Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — THE SPUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SPUTH.

Three masked men nt Mitchell’s Station, neat Culpeper, Va., bound and gagged Frank Somerville, took him to the cellar of his store, where they removed his clothes and tarred his limbs. They then blew open the safe and carried off SI,BOO in money. When Somerville was discovered he was unconscious. Mbs. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, an educational authoress and teacher of i high repute,, died at Baltimore July 15, her 91st birthday. She leaves an estate valued at $1,000,000. While Valentine Fritz was lying in bed at his home in Baltimore, his idiot son, 20 years old, entered the room, and with a hammer drove a three-inch nail into his father’s head. The presence of the nail was not discovered until the following day, when a doctor extracted it by cutting around it with a'knif e to secure a hold for the nippers. Fritz is still living. Bob Hunt and Dan Parker (both colored) were hanged at Greenville, Miss. The former killed Barrel Best (motored) at , Befuge, Oct 6, 1888.

The latter killed Richard Barrett (colored) on Deer Creek, May 11, 1884. Both confessed their guilt... .Commings Nelson was hanged at Houma, La., in the presence of 2.000 spectators, for the murder of John Martin, ih Terre Bonne Parish. The culprit remained firm’ to the last.... Sam Williams, a colored man, was executed at Waynesboro, Gn., for the murder of Clem Bush. ’ ( Martinet, editor of the New Orleans Standard, the organ of the colored Republicans of Louisiana, recently accused the Custom House officials of seriding gangs to break up Blaine and Logan Club meetings. Dupont, the Naval Officer of the New Orleans Prrt, resented these statemento, and meeting Martinet the other day, angry words were exchanged, which led to a rough-and-tumble fistic encounter. Both were considerably damaged. Some of the adherents of Martinet and Dupont renewed the row’ at a later hour, and considerable blood was spilt