People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — GRIME. [ARTICLE]

GRIME.

John M. iKinkade, a real estate dealer of Denver, committed suicide by shooting on a train returning from Cripple Creek, where he had been investigating some mining property. The cause of the suicide is not konwn. Melancholia, brought on by trouble in love affairs, caused Miss May Wills, a young society woman of Akron, Ohio, to hang herself from a rafter in the garret. She was 25 years old. / Jacob Vanry, of Holland, Mich., who shot his wife and himself, has died of his wounds. His wife will recover. Fred A. Cartwright, principal of a ward school in Villisca, lowa, dismissed his pupils on the ground that he was ill and then hanged himself in an adjoining barn. He was the third member of his family to commit suicide. W. J. Conway, who on July 5, at Burlington, lowa, nearly killed the chief of police, threw a man through a plate glass window and was shot twice before being taken, has been found guilty of attempted manslaughter. Three bushels of letters stolen from the mails early in August have been discovered in the loft of the fire department in Centra, Mass. Detective Quinlan, who was employed by Harry Hayward, convicted at Minneapolis of the murder of Catherine Ging, has published a statement giving the inside history of the case. Hayward’s guilt isffully established. In the Elder embezzlement case at Duluth several witnesses swore that Elder had told them he was acting for the American Loan and Trust Company and not for himself, when he invested the $5,000 he is charged with having appropriated. It is generally believed that a verdict of not guilty will be returned. Louis Sells Barrett, pass clerk to General Superintendent Miller, of the Pennsylvania Southwestern system, with offices in Columbus, Ohio, has been caught placing employes trip passes in the hands of Jack Sneede, a local broker, and when taken to police headquarters confessed. The passes were taken from the middle of a book and given to the broker, who countersigned and sold them, they being good over the entire system.