People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Sol Rhodes and Jeff Glldden, who were unde/ sentence for riot, escaped from the jail at Lincoln, 111. Irvin Kline, h drayman of Akron, 0., was shot and mor.ally wounded during a quarrel over a horse trade by Raphael Mcglloui, an Italian. Tom Lovens and Berry Short, of Knoxville, Tenn., quarreled, and the former killed the latter. Wednesday night, three miles from Royston, Ga., Dave Berryman killed his wife and three children and then committed suicide. The particulars are not known. No cause Is assigned. It seems that he was crazed with drink, and it is supposed he killed his family in a moment of frenzy. Judge Jacob A. Kohler at Akron, Ohio, overruled the motion for a new trial and sentenced Romulus Cotell to be hanged Friday, Nov. 6. Cotell was convicted two weeks ago "of murdering the Stofae family at Tallmadge, March 29. Cotell, while sentence was being passed, displayed the indifference which has at all times characterized him. Mrs. Raymond Sissel died at her home near Xenia, 111., of wounds inflicted by Mrs. Richard Dove. Etta Robbins, a young woman about 25 years of age, by means of an ax killed A. J. Call, 24 years old at Huntington, W. Va. She also wounded beyond recovery the remaining members of the family, Lottie, 18 years of age; Grace, aged 11, and Otis, aged 13.