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THE PRESS. PULPIT AND PUBUG
What Is Going on Here and There
That Is of Interest to hte Read
ers Throughout Nebraska.
In a light near Lexington Davo Fish
er wasjdllcd by Emory Matthowe.
The body of Miss Wersoll, who
suicided In Omaha, was sent to Cum
ing county for burial.
, I Hampen, a farmer of Hayes coun
ty, committed suicide on account of
domestic difficulties. Ho leaves two
daughters.
In Soventy-soven countlos jn Nebras.
ka tho socialists cast a total of 1,013
votes and tho prohibitionists 3,253
votos on electors.
Tronmoro Cono of Wahoo has do
elded to bocomo a candldato for tho
chief clerkship of tho Nobrnska houso
of representatives.
In tho vlllago election at Cambrldgo,
voting on tho Issuanco of $25,000 bonds
for a ByBtom of waterworks, tho pro
position carried by 190 to 47.
Qovornor Sheldon has allowed re
quisition for John Dcdford, under ar
rest at Deatrlco and wanted In Mc
Henry county, 111., for alleged murder.
There lias been so much nightly
mischief perpetrated at Norfolk lately
by boys that tho city authorities havo
'determined to rigidly enforco tho cur
Tow law.
Alfred Werner, n stranger, was ar
rested In Ogalalla by Shorlff Beal on
tho charge of forging Uio naino of Mr.
Kcalcn, living near Big Springs. Ho
languishes in jail.
Omaha shippers arc disturbed over
what is termed tho sudden enforca
mcnt by tho railroads of a provision
regarding shipments by Rulo 27 of tho
western classification.
Miss Helmlna Beckard of Utlca,
Nob., has returned from Germany,
whoro sho has boon studying for some
time, and haB registered for work In
tho Peru Stato Normal.
Sheriff Fischer of Otoo county ar
rested suspect and held him In jail un
til ho confessed to stealing u horse at
ABhland and taking It to Greenwood,
jwhero ho sold it for $9.
i W. O. Fordoti about 45 years of ago,
jtravollng for tho Hosb B. Curtice Piano
company of Lincoln, dropped dca.d of
heart falluro In tho office of tho Grand
Central hotol In Broken Bow.
In looking Into tho affairs of ono
of tho Inmates at tho poor farm In
Otoo county 't has been found that ho
was possessed of somo $8,000 in real
estate and Bomo personal property.
Dr. C. P. Fall, a prominent Bentrlco
democratic politician denies tho ro
port that ho is after tho appolntmont
of Buporlntondont of tho feoblo mind
ed institution to succeed Dr. Osborn.
Farmers should all lmvo telephones.
Wrlto to us and learn how to get tho
best servico for tho least monoy. Ne
braska Telephone Company, 18th and
Douglas streets, Omaha. "Uso tho
Boll."
Georgo Robortson, who for four
yearn has been mnnngor of tho Mark
M. Coad. Btock ranch at Fremont, has
resigned his position 'to accept an
other with tho Greoloy Horso Import
ling company nt Greeley, Iowa,
t It Is reported that Governor She!
don expended $10,000 moro during tho
'Jast two years than his salary amounts
to. In other words it cost him $10,
000 in cash to hold tho ofllco of gover
nor and' perform tho dutleB of that
ofllce as ho thought they should bo.
Miss Emma Paulus, living at tho
family homo, eight miles northwest of
Harvard, shot herself with n rino, and
Is not oxpected to rccovor. Miss Pau
lus Is tho oldest child and only daught-
or of tho lato Peter Paulus, who early
In tho summor of this year shot him
solf at tho samo homo. Soon nftor her
father's death, Miss Paulus's mind
cave way and sho was taken to tho
Hastings asylum.
Samuel Bowers, n farmer living near
North Platte, has been arrested by
tho deputy United States marshal from
Omaha, on an Indictment from tho
federal grand jury charging him with
Intent to defraud tho government by
making a false declaration In affidavit
Ifor pension. Mr. Bowers has resided
Jn Lincoln for ovor twenty years, and
jhas Bustalned a good roputatlon. Ills
indictment Jius occasioned mucn our
prise.
Perry A Yeast of Hyannls, Grant
county, was taken to tho Hall county
Jail at Grand Island and turned over
to tho authorities thoro to begin ins
throe months' torm of Imprisonment
for his complicity In land frauds ',n
Banner and ono or two othor western
Nobraska counties. Yoaat wnB con
victed In the United States district
court last spring or dabbling In sol
ders' declaratory statements and pro
curing fraudulent land filings after n
trial lasting Bovernl dayB.
