People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Charges have been preferred with Gov. Hoicomb of Nebraska against Dr. J. H. Mackay, superintendent of the Norfolk Hospital for the Insane. They have been cn file several days but the governor declines to give them in full to the press until Dr. Mackay has filed his ansv’er. Dr. Mackay was at the capitol, but Gov. Holcomb was in Broken Bow, and no official action was taken in the matter. The doctor had written a letter explanatory of soma of the charges. An official investigation may be ordered. Near Antlersj. I. T.. Isaac Reuber killed Sheriff Battiest. He fired twen-ty-seven bullets into the body. The governor of Missouri granted a stay of execut on to Thomas Punshon, who was sentenced to be hanged in St. Joseph April 3, until May 6. At Kansas City, Mo., Harry Hill, aged 28, a hotel porter, shot and killpd his wife, aged 21, and then committed suicide. Hill had warned his wife against keeping company with a certain woman, who he said was disreputable. He met the two together and the crime followed. Fred Gorrell, a molder of West Columbus, Ohio, aged 21, shot his wife, who is but 17, and then stood before a mirror and cut his throat with a razor. Gorrell died almost instantly, but his wife will recover. Jealousy was the cause of the affair. While sitting in front of the San Francisco city hall on a police patrol wagon, of which he was driver, John Martin was shot three times and fatally wounded by his wife. She accused him of neglect, saying he had been away from home for several days, indulging an appetite for liquor. At an early hour Sunday morning a double murder was committed on a farm seven miles east of Akron, Ohio. Alvin N Stone, aged 68. and his wife, Serena, aged 63, are tbe victims, and Ira Stillson, the hired man, is fatally injured. Two daughters. Emma, aged 29, and, Hattie, aged 23, are seriously injured, while a third daughter Flora, 16, is the only one of the entire household who escaped the assassin's murderous blows. Hamilton Crusen, a wealthy farmer near Oskaloosa, lowa, hanged himself in the absence of his family, after putting the household furniture in disorder and hiding his pocketbook and cutting his clothing, so as to leave suspicion of robbery and murder. He was thought to have been demented on religion.