'tjg TH Kl R BLOOD. DOUBLE murder by an ITALIAN. IIBIB ni, sisUtMid the Olrl He Muntvrel Her Sister •v.«a»na" Th *>" '■"* IS Mis Lips. 4 ..a ta.» «•w If IS OF THE MOST heartless, fiendish and ghastly doubla tragedies New York city has witnessed in years, was ; which perpetrated last week. Its prin only i\ slashed two young ' women with a stil etto ao that both bei actually placed the warm, hi* lips after finishing work, and exclaimed: "I heart's blood!" not lu ip Ml irtsk her double tragedy was enacted on The cowardly aasaaain, Olimpata. is a cobbler and a of Italy, 17 years old. Hia vie rr Kate Wellt. 1* year# old. and nar Ho**. year» old. The walking down Bast Elfh- j pit street on their way home, ( ill unknown to them, Olampata. 1 used in hiding in a veetlbule, j j j j ! ! I 7, j | j ] ) j j j murder in bin heart. ) eld a stiletto, eight »ade from a piece ot sharpened to a awl I »er ; V jbLx > » A I ■ ». (Kl „V f\ I KATE WEILS. Mth* *t« ltd placed In Jti Mm «omen reached the step* »we GlatftpsM from hi* Without »«ring » »ord t-s *etsd h« H "" 1 followed. He be l ' t fi n, l *he intlmney was main t ( "otnetlme last May. when » km"' r ' lp '* Bn '* »eparnted. Giant* 1 of Uielr tnMrn Wh ' rh « WM 'î'f re ; »!(,„ . r tntlmacy and would not U t0 her. honm, by that means to I'reshyterlaji hospital. The cause which led led force her to return to him, but «he would have nothing him. more to do with He still loved her, and pursued her with his attentions, following her on the street and loitering about her home, until on July 2 last she procured rant for his arrest. He was taken Into custody, but Magistrate Crane dls > barged him on his promise not to an noy the young woman any more. He still persisted in annoying her, and last week she again caused his rest. When arraigned before Magis trate Mott, Kate complained that he annoyed her when he met her on the street, and that he persisted in asking her to return to him The magistrate held him In $500 ball to keep the peace him a war ;n of ■M paroled in the cus Lawyer Quitman until afternoon to procure There waa nothing in Glam tody of in the bait. pata'e manner to show that he medi tated revenge, and he said no word that would lead to the belief that he medi tated the fearful deed which he com mitted lees than an hour later. rktn«d Mna t muiini n*r mu» for laser»«« s«. r . Mr*. Nora Ferkln* was arrested at j Minneapolis the other night, charged ( wllh t he murder of her sister, Mrs. 1 ko U |s* Hawkins, the supposed motive for surged crime being the fact j that Mr* Hawklne had I7.U00 Insurance j on her life. Mra. Hawkins died Aug. 9. j four bourn after the overturning of a j lamp near a bed where she lay III. The ! Are was supposed to be accidental, but ! a similar accident had occurred several WOMAN IN TROUBLE. j weeks before and this aroused the sus | plcions or the police. In company with j the insurance officials (hey have been ] making a quiet investigation, which re sulted In the arrest. There are two poll ) tie* on Mr*. Hawkina' life- one for I5.UUU In the Fidelity and Casualty and one for 12.000 In the Security Mutual Lite. The sister* were widows and Mrs. j Ferkln» ha* one child. Mr*. Hawkins' j burns were so serious that she died In great agony without being able to tel! what bad happened The police abso j luteiy refuse to disclose the nature of the evidence The two policies were taken out April » In Mr*. Ferkln*' favor, It is understood the state expects to ) prove that the bed clothing waa satur fated with oil and ignited and the tamp overturn«! to conceal the crime, a* charged In the warrant On the other I hand, the defense claim* to have an ante-mortem statement of Mr*. Haw yt, - Jj I ■*' I ! j j j ; j ; 1 vVvVvv (*'-r j, t sag 9 . / y Y/i. W/a '//• rm MRH NORA PBRKIN8 kins to the effect that *b* overturned the lamp herself accidentally. ; . I , BOUND TO SEE HIM. tain r»rlpil |N»r* Jnnr* € Hn «rom the Man She l.nved. The train brought to Richmond from their home at Montlcello. Ind.. the other evening. J. J. Jones and his daughter. Some days previous the Mis* Dora j latter was to have been married, but when the hour for the ceremony rived the groom failed to appear and ha* not since i»een heard of. The shock great one to the girl and her : j i i a by 1 , . _ lo Karly this morning Miss Dora left the hotel and boarded the She left a nr wan a father was taking her to Camden. Ohio, to visit and rest until she recovered ! They wer«' to remain al Richmond over at one of the train for Caldwell. Ohio for her father as follows: "Dear i falber. I am going to see hlm. I must ; do It or die Don't worry about me or j t r y to follow me, for If you do 1 will i commit suicide Please forgive me for your money, but 1 must go." note a|w* tiding . When Mr Jones discovered what tils daughter had done hi* grief was great, but he decided not to follow his daugh for fear she would carry out her He went on to Camden. 