People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Alonzo Reed of Rushvilie, Jnd., has been arrested on a charge of deserting his wife. Dr. J. A. Reid, on trial in the Scott County, lowa, District court on a charge of murder in the second degree, was acquitted. The family of W. B. Taylor, a wealthy farmer, was mysteriously poisoned at Craig, Mo. v The drug is supposed to have been introduced in the coffee, though by whom and for what purpose it is not known. W. B. Taylor died. His three sons, one of their wives and Taylor Criman, a cousin, are dying. To escape arrest for embezzlement of government funds, Frank Mapes, postmaster at Kansas City, Kan., committed suicide in his residence. A dispatch from the Shoshone agency to Lander, Wyo., reports that Jim Washakie, who was shct by the halfbreed, Will Lamoreaux, is in a dying condition. Should young Washakie die the Indians will avenge him by making war on a number of Sioux half-breeds who are on the reservation. Dr. Charles E. Massbacher, a physician of Toledo, Ohio, was found dead in his bathroom, with a bullet hole in his head, under the most mysterious circumstances. His relatives are of the opinion that he did not commit suicide, and the police are at a loss to account for his death. Jesse Marshall, a young negro from Des Moines, lowa, who assaulted Tom Combs, another negro, last fall in Oskaloosa, cutting him nearly in two with a razor, has been lodged in the OskolOosa jail. Jail officials at Guthrie, O. T„ discovered an underground tunnel in time to prevent the escape or Bill Doolin, Bill Reidler and Bob Montgomery, members of the Dalton gang. William G. Wulsou, , mtendeni ol the Hudson river division of the West Shore railway, is dead, the result of a pistol shot wound inflicted by exDetective Edward Clifford, at Weeuawken, N. J., last Thursday. Clifford plead.’ to temporary insanity. J. E. Crandall, president of the First National Bank of Johnson City, Tenn., was sentenced to eight years in the United States penitentiary at Brooklyn by Judge C. E. Clark. George Boetz, aged 16. shot and killed himself in Floral Park. Union Hill, N. J., because he had been accused by his stepfather of stealing two rings and selling them. Editor Heiner, in Jail at Elizabeth, N J., in default of $13,000 bail on twen-ty-six charges of libeling Mayor Rankin. has been granted a writ of habeas corpus, the purpose being to reduce tbe ball.