People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Mrs. Viola Hocking, a prominent dressmaker at Knoxville, Tenn., was acquitted on a charge of burning her house for insurance money. August Guenther, 45 years old, shot his wife, Minnie, at their home, 54 Hackman street, Cleveland, Ohio, and then turned the weapon on himself. Both are dead. The tragedy was the result of* a family quarrel. In the circuit court the jury in the case of John Holzherr for the murder of his wife on June 18, 1895, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, giving him nineteen years in the southern prison at Jeffersonville. orrill Gump and L. Sweeney, of Sc n Omaha, have been arrested on warrants sworn out by County Attorney Baldrige. The former is charged with accepting a bribe and the latter with offering the money for the purpose of influencing the jury in the Bolin case. George A. Wheeler was shot at Kunkel, Ohio, and instantly killed by Lewis Wertz, who charged Wheeler with intimacy with his wife. Word has been received at San Bernardo, Mexico, of an attack made by a band of renegade Indians upon the Lojos ranch, near here. The Indians killed eighteen persons, several of them being women and children. As soon as the news of the outrage reached there a volunteer company of sixty men was formed and started in pursuit of the Indians. James Duberry, who is alleged to have murdered Frank Jeffers at Gowan, I. T., has been arrested at Grape Creek, 111., and will be taken to Fort Smith, Ark., for trial. Francis J. Kieckhofer, late chief of the bureau of accounts and disbursement officer of the state department, was arrested on warrants charging him with embezzlement July 2, 1895, of $lB,229; on Aug. 10, 1895, of $2,399, and on Oct. 22 of the same year of $1€,837. George Welburn of Rochport, Mo., fatally stabbed Frank Fisher of Callaway county. Jealousy prompted the attack. Welburn was to have been married to Ada Wells, who was persuaded to visit the bride celebration with Fisher instead. van, in., after a quarrel with his wife, committed suicide by shooting.