People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

J. W. Fuller, a hank swindler, who has just served three years in the southern Indiana penitentiary, was taken to Philadelphia to be tried for passing a forged check. While trying to rob the store of Joseph Oarlott at Mongo, Ind., an unknown man was shot and instantly killed. His body was taken to La Grange, Ind., for the inquest. At Grand Rapids, Mich., William Lampman was shot and killed by George T. Sullivan, a discharged employe. Sullivan says he shot in selfdefense. William Hughes killed bimself at Newark, Ohio, by blowing off his head with a shotgun. He was wealthy and popular, and had been married a year, leaving a 2-weeks old child. A stiek with a nail attached, with which he pulled the trigger, \ 'as found lying near the body. A desperate duel took place at Hartselle, Ala., between Monroe Jackson and J. W. Vest, resulting in the death of both men, who were prominent populist politicians holding opposite views. Bill West, the Indian Territory desperado who recently broke jail at Topeka while being held for murder by the federal authorities, was shot and killed at Illinois, O. T., while resisting arrest, by Thomas Carlisle, a territory officer. West was charged with three murders, and would have hanged for the killing of United States Marshal Kinney at Fairfield. Ben Dice, a rancher, killed his brother-in-law, Grant Smith, in a quarrel about water in an irrigation ditch. His wife attempted to remove a dam in the ditch on Smith’s place and the latter interefered, when Dice, who was sitting in his buggy, shot Smith with a shotgun loaded with buckshot, killing him instantly. Street Commissioner Larry Cummings shot his wife and attempted to shoot his daughter at Seattle. Mrs. Cummings is believed to be fatally wounded.