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Young Negro Ravisher Narrowly Escaped a Lynching
Young Negro Ravisher Narrowly Escaped an Lynching. Charlotte, N. C.. Aug. 23.--A special to the Observer from Graham. N. C., to-night say* John Ruffin, colored, 16 years old. narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of members of his own race for criminally assaulting a colored girl 10 years of age. The victim Is In critical condition.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
Tampa Herald: Tom Whitehurst, a young white man who lives near the city, is in jail on a charge of attempting to make a criminal assault upon the young daughter of a man named Hayman, who lives near College Hill. She says the man came to her window where she was sleeping. with the window open, and took hold of her. He told her if she screamed he would kill her, but she called and the man ran away. She reported the matter to her father, saying she recognized the man fully in the bright moonlight. The arrest was made and the young man is now being held to answer the charge. The preliminary hearing is set for one week from to-morrow. Harrris Peeplee have been engaged to defend the young man in the trial.
GEORGIA AFFAIRS
Griffin News “Yesterday's four o'clock passenger brought Mr. Butler Hudson, of our city, who had in charge Henry Jones, the young white man charged with committing rape on a small negro girl some months ago on the place 'of Mr. W.P. Hemphill. The capture was affected in Gadsden. Ala, and was the result of well laid plans by Mr. Hudson, who gets the handsome reward of one hundred and fifty dollars for his trouble. Jones’ wife went down to see him at the jail, the meeting being a very affecting one. His crime is a frightful one. however, and, unless the circumstances can be mitigated, the chances are in favor of his swinging from a beam.”
OUTRAGE AND LYNCHING
Atlanta, July 25.— Last night Peter Stamps, colored, was lynched at Douglasville by a mob of 500 men for an alleged rape committed upon Ida Abercombie, daughter of a well-to-do white farmer. The girl was 13 years old, and a few days ago her parents discovered that she was about to become a mother. She confessed that Stamps, who worked on the place, was the father of her child, and she said that be had a year ago outraged her, and at various times since had compelled her to submit to his desires. Stamps was arrested and placed in jail.
AN IMMIGRANT GIRLS RUIN
New York, July 7.—Timothy McCarthy, keeper of u notorious den In York street, was this evening convicted of rape In the General Sessions Court. Catharine Burrows, an immigrant who arrived in New York In January, was the complaint. The woman said that McCarthy promised to employ her, and, after inducing her to go to his place, seduced her. He also promised to marry her, and when she took a stand for rights she was locked up in a room and kept there lor several days. Filially she attracted the attention of some neighbors who were on the roof of their bouse, and was liberated.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
Gov.McDaniel has offered a reward of 2OO for the apprehension of Hamilton Story, of coffee county, who is charged with rape. The crime was committed on a defenseless woman, Mrs. Mary Minix. who is the wife of Thomas A. Minix The fellow went to the house while the husband was away and forced the committed the outrage. Mr. Minix is a poor man and was unable to offer a reward for the apprehension of the criminal. He appealed to the Governor and the reward promptly offered.
In Jail for a Brutal Crime
In Jail for a Brutal Crime. Among the prisoners confined in the jail is a white man named James Waller, who was committed yesterday by Justice McLeod King, of the Seventh district of this county, to answer the charge of an attempt at rape upon a young white woman, who lives on the Pine Barren road, a few miles southwest from the city.