A distressing accident happened at
tho homo of Mr. and Mrs. Parkhurat,
living near Taylor. Tho adult mem
bers of tho family woro In tho barn
milking when ono of tho children wns
burned to death In tho house,
A charitably Inclined woman at No
braska City went to tho homo of a
poor family, tho mombors of which
woro 111 and had neither food or modi
clno In the houso. Tho good Samarit
an found n mother who had been sick
for weekB lying on a bed mado of rags,
neglected nnd starving children with
out a crumb, buecor was nt onco
furnished,
By GEORGE BARTON
Mow Famous Detectiva 'Un
earthed Great Quantity of
Loot Guided by the Crook
He Outwitted All Guilty
Ones Receive the Penalty,
Through Work of Clever
Sleuth Overcomes-All
Obstacles.
On tho night of Octobor it?, 1879,
Paymaster McCluro and hU body
ruard, Hugh Flanaghan, employes of
Charles McFaddon, n railroad contract.
r, woro waylaid In tho Luzorno moun
tains, just outside of Wllkesbarro, Pa.,
robbed, and foully murdered.
Tho two men left Wllkosbarro In a
ono-horso buggy and arranged their
Journoy bo that thoy might reach
Minor's Mills In tlmo to pay off tho
Italian laborers who woro working on
tho railroad near that placo. They
had $12,000 In a lcathor satchel which
wa8 fastened to tho bottom of tho car
rlago with n couple of straps. The
thought of porsonal danger never on
terod tho minds of cither of tho men.
Thoy know ovory foot of tho ground,
and, moreover, woro acquainted with
nearly ovory man, woman and child
within a radius of flvo mllo3.
Their coming to Minor's Mills was
always tho occasion of much joy among
tho Italian laborers and their wives
and children. In fact, McClure and
Flanaghan were looked on no minia
ture editions of Santa Claua, excopt
that Instead of coming onco a year,
they mado their wwlcomo visits twlco
month. They wcro as punctual as
tho clock ltsolf, and tho- workmen
know to tho mlnuto when to expect
tluj pnymastor nnd his assistant. As
a consoquonce, when they failed to ap
pear at tho usual tlmo on Octobor 20,
tho people woro very much dlsturbod.
A telogrnm from Wllkosbarro stated
they had left that city 12 hourB bofore.
A general alarm was sont out and a
delegation of men started for the
mountains. Somo of the most pro nil
ncnt cltlzeiiB of Luzerno county head
od tho searching party. They know
that tho paymaster and his assistant
carried a largo sum of money and
thoy wero also nwaro that certain
parts of tho mountain woro as lawless
na tho most uncivilized section of tho
United States. Llttlo wondor that
thoy wero filled with gloomy forobod
Ings. They had not gono far bsforo
their worst fears woro realized. Tho
horso belonging to McCluro and Flan
aghan lay dead In tho road. Tho nnl
mal had boon wounded and evidently
Buffered great agony boforo it died,
for It lay thoro weltering In Its own
blood. Somtt yards further up tho
road they caino to tho broken shafts
of a carriage,
Thoy contlnuod their search, norv
Ing themselves for tho shock that was
still to come. It enmo only too soon.
Tho dead body of Paymaster McCluro
was found dangling from tho bar of
tho buggy, where It had boon caught
and hung susponded for hours. An
examination proved that tho dead man
had been shot In tho back In four dls
tlnct places. It wua as If a volley had
been fired from ambush. Tho horror
of tho affair was Increased flvo mln
utcs later when Flanaghan was found,
faco down, prostrate In tho road, life
less. Ho ovldontly had been shot and
fallen from tho wagon
Tho Inquest demonstrated nothing
of valuo. Tho funeral of tho mur
dered mon, which took placo from
Minor's Mills, was largely attended
All oi uio Italians wuo worKcd on
tho railroad wcro present. Ono of
tlieBO was Michael Rlzzolo. Ho Boomed
to bo very much nffectod, nnd, pulling
out Ills handkerchief, wept blttorly.
IIo cried out
"My goodncBB, who could havo donu
this awful crlmo? I will havo to help
to run down tho murdorors, and when
wo get them wo will string them up
without mercy."
Within 24 hours IUzzolo wns arrest-
cd charged with tho murder of Mc
Cluro and Flanaghan.
But, unfortunntoly, tno arrest was
mado solely on suspicion. Thoro was
not a shred of ovldenco on which to
hold tho man unless It was tho fact
that ho lived in n shanty on tho moun
taln-sldo. Tho oxpected happened.