1 er threat. No Mor» Work for ftpottAf*. Th# *tr#c>t car npott#r haa practically disappeared from some western cities, where Just lately a scheme of selling ticket* for 25 cents good for six rides (there should also he sold thirty tlck for ID ha* come Into general use. conductor punches a hole In the ticket for each ride. The spotter enn not, of course, tell which passengers paid cash fares and which have cards, and so hi* usefulness hn* and he I* going himself. The Rock seem ets Th« have I rip wo III In her be ; Electric light» ore soon to be put i not wecin " „ |s a |u at night. to to Illuminate Niagara kail« gone Island road recently adopted a Inglv excellent plnn on Its local trains running out of Chicago The conduc Informed that In the future spotters would not be employed on the road and tlfat Ihe money thus saved ,onld he npptled to an Increase in the The conductors led tors were of conductors. In the future he watched. wages would not ... hut would ho regarded ns trusted em and pa I if as such. The plan Is •ork to Ihe satisfaction of both ploye* said to w company and men. AFTER AN OUTLAW. ENCOUNTER BETWEEN ER8 AND HILDEBRANDT. OFPIC Mtttl« HU After ThlUllff Hank» of HU Maa'» No«« Clean Mura Khot, the Pursuer«—Hhot One Off—Waa a Dead INK miles east of Irondale, In St. Francios county, Mo., are two old log houses, which are landmarks, and which have an In teresting history. They were formerly the homestead of John Williams, an uncle of the no torious outlaw and assassin, Sam Hil debrandt, who, for a number of years, terrorized that section of the country. Before the war Hildebrandt was a bog thief, and a number of warrants were out for bis arrest. When the war broke out he joined the Confederacy, and afterwards became a bushwhacker. After the rebellion was over he re turned to hia borne. O. W. Murphy, then sheriff of St. Francois county, at tempted to serve the old warranta on him, and Hildebrandt became a fugi tive. While he was in hiding his brother, who was a member of a gang of horse thieves, returned to his home. The vigilance committee, headed by one Firman McKIvane, went to the home of the aged Mrs. Hildebrandt, and falling to And either of the outlaws, & r / -a. Vö&fl *3 _C —c -IU - « «San ■L4, g ■V>. % . A ft « V THE ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE HIM. drove the old lady out. burned the house and shot the youngest child. This made 8am Hildebrandt furious, and be com menced a war of extermination on the Hia first victim vigilance committee, was the leader. McKIvane. whom he shot from ambush while the man was He also shot others, jail he ing a of to his her cradling wheal, and a big reward was offered for him, either dead or alive. On Aug. 17. 1872. J. C. Breckenrldge. sheriff of Washington county, with a force of constable*, surrounded him in the home of John Williams. Constable King and two men went to the back door, while Breckenrldge and one man went to the front. The sheriff tried to the door, but found It locked. He open knocked and called for Hildebrandt, but received no answer from within. Old man Williams was out at the barn, and told the men that Sam was Inside The sheriff told Williams to go in and tell the outlaw to surrender, that he would be treated as r prisoner and should have a fair and Impartial trial. Williams failed to gain admittance, but the desperado Jprkod open the door and fired at Breckonridge. who returned the in # Leaving one man to guard the back door. Constable King and one- man started around to where (he shooting was going on. Just as they were pass ing between the house* they were shot the z . 4$ 4> '.ft I ers » 4 I VU of uirt, w ; w SAM HILDEBRANDT, at through n hole In the chinking, the bullet tearing a hole in (ho bark of King's coal and grazing the skin of his deputy's breast. When they reached the front door the desperado again and tired on them, hlt Tho Jerked It open ling Breckenrldge in the bowels. returned, bnt missed Hilde lire wftB hrnndt. and «truck Mr«. William« In the chin. Tim party carried the sheriff „way and held n council, when It was decided to slti'V themselves behind nml outbuildings and wait for Hildebrandt to make his appearance. A man of the name of Ong had taken refuge behind the spring-house. t ree» Mr. Ong had a very prominent nose, which had been the aubject of many a Joke. In peeping around the corner of bla «heiter be preaented a conapicuoua mark, which waa at once taken advan tage of by the aasaaain. At the crack of the gun the tip of Ong'a big noae flew off, and be at once proceeded to lower the mile «printing record several minutes. In the force or oeputiea was a man named McLane, who had, a short time before, ambushed Hildebrandt and wounded him in tha hip. The