Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1887 — CRIMES AND CRIMINALS. [ARTICLE]

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

Judge Shepard refused to admit McGarigle and McDonald, the Chicago boodlers, to bail pending a motion for a rehearing. At Baltimore. MJ.. John Thomas Ross, colored, convicted of, the murder of Emily i Brown, white, whose body was sold by him to the medical university, was sentenced to be hanged. The Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict of the jury. TKb -Governor will oint-the date of .execuIn a fight in the Chaptaw nation between a sheriff's posse and a band of horsethieves. two of the lattetwere killed and three wounded. - Five persons, one of them Charles R. Carter, whu was to have hanged for mur•der next Er;da-y. killed the-deputy sheriil at Mount Vernon, Missouri, and escaped from jail. The house of' Dr. T E. Buck, of St. Louis xas wiecked by dynamite; Thursrii»y night His Ings is psrirnntnd at■-sl— He does not know who did it. George Shoaff. a gambler and ex-mar-shai of Luling, Tex., has been arrested at San Antonia and John Clark, August Smith, and ■E. Gtheo near La Grange. Tex.. for complicity in the Flatonia train robbery. It is thought Shoaff was the leader. Alfred Blunt, the wife murderer, was hanged at St Louis on Friday. James M. Webb, an alleged wife-pois-oner. was taken from jail at Kosicuako, ; Miss., and hanged to a tree. A,Ringgold (Ga.) farmer named Dennis ■ etaßbed a farmer named Clark in self-de- I i feme. Clark'-s father and brother at-1

tncked Dennis with clubs and Dennis stabbed both of them fatally. He then fled,, leaving his knife sticking in the elder Clark’s heart. 'Harper and Hopkins, of the burst Fl delity Bank, were surrendered by their bondsmen, at Cincinnati, Thursday, and placed in jaih Harper’s assignee has resigned his position, finding, instead Of $1,000,000, but $50,000 assets. The murderers of Kellogg Nichols, the Express messenger, Schwartz and Watt, have been lodged tn the Illinois Peniten tiary. A Sheriff and posse attacked the Craig Tolliver gang at Morehead, Rowan countyj- Ky., Wednesday morning, and a desperate street fight resulted. Reports vary touching the number of victims, but it is stated that Tolliver, two of his brothers, and at least two others were killed. Two attempts have been made to burn the Sherman House, the largest hotel ip Aberdeen. D. T.< Had the incendiary been successful in hi* fiendish work a large part of the business portion of the city would have been in ashes. A Grand Trunk train was boarded at Fort Gratiot, Mich., by five men, who •went through the cars and robbed the passengers. Three arrests have been made. Complaint has been made and papers issued by the proper officers charging H. C. Woodury, Municipal Judge, of Waseca, Minn., with embezzlement.