A NEGRO RAPIST LYNCHED
A Negro Rapist Lynched. Birmingham, Ala., July IS.—The negro Andy Burke, who waylaid the 13-year-old daughter of a prominent citizen at Tuscaloosa, Ala-, Tuesday, while she was returning from school, and attempted to rape her, was found late last night, two miles from Tuscaloosa, in a cabin, with the doors and windows barricaded and provisions enough to last several days. A posse earned him before the little girl and she identified him. He then confessed the crime, was put in the guard bouse, and just before day was taken out by a mob and swung to a tree in front of the Presbyterian Church. While in the death throes' the mob riddled him with bullets.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
Last Monday morning about 9 or 10 o'clock, about seven miles from Covington, near Brick Store, a negro named Homer Perry, or Bud Perry, committed a rape on a little negro girl between 0 and 7 years of age. He took his knife and lacerated her considerably, He then beat her with a stick, breaking her under jaw and skull. He hid her in the woods, covering her with leaves, and left. Perry then gave a boy a quart of whisky to swear that another negro committed the crime. The negro accused was arrested and the above facts came out on the commitment trial, the defendant proving a complete alibi. In the meantime the girl came to life and told her story, she is still living. Homer Perry tied the country. He is a light mulatto, between 15 and 16 years of age. Is a low. chunky, heavily built fellow, with broad cheek bones, and Is about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches in height.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
W A. Speer is in jail at Lawrenceville on a charge of rape. The Gwinnett Herald says: Speer was living with Mr. J. it. Davis as a laborer on his farm, and had been employed there for two or three months. On the 22d instant, Mr. Davis had some business at Lithonia, and left his wife at home. During the day, according to the testimony of Mrs. Davis," taken before the committing court, while she was at work about her household affairs, Speer entered the house with a razor in his hand, and approaching Mrs. Davis, told her he loved her, and made insulting proposals to her. This she promptly resented, and told him she would see him dead before she would submit. Speer then took hold of her and she ran out on the veranda, 'peer followed and renewed his proposition. He then got a pistol and caught tier by the shoulder and tried to get her to kiss him, and when she refused and told him she was going to Mr. Johnson’s and would tell them what had occurred, he threatened to shoot her. He kept her standing in the yard about an hour before she could get away from him. while he kept guard over her with his pistol in his hand. He told her he would accomplish his designs if he had to kill her and then blow his own brains out. As soon as she could get away she went to Mr. Johnson’s, and when her husband returned she told him what had occurred* The warrant was sued out and the defend arrested- He did not cross-examine her on the trial, but made a statement in which he stated that lie did come to the house after medicine, but denied saying anything out of the way to Mrs Davis, and also denied having a razor or pistol. The court committed him to jail where he will probably remain until the grand jury investigates the matter.
A WOULD-BE RAVISHER HUNG BY CITIZENS
Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 25. —A negro named Lewis Houston, charged with the attempted rape, on Thursday night, of a respectable widow lady of this city, was arrested Friday night.' He was found at work in the round house of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad shops and taken by the officers to the residence of his in tended victim, who identified him. He was then placed in the county jail. At 10 o’clock last evening a mob of 150 masked men overpowered the jailer and took Houston to the negro settlement in the suburbs of the city and hanged him to a pine tree. He was allowed 5 minutes to pray and make a statement. He protested his innocence to the last. The whole affair was conducted quietly and in less than half an hour the mob had dis appeared. It is reported that a second mob had been formed to do the hanging at 3 o’clock this morning.
An Attempt to Outrage a Prominent Lady - The Forerunner of the Expiation- She routs Both of Her Assailants with a Pistol- The Chase and Capture- One Still at Large
Bainbridge, G a., August 27.—0n Tues day night last at a quiet house near Col quitt, in Miller county, two villainous negroes, named Lewis Warren and Frank Fountain, attempted the most revolting crime known in criminal annals, the rape ot one of the most respectable and estimable white ladies in that countv. It appears that tlie lady's husband was absent from home engaged in running a threshing machine, and that on the night indicated these villains, knowing of his absence and of iier consequent helpless condition, stole into the house and her bedchamber for the purpose of violating her person, and then, probably, murder ing her. The touch of the villains, how ever, awoke the lady, but not before the attempt was made to accomplish their purpose. The lady had, fortunately, placed a re volver under her head, and reaching this, she presented it at their heads and pulled the trigger. This put them to flight, but not before she had recognized them. >he tired several shots at the retreating demons. Daylight soon *-auie, and she told her neighbors of the outrage, and a vigorous pursuit was organized. This pursuit continued until Sunday, when Louis Warren w as caught, brought back, and lodged in jail. The posse continued their search for Fountain. On Sunday night, however, a crowd of armed men overpowered the guard, broke open the jail, and shot Lewis Warren to death. 1 he negro killed was aged about 17 years, and lived oil the place of the gentleman whose wife he attempted to outrage at the t ime. His mulatto accomplice, Fountain, lived on an adjoining plantation, and was about 21 years old.
A Fiend Hanged
Newcastle, Del., August 25.—James Redden, alias Jim Loot, was hanged here at 10:17 o’clock this morning, for the rape of Utile sallie Purse, near Odessa, Delaware, in February last. He died in eleven minutes.
A Kentucky Lynching
Louisville, July 12.— William Ritter, a negro in jail at Henderson, Ky., on the charge of the rape and murder of Helen Brewster, a mulatto girl twelve years old, was taken from the jail at that place last night by a mob and hanged to a tree. It is supposed that the executioners are com posed of blacks.
