Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-19
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Special Telegram to the Globe.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Dec. l8.-Arriving
here at $50 this evening, l proceeded at once
to inquire into the circumstances connected
with the jail delivery of which the GLOBE of
this morning had brief notice, but in order
to give complete idea of the situation it is
to give some details of one of the
most foul and diabolical murders ever perpe-
trated, even in this blood stained district.
1t appears that about thirty miles from here,
at point called Sand Creek, a widow named
Goodhue held farm which she sold some six
months ago, intending to leave the State.
Three weeks ago Frank Goodhue, the son of
the widow, visited Sand Creek for the purpose
of collecting money due his mother. He
stayed at the farm of man named Chase, and
his William accompanied Frank on his
expedition. The Chase farm is
on the county line between Dunn and Chippewa
counties. On Thursday last they went out
together, when it is thought young Goodhue
collected about $50. Friday morning, about
8 o'clock. school children found Geodhue
lying in the main road
wELrERING IN HIS BLOOD.
They went to the nearest house-the Chase
farmland told Mrs. Chase. she went out and
had the body brought into her house. The
neighbors soon heard the news, and suspicion
began to settle on VIM. Chase, and the con-
stable arrested him. An examination of the
wounds Of the u.scoasc1oas dying
showed that he had been struck ON the side of
the head with slnny-shot, and shot three
times with pistol, the balls taking effect in
the head. One shot was fired close to the left
temple. the powder burning the skin The
left side of the skull was also battered in with
some blunt instrument, and
THE BRAINS PRoTRUDED
from the CHASTITY fracture. An examination of
the ground proved conclusively that the first
blow struck on the highway not forty yards
from Chase's house; that the victim then
jumped the fence and ran into the brush in
Dunn county. The murderer followed him.
and the footprints of the two were plain in the
untrodden snow. Again Goodhue was knocked
down, the pistol taken from his pocket, and
three shots fired into him. The fiend
then battered the head of the young
man with the butt end of the
he thrust the pistol back into the pocket of the
dying man, all covered with BLOOD hair and
brains as it was. He next took his victim upon
his shoulders and carried him out of the thick
brush, crossed the fence, and deposited him on
the side of the road.
THE PRINTS OF THE MURDERER's BOOTS
were plainly traced, and the whole length of
the mangled body impressed in the snow where
the fendish scoundrel rested or stood to listen.
There was also found in the brush tassel torn
from Chase's rcd flannel lumberman's
cap, and when Chase was arrested blood stains
were found on his coat. The constable arrested
Chase at his fathers house, and bound mis-
feet and hands with rope. Before leading him
off he gave his prisoner permission to hobble to
the back yard. In passing oGt his mother con-
trived in some way to pass him a knife, with
which he cut the rope and with bound he was
out of sight. He took the road toward Colfax,
throwing off his shoes and extra pair of pants
to facilitate his running. About four miles
from his home he stole horse, and rode it a
breakneck speed into Colfax, where he bor-
rowed shoes and hat, stating that man mad
been murdered at Sand Greek, an he was in
pursuit of the murderer, and had not time to
put on his shoes or get his hat From thence
he rode through Rusk to Menomonie, where he
tied up the stolen horse, sought out the mar
shall, and
GAVE HIMSELF UP.
The marshal received a telegram from Sheriff
Hoening, of Chippewa Falls, describing the
murderer, and the marshal further informed
the sheriff that he had got his
m an. Hoening wos not long in responding
reaching Menomonie Sunday. Meantime, the
people of Chippewa Falls had had time to take
in the sickening, revolving circumstances of
the horrible crime. Chase had always been
considered a bad lot He had been concerned
III many pilfering escapade, and it whis
pered that he knew cf crimes almost as diabol-
zeal as the present one. About a year ago an
apple tree peddler had been robbed and muir
dered here, and the hand of suspicion was
pointed at Chase and Others connected with
he ,yh Ia fop, lxy bad FL
suspicion, and his uncle, Dill Neon,
has been jagged more than once for such light
offences as horse stealing, then it remem.
bered that Russell who murdered his own son,
only lately tried, has got off with the light SEN
tenee of two years and six months in prison
Some sturdy. fearless men talked it over, and
the more they talked the more resolved they be
came that the young bloodhound who destroyed
young Goodhue should not get off so lightly
They were. determined
HE SHOULD NOT ESCAPE
to perpetrate another such hellish crime, anC
they became resolved to commit deed almost
as atrocious and hellish. In the afternoon OF
Monday men were seen standing about an
around the jail and along the road leading to
Menomonie-the road by which the sheriff was
expected with his prisoner.
at half past o'clock it was told throughout
the city that the sheriff was at the depot with
the jail in buss. 4 crowd assembled at the
jail, and men rushed down the street leading
to it. By the time the buss arrived there was
assembled mob of about 200 persons, who
upon sight of the prisoner,
YELLED FOR Els BLOOD.
Several spistols were fred, evidently for the
purpose of intimidating the sheriff. He, how
ever, nothing daunted. drew his revolver and
~ r.
who attempted to murder him
and during the slight pause
in the excitement he showed the prisoner into
Jail, closed and locked the doors, and soon tht
mob dispersed and the sheriff thought the
trouble was over. But he had reckoned with
out his host, for about 9 o'clock the GROVE
commenced to reassembie and gathered larger
every moment till there were not less than SOC
men standing and pressing around the sheriff.
residence and Jail. The sheriff, from the IN
side, called to them and asked them to disperse
They demanded his prisoner and he refused
them admittance, and said he
WOULD DEFEND HIS MAN WITH HIS LIFE.
Ashort consultation and then laundering blows
with sledge hammers upon the door. At length
it gave way, and the crowd rushed pell-mel
| into the building, filling the hall, the parlor
| the office, the staircase-in fact every foot OF
! space which would hold a man. The sheriff
tall, commanding form could he seen IN the
entrance tn the parlor. The mob demanded OF
him his keys. He refused, when asdastardly
shot was fred through the crack between til,
door and the jamb, and buried itself in the pos
of the parlor door, not six inches from tn
sheriff's breast. The sheriff refused the KEYS
but he was single-landed and could do nothin,
with SO large mob, but
/ TRY AND REASON.
! But they knew not reason nor humanity an