Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — CRIMES AND CRIMINALS. [ARTICLE]

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

An examination of the accounts of Levi Bacon, late financial clerk of the interior department, who died on the 22 ult., has revealed a deficiency of $28,000. At Marquette, Mich., Monday, John McGinnis advised William Anderson that the manner in which he carried his gun was not calculated to soothe the nerves of the crowd enjoying the celebration. For this Mr. Anderson shot the meddler dead, and was thrown into jail. Mrs. George Harrington, of Brady, Mich., was beaten in a cruel manner by her husband. Thursday. A short time after she took morphine, and died Friday. ' S. D. Whitney, Secretary of the Canadian Board of Harbor Commissioners, is missing, and is said to be a defaulter to a large amount. On Friday, July Ist, Albert Turner, colored, , was hanged at. Lc risville. Ky., for the brutal murder of Jennie Bowman. ’ ——— —— . ' ' • ’ Thomas Ballard, the notorious counterfeiter, has been pardoned by the President, Executive clemency has also been extended to half a dozen other convicts. The bonds of the Fidelity bank-wreck- ' ers, Harper and Hopkins, have been increased to $200,000 and SIOO,OOO reepecfl ively. This is taken as an indication that ] the prosecution “means business. - ’ Chael Roork, the West Shore empressrobber, has been sentenced to twenty years at hard labor in Auburn prison. At Waukegan, IIL, two women were brutally assaulted by a desperado, who entered the house for the purpose of-rob-bery. Mrs. Julia Lloyd, one Of the victims, is not expected to survive. the. jury brought in a verdict of guilty after being out but thirteen minutes. Sharp will remain in Ludlow street jail until July 13, -vhen sentence will be passed. Three men have been arrested at Alpena, Mich., who are thought to be the fur-rob-bers who-reseued-their leader McMunn at Ravenna, 0., after a desperate figly, in which an officer was fatally wounded. Jimmy Carroll; the notorious burglar, j who has been in jail at Galesburg, 111., charged with com plicit y in robbing the Farmers and Mechanic’s bank in 1877, will be set at liberty soon because, of the i i inability of the witnesses to be present pt ‘ the trial. , In her home in Jeffersonville, Ind., Miss

Sarah Aldridge, aged 19. was found shot in tl<e head. George Jette!, her lover, who was in the parlor with her. atlya she shot herself while he was asleep with hie head on her lap. but his story is doubted, and he lias been imprisoned.