A Young Negro Fiend - A Cowhiding Match - The Bricklayers Strike
Charleston, June 13 —N the fact that every case of rape that has occurred in South Carolina of recent years has been followed by the speedy punish ment of the brutes, two cases having oc curred within the past two weeks, the crime seems to be on the Increase. The latest case occurred In this city to day, the brute In this instance being a negro boy twelve years of age, and named Henry Robinson, and the victim a little negro girl about six or seven years of age. The brute was discovered perpetrating his fiendish crime in a lot in New street about four o’clock this afternoon by a colored man, who at once arrested him and turned him over to the police. The girl was sent home terribly injured. The beast Is locked up.
A Negro Fiend Lynched
Nashville, November 6.— Massey Hill, colored, who attempted a rape on a little girl, near Manchester, was taken from jail by a mob last night and lynched.
The Brutal Ravisher of a Little Child Hanged in South Carolina - A Stupid Jurys Work Completed.
Charleston, October 13.—Jack Williams, a negro, who committed a rape upon Linnie Hughes, a little white girl living with her parents a few miles from Orangeburg, in thi6 State, was convicted by a white jury a day or two ago, but recommended to the mercy of the court, which, under the laws of this State, mitigated the sentence from death to imprisonment for life. The prisoner was accordingly sentenced yesterday to Imprisonment. The action of the grand jury excited the utmost indigna tion In the community, and was very se verely censured, particularly as the same jury condemned a negro to be hung for burning a barn. The case was most horrid in its details, and ten of the jury subse quently attempted to clear their skirts of the stigma by signing a statement that, they did not know that their recommendation to mercy acted as a palliation of the sentence, but thought it left the matter In the discre tion of the court. Public opinion was much aroused, and the general Indignation culminated this morning the lynching of the fiend. A band of about, twenty five men from the scene of the outrage entered the jail about 2 o’clock, overpowered the jailer, took the fiend out to the suburbs of the t own, and after obtaining from him a repetition of the confession, which he had formerly made, hanged him to the limb of a tree. Fastened across the breast of the negro was found a placard with the follow lug inscription in large letters: “Our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters shall be protected, the decision of an Orangeburg jury to the contrary not with standing.” The lynching Is universally regarded as a righteous act, committed only after the jury had failed In the discharge of its duty. It is a subject of surprise to some that the jurymen were not included In the execution.
FLORIDA AFFAIRS
Jacksonville Union: “A colored man by the name of Dan Watson was shot and instantly killed ty another colored man named Lorenzo Sims, on Lake Santa Fe, in Bradford County, last Sunday. The particulars, as far as we have been able to learn, are about as follows: A short while ago. Watson committed a rape upon his wife's niece, and last Saturday he at tended a festival near Waldo. White at the festival, he was remonstrated with by some of the women in attendance, and became furiously mad, threatening to kill a number of them. He drew a razor and cut the girl’s mothers breast open, and also severely cut another woman in the face. On Sunday after noon some of the men living in the vicinity got after him, and he threatened to kill all of them, and, in order to carry out his threat he started toward a white man's house in the vicinity, where he had left his gun. He had reached the house, and. while entering the door, his brother in-law (Sims) and another man fired at him. And he was killed instantly. A buckshot passed through a crack In the house and lodged in the cheek of a white man. An inquest was held and a verdict of justifiable homicide was rendered."
GEORGIA AFFAIRS
Reidsville Enterprise: “Pete Baggs, color ed was lodged in jail here last Monday night, charged with rape. As the story comes to us, we learn that on last Wednesday morning he assaulted Rilla Johnson, his stepdaughter, on the road, and she states carried out his de signs, she at once had a warrant issued for his arrest. and he was afterwards overhauled and taken before Justice Smith.”
FLORIDA AFFAIRS
Marianna Courier: “The only case of any particular Interest before the court was that of Cox for rape. The person upon whom the rape was attempted was the daughter of the prisoner. This ease was brought to our court by change of venue from Washington county. family is one of respectability, and he prisoner was esteemed as a respectable man until about two or three years ago, when.from running a little ‘moonshine distillery, he be came very much addicted to drink Cox in the campaign of 1878. was an independent candidate for the Legislature in Washington county and received a fair proportion of the vote The trial was one of absorbing interest, and the evidence against the prisoner was of the most convincing and conclusive character
GEORGIA AFFAIRS
Rome Bulletin, 11th instant; “Yesterday bl rf Matins lodged in jail Tom Cooper, a colored boy about fifteen years of age. who is charged with rape. It appears that the boy engaged on the farm of Joseph Defore. livings, me eight miles from Rome, and that he led a little four-year-old daughter of his employer into the yard and made an attempt this- terrible crime. His attempt was thwarted by some fortunate circumstances, the details of which it is not proper to give here, *s a jury will probably investigate and pass upon the case in a few days.”
