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

CRIME.

Officers from Monticello, 111., arrested Thomas McPheters, son of a wealthy farmer of Terre Haute, Ind., on a charge of stealing horses. The date for the execution of H. H. Holmes, the convicted murderer of Benjamin F. Pitzel and alleged murderer of twenty-one 'others, has been fixed by Governor Hastings. 'He names Thursday, May 7, as the day. Newton Lane, who killed William Rodenbaugh at Versailles, Ky., has been admitted to bail of $7,500 and released. Indictments against Sheriff Tamsen, of the New York Ludolw street jail, for Emitting the escape of postoffice thieves wanted in Illinois, have been dismissed. Officers of the defunct Bank of Commerce, of Newkirk, O. T., and the Farmers’ Exchange Bank, of Blackwell, O. T„ have been indicted for receiving deposits illegally. Schuyler Hamrich, wanted in Greencastle, Ind., for alleged forgery, escaped from a posse of officers, who granted him permission to change his clothing at his father’s residence. Rufus Lupton, who killed Levi D. Lon at Roodhouse, 111., has been sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. Mabel Sullivan, aged 28 years, a music teacher of Patterson, N. J., was murdered and terribly mutilated by unknown persons while returning from a visit with her sister near her home. The jury in the case of Van Tassell, at New Hampton, lowa, charged with poisoning his wife, returned a verdict of guilty and fixed his punishment at hard labor for life. Bushrod Kelch, of Cleveland, Ohio, who murdered his divorced wife last fall, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. The trial of Dr. P. Rhoades, charged with poisoning Lewis Robinson, a wealthy farmer, has begun at Owensboro, Ky. Soon after Robinson’s death the doctor married his widow. In the United States court at Fort Smith, Ark., sentence of death was passed upon George Pearce, Webster Isaacs, John Pearce, Berry Foreman, and Mollie King, and their execution set for April 3(L