The Record Of Crime

THE RECORD OF TIME.

   At Allegheney City, Pa., Thursday, Mrs. Mary Wilcox, a carpenter's wife, committed suicide by cutting her throat, thwarting an attempt to save her life by tearing a bandage off and bleeding to death. She was in poor circumstances and killed herself, it is said, because her relatives refused to assist her.

   Near Valparaiso, Ind., Thursday night, a snow-plow swept away an obstruction intended to wreck the east-bound Chicago & Grand Trunk passenger train, due at Lansing about 10 p. m. It is supposed that the object of the wreckers was robbery.

   In the prisoners' pen of the court of general sessions at New York, Friday morning, Frederick Bennett cut his throat with a razor and may not recover. He was waiting to be sentenced for highway robbery. The affair created intense excitement among the other prisoners.

   Sherman Lynn, a young man of Parkersburg West Virginia, shot and mortally wounded Miss Carrie Berg, Monday, mistaking her for her sister, who had rejected him.

   A New York longshoreman named Peter Peters 40 years old, tucked himself comfortably in his bed, held a mirror in his left hand to get an accurate aim at his temple with a pistol he held up his right hand, and shot himself dead.

   Ollie Sawyer, an engineer on the St. Paul road, was killed in a collision with another engine at Hoskins, Neb., Monday.