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY
The negro who committed the rape upon tie wife of a leading citizen of Rocking ham county, North Carolina, near Reids vile, has been taken to Greensboro for safe keeping from lynchers, together with an other man also implicated in the crime.
Son Gives No Reason for Murder of His Sister
PAW PAW Mich., Jan. 16.- Waiter Tabor,according to an alleged confession turned over to the Prosecuter accuses his mother, Mrs. Sarah Tabor, eighty years old, of killing her daughter, Maude Tabor Virgo, highschool teacher, four years ago. Tabor gave no reason for his mother's murder of his sister, but admits he buried the body in the old trunk in the basement of the Tabor home in Lawton. The body was found last November. Up to then the disappearance of the teacher had been a mystery. The son said in his confession that he buried the body at the request of his mother.
Labor Feud Hint in Murder
Reports of the labor troubles in the port of New York were Heard to-day in the Fifth avenue court, Brooklyn, when Frank Madden, former pugilist and Business Agent Local No. 856 of the International Longshoremen's Association, was charged with the murder of Dennis J. Meehan, an alleged gangster who was slain while he slept on Wednesday afternoon in his rooms at No. 452 Warren Street, Brooklyn. Madden, thirty-three, who lives at No. 440 East 147th Street, the Bronx, pleaded not guilty. At the Time Meehan was slain, he said he was in a conference in Manhattan on the subject of the strike of coastwise longshoremen. The police say they have learned that on the day before the killing, Meehan went to Manhattan and talked with several people in a plan to “break” the strike.
Tries Suicide in Court
Plymouth, Mass., Feb. 20. -- John Arsenti, found guilty to-day of murder in the second degree for killing Frank gentill at Brockton on July 17 last at-tempted suicide in the court room. He dashed his head against the railing of the prisoner's dock when life imprisonment was imposed and later butted the wall of an ante-room to which he was removed. He will recover.
Indict Witness in Baff Murder
The Grand Jury which has been investigation charges of perjury and subornation of perjury in the trial of Joseph Cohen, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Barnet Baff on the Nov. 24, 1914, to-day filled with Judge Mulqueen, in the Court of General SeesionsPresentmetn Against Walter R. Deuel, attorney , and his clerk, Phillip L. Mus'ea. An indictment against Joseph Soro. one of the principal witnesses against Cohen, was also filled with a benen warrant for Soros arrest. Thorough investigation of Deuel's conduct of the case by the New York Bar Association is demanded by the grand Jury, which asserts that the attorney acted for the defendant, although he had been for many months one of the District attorney's investigators.
Murdered Girl at Own Request, Slayer Confesses
Pontiac, Mich., April 28, -- Anson Best, formerly of Flint Mich., confessed to-day, according to prosecutor Gillespie, that he killed Miss Vera Schinder, eighteen-year-old telephone operator, whose body was found early Sunday morning on the porch of an unoccupied dwelling. Best was questioned throughout the night and broke down after being identified by a workman with his hands in the Clinton River near the scene of the crime a few minutes after its discovery. "she asked me to kill her." Best was quoted as saying. He even declared, according to the Prosecutor, that he met Miss Scheider for the first time late Saturday night. The confession gave no other reason for the murder than that Miss Scheider begged Best to end her life because she was tired of living and was "simply in the way of others." She even drew the handkerchiefs from his pockets and asked him to tie them together and place them about neck, Best was quoted as saying. "The Officers said Bested told them that when compiled he at first refused to put the handkerchiefs tight, but she begged him to do so, saying she was ready to die. Later he retracted his steps to the place where the body had already been found by officers and when stopped by a policeman even took a searchlight, went to the porch and looked at the girl's face. Best was released at the time, but rearrested Monday.
Tricked, He Says, By Witnesses
Testimony that may injure the Plate's case against Michael Rusciano, twenty five, of No. 4544 Richardson Avenue, the Bronx, on trial in the Bronx County Court on an indictment charging murder in the first degree in the killing of Dominick Risso, March 23, 1919, was given yesterday by the State's own witness. Through his attorney, William J. Fallon, Rusciano claims he acted in self-defense. The witness was William Amiano, of No. 4560 Gardem Place, he Bronx, who said he was with Rusciano the night Risso was killed.