Ho won discharged from custody,
In tho mcnntlmo CharleB McFaddon,
tho employer of tho murdord men, do
tormlned that tho assassin should not
go tree, If a plentiful expcndlturo and
tho employment of tho best dctcctlvo
skill in Amorlca could prevent It
Accordingly, ho sont for Capt. Itob
ert J, Linden.
Within 24 hours LIndon was In
Wllkesbarro. Ho had boon given full
power aud unlimited monoy. Hlu first
act was to put Miko lllzzolo under sur
volllanco. After that ho mndo an ox
haustlvo investigation of tho scono of
tho murder. At its conclusion ho was
convinced of the guilt of IUzzolo. But
ho lacked the proof that would satisfy
other man bolovcs him guilty of a
arlmo. No ono know thlB hotter than
Robert J. LIndon.
Hl3 assistant, Capt. E. J. Dougherty,
said:
"Shall wo arrest IUzzolo?"
"No; wo must get clthor a confes
sion or sufficient ovldenco for a con
vlctl6n." At this critical stago of tho game
tho locnl nuthorittoo who had heard
of tho movements of Linden and his
assistants, ro-nrrcstcd Rlzzolo. Lin
den wns not given to profanity, but
Bomo of tho things ho said on that oc
casion wero unprintable. Ho foresaw
a tilal nnd nn acquittal a fiasco, a
mlscarrlago of justtco. IIo went to
Thomas Qulgloy of Miner's Mills.
"Mr. Qulgley, you wnnt tho moun
tain mystery solved?"
' "Surely."
"Then go ball for Mlko IUzzolo."
Qulgloy wont Itlzzolo's ball In tho
sum of $2,000, and tho Italian was ro
leased from custody. IIo was delight
cd. To his mind ho had bcon tried
and virtually acquitted of tho crlmo
avk, N. J., but eventually rirltlOvk to
Wllkesbarro, where ho socureu. em
ploy mont with tho railroad contract
ors.
Two days after IUzzolo wan dis
charged from custody ho wont tti
Pouchkcoiisle. N. Y., whoro ho atari-
od n commissary department for tho
benefit of his fellow Italians who woro
omployod by Mr. McFaddon, who had
a railroad contract in that sccUon of
Now York. Mlko still had a passion
for making monoy quick. Hlu pros
pects looked good.
But all tho while Linden had two
employes nt tho elbow of Mlko IUz
zolo. Both of theso follows wero Ital
ians. Ono protended to be half-wit
tod and mnnaged to bo in tho company
of Mlko all tho while, Ho not only
worked with him, but ho nto nnd slept
with him. IUzzolo on his part not
only gavo tho man his confldenco by
day, but ho pourod bin lneohoront
dreams Into his willing enr by night.
Detailed roports woro Bont to Linden
with rollglous regularity.
A few wcokB after tho crlmo IUz
f
Linden's purpose. The Italian looted
about lirt. nervously. I IIo glnro roBt
od upon a largo portrait of Allan
Plnkertoii, tho founder of tho agency.
Tho tiyoL of tho veteran dotoctlvo
looked down on tho murderer accus
ingly nt least .ho thought bo. Ho
tumod around and waa greotod with
tho motto of tho agency, "Wo Never
Sloop." Ho was very uneasy now.
Linden rocntorcd tho room carrying
a legal-looking document In his hand.
It was a warrant for tho arrest of tho
Italian. Linden looked very solemn.
"Michael IUzzolo, stand upl"
Tho Biispoct aroso, curious and fear
ful.
"Whnt Is If?" ho cried.
Ltndon put his broad hand on tho
man's shoulder.
"I arrest you for tho murdor ot Mc
Cluro nnd Flnnnghan."
IUzzolo eank to tho floor n ahapeloss
heap of crushed humanity,
it wns somo momonts boforo ho re
covered bin norvo. Whon ho did bo,
tho dotoctlvo said:
"You aro not compelled to tell mo
h
IIo must havo had a smattering of
law In fact, possessed that "little
learning" which Is a "dangerous thing,"
because ho said moro than onco to hlo
conlldantH:
"A man can't bo tried for murdor
twlco. Onco acqulttod. ho's a froo
mnn."
Ho failed to roallzo that his hearing
boforo tho alderman was not a trial,
and that his dlBchargo was fnr from
nn acquittal. But from tho moment
ho was released his ovory footstep was
shadowed ; every Iioubo that ho en
tered waa marked; ovory word that ho
uttorod was ovorheard, nnd ovory
ponny that he spont was noted In
a llttlo red book kept by ono of Lin
den's rubbor-Bhood BloutliB.
