People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

The second trial of L. D. Baldwin, charged with conspiracy to bribe a juror in the Crum and Evans case at Marion, Ohio, resulted in a verdict of acquittal. The jury was out two hours and the verdict was reached on the second ballot. Jerry Brown, a member of the Montgomery, W. Va., gang of murderers, was sentenced to hang .Tune 25 for the murder of Mrs. Isaac Radford. Judge Garver has overruled the motion for a change of venue in the case of James French, who murdered his wife at Rockford, 111., and it will probably come to trial at the coming term of court. At Wanataha, Ind., Rev. J. J. Higgs, a clergyman, and Mrs. Priscilla Wilson, a leader in the W. C. T. U., caused the arrest and conviction of the five saloonkeepers of the town for violations of the Nicholson law. Heavy fines were imposed. At Newark, Ohio, Frank Davis shot Sampson Harriman, perhaps fatally. The prisoner declares Harriman tried to steal his money. R. L. Rum ley of Council Bluffs came to the Arcade hotel, Omaha, Neb., and registered as “H. R. Johnson, city.” His body was found in his room. He had turned on the gas and then shot himself. Ernest Ridgeway, one of the four men who held up and attempted to rob a car full of people on the Independence electric line, Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced to one year in the county jail. Two sons of a Mr. Hesson, living near Greenland, Ark., aged 9 and 15 years, committed suicide. The boys were angry fcnr.iuce they were left at home.