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

CRIME.

Gov. Altgeld has honored the requisition of the governor of Kansas for Gyp and Ed Corson, wanted in Harper county, Kansas, for grand larceny auu under arrest at Jerseyville. The grand jury adjourned at Marshall, lowa, returning sixty-five indictments. Thirty-one men and boys iroui Darwin pleaded guilty to gambling and were fined $lB each. The convicts in the penitentiary at Jackson, Mich., revolted Tuesday afternoon. Deputy Warden Northrop was fatally hurt and two keepers seriously injured in the effort to subdue the uprising. The general store of Hinton & Roberts at Oconee, 111., was robbed two successive nights, Thursday and Friday oi last week, of considerable money and goods. The burglars, B. Blackey and R. Bagley, young men, were captured at Sandoval Bn.d are in the Shelby County Jail unable to give bond. Governor Altgeld has issued his requisition upon Governor Stone of Missouri for the extraditiou of Dan Rosenfeld, wanted at Clinton for robbery. Roeenfeld is now serving a term iu the workhouse at St. Louis. Wencil Peshek, of Racine, Wis., charged with the murder of his wife, was found guilty of manslaughter. The penalty is from four to six years in the penitentiary. He is 66 years old. The United States district attorney and counsel for the Raymond brothers, charged with wrecking the Middletown, Pa., National Bank, have reached an agreement upon what counts in the indictment the defendants shall be tried, and the case will be called next Monday in Philadelphia. The money involved in the counts amounts to $200,000. Jonathan Gordon, a farmer, committed suicide at Greensburg, Ind., by cutting his throat. Temporary insanity is assigned as the cause. Governor Altgeld has restored the tights of citizenship to Charles E. Liverpool, of Chicago, who served eighteen months in Joliet state prison for criminal assault Bushrod Kelch shot and killed his divorced wife at Cleveland, and then

sent a bullet through his own neau. The bullet, which lodged between the two lobes of his brain, was extracted and he will probably recover. Milas L. Smith, who In December last shot and killed Lemuel Petit near Jeffersonville, Ind., and then fled, surrendered to the sheriff. He pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense, and was released on $5,000 hail