IUzzolo scorned anything hut n des
perado. IIo was about 24 years old
and rather ngrccablo looking, oxcopt
for his noso, which had n discolora
tion which won for him from his coun.
trymon tho nlcknamo of "Bed Noso
Mlko." Ho camo to Amorlcn from
Calabrltto, In tho provlnco of Avol
llaon, near Naples. In IiIb own coun
try ho was apprenticed to a barber.
But ho was restless and dissatisfied
with tills omploymont and wnnted to
como to tho United States, whom. 1m
a Jury in fact, was without a speck of had hoard, monoy wns to bo picked up
cvmonco ot uny iuiiu. i mun cannot on tno Btreots. On hla arrival in
bo convicted merely becauso somo America ho worked for awhllo la Nqw.
zoIo'h sinter waa married and ho mndo
her a pronont of $000. A month later
ho presontcd his brothor-ln-hiw with
$1,000 to Bot hi m up In the bakory bus'l.
licss. AIbo. at sundry tlmoB ho dis
played great rolls ot greenbacks,
which wcro cortalnly not tho profltn of
his business In Poughkeepsto. Finally,
nbout tho 12th of January, IUzzolo
mado clahorato plans for n trip to
Italy. Ho arrnngod to Ball on tho
20th of January. LIndon resolved that
the Italian should novor lcavo Amer
ica. Ho had amplo ovldenco. He ro
Bolvod to nrrest him nt onco. So ho
laid a trap to ontlco Mlko to Phila
delphia, thus bringing him within tho
jurisdiction of tho court
Tho Itnllan rospondod. Ab ho alight
ed from tho train, LIndon enmo for-
warn 10 most mm. lllzzolo wub
Bomowhnt tn'cen aback at tho sight ol!
tho dotectlvi. but hla ncrvo did not
dosort lil ni.
"What do u want?"
"I want you to holp mo out on u
llttlo caso I'm Interested in," was tho
Kiguuicant roaponso,
They drovo down to tho Phllndc!
phla office of tho Plnkorton iikoucv.
Linden Immodlntoly escorted his man
into hla prlvato office.
"Walt hero," ho Bald, "I'll bo book
in a mlnuto."
, Mkq foH uncamfortaWo, That wub
anything. You can koop Otllot If you
wiflh,"
"Oh, no," ho cried, "I must confess.
I can't keep quiet nny longor!"
And thoro In that llttlo room, In
paBBlonnto words, ho pourod forth tho
otory of tho ntrocloua doublo murdor
on the Luzerno mountains.
"It was greed for gold," Raid Mlko,
"that was at tho bottom of It all. Tho
Bchomo to waylay nnd murdor Mc
Cluro cud riannghnn waB first con
certed on flunday, 8optombcr2. (lul-
soipl Ucvcnlno nnd Vlnconzo Villolla
and I thought what a good tlmo wo
could have In Italy If wo could got
this money. Wo tnlked It over for
a long tlmo, and Anally concluded to
carry out the Hchomo. Wo scourod tho
woods thoroughly to find u good placo
to conceal our 11 rearms and tho money
In enBO wo nurceedod. After looking
about for moro than two weeks wo
dually located a plnco that united our
purpose. Then I bought a rlflo nt a
storu In Wllkesbarro, and wo woro
ready. On tho morning of Friday, Oc
tobor 19, I saw McCluro go away from
tiio works. I followed him to Minor's
Mills. Villolla nnd Bovenluo did not
como to Minor's Mills that morning
hut remulned In tho woods, Aftor
ieuvlng Miner's Mills, I paaBod Mc
Cluro on the road."
"Wl'at did McCluro any U yor
"Ho snld 'Hollo, Mlko!"
"What did you,aay?V
"I - Bald 'Hello,' amltnoojoa m?.
head."
"Then what followed?"
"An soon as McClure and Ilannghan
passod mo In tho carrlngo I quickened
my pneo, but thoy naturallr paid n
nttontlon to mo. Wo wero now cIobo
to whero tho two othor men wero
In ambush, and I began to got a HtUo
ncrvoiiB."
"Who fired tho first ahotl"
"Bovonlno. Ho did tho principal
shooting. IIo was an export shot. Ha
was on tho right Bldo of the road go
ing up.'
"Who wbb shot first?"
"McCluro."
"Who fired tho noxt nhot?"
"Bcvenlno." .
"Whero nro thosa mon now?" .
"Thoy aro both In Italy. They lefl
threo wcokB nftor tho murdor." y
"How far up tho road .was VMelU
from Bovonlno?"
