camp. His head was crushed. Two companions are under arrest. Paul Glucksman. one of the mer-

chants arrested at Purcell, 1. T., charged with having applied the torch to his stock of goods and store building during the fire last Tuesday morning, has committed suicide. John Richards and Thomas Watts, the negroes who waylaid, robbed, murdered and then burned the body of Miss Bagwell, near Greenwood, S. C., are reported to have been lynched. They were taken to the Abbeville jail and a mob went after them. Otto Troutman, of Parsons, Kan., was arrested on the charge of murdering his wife. The Coles county grand jury adjourned at Charleston, 111., after a two weeks’ session. One hundred and nineteen indictments were found. Bud Bay was found guilty of murdering ex-Sheriff A. C. Crain at Ozark, Mo., and was given twenty-five years in the penitentiary. Police at South Bend, Ind., have arrested Edward Fleming on suspicion of aiding in blowing a safe at Barnett Brothers’ meat market Nov. 17. Amanda Cody and Florence English were hanged at Warrenton, Ga., for the murder of the Cody woman’s husband. Florence was a man. Ex-Priest Dominick Wagner has been iel eased from jail at St. Joseph, Mo., all the remaining cases against iim having been nolle prossed. 11. A. Tucker, president of the Dank •if Genesee. Idaho, was arrested on a barge of stealing the books of the bank "oui the vault, and admitted to bail in lie sunt of SI,OOO. Mrs. .oyd sued a saloon-keeper at Casey, 111., tftr causing her husband’s leaf a. and the jury disagreed. The ill be tried again, and if the voman wins, other suits will be com,:U:C' -.1. 1 e jury in the United States court 1 Auburn. N Y., found Mrs. Mary T. Vi ..liilen. alia-, .Mrs. Mack, guilty of o i (•••feir.ing postage stamps. She ,i. cntermed to a year and a half in e penitentiary, Uluson, Kan., is being flooded i i) >1 bills raised to $lO. The specit :re almost perfect, and the bills ■ V.- be- ii successfully passed both 1 :• r la-avenwoth.