People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Alexander Miller was arrested at Omaha, Neb., charged with attempting to pass a check for $l5O to which he had, it is said, forged the name of Drabo & Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., of which firm he says he is a member. He admits having passed forged checks in other places, and is wanted in Pittsburg and other eastern cities. At Arapahoe, Okla., a fight took plac6 between the officers of G. D. and Washita counties and the outlaws Redbuck and George Miller, in which Redbuck was instantly killed and Miller mortally wounded. Carefully concealed in a barrel and covered with a mass of old rags and cotton, the dead bodies of two human beings were found in an alley in Chicago. In consequence, the police are working on what they consider a case of double murder. A futile attempt was made March 1, to rob the safe of the county treasurer at Creede, Colo. Robbers worked the combination, but secured nothing, $6,000 having been removed to the bank. Six prisoners in the Newport, Ky„ jail secured an ax, and, breaking open a door, escaped Louis Pernot, a farmer, hanged himself in his barn near Fort Wayne, Ind. He was 40 years old and single. May Hutchins, 19 years of age, of Keystone, Ind., committed suicide by taking morphine. 11l health was the cause. John Graham, the policeman who shot and killed Jack Worthington Saturday at Anderson, Ind., was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000. Joseph Soular and Wm. Verrill, both under 21 years of age, have confessed at Duluth to the murder of Samuel Demars at Biwabik, Minn. Charles W. Sanford, collector of taxes of Concord, Mass., was sentenced to serve five years for the embezzlement of $14,000 from the town treasury.