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

CRIME.

Th& coroner’s jury investigating the death of Carl Ringe, the SL Louis insurance man whose body was found on a street, was unable to gain any light on the matter and returned a verdict that he was murdered. Banks at Cincinnati have exploded the sensation about Z. T. Lewis, the bond forger, securing $200,000 from them, leaving forged bonds as collateral. The totstl amount is $50,000. Governor Altgeld has issued a requisition upon the governor of Missouri for James Kimorough, wanted at Vandalia for robbery. The body of James Smith, an informer on Georgia moonshiners, was found strangled to death in a well at Monticello. During a race riot at Heidelberg, a Pennsylvania mining town, Luigi Fratitini, an Italian, was murdered by; Sicilians. John Ford, a coal miner of Athens, arrested in Springfield, 111., for disorderly conduct, hanged himself in his cell with a muffler. The federal grand Jury at Omaha will investigate the manner in which Richard Outcalt was acquitted for complicity in wrecking the Capital National Bank. More troops have been dispatched from army posts in Arizona in pursuit of the Apaches who have murdered stockmen. It is believed the rising will be put down without much difficulty. Michael Savant, wanted at Bessemer, Mich., for murdering Matts Ballander Nov. 25, was found hiding in a deserted mine at Ishpeming and arrested. George Winchester, aged 45 years, was found dead in his apartments over the Andover, Ohio, national bank. It is thought he committed suicide. Safe blowers at Miltonville, Kan., robbed the Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroad stations and the Alliance Exchange. Judge Sloan of Carthage, Mo., a prominent stockman, suffering from insomnia, committed suicide by taking strychnine. Vaults in the bank of Oronogo, Mo., Were blown by safe crackers, who secured $1,300. The building was wrecked and books and securities burned by the explosion. The governor of Illionls has honored the requisition 'of the Governor of Ohio for Harry Lincoln, wanted at Cleveland for stealing a diamond and under arrest in Chicago.