People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Mrs. George W. Weyburn committed suicide at Goshen, Ind., by jumping into a cistern and drowning before spectators could rescue her. Despondency over the loss of her husband, who died a few months ago, is assigned as the cause. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company has offered a reward of $3,000 for the arrest and conviction of the parties who caused the passenger wreck near Wilcox, Ala,, last Thursday. J. R. Burns, aged S 3 years, committed suicide at Clay City, 111., by shooting. Bob Locke and A 1 Maddox fell out over farm provisions, near Glasgow Junction, Ky. Maddox attacked Locke with a scythe blade, cutting his throat. The grand jury at Cincinnati, Ohio, indicted Dr. J. W. Prendergast and Dr. O. V. Limerick, on charges of solici M ng a bribe. Dr. Prendergast was health officer of Cincinnati until lately. At Guadalajara, Mexico, Jose S. Guitteriz was legally shot for the murder of his brother-in-law, Jose Bobadilla, a millionaire merchant of that city. He met his death without any outward sign of fear. Frank Conners and Ben Johnson seriously and perhaps fatally wounded Jailer Charles Fay at the Wyandotte, Mo., county jail in attempting to escape. Both men we/e armed with revolvers. William Clow shot himself twice through the heart at Morris, 111. He was for a time part owner of the Mason Register. He feared he was getting consumption. t Robbers attempted to remove the corner stone of the Baptist chureh at Portland, Mich.; where a sum of money was deposited, but were frightened away.