People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Gov. Morton has respited Bartholomew Shea, sentenced to die on Tuesday, until Feb. 4. Shea was sentenced for the murder of Robert Ross at the Troy charter election, March 6, 1894. John McGough, sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for shooting Wm. Ross, made a statement asserting he • and not Shea shot Robert Ross. Joseph Calkins of Russiaville, Ind., who has been mentally unbalanced for ♦ some time, attempted to kill his wife and children with an ax. The victims escaped after receiving a terrible beating. In affecting the capture of the madman one constable was killed and several injured. Frederick T. Day, ex-president of the defunct Plankinton bank, was put on trial in the Municipal court Monday for receiving deposits at that institution after he knew it to be insolvent. The bank failed two years ago and the depositors have received about 40 per cent ■ of their savings. Frank J. Wiley, a farmer of Alliance, Ohio, shot himself through the forehead at the Keplinger hotel. He cannot recover. John Roach, who was sentenced to the Cook county jail in May, 1895, for one year for embezzlement, has been pardoned by Governor Altgeld. After brooding over a love affair for some time, John Nelson, aged 37 committed suicide with morphine at Muncie, Ind. He was recently from the State Soldiers’ Home. He has brothers in Dayton, Ohio, and Marion, Ohio, and Chicago, and a sister in Kansas City. M. J... Savage, a marine engineer, long in the government employ in Alaska, and known in Butte, Mont., as James * Thompson, committed suicide in a bathroom of a barber shop in Butte by shooting. He was 50 years old. » Tom Wilson, alias Lem Dixon, colored, was arrested in Vincennes, Ind., on a charge of killing Abe Jones at Henderson, Ky., five years ago. The prisoner had just been released from , the penitentiary, where he served one year for larceny. \ Several Sc. Paul and Minneapolis banks have been victimized to the extent of some $6,000 by a clever forger. He worked under the names of and Charles E. Rhodes, and did the’ work chiefly by means of bank cash- , ier’s certification stamp. ' A report has been received by the revenue office at Knoxville, Tenn., to the effect that seven men were, killed in a battle between moonshiners and officers near the Tennessee and North Carolina line. . H Thomas E. Freeman, wholesale fruit and produce merchant of Sandusky, 0., has made an assignment. Liabilities, $18,000: assets about the same.