AMERICAN SENSATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 194, 6 January 1913, Page 5

AMERICAN SENSATIONS.

CHICAGO MURDER. WEALTHY MAX BRUTALLY DONE TO DEATH. Chicago, December 23. Four men and four women have beaa arrested by the police and charged with being interested in the death of J. P, Logue, the wealth diamond merqhan*, who was found murdered in his office oa Friday. The crime had been committed! in broad daylight, and with thousands' of people hurrying about their business within a few yards of the scene. The police say that tlhe medical examination of the body showed that Logue was Unmercifully tortured. Hk flesh was burned with acids, he iru stabbed and slashed in non-vital parts of the body, and was shot before his skull was crushed in by a blow from a biudgeon. The police have been able to make the arrests through a lucky chance. Mr. F. A. Carnal, an attorney, entered tlhe building shortly before the crime, and saw two men of .sinister appearance waiting in -the lobby. One pulled' his cap over his_ eyes to hide his features/ a«d that action made the attorney take notice of the appearance of the man and of his companion. When.tihe story of the crime came out in the newspapers, Mr. Carnal immediately gave the police a description!- of the men, which led to their arrest. Other people were able to describe two men and two women who were seen. near Logue's office just before the murder took place.. The lodgings of the arrested persons were searched, and the police found nitro-glycerine, dynamite, burglars' outfits and a black petticoat, from which a strip of cloth had been torn. The cloth corresponded with the gag which was found in Logue's mouth. A revolver was also found, which was of the same calibre as the bullet which entered Logue's body. The police found two skeletons in a flat which the suspected' women occupied.

POLICE HELD AT BAY. WIFE MURDERER'S DEADLY RIFLE FIRE. New x York, December 23. An exciting .battle was fought on Saturday between the whole of the police force of Memphis, Tennessee ani Adam Boehler, who liad barricaded himself in his home after cutting his wife's throat. Boehler was strongly armed and had plenty of ammunition., He was a dead shot, and did not slacken his vigilance for a second. He fatally wounded one policeman and two spectators in the huge crowd which thronged the aieighboring' streets. At noon the Mayor of the town ordered the police to make a general charge. Some succeeded in getting on the roof, and boring holes poured down formaldehyde. Boehler was overcome by th» fumes, and tihe police 'broke into th* house. They found that the murderer has been mortally wounded. He was taken to the hospital, but died on -ft* way.

NEGROES KIDNAP CHILD. KANSAS CITY POPULACE BECOMES FURIOUS. New York, December 23. The white population of Kansas City is feverishly excited over the disappearance of a little girl, who, it is alleged, has been kidnapped by negroes. . Peaceful blacks in the town are living to hourly dread of being attacked by th« infuriated whites.

The girl is Irene Justin, aged elevinj; the daughter of Frank Justin, a caOipeirf maker. Last Monday her mother took 1 her into the town and left her playing with some children while she ,weut away, on 'business. When the mother came back the child" had gone and so far no trace of htt has been found. The other children say that negro came to Irene, told her that her mother had been taken suddenly ill, and led her away. It is Relieved that the negroes an waiting for the offer of a ransom.

MANIACS FIGHT WITH AXES. TRAGIC CHRISTMAS DAY. New York, December 27. A (party of lumlbcrjacks camped on Lake Bemidjl, near on the Mississippi River, turned the Christmas holiday into a period of brutal passion. The men had been drinking wood alcohol, and had worked themselves into an insane fury. Two came to blows, i They seized their lumber axes, and hacked at each other like maniacs. The duel inflamed the onlookers, and they took sides, so that the staiggls developed into a desperate hand-to-hand battle. Every man used his lumber axe, whirling it in his alcohol-madden-ed strength like a small stick. TEvery blow caused oeath or a frightful wound. The snow-covered ground was red with blood. *

Fourteen men were killed outright, their heads being split open by axe blows, and many others were seriousJy wounded. ;

HUSBAND'S JEALOUSY. CHRISTMAS DAY TAXI-CAB TRAGEDY. ; New York, December- 28. Jealousy w?s the cause which led John Curtis to pursue his wife in a cab last night and shoot her with a revolver. Mrs. Curtis is now in 'hospital ■wjth a' bullet in her hip, and the husband is in the county gaol. On Christinas morning Curtis came back to town unexpectedly, and met his wife and sister-in-law as they stepped out of a taxi. He rushed upon; Mrs. Curtis, and struck her, but bystanders pulled him off, and the two women got into the taxi again and drove off. ' The infuriated man then broke away from the men who were holding! him, and running after the taxi, climbed up at the back and fired six shots at his wife through the window. Only one shot hit her in the hip. Her sisteir was unharmed. '. ■Curtis escaped, but later gave himself up to the police.