The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-18
MURDEROUS MARKETMEN.
Henry Krauning Fatally KNITTED by
John q. Schnaufer.
st. Louis Post. Dispatch D..

There are blood stains on the sawdust in
Charles VOLTS f'oon, at the corner of Third
and Spruce streets. There is a butcher dying
at the city hospital, with a deep knife thrust
in the back and another in the abdomen.
There is another butcher in the Chestnut
street station waiting to know what the
coroner's jury will do when it be-
comes necessary to investigate the matter.
John COpdevile keeps the Y. l.. market
on Third and Spruce streets, diagonally OPP
positp the saloon. de does a largo business
and has half a dozen men In his employ Up
Third street. NJ No. 397. John O. Schnsufer
has q 90 eat market. There has been good
deal of bitter rivslry between them and from
having been firm friends they hay become
enemies. Last night, between nine and ten
o'clock. Sergeant Murray and Officers Hetfsr-
nan and Dunn saw three men running down
Third street toward Almond. They halted
them aud wanted to know what WAS the
matter. The reply was that in passing a
butcber-shOp, just above they had stopped
to look in at the window, and that five
butchers had rushed out ut them. Immc-
diately afterwards the butchers came alonr.
Neither side had any charges to prefer ard
the police paid no further attention to the
matter. Later in the night the officers
learned that there had been a cutting airray
at Wolfs saloon, and when they Attempted
to investigate they discovered disinclina
ton to talk. This even extended to Henry
Ktauning, the man cut. DR.. Hier, who had
been called in, said the man was in a very
dangerous condition. The STAB in the back
had gone into the cavity of the chest and in
the immediate vicinity ofthe heart, The
wound in the abdomen was deep one like
wise. Still, Krsnning didn't want to tell
much about it, He is in the employ Of
Capdevie He twenty-five years old an
has wife living at No. lis South Tenth
street After the wounds were dressed on
ambulance was called and Kranning was
taken to the hospital.
1t was some time subsequent TO the discov-
cry Of the wounded man that the officers
learned Schnaufer was the man whs had in
hicted the wounds. In the meantime they
had met him in the neghborhood and had
talked with him. They knew nothing of his
connection with the stfray and he SAID moth
ing about it. Later it was learned that the
men from the rival markets had met in
VOLTS saloon at 1890, and after few hot
words, Kranning, from the Capdevlle crowd,
had drawn his pistol and commenced firing.
The police say they were told that but two
shots were fired. When the reporter visited
the house this morning he habitues were
pointing out holes enough in the walls and
ceiling basement for at least four empty car
tridges. However, il doesn't matter much
what the number of shots WAS. SChnaufner
drew his knife in the course of the melee and
used it, At the sight of the weapon the
Capdeville crowd scattered, and
when Schnaufer got through with Kranning
he walked away.
When the police went TO lpOll for Schnau-
fer he couldn't be found. 1t appears, how
ever, that he made no attempt ut escape, for
officer Collins found him still in the neigh
borhood at an early hour this morning and
took him to the Chestnut street station. His
statement made there was that he acted
simply in self-defense, Capdeville had been
his friend, he said, as long rs he remained in
his employ; but when he took stand in the
neghborhood and began to cut in on his old
employers business, then trouble began.
Capdevile took five years lease on the
premises he Schnsufer, rented, and the first
use made of the lessee's powers was to put
the rival out. Schnaufer moved few yards
and started up again, and still continues in
business.
The best information that can be obtained
makes it appear that Kranning fred before
Schnaufer drew his knife On this point all
the criminal interest in the case turns. II
Krsnning dies, as he is expected to, there
will undoubtedly be some tall swearing done
on both sides.
Schnaufer has achieved good deal of no.
toriety during the past five or six years. He
was in Capdevile's employ when informa.
ton reached the police that he was an es.
capped convict from the Louisiana peniten-
tsry. He was under sentence for the bur.
slarv Of jewery house 40 the story went
AT the request of the Louisiana authorities
Schnaufsr was sent to New Orleans, and
there through habeas corpus proceedings he
was released. The basis was an abb, Cap.
deville took lively interest in the case and
there we're witnesses from St. Louis
to swear they had known Schnaufer
here during the period while the peni-
Tertiary keepers swore he had been q
convict Schnsufer came back and continued
for some time in Cspdeville's market. He
was recognized as a dangerous man to deal
with. In the war Of the butchers for pos
session of p slaughter-house on Twenty
fourth and Morgan he led one side. Shots
we're exchanged and their was general riot.
A man named Schuchmsn stopped one of
the bullets and nearly everybody had to
have some blood washed away when hostili-
ties were over.
Some nine months ago Schnaufer and
Capdevlle met on Third street near the An
zeiger office and exchanged some words.
Oapdeville had prepared himself by slipping
on brass knuckles and covering his hand with
his handkerchief When Capdevile thought
he had received provocation enough he let
loose in scientific style and for time
SchRsufer didn't know what had hurt him.
Last nights tragic episode was the na-
tura outgrowth of the bitter and belliger-
ent relations existing between the rival
butchers. Schnaufer manifests no unessi.
ness as to the result. He has been in trouble
too often to lose his head.
Cspdeville stopped long enough in his
work of plying the cleaver and carving
knife this morning to say that Schnaufer
would be put through for last nights work.
81 have the papers up stairs" he remarked,
(which will show that Schnsufer is really an
escaped convict as well as murderer"
The most that can be made of the affair,
from the best information attainable, is a
case of msnslaughter, and it is even doubtful
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