People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Elijah Rutter and John White, of Brice, Ohio, quarreled over the former’s wife and both were fatally Injured. Fletcher Coal Grove, who last August murdered John Goeting and Joseph Herring at Welch, W. Va., has been captured at Vivian. The family of Dr. Philip Lelbrock, of New Memphis, 111., was dragged by burglars, who robbed the house of $125, a gold Watch and other Jewelry. Bertha McCopnell, aged 20, of Coatesville, Pa., shot Harry Thompson at a hotel in Lancaster. After the shooting Bhe returned to her home and shot herself. The double crime Is alleged to have been the result of Thompson having deceived Both Miss McConnell and her victim will probably die. John Spradling, son of the proprietor of the American Hotel at Kokomo, Ind., was found dead at the house of Mrs. Frank Price, with a bullet in his heart. Mrs. Price says he tried to kill her, then shot himself. He was 24 years old, and leaves a wife and two children. A mob took William Murphy from the jail at Huntsville, Tenn., and strung him to a tree Saturday night. Murphy was in jail awaiting trial for the murder of Bill Knowlin, a miner, three weeks ago at Pioneer in Campbell county. Jack Hess, a burglar, who escaped from the jail at Janesville, Wis., eight years ago. and was recently retaken, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year. Nelson Robb of Williamsport, Ind., was held up by masked thieves and relieved of sll7. Mrs. August Elzy, who was shot by her husband at Peoria, after which he committed suicide, has died in a hospital. Edward Hamstreet, aged 21, of Clear Lake, lowa, was found dead by a roadside, and a coroner’s jury is investigating the case. , John N. Royer And A. Wilson King, brokers who figured in the Blue Jay mining deal of last week, have been arrested at Denver, cimgeu with zling $5,700 of Blue Jay property.