Crime
A dispatch 1 rom Ghattanooga, lenu. Sept. 14'ii Baje: "The sUerifí and deputy of thia eounty were killed and shot while en route to Kooxville with a prísoEer. Thls Is the most daiiUK inurder in the annala of erime. John Faylor two jears ago killed Capt. Fietcher on tbe Tenreasee. He escapad at the tltnt, but was ñnally cuptured and brought to this city. He had several tm's, and at the last term of court was Benteaced to ten years at hard labor at the penitoctl-iry. H got an appeal to the snpreme court in seasioa at Kuoxville. To-day at noon Sheriff Cate and Depu'y Conway took an Eiiet TennftBee train having i'aylor iu charge. Ha was handcuffdd. Stveral men boarded the train at Sweetwater or Fhiladelphia, about 75 miles froin here, and while the train was bet ween Philadelphia and London deliberately ehot and killed Cate and Conway, wounded another man, ïvleased the prisoner, and took charge of the train runniug it through London. At Lanou's statiou, Johu Taylor aad his brothers Bob and Andy got off and f orcibly t-ok horses and lef t tor the monntalno. John Faylor was wounde-í in the arm. 'ltie city is q intense excitenieut. A posae of 83 men with 5pringGeld rifles le:t on n special train on the Dincinnati Southern; another posse will leave werland. A. posso has alrearty lef t Kington aad mothor London. Cate has been Bheriff two weeks to day. Re was one of the most popular men In the city. H-) was about 50 yoars old, and leaves a larg family. Deputy Coaway w about 30 year' of ag: and a prominent loca poHücian. t JCh excitement has not brea in n siace lbo wnr. A niSHONEST CASHIliK. il is reported at the oflice ot the Central railroad ol New Jersey that Dwight S. Lsthrop, aesistant cashler, New York city, has abscondsd aftr approprlatiDg $40000 of the company's mony. He was appointei ly th? late Judge Latbrop, hs ur.cle, wUo wm ihan reoeifer. Anlnveglistation wa8,bBgun lütoiy, and a week aa;o a deficit of at least f 40.IKW was discovered. Lathrop thau llíappoared, nccompanied ly a romnn ba liad ben liviog with. His plan waB to alter tbo depoeit ticket ou tho way to the bank and deduct the diffwenoe in moüoy, at the same lime falpifj ídk t!i boolcl to cover the Irregularilie?. A EAriST HANGED. The negro Nathan Bonnett, who entered the house of a white citlzen at CbarlestoD.S. C.v and attempted to rape bis daughter, 1 was takan from jail by lynchers who ered the jailor. Bonnett, who bad confeesed, waB Immediately hanged anl the body riddled wilh ballets. A WOMAN SEKTENCED. The Indianapolis jury in tlie case of Mra. WaltoD, uoder trial as an aecomplice for tho purder of b?r husband, retumed a verdict of gtiüty ad sentenced her to imprieonment f.r lHo in the poaitiDtiory.
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