Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...robbery of the bank at Kinsley, Kansas, of $12,000, on Saturday, has been traced to G. W. Crawford, the treasurer of the institution, and it is reported that he has confessed the crime...
FOREIGN.Parnell will probably soon come to an open rupture with the Fenian wing of the Land League on account of his conciliatory attitude toward the government. An extraordinary bill to repress crime was yesterday introduced in the House of Commons. The funeral of Lord Cavendish took place yesterday, attended by a large crowd of notables, including Gladstone. Further attempts are being made to discover the assassins, and several arrests have been made on suspicion. Mr. Trevelyan, the new chief secretary, has arrived in Dublin...
When the Pope heard of the assassination in Dublin he sent instructions to the Irish bishops to request the clergy to express from their pulpits execration of the crime, and exhort the faithful to respect the law of the land...
...fierce in their wrath that I was almost frightened to death. I never saw such mad girls in all my life as the Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said that the expressman had just brought a box of Whitman's candy to one of them; and then they thought they could discover the culprit by asking all the innocent ones to go to the board...
...entering her carriage at Windsor last evening a man in the station yard fired a pistol at her. No one was injured by the shot. The man, who gave his name as Roderick McLean, was arrested and placed in the Windsor police station. He stated that hunger actuated the crime. A crowd, among whom several Eton students were prominent, attempted to lynch the would-be assassin, but were prevented by the police. The general opinion is that the act was the result of lunacy...