"About CO yards." . ,.
"Whon did you shoot?"
"I shot from tho rear. I flrod four
shots altogether nt Uio mon in tho
'.nrrlago. Aftor McCluro and nana-
thnn had boon shot tho horaq starred
on n dead run. Villolla got frightened
atd ran through tho woodB to tha
shanty, whoro ho deserted us wjthout
warning. At ono tlmo It looKeu aa
tho horso was going to got away and
wo thought wo had only killed' tho
men for nothing. BoveYiIno waa fleet-
footed, howovor, nnd ho chnsod th
horso nt a broak-neck speed. Ha
finally caught up and grabbed him by
tho roln. Ho then Bhot him In the
head. Then wo cut tho Btrap that hold
tho satchel fniit to tho carriage, and
hurried to tho woodB to tho hiding
plnco. Tho monoy was biirlod as woll
ib tho weapons, and I arrived at my
shanty a llttlo boforo 12 o'clock. You
know tho rest, how I waB suspected,
and how I wna followod to Poughkeop
slo. Tho troublo enmo when wo quar-
rolod ovor th6 division ot tho spoils.
Tho other two mon woro oo anxious to
got back to Italy that wo took boy-
oral trips to Uio woods nnd dug up
part of tho monoy until now nothing
remains thoro but tho Bllvor monoy
nnd tho woapona that woro uboi! to
commit tho murdor."
LIndon determined to test Illzzolo'B
Btory at onco. Tho Italian told mm
precisely whoro tho monoy and the
rlfloa woro burled. LIndon ntnrtodfor
Wllkosbarro at onco, accompanied by
tho solf-confcBsod murdoror. Taojy
reached Wllkesbarro at olght o'cloc
In tho evening. It waB too lato thou
to got a train to Laurol Hill, whoro
tho monoy was hidden. Tho night was
dark and stormy, but tho detective ro.
solved to purauo IiIb eoarch In splto of
all obstacles. Ho mado up hla mini!
to walk to Laurc. Hill rather than risk
bolng followod. Ho wub accorapanlod
by ono of hla dotectlvea and tho pris
oner, who wbb not handcuffed. Whon
thoy ronchod tho first houso on tho
Bldo of tho mountnln ho borrowed a
mlnor'B lamp and then bognn tho Jour
noy over tho mountalnB. 8ovon mlloa
from Wllkosbarro and two mlloa from
tho scene ot tho murder, nt Laurel
Ilun creek, thoy found tho varlouB arti
cles Just whoro Mlko Bald thoy had
boon hidden. Ho was their guldo from
tho beginning to tho end. Ho know
ovory Inch of tho country, which waa
weird boyond tho wildest atrotchoa of
tho Imagination. Tho rlflo waa fqund
ub woll an tho Bllvor monoy. Thoy
wero hidden bonoath a heavy rock.
Tho monoy was In a largo bag, and
wrapped in tho paper packages just
as It camo from tho bank. Tho Batch
cl In which tho monoy waa carried by
McCluro nnd Flanaghan waa found in
another placo, burled about a iooi
deep between two rocks. All ot
tho thlngo wero burled In Buch a way
that thoy could bo reached rondiiy ny
tho romovnl of n lot of loaves that
woro Btrown ovor thorn. ,
LIndon dlroctod that each artlcla
should bo put back exactly whoro It
had been found, excopt the coin, which
ho put In a Hatchel and tooit uacK to
Wllkesbarro with him. Irony of fato
Mlko IUzzolo was tho messenger
who carried the Biitchol containing th
coin which wna to bo uaod aa ovl
denco to Bend him to the gallows. It
was very heavy. Thoro was $291.50
In dlmcB, flvo-cont picccB nnd ppnnlca.
They walked over tho railroad track;
buck to Laurel Run, which waa
reached shortly nftor midnight.
Through tho kindness of a telegraph
oporntor at Lnurol Ilun they wero fur
nlflhod with nn englno which took
them back to WllkoBbarre,
Llttlo moro remains to be aaldi. IUs
zolo wna tried, convicted and oxo
cuted. Requlaltlona woro iBsuod for
hla nccompljccB, but through nomo flaw
In International law thoy could not b
honored. Later, however, through tha
activity of tho govornment, both ro
colved long tcrma In an Italian prison.
Thoso who wero bOBt acquainted with
Capt. Llnden'B achievements In U
great mountain mystory doclaro that
It wua ns keen and artlsllc a specimen
of dotoctlvo work hap been dovel
oped In nny country in modern Union.
(Copyright, by Y. Cl, Chapman.) ,