Goebel Murder Arrest
Frankfort, KY, May 22- John Powers, was arrested in the mountains of Knox County, near Barbourville, last night on the charge of complicity in the murder of Gov. Goebel. Powers was taken to Barbourville, where habeas corpus proceedings were begun today.
Captured Filipinos to be Tried for Murder at Calamba
MANILA, Feb. 20- 5.55 PM A Millitary Commission meets at Calamba tomorrow to try a Filipino member of the guerrilla band which attacked a squad of Americans Feb. 2, killing a corporal. The charges are murder and assault with intent to kill. The case is important as foreshadowing the policy of treating guerrillas a s bandits. It is supposed that one reason which has hitherto deterred the American authorities from adopting this poley is that the insurgents have more than fifty American prisoners and many retaliate, although a few of them were captured while fighting.
Aquitted of Murder
Castor Stockness Was acquitted yesterday in Jersey City by the direction of Judge James W. McCarth of the murder on Aug. 26, 1919, of Paul Wenzlaff. He was tried with Mrs. Juila Wenzlaff, widow of Paul Wenzlaff. Judge McCarthy held the State failed to connect Stoclness with the alleged murder. The Trial of Mrs. Wenzlaff will continue to-day.
Arrested as Murderer of Hotel Keeper
Ross E. Clark, twenty-one, arrested in Louisville, Ky., by former Police Lieutenant William Jones has confessed to the murder Dec. 4 of Edward Lucis, a hotel keeper of West Chazy, ten miles north of Plattsburgh, the detective says. It is alleged Clark hit Lucia with a hammer and took $145.
Jury Completed at Trial of Fritz
After the twelfth juror had been sworn in this morning the trial of Erneat Fritz, taxi driver, accused of the murder of Mrs. Florence Coyne on March 23, at last got under way. District Attorney Martin declared in his opening address that the prosecution will attempt to show that an instrument was used in the murder. Leo J. Ehrhart , a civil engineer employed by the District Attorney's ofice as a special investigator, was the first witness. He described the windings of the road through the Bronx botanical gardens taken by the taxicab in which Mrs. Coyne's body was found. Mrs. Mary Glennon, mother of Mrs. Coyne, declared her daughter was in good health. Mary Tepper, No.41 Park Row, for whom Mrs. Coyne worked as a private secretary, testified. Shewas a cheerful, capable employee.
Can't Believe He's Guilty
Joseph A. Kelly, a Manhattan stock broker living at No. 772 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, was excused today as a prospective juror in the trial of Jesse Walker, nineteen, in the Criminal Branch of the Brooklyn Supreme Court on an indictment for first degree murder. "In my opinion," said Kelly, "no man comes to his senses and looks upon life in the proper perspective until he is at least twenty eight years old. That is my own age, and I am just coming to my senses. I do not believe this boy, could be guilty of intentional murder. It is charged that with two other former sailors, one a deserter, Walker entered the candy shop of Samuel Wolchak at No. 208 Wychoff Avenue, Brooklyn, on March 11, 1919, and when Wolchak failed to throw up his hands when told to do so shot and killed him.
Refuse to Give British Officials Information Regarding Mysterious Murder
Cork, Ireland, March 20- The sensational murder this morning of Lord Mayor MacGuin in his home by masked men, has not yet been solved , but two days ago he received a threatening letter which directed the Lord Mayor to prepare for death, as he had been doomed.Two hours before the Lord Mayor was murdered Constable Murtag of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was shot dead in the street. His body was riddled with bullets. When
Favre Case to Grand Jury
Evidence in the case of Mrs. Emily May Favre, charged with killing her twelve year old daughter, Emily Margaret, on Saturday, Feb. 7, in their apartments in the Hotel Ashton, 93d Street and Madison Avenue, was toda\y presented to the Grand Jury by Assistant District Attorney Benedict Dineen. Four witnesses were examined. The Grand Jury will tomorrow report to Judge Wadhams in the Court of General Sessions. When the police visited MacGuriin's house to make inquiries for inquest purposes they were refused admission.
