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Crime

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Carml, -City Marshal Wade of New Haven, near here, shot and killed Dr. J. H. Tanner of that place Frlday cvening. Tanner eame from Canada a few yeurs ago. Sheridan, Ini.- Calvin Love, 19 year old, shot hls wife and then furned the weapon on himself. Both will probably die. Mrs. Love was seven years her husband's senior. She had been narried before, and Love wae jealous of her former husband. Houston, Tex.-James Wllllamson, who was convieipd c,( compücl'.y in the murder of the Crocker i'amily in 18S5, has been hangcd at Wharton. St. Joseph, Mo.- James Pollard, oolored, was hanged for the inurder of Joseph Irvln, also colored. Vh-oqua, Wis.- The jury in the cse of George Sullivan, Tor the killiag of Asa Gorharu, arrived at a verdict of murder in the seeond degroe alter seven hours' deliberation. Attnrneys for the defendant asked that sentence be suspended till July 12, whun a motion for a new trial will be raade. Greenville, 111. - Sidney Crutchley, aged 25 years, oommitted suicide by hanging at Mulberry Grove. Toronto.- J. G. Gibson, secretary and treasurer of the O'Koefe brewing company, was arrested on a charge of embezzling t'unds of the company. He was remanded in eourt until the amount of the shortage can be determined, b;ül lieiug fixed in the sum o $S,OOÜ. Gibson is prominent in club and social circles. l)all:is, Tex.- A negro assaulted a little white girl, daughter of a planter camed McReynolds. A posse of farmers went in pursult, and are reportd to have captured the negro in the Trinity Klver bottotn, between Terrell and Kauffmai:, anl lynched him by hanging him fiom the limb of a tree. Jeffersoüville, Ind. George J. Kleespies, one of the best known men in the falls city, auicided at the Strauss Hotel by tak ing sixty gralns of strychnine. Friday his sweetheart, Mariah Densford Ross. dled after u short 111ness. Kince lier death he had ;-ei: despoudent, and the suicide foUowtd.

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Ann Arbor Register