People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Two robbers entered the City National Bank of Wichita Falls, Texas, Tuesday at 2:45 p. m. and demanded the money of Cashier Dorsey, who resisted them. Shooting began and resulted in the death of Cashier Frank Dorsey and the wounding of Bookkeeper P. P. Langford. The robbers escaped. Miss Elizabeth Flagler, daughter of Gen. Flagler, chief or ordnance, U. S. A., who last spring shot and killed a colored boy named Green, son of a treasury department messenger at Washington was arraigned in court Tuesday. She was sentenced to three hours in jail and to pay a fine of SSOO. Gen. Flagler paid the fine and the young lady served the three hours. James Reed of Sheffield, Ill':, shot himself and his wife at their home In Sheffield. Reed is dead and his wife, it is believed, cannot recover. A daring but unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank of Warren, Ark., Tuesday. The cashier and a friend resisted the robbers, and both were shot. One of the robbers was wounded, but all escaped. M. F. Grisette, a desperado of Bristol, Fla., was killed, after shooting three men. Nicholas Claussen, a San Francisco baker, shot and killed his wife. He was arrested. William Paul will hang March 31 for the murder of his father-in-law, in Brown county, Ohio. Martin F. Strait, convicted of murder in the first degree at Elmira, N. Y., has been granted a new trial. Geateno Nochise, under arrest in Chicago, will be surrendered to St. Louis authorities, who want him for an assault to murder. « William Kerwin, who shot and killed Barney Shoo at Courtland, 111., a year ago, was sent to the penitentiary for three years by a jury at Alton. James Sarran and Pearl Kimms were found dead near Keystone, W. Va., where a general fight occurred Sunday night among 200 colored miners. Mrs. George R. Kelso, of New York, who killed her two children and attempted suicide, will be tried for insanity. Unknown men blew open the safe of the Chicago, Burlington it Quincy railroad at Gladstone, 111., and secured considerable money.