Labor Men's "Jury" 'Aquits' I. W. W. Of Centralia Murder
The "jury" of labor men appointed by various organizations of the Northwest to sit at all sessions of the trial at Montesano, Wash, of ten Industrial Workers of the World charged with the murder of four former soldiers during an Armistice Day paradee returned a verdict of "not guilty." A statement which accompanied the finding, made public here today, said the "verdict" was adopted unanimously. Seven of the defendants were found guilty by the real jury Saturday night of second degree murder after a five weeks' trial for killing Warren O Grimm.Two who were acquitted were returned to Centralia Wash., where the former soldiers were killed, to stand trial for the murder of Arthur McElfresh. The other man, who was found not guilty but insane, was placed in jail here.
Odell Guilty of Murder
Rochester, N.Y. April 24 - After deliberating for 11 hours and 50 minutes, a Supreme Court jury at 10:25 o'clock last night brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree against James L. Odell for the murder of Edward U. Kneip on the night of January 7. Immediately after the verdict was announced Odell was sentenced by Justice Robert Thompson to die in the week of June 13. The trial of Pear Beaver Odell, his wife, jointly accused of murder, is set for May 26.
Murder of Elizabeth Man and Physician Traced to Newark Gang Fight
The man who was stabbed to death with Dr. Vincent J. Campisi, a successful Brooklyn physician, early Thursday evening in a dingy room at No. 496 Lorimer Street, was today identified as Lorenzo Sarullo, twenty nine years old, a mason's helper of No. 257 Fourth Street, Elizabeth, N.J. The identification was made from a photograph bhy the dead man's brother, Vincenzo Sarullo, of No. 621 Third Avenue , Elizabeth. Vincenzo said that he last saw his brother March 16. Lorenzo was in the habit of going out for a month at a time on work, and his absence has occasioned no alarm. Accompanied by Detectives Van Fillume and De Guida of the Brooklyn force, Vincenzo came to New York late this afternoon to claim the body of his brother. [...]
Police Seek 'J. Falcone' Whose Name Was Found on Coat in Room
Brooklyn detectives, under the personal direction of Capt. John Coughlin, worked all of tofay without solving the mystery surrounding the double murder early last evening of Dr. Vincent J. Campisi, a successful physician of No.46 Stagg Street, and an unidentified Italian. The physician was stabbed to death and life had been choked out of the unidentified man. The bodies were not cold when they were discovered in a dingy back room in a three story frame lodging house at No. 496 Lorimer Street, to which the doctor had been summoned a few minutes before. [...]
Woman Guilty In Killing
Emma Robinson, the negress who planned the robbery that led to the murder of Catherine Dunne, was sentenced to Auburn prison for ten to twenty years by Justice Fawcett in the Brooklyn Supreme Court to-day. Her trial on a charge of first degree murder was halted when her counsel said she was ready to plead guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. Frank Kelly, the negro who did the killing, urged on, he said, by the Robinson woman, is in the death house at Sing Sing. Catherine Dunne was a maid employed in the home of Clarence Sperry, No. 1146 East 21st Street, Flatbush. The murder was incidental to a jewel robbery on Dec. 20.
Innocent Man 10 Months In Jail On Murder Charge
When a Raymond Street Jail turnkey stepped up to the door of Bill Hyde's cell today and said, " We got to be turning you loose, Hyde; they got the three fellows who done that job," young Hyde, indicted 10 months ago for the hold up of a confectionary store and the murder of its proprietor, did not waste a minute saying: "I've been telling you so." "He just looked out of the window," said the turnkey, " at the snow blowing all over Brooklyn, and said: "This is about the prettiest day I have ever seen." Following the arrests and alleged confessions of three sailors of the United States Navy, Joseph F. Orth, JEsse Walker, and guy Nichols, Districr Attorney Lewis announced that a motion will be made without delay for the dismissal of the indictment against Hyde, who, the District Attorney is convinced, had nothing to do with the killing of Sam Wolchock of No. 208 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn, on March 11, 1919. The sailors, two of them deserters, are said to have confessed that they entered the candy shop in the hope of getting at least $200. Their haul, they say, was $191 less.
Murder Suspect Charges "Frame"
Samuel Michalow of No. 62 Pike Street, on stand to-day in Justice Tompkin's Court where he is being tried for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Niznick of Yonkers, denied knowing anything about the murder or knowing Mrs. Niznick. The justice denied a motion to direct the jury to acquit on the ground that Michalow was not in Yonkers at the time of the crime. Michalow said he had first seen Max [...] yesterday confessed to taking part in the murder and charged Michalow with instructing him for the crime, in a saloon brawl in Madison Street, Manhattan, last July. He said Lipp knew Lipp was against him because in White Plains jail Lipp lowered a square of black cloth in front of his cell and shouted: "Michalow, this is your funeral!"
