People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

An incendiary fire Sunday destroyed a business block at Crawford, Neb., and caused a loss of $70,000. The Crawford Commercial was among the losers. A high wind prevailed. Ex-City Treasurer Henry Bolin of Omaha occupies a cell at the county jail with no prospect of giving bond. He is charged with embezzlement. He says he does not know what became of the money. He has not got a dollar. One hundred and fifteen thousand dollars of the city cash has disappeared and there is nothing to show where the bulk of it went. Patrick Morris, a white railroad hand, and his colored wife were lynched oy a mob near New Orleans. They lived in a flat boat near the Westwego wharf of the Texas Pacific Railroad, a few miles above the city on the opposite side of the river. Patrolman Michael Sammon of tne Seventh Precinct Police Station at Buffalo shot his sergeant, Timothy Charles Cantlin, at the foot of Van Renselaer street, the latter dying at the Emergency Hospital. At Inland, Q. T„ the sheriff of Woods county, with a posse, had a fight with a band of horse thieves. Jeff Cogtes, the leader, was shot dead and three others of the band were badly wounded. One man of the sheriff’s posse was seriously wounded. Dillon Cotton, colored, has been held to the grand jury by Justice McKane of East St. Louis on the charge of murdering Professor C. H. Thompson on Dec. 27. Stanhope Royster, the slayer of E. W. McFarland at Boone,lowa, has waived examination and been admitted to bail. His bond was fixed at $5,000, which was furnished by his neighbors, and he is at large. He will probably be tried at once. Tn the United Spates court, at Springfield, 111., William O’Connor pleaded guilty to a charge of passing counterfeit coin, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Prosecutor W. D. Scanlan, of Elwood, Ind., has decided to withdraw the indictment against George Crull, charged with complicity in the William Foust murder. Governor Altgeld has issued a proclamation offering a reward of S2OO for the arrest and conviction of Charles H. Smith, and an unknown man called "Al,” who are wanted at Milton, Dupage county for the murder of Edward Ot't.