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

CRIME.

John W. Love, cashier of the defunct First ’National BaVk of Whtkins, N. Y., was placed in jail\in that city, having been arrested in Cincinnati. Irene Raymond, a member of the Eunice Goodrich dramatic company, who said she was tired of life, ended it at Guthrie, O. T., by swalling morphine. Walter H. Hough, of Lapeer, Mich., who was Saturday placed in the insane asylum at Flint, Mich., escaped from his attendant and cut his throat with an ink eraser. / * Fifteen officers have four outlaws suVrpunded in a cave in Ray county, Okla., and have been fighting them for two days. One outlaw has been killed and three deputies badly wounded. Mrs. Mary Kraemer and her son Michael were found dead in their house at Long Island City, L. 1., with bullets in their brains. It is supposed the son shot his mother and then killed himself. The grand jury at Terre Haute, Ind., has returned indictments against Robert Barnett and Don Fardeu, now in prison for stealing $16,000 from the Adams Express company. At the expiration of the five years imposed by federal courts, they will be arrested by the state authorities. Mark H. Barnum, formerly an editor at Wausau, Wis., convicted of libeling Dr. Mitchell in a controversy growing out of the Rose Zoldoski murder case, is said to be preparing to go to prison for six months in preference to paying a fine of S2OO, in case the supreme court sustains the decision. The partially nude body of an unidentified man was washed ashore at Chicago Sunday morning, and the appearance of the body seems to indicate that the man was murdered. Because she was despondent over sickness Mrs. Rebecca Williams took a dose of strychnine at Webster City, lowa, and died. She leaves a husband and three children. Detectives at St. Paul have arrested men whom they identify as A. H. Holmes and Joe McCluskey, notorious bank swindlers. Henry St. Martins, a druggist of Wahoo, Neb., was fatally shot in his store by a robber during a fight. Henry Ehman, 36 years of age, committed suicide at Peoria, 111., while waiting for his wife at church, by hanging. At Cheviot, six miles west of Cincinnati, Harry Matlack shot and killed Mrs. Annie Strong, wife of the proprietor of the Cheviot hotel. At Rollings, in Marion county, Ky., Robert Purdon was shot and mortally wounded by M. W. Penn. Penn is the postmaster at Rollings. Charles Reifschlager was arrested at Marinette upon a charge of forgery. Pruitt Turner, colored, was hanged atVan Buren, Ark., for the murder of Robert Hawkins Feb. 17, 1896. He died pretesting his innocence of the crime,