Slayer Kelly to Die Next Month
Frank Kelly, the negro who was convicted of the murder of Catharine Dunn in the robbery of the home of C. Perry Clark in Brooklyn two weeks ago, was sentenced by Judge Kapper in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn today to die in the electric chair in the week of Feb 16. Through his lawyer, EJ Reilly, Kelly asked to be sentenced on some other day. He revived his contention that his crimes were the result of superstitious credulity by asserting that he believed his efforts to appeal would be hoodooed by a Friday sentence. Distric Attorney Lewis bitterly opposed Mr. Reilly's motion, saying that the woman murdered by Kelly had not been consulted as to the day of her death. Justice Kapper said he would not impose on the Sheriff the keeping of Kelly in a county jail any longer than was absolutely necessary and added that the verdict of conviction was in accordance with the facts and the Justice's own views.
Secrets of Goebel Murder Are Told
FRANKFORT. Ky, March 24- Secretary of State Powers was the only one of the defendants brought into court today in the Goebel murder trial, Capt. Davis and Culton remaining in jail. F. Wharton Golden, of Barboursville, was sworn as the first witness. He said he had known Secretary Powers for seventeen or eighteen years and was a good friend of all defendants. Witness was in Frankfort in January and February and was a good friend of all defendants.
Aaron Halle Will Be Tried For Murder in the First Degree
Aaron Halle, who shot and killed Mamie Brannigan, the beautiful young salesgirl in Reinhardts dry goods store, at Third avenue and Eighty sixth street, last Thursday morning was held on the charge of murder by the Coroner's jury this morning. An hour later the Grand Jury found an indictment against him for murder in the first degree. Halle will be arraigned before judge Cowing in Part I., General Sessions, tomorrow morning at 10.30 o'clock, when he will plead to the charge, A heartbroken mother, with reddened eyes and tear stained cheeks, sat in the Library of the Coroner's office in the Criminal Court Building this morning and listened to the tragic details of the death of his daughter. There was hatred in the look the mother gave the murderer as he entered the room, but Halie, cool and impassive, returned the glance with utmost indifference and with no show of pity for the woman his mad act has thrown into an awful grief. With Mrs. Branniga were Katie, an eighteen year old daughter, and her son Daniel. half sister and half brother respectively of the murdered girl. All were in tears. It was after 11 o'clock when the inquest began before Coroner Hart and jury.
Italian who will die Monday has Shrieked Continuously
Warden Johnson, of Sing Sing Prison, reads the effect on Molineux when Ferraro, the Italian murderer, is taken to the death chamber for electrocution on Monday, the miserable prisoner occupies a cell next to that of the convicted poisoner. Ever since Ferraro was notified of his doom he has been in a frenzy of his fear, and his shrieks and moans have been almost continuous. He will be executed Monday morning for the murder of Luciano Muchin, in Brooklyn in April, 1995. Ferrato, who has given the keepers more trouble than any other condemned man ever brought to Sing Sing, is still in a very nervous condition, but is less hysterical and appears to be more resigned to meet his doom. Molineux and Dr. Kennedy have said they hope Ferraro will not make a scene when his taken out of his cell ti the execution room Monday morning. There are nine condemned men in the death house beside Ferraro. With the exception of Molineux and Dr. Kennedy most of them express no sympathy for Ferraro. Warden Johnson has completed arrangments for the execuation of the Italian. The State electrician--- the electrical machinery today. Ferraro will be given a shock of 1,700 volts.
Sick Molineux Juror Postpones the Trial
The illness of juror No. 10 Manheim Brown, caused an adjournment until 10.30 tomorrow morning of the Molineux trial. When court was reconvened by Recorder Goff this morning a messenger boy rushed in with a dispatch from the sick juror's wife. The message informed the court that Mr. Brown was ill in bed with a severe attack of rheumatism. Recorder Goff read the telegram, and without delay adjourned the trial until tomorrow morning. [...]