outlaw had sworn to avenge this assault, and waited patiently for McLane to show himself. He was Anally rewarded by seeing his enemy start to enter the door of the adjoining building. Just as McLane darkened the door a rifle shot rang out, and McLane was shot through the heart. He ran a few yards outside and fell dead. This shot was a marvelous one, as Hildebrandt had to shoot through a chink in the wall where he was, diagonally across a space of 20 feet, through another small hole in the wall of the opposite house. An attempt was then made to burn him out, but failed. When night cam* he crawled out between two pickets and escaped in the darkness. In climb ing over the fence he muBt have hurt his wounded hip and fell, for his gun was found the next morning. The gun was taken possession of by Dennis O'Leary, who gave it to a man in De Sota, Mo., who claims It is the original "Kill Devil." The notches on the gun found by Mr. O'Leary were flled there after the return from the chase by Andrew Bean, now a resident of Po tosl, Mo. Hildebrandt was killed in Illinois Borne years ago by a bartender, and his remains were fully Identified, although some people contend that he was never killed. LOYAL TO CONVICT LOVER. tVltllmn Mltrlirll an Wat Uy. PANISH FORT, A »little village on the sand bluffs of Red « river, is well worth visiting, because it »U a surviving spec imen of an almost extinct species. The genuine town in Texas is now as scarce an article as the typi cal frontier bad man. and about as scarce as his esteemed contemporary, the buffalo. Spanish Fort is not a par ticularly lawless place to-day, but its physical appearance Is still what it was when it was establishing a record. The place was laid out In 1873, and has had, for the past 20 years, perhaps aB many as 200 inhabitants. There are burled in the two graveyards in the place, 35 persons, who have been killed in the town since 1873. This is not a guess founded upon the recollections of old inhabitants, but is taken from a I frontier j / M '6 mm * I I w V' V ( ÏÜ DICK DRISKILL. list recently published, in which the name of the victim was given with the date and cause of the killing. There are 2 women among the number. 2 sui cides, 2 cases of killing with a club, 1 case of banging and 32 cases of shoot ing. There is no case of lynching re ported, and none of judicial hanging: from which one may draw the gratify ing conclusion that all tbe killings were Justifiable in the eyes of the law and perfectly satisfactory to the com munity in general. The liveliest period in the history of the place seems to have been in 1874, in which year six men and one woman were shot and one man killed with a club. It should be understood that in the list referred to, no disturbance which did not result fatally is recorded. The most impor tant spot in the town, from an historic standpoint, is one of its saloons. It is at one corner of the little row of wooden stores that face the open square. The old citizens locate fully two-thirds of the killing accredited to the town by using the saloon as a point of refer ence. Just at the back door is where Bob Lacey was killed. There, in the sand. Just before the front door, is where Bob Parnell and three Stead ham brothers lay dead when they were shot one afternoon in 1879. Just under the horse rack is where Dick Goss, escaped negro convict. lay after he was shot, and gasped out: , "Boys. I'd rather be lying here dying than in charge of the officers on my way to the pen." Just inside the saloon you see where several bullets struck the door when they were shot at Dick Driskill, a former proprietor of the place. In the rear end you may still see the billiard table on which Dick laid himself down and died after Pat McLaughlin's bul lets finally got in their work. The present proprietor of the place !s a man named Shrock. His hair and beard are of a dark-red color, his eyes are light blue and his complexion Is of a deli cate, uniform shade of pink over his whols face. He speaks in a low, smooth u €4§ W : ff PAT McLAUGHLIN. voice that seems to characterize him as a mild-mannered, easy-going man. When I questioned him in regard to some of the many killings in the his tory of the town, his general answer was: "I'd like to tell you. pardner, just the best In the world, but I don't know—1 don't know. It's true I've ltved here a long time, but somehow It seems like j whenever any trouble come up I allers j happened to l>e over In the territory." \ His face had such a look of mild seriousness as he said this that l could not help accepting the explanation. Aside from the saloon perhaps the place associated with the next greatest number ot tra B ,c iv-mor es is the old McLaughlin house. It is a big, dilapi dated-looking hulk that stands back about a hundred yards from the square, and is now used as