Show 1 s i a J k t f l TELEQBAEHiC CRIME The Daily Calendar Atlanta Ga 16A special to the Constitution from Calhoun says Margaret Mar-garet Harris a condemned negreet made another statement in which ebe proclaims innocence and denies having administered poison to Mrs Bernwell as charged She sent for Colonel Starr this morning and in the pretence of Sheriff Taylor mad a statement that the confession confes-sion was extorted from her by Lewis father of Lela Lewis the child who died from poisoning and one Chapman living liv-ing on Mrs Bernwells lands She stated that they carried her to an old hone on the place and pt a rope around her neck and hanged and lashed ber alternately al-ternately until they forced her into making a confession telling her if she would confess the crime she would not be hurt and should have a good time as long as ehe lived Glendive Mont 16beriff Taylor yesterday endeavored to quiet three drunken cowboys when he was set upon and beaten In the melee Olaytcn Wil comby an Englishman about to locate here was killed A freight conductor was also shot in the ankle One of the cowboys was captured and lodged in jail The other two escaped Lincoln IHM l6The body of Zra Burn who had been employed as a domestic do-mestic here was found in a lane on the outskirts of the city yesterday Her throat bad been cut from ear to ear and her forehead crushed A reword of 1000 is offered by the village for the arrest of her murderer but no clue as yet has been discovered Columbus Ga 15In Russell county Ala six miles from this city today to-day Thomas Prince instantly kUleo his fatherinlaw B S Jeffries The killing was done in self defense and in defense of Princes wife and Jeffries daughter New York 16John Irving and John Walsh widely known burglars shot and killed each other in Shang Drapers saloon sa-loon early this morning They had a bitter Quarrel and it is said that six W eke ago they mat in another saloon and drew pistols on each other but weresep arated The police story is that John Irving and Jack the mick were in Drapers Dra-pers saloon shortly before 2 oclock this morning both filled with liquor They quarreled about some rascality in which they were mutually interested They became noisy and Billy Porter entered and tried to stop the row This interference interfer-ence only roused the rioter to fury and both whipped out revolvers and fired at close quarter avery one in the saloon Bought cover as the double report rung out The shots were fired at the same instant and with like effect Irvine fell dead with Johnny the Mickj bullet in his brain and the rick fell shot through the heart neither lived long enough to breathe twice after he was shot Billy Porter and gang ran out to the street but the reports of the pistols were heard by the police and Irving was arrested Every person inspected of being in the saloon at the time 01 me shooting was arrested St Louie 16Tbo Po3tDi patch continues con-tinues its repetition given before the late grand jury regarding the gambling ring 4 and the police department and implicating implicat-ing Governor Grittenden Little Bock Ark 16 Wyatt Ames who killed Sander J Blount while resisting re-sisting arrest yesterday was caught last night and while attempting to escape was riddled with bullets London 16A foreign socialist with a forged passport was arrested at Royal The trial of eighteen socialists on the charge of high treason begun at Olmutz Bavaria Lafayette Ind 16 Nellinci full confession that under the impulse of a murderous mania he had gone to the house and murdered Ada Atkinscn was read to an excited multitude at Oxford ibis morning Great crowds on horseback horse-back in wagons and buggies now throng the read to Fowler The sheriff who at Oxford had taken the nearest road is but little in advance Lynching It i probable |