NEWTON, N. J., Sept. 18.--Cyrus Crill and Daniel Vanorden, confined in the Sussex County Jail, at this place, awaiting trial for murder, are becoming tired of prison life, and are longing for the beginning of their trials, which are set down for Oct. 14. Crill, while intoxicated, shot his daughter with a gun, the charge tearing away the entire side of her head, causing instant death. Vanorden became engaged in a quarrel with his wife, and beat her to death with his fist. Both crimes were perpetrated within a few days of each other, and within a few miles of Newton. Crill is very peculiar in his habits. He wears a thick muffler around his neck and a thick overcoat, and has a coal fire burning in his cell all night and day. Notwithstanding all this, he still complains of being cold. He has no inclination to see visitors, and has little to say. Vanorden is quiet and well-behaved, and anxious to converse with any one. He made, a few days ago, a profession of conversion to Mrs. Wilbur Price, of Plainfield, N. J., who has been a frequent visitor to the prisoners. Vanorden then requested the Rev. Daniel Walters, Pastor of the Newton Methodist Episcopal Church, to visit him. Dr. Walters did so, and then baptized the prisoner.
    TROY, N. Y., Sept. 18.--Jennie Haly, wife of Daniel, alias "Cats," Haly, a notorious criminal, died this morning from an overdose of morphine. Haly and his wife were intoxicated yesterday afternoon. They quarreled, and the woman was brutally beaten. During the evening she procured some morphine, of which she swallowed two grains.
    GLEN'S FALLS, N. Y., Sept. 18.--Thomas Noonan, with some companions, visited McCrippen's Hotel, a place of ill-repute in South-street, about 2 o'clock this morning, and, while endeavoring to gain admittance, was shot at twice from a chamber window. One shot took effect in the region of the heart. The ball has been extracted, but doubts are entertained of Noonan's recovery.
    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 18.--Louis Guelig will be hanged tomorrow, the Supreme Court affirming the action of the court below.
    KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 18.--Capt. William H. Reid, the defaulting book-keeper of Crosby & Co., of this city, was sentenced by Judge Lawton, of the Ulster County Court of Sessions, this morning, to Sing Sing State Prison and hard labor for the term of three years.
    CARLISLE, Penn., Sept. 18.--W. H. Wynkoop and Mrs. Catherine Zell were arrested yesterday, charged with administering poison to Mrs. Mary Kiehl, an aged lady, of this place, who died suddenly last May. The body has been exhumed and a post-mortem examination made, and abundant evidence of arsenic found. To-day on application of Mrs. Zell's counsel, a bearing in her case was had before the committing magistrate, and she was remanded to jail. Writs of habeas corpus have been sued out in both cases, and the matter will be heard by the court on Saturday.
    ROME, Ga., Sept. 18.--Last night a bar-keeper, Sanders Holmes, shot Patrick Cox, a molder, in the stove-works, twice in the side. The wounds are considered fatal. Holmes escaped.
    HARRISBURG, Penn., Sept. 18.--At this morning's session of the Board of Pardons, 29 applications were refused. Among them are the appeals of O'Neill and McManus, the Northumberland County Mollie Maguires, who murdered Coroner Hesser in 1874; Andrew Tracy, the McKean County murderer, and John S. Morton, the Philadelphia forger and ex-President of the Market-Street Railway.

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Unknown, "Crime and Criminals, Two Murderers in Jail--Offences Reported Yesterday," The New York Times, New York, Friday, 19 September 1879, p. 2.