St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-11-09
MURDER WILL OUT.

Remarkable Murder and Remarka-
bic Instance Of Detcction-A' .Chisel
With q Trade Mark Furnishes ithc
Only Clue.
EFrom the Philadelphia North american. I
The terrible murder At Sixt1s>and arch
IL fresh in the memory Of all our readers.
The sods were scarcely heapcd upon the
coffin OF tn. murdered man when, one of his
murderers was securely confined in the
cells OF the central station. The arrest was
one of unusual difficulty When the dctec
tives visited the scene of the murder the
only clue to the perpetrators werca blood
stained handkerchief aud the gag used in
st' angling yo"ng Needs. With these faint
traces there was little hope of ferreting out
the murderers, but detective Joshua Tay-
CART assumed the task. Returning to the
store. be reconnoitered tke premises with
new diligence. \ new trace was then dis
covered. A new nortise chisel wrapped
in piece OF brown paper lay on shelf in
the room The chisel was not the proper,y y
OF the proprietors Of the dental depot. 1t
had plainly been brought there by the
burglars. To trace it then became the task
of the detective. Upon it depended his
only hope oftracing the murder from the
dead porter to the burglars who had killed
the unoffending warden.
There were none Of the usual evidences
Of crime in the robbery, of the store A
skilled detective knows every thief within
his jurisdiction, and their operations ore
10 him familiar and easily recognized. The
appearance Of forced door will Indicate
the man who burst it OPEN AneAperi.nc-
ed detective will tra:e burglar bv the
manner OF opening door as readily AZ
bank teller will recognize the hand writing
Of one of his depositors. The size of the
jimmy used, the manner in which it is ap-
piled, the place At which house is entered,
whether at the door, the window, the roof
or the cellar grating, are all so many I'm
errlng indications t. the detective of the
burglar whose operations he traces. But
IN this case there was no burglary com
mitted. 1t was simply murder and rob-
berry. The murdered man had either OPEN
ed the door OF the wsreroom or the murd .r-
ers opened the door with the keys taken
from the gagged and insensible porter.
The removal of the goods betokcned the
robbery. Gold, silver and platina to the
value of 900 were taken away. but there
was no traces or evidence Of the burglars.
A murdered man lay dead in the entry, q
number of shelves stood empty against the
wall, but neither clue or trace, footprint or
fnger-mark existed to aid or direct the de-
tectives sagacity in his search :.-@3 :
Detective Taggar. knew this. He felt
the difficulty of his situation, and he pre-
served the chisel as the first link of the svi-
dencs he, was to forge ard fasten into a
chain Of connecting proof. Hs. took the
chlsel home. The trade mark could not
guide him. Hundreds Of the firms etisels
were weekly sold in the city, and the clue
seemed losing lis power, when few fig
ures on the back Of the wrapping paper en-
closing the ehisel arrested Taggarts atten
tion. These figures we're evidently a, cal
cnlation by q hardware dealer of the price
! Of thetool;, :, the reduction by" slow hand
OF the business trade mark into the simpler
value Of the. digits. To find the man who
had made the memorandum on the back ol
the paper was the first step in detecting
the murderer. 10 75;,5Ift>.sl1 +, G. IL. as,:l s :
Mr.. Taggart Visited the hardware deal.
efs one by one, until he despailed5 Of find
| ing the one who sold the chisel. Ther,
was no evidence that The tool had beer
purchased in Philadelphia. New York
! PittsbOrg, Baltimore and Boston retail sucl
chisels. and the probability Of its purchas,
in st. Louis was as strong As the idea o
its purchase here. But Taggart found th,
men who had sold the ohisel. AT 736 Mar
ket street . hardware dealer recognized
the calculation on the wrapper, and remem
bered the ! man who had bought it. Tw,
men,, he said, came to the store. One wa
slender and tall, the other was short ant
stout, with . heavy black moustache ant
black hair. The latter bought the ohisel
The pal stoodi in the back ground and sai,
nothing. ~ =: q .5. ~ ,'5'
This WAS the commencement of the case
/ Who the stout dark man Was Taggart s5coul,
not slrmise. II might be one Of SCORE 0
thieves, andsfor four days he oould form
no conception Of the murderer's identity
until one night waking from : sdisturbe'
slnnbeT, Ruey Dounelly aashed liz