Killed Girl and Self
Wilfred H. Landrgan, the man who shot his sweetheart, Lydia Parson, last night at Fairlawn, the country seat Max Nathan, on North Broadway, Yonkers, was an elevator man at 40 West Fifty-ninth street, ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed lives. This morning the girl's most intimate friends, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Beongtson, on West One Hundred and Forty-second street, went to Yonkers to attend ..inquest, which was held at noon, and claim the remains. The tragedy was no surprise to the dead girl's friends. They feared it for some time. To a reporter Mrs. Beongtson said: "Lydia had been acquainted with Wilfred since last Winter. She liked him very well until recently, but grew to fear him. On Saturday last Lydia came to visit me. She told me that Wilfred had called at the residence of Mr. Marcus Stein, her employer, at 34 West Seventy-second street, Friday night. She said he seemed crazy and showed her a revolver with which he said he would kill her if she refused to marry him. The girl told him that the Stein family was going to Yonkers on Saturday to live for the Summer months at Fairlawn and that she would have Sunday and Monday to herself and would be glad to see him on those days. After that she told him she would reside in Yonkers. I advised her on Saturday to shun Landrigan and told her I feared he would kill her. She said she believed it herself. He called at the Stein residence on Saturday and Sunday but the girl was at my house and he did not know it. She left me yesterday morning about 9 o'clock to visit some friends, one of whom lived at 299 West One Hundred and Thirty-eight street. Landrigan called at the house after she had left. He told a cook in the house that he intended to kill both the girl and himself. Landrigan was born in Sweden, but came to this country when young. He had been all over the world and served in the United States Navy and in the British Army. Lydia was twenty-two years old. She came from Sweden to this country five years ago. She has one sister named Segriete Parson, living as a domestic at Mamoroneck. The story of the murder and suicide as told by Mrs. Mollie Motsen, one of the servants in the Nathan home, is as follows: "I saw Lydia as soon as she reached the house. She told me all about her trouble with Wilfred and said that she had seen him abroad the same train that had just brought her from New York. "While she was speaking the butler came upstairs and told her that a young man wished to see her at the servants' door in the rear of the house. I know Wilfred and I asked him what he wanted. He said he wished to see Lydia--that she had rejected him, and that he intended to settle the matter. I tried to persuade him to go away and see her later, as the house was filled with people, but he refused to do so. I went up and told the girl, who shook with fear. She went downstairs, and they talked together for about five minutes. Then the laundress, who was in a room nearby, heard a shot. "Two shots followed this. Lydia rushed through the house and fell in the middle of the driveway on the south westerly side of the house. "The man the put a bullet in his right temple and fell dead. Lydia died in a few minutes." In the man's clothing were found letters and portraits of the dead girl and himself. Mr. Nathan, who employed the dead girl, is a manufacturer of steam injectors at 92 Liberty street. Fairlawn, his country seat, is situated a short distance north of Greystone, the home of the late Samuel J. Tilden.
Kimblern Already a Corpse When Colorado Avengers Hanged Him
Pueblo, Col. May 23. - Five minutes after Calvin Kimblern, the colored murderer, reached Pueblo from Denver, where he was captured yesterday, on a Deaver and Rio Grande train at 2 o'clock this morning, his almost naked corpse was being dragged through the streets by as many men as could lay hands on the rope around his neck. A howling mob of at least 3,000 people followed, and the six officers in charge of the prisoner made no attempt to resist the mob. As the train pulled into the Eighth street depot, Kimblern was pushed out of the front end of the smoking-car and into the hands of lynchers. A noose was cast around his necks. Many hands at once seized it. Kimblern made but the slightest resistance. Heavy steel manacles bound his wrists and he was helpless. He was dragged face downward over the railroad tracks. The noose tightened about his neck and he was undoubtedly dead before he was hanged to a telegraph pole two blocks from the depot. Twice the rope broke after the body had been hauled up, but the third attempt at hanging was successful. After the body had been allowed to dangle in the air a few minutes the rope was cut and the corpse was dragged half a block further, the crowd clamoring for a fire. Mayor West exhorted the mob, which included some women, to disperse, but long after many in the crowd has gone home or stood on the outskirts, boys and young men danced about the remains, insisting that the man was not dead. They stripped the body to the waist, and a man who claimed to be a doctor, said that his heart was still beating. The mob then hooked the mancles into one of the spikes on the side of the pole, where the body was again hanged up. It was finally taken to the Morgue. One the journey from Denver, Kimblern was fully aware of the fate that awaited him here, but he retained his composure and smoked or slept much of the time. Kimblern assaulted and murdered two young girls at the Orphan Asylum on Sunday morning. He also tried to kill his wife.