Missouri Outlaw History (Kansas City, St. Louis, Columbia: growth, knives, common)

[aliasfinn]

The Marble Hill Press June 1, 1911 Pg3

PASTOR GOES TO PRISON

Jefferson City.-- Rev. Clyde Gow of Clay county, who was expelled as a minister in the Missouri conference of the M.E. church, south, at Plattsburg, September 5, must serve four years in the penitentiary as the result of the death of Elizabeth Gleason of Lincoln county. According to the decision of the supreme court.
Gow was convicted of assisting in an operation which caused the death of the young woman, who was a school teacher. He denied his guilt at two church trials, but admitted he had been in the young woman's company.





The Southeast Missourian (Cape Girardeau) January 5, 1960 Pg2

GENERATOR TAKEN

P. Bremmerman reported to police Monday the theft of a generator and voltage regulator from a new Mack tractor. He said the vehicle was parked on the Harris Truck & Trailer sales lot on North Highway 61 when the theft occurred.

[aliasfinn]

The State Journal (Jefferson City) July 31, 1874 Pg4

Will Wallace, a brother, and Bob Wallace, a cousin of Sid Wallace, the Johnson county desperado who was hung at Clarksville last spring, were shot at 5 pm yesterday.
The parties who did the shooting were concealed in the brush near Murder Hill, within sight of Clarksville, 200 yards from the place where Judge Means was killed.
Bob is mortally wounded, Will may recover. Some suppose that Kline's friends did the shooting. Kline is still alive, but very low.




Scott County Kicker (Benton, Mo) October 24, 1903 Pg2

ENGLISHMAN WHIPPED

Because he referred to the United States flag as a " dirty rag, representing a dirty class of people," B.E. Dover, an Englishman, was soundly thrashed, in Joplin, by a miner named Harry Flynn.
Dozens of people witnessed the occurrence, and cheered Flynn while he was punishing the Englishman. The trouble started on Main street, between Fourth and Fifth, where the Salvation Army was holding service.

[aliasfinn]

Robber Gets Life 1940

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1008...d-04-sep-1940/





University Missourian (Columbia) October 24, 1912

STOLE PLUME FROM HER HAT

To have part of one's hat stolen may seem odd, but that is what happened to Marguerite McGowan, a University student Tuesday.
She put the hat on the rack outside the library entrance while studying, when she returned a plume with which it was trimmed was missing.

[aliasfinn]

St. Louis Republic August 6, 1903 Pg2

ASSAULTED WITH A SHOVEL

Resentment at being shown how to shovel sand, it is alleged, prompted John Lafata to strike his foreman, George Weaver, on the head with a heavy shovel, inflicting a dangerous fracture of the skull, yesterday afternoon at the Scullin-Gallagher Steel Works.

Lafata with several other men was removing some sand from one part of the plant to another. Lafata's methods of handling the shovel did not suit Weaver, and he took the utensil from Lafata's hand to illustrate its proper use. Weaver's act angered Lafata, and, grabbing the shovel, he dealt the foreman a stunning blow.

Weaver was carried to the office of Dr. Hill, No. 6837 Manchester avenue. After temporary treatment he was removed to his home, 2904 Arsenal street. Lafata was arrested by the police of the Mounted District and will be held to await the outcome of Weaver's injuries.

[aliasfinn]

On October 25, 1905, Robert Robertson was driving his wagon at Twenty-second and Olive streets in Kansas City, Mo., when Ora Wessley knocked him out of the wagon with a stone and then stabbed in the side. Wessley was arrested. An old grudge is said to be the cause of the attack.





Giles Rice Jr.
1884 murderer

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3072...m-grandmother/

[aliasfinn]

The Potosi Journal June 19, 1895 Pg4

On last Saturday someone slipped into Mundy & Hornsey's establishment while it was temporarily vacant, and stole between 70 and 80 dollars from the money drawer.
A certain young man who had been hanging about the place was suspected of having been the thief, and as he had left for De Soto, he was followed and accused of stealing the money. He did not admit taking it, but said rather than rest under the accusation, he would replace the amount, which he did.




The St. Joseph News-Press June 3, 1920 Pg2

The Wilholt Oil company's office, Seventeenth and Penn streets, was broken into last night and the combination of the safe was damaged, but nothing was taken.
Dray's shoe store at 3001 Olive street was entered and $1 in pennies was taken. An unknown amount of cash was lost by Mrs. M.R. Monfort, 1006 Mitchell avenue, whose store was entered by cutting the screen out of a rear window.

[aliasfinn]

The Butler Weekly Times January 5, 1905

HYATT BOYS HELD GUILTY

Warrensburg, Mo., Dec 31.--- The coroner's jury in the Martin-Hyatt killing held Thomas and Paul Hyatt to answer the charge of killing Herbert Martin.
The tragedy occurred at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, near Columbus, on Christmas evening. The preliminary hearing was called before Judge Kanus here today, and through their attorney, J.W. Suddath. The defendants waived a preliminary hearing and were committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury at the February term of the criminal court.



The Weekly Intelligencer (Lexington, Mo) May 19, 1894 Pg3

Bettie Anderson, a negro cook at C.F.C. was arrested Monday on the charge of stealing a diamond ring from one of the college girls. She at first told several stories about the ring which she had in her possession, but finally confessed to have taken it.

[aliasfinn]

Ripley County Democrat (Doniphan, Mo) August 3, 1906 Pg2

Centerville.-- Arthur Spaugh was found guilty of the murder of Sheriff Polk of Iron county and given 55 years in the penitentiary. The case against Mary Spaugh, Arthur's mother, was continued until next November.



Sedalia Weekly Bazoo February 12, 1884 Pg8

Jerry Sullivan of East Sedalia, charges Charles Pilot with assault and battery.
Sullivan says Pilot came into a room where he was sitting and said, " You owe me twenty cents for whisky," and instantly gave Sullivan a clip over the eye, causing great pain. The trial of this case takes place before Judge O'Brien tomorrow.

[aliasfinn]

The Farmers' Union (Memphis, Mo) June 18, 1893 Pg3

The parties arrested last winter for passing raised bills at Downing were tried at Hannibal last week. Stephen D. Smith was convicted and sent to the penitentiary, while John Brown and William Tadlock were acquitted.




Morgan County Democrat (Versailles, Mo) July 21, 1905 Pg2

A ROOMING HOUSE TRAGEDY

St. Louis, Jul 17--- While trying to protect her sweetheart, Morris Roth, in a fight at the rooming house, No. 2702 Lucas avenue, Sunday afternoon, Bessie Barnes, a 15-year-old girl, was shot and almost instantly killed by Mrs. Mary Carder, 39 years old, wife of Jesse Carder, secretary of Teamsters' Union No. 705.
The shooting occurred in the presence of the dead girl's mother and little sister, the mother fainting across her daughter's corpse.
Trouble is said to have arisen over a board bill, due, it is claimed, to Mrs. Barnes, and culminated in a quarrel between Jesse Carder and Morris Roth.

[aliasfinn]

The Weekly Graphic (Kirksville) May 11, 1883 Pg3

The Pacific Express Company's safe at Macon was blown open and rifled of its contents on the night of the 3rd. About $65 and two gold watches were taken.
On the night of the 4th the thieves were captured in a boxcar at New Cambra. They have been bound over to appear at Circuit Court on a charge of burglary.




On April 11, 1913, Wesley Robinson, colored, choked his wife to death in Kansas City, Mo., then cut up the body with a butcher knife and buried it at 2213 Michigan avenue. He was also suspected of killing his 11-year-old step-daughter and burying her near a pond.
He had previously served 11 years for strangling a young black woman at St. Louis in 1896. He was hanged February 15, 1915.