Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-31
ANOTHER MURDER
A Tragedy Sunday Night, and Mondays
Development.
yRD1Cr OF CoRoNER's JURY.
Arrest and Confession Of the Man Who
Fired tlre Fatal Shot.

shooting of William Collins on University
avenue slight injustice was done to the
festive and handy revolver which ought to
be corrected In that account it was stat
ed the little revolver spoke only once on
Sunday, which was a mistake. 1t opened
its mouti, twice on that day, and not only
was William Collins shot, but a man
named William Johnson mn2d his ilssSriss-
paed soul let loose also: The particulars Of
this second shooting are as follows:
WHEN, WHERE AND HOW.
About IL o'clock Sunday night, Officer
OKeefe. who was standing on
the Merchants