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Crimes and Casualties. CONVICTION OF A MURDERER IN CAROLINE. [Special télegram to the Dispatch.] MILFORD, Va., March 13.-William Robinson (colored), charged with the murder of Ellen Rov (colored), near Sparta, some two years ago, and recently arrested in Richmond, has been tried at Caroline Circuit Court, in Bowling Green, and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of the law on the 2d of May next. EXECUTION OF À MURDERER. ATLANTA, March 15.-Gus. Johnson, the murderer of the negro ferryman Alfred, was banged at Rome, Ga., to-day. The execution was public and a large crowd was present. Johnson showed no sign of fear, and ascended the scaffold with a cigar in his mouth. He confessed to four murders and died in seventeen minutes of strangulation. ANOTHER MURRDEER HANGED. CONCORD, March 15.-Joseph Lepage was hung here to-day for the murder, several years ago, of Josie Langmaid, a school-girl whom he waylaid. He confessed. RESPITED. AUGUSTA, Ga., March 15.-Robert McEvoy, convicted of the murder of J. J. Gregg, of this city, at Grantville, S. c., and sentenced to be hung to-day at Aiken, S. C., has been respited by Governor Hampton until the 29th instant on two grounds: The invalidity of his sentence and his statement that he knew about the murder of Sawyer, at Ridge's Springs, S. C., in 1874. He declared that be did not want a respite. BANK TREASURER INDICTED. POUGHKEEPSIE, March 15.-Four indictments were brought into court to-day against Alexander Barlow, treasurer of the Fishkill Savings Bank; two for embezzlement of $61,000 and two for grand larceny. in taking $8,000. Massachusetts. RUN ON A SAVINGS BANK-ARREST OF POLYGAMISTS, &C. BOSTON, March 15.-A run on the FiveCent Savings Bank is in progress here, caused by a rumor that it intended to enforce the.sixty-days notice. It is one of the largest savings banks in the State, and there is no reason to doubt its soundness. The State detectives made a raid yesterday on the town of Sheetsburg, in this State, where they arrested a number of men, charged with living in open polygamy. They were held in bonds for trial before the Superior Criminal Court for Franklin county. It is alleged that many others will be arrested for the same offence, an attempt evidently having been made to establish a Mormon settlement at Tewksbury. The run on the savings bank which commenced yesterday has developed a general panic among savings-bank depositors. School street, where the Five-Cent Bank is located, has been blockaded by a crowd today, and the excitement has been intense. The committee which has been engaged in examining the securities of the bank for the past two weeks state that after deducting all depreciated assets. embracing stocks, bonds, &c., which the bank has suffered since the last statement was made, and allowing $162,000 to pay April interest, the bank will still have a surplus of $420,000. The uncasiness still continues, and is spreading to other banks.