a barn. In 1873, when it was built, it was considered a fine house, and even now there is a roominess about it that suggests better days. McLaughlin, wno built the house, was a wealthy farmer from Col lin county, who came to Spanish Fort when it was started because it was in a good agricultural country and gave promise of developing into a good lively town. With him he brought his wife, two sons, and his only daughter. He purchased several hundred acres of land just outside the city limits, and boasted that no man in Texas was bet ter fixed for farming or for enjoying life than he. Then came a series of tragedies. First of all, the only daugh ter, a handsome girl of some 20 sum mers fell suddenly 111 and died. Then the wife followed. Then both the boys took to drink. One day Pat, the elder, got into a difficulty with Dick Driskill, the saloon keeper, otherwise known as Whisky Dick. McLaughlin stood in the street in front of the saloon and fired through the door at his opponent, while Driskill stood at one side of the door and poked bis head out, shot, and then sought the protection of the door again. This was kept up until both men had emptied their pistols, and then Driskill, being mortally wounded, went into the back of the saloon, laid himself down on the billiard table, and died. One may even yel see the marks made by Pat McLaughlin's bullets on the walls. As to the billiard table, there have been games played on it probably every day from that time to this, with the possible exception of a few Sundays. While the shooting was going on a shoemaker named Freeland, who had a little shop Just across the street, de termined to take a hand in the fight ing. His only weapon was a single barreled. muzzle-loading pistol. Tak ing this in his hand, he rushed up be hind McLaughlin while the shooting was going on. and, at the distance of only a few yards, shot him Bquarely between the shoulders. Then, without waiting to see the result of his shot, he dropped his weapon and fled. Mc Laughlin. who happened to be wearing a heavy overcoat, did not even know that he had been hit and continued his main fight as if nothing had happened. After he had killed Driskill, he took off bis overcoat, and his friends, on ex amination, found that Freeland's bul let had struck his back hard enough to leave a small bruised spot, but not hard enough to break the skin. When about a mile from town Freeland met some men and reported that he had killed Pat McLaughlin at Spanish Fort. Then he continued his flight, and from that day to this no human being i3 known to have seen him alive or dead. Whether he was drowned while cross ing Red river, or whether he is still / G 'Xir* 4 V* ■ im, : . a-1 Sv\ /§ V V y x john McLaughlin. running no body knows. If he is in hiding and this should meet his eye he is hereby notified that his supposed victim was not even aware of the shot, and that if he wishes to go back and resume his shoemaking at Spanish Fort the laws of the state need give him no concern. It is hard to see why he should have been afraid to stand trial, for trials were never known to result seriously in those days. The first time Pat Mc Laughlin was tried the result was a dis agreement of the jury. The result was worse than was generally the case, and old man McLaughlin was so frightened by it that he sold half his farm in order to secure money to defend his son at the next trial, things were indeed be coming gloomy around the big house. While the second trial was still pend ing the younger son. John McLaughlin, was accused of a serious crime. The community generally believed him guilty and sided against him. He had been clerking in a general merchandise store, and his employer discharged him. It became only a question of time when an encounter should take place between hint and the wronged one. and it would become necessary for him either to take a life or to lose his own. He com mitted suicide. As a matter of course. Pat Mc Laughlin was finally acquitted of the murder of Driskill. anything else, obtained, though, his father had to sell the remaining part of his farm in order to pay his lawyers. Pat is said to be living to-day somewhere in the Indian territory. The father left Spanish Fort and went—no one knows where. John, his mother and his sister rest side by side In the graveyard at Span ish Fort. Nobody expected Before acquittal was Both Revengeful Mint llumorou«. The man who burglarized the Con necticut state prison and carried off the warden's horse and carriage with a note : j * n I'* 8 Packet addressed to the warden, * n< l telling him that the robbery was : to get even for the rough treatment that the thief had received from the warden , during n four years residence of the former at the prison, was not only te: vengeful, but one possessed of a quiet ; sense of the humorous.