People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

During the strike at Muncie, Ind., last winter Frank Gallagher was assaulted by two strikers, and tn self-de-I sense killed them. The jury today ren- ’ defred a verdict of guilty of murder agqinst Gallagher. The citizens have I started a collection to help Gallagher ' in the higher courts. Emile Arton, implicated with Dr. Herz and the late Baron von Relnach in the frauds on Jhe Panama canal company, has been sentenced to six years at hard labor. Ashford Brothers’ store at Homer was entered by burglars early Saturday morning, the blown open with giant powder, and about $375 stolen. The store was also robbed Friday morning and $l4O and valuable papers taken. As a result of the long factional fight in St. Stanislaus’ Polish Church at Bay City, Mich., John Szczadrowski shot John Napleralski in the breast and back and his father, Michael, in the leg this evening. The wounds are not dangerous. The shooter was arrested. Mrs. Irene Williamson Leonard, convicted of the murder ot her husband on the night of Nov. 17, at Wichita, Kan., *was sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial was promptly overruled. Mrs. Leonard murdered her husband to get the SIO,OOO life insurance which he carried in her favor. Her former husband, Marion Williamson, was suspected as an accomplice and arrested, but the jury acquitted him. A triple execution took place at the state penitentiary at Canon City, Col., Friday. The men who were hanged are Thomas Colt, Elbert Hobie, and Dominica Romero, who killed Policeman John Solomon in Trinidad. At Des Moines, lowa, Friday, 8. R. Dawson, the murderer of Walter Scott, who had been his son-in-law for an hour, though previous to the moment of the shooting unknown to him, was sentenced by Judge Holmes to ten years in the penitentiary. He will begin the service of bis sentence at once. Dawson expressed little emotion, and afterward remarked that the sentence came as a birthday present, he being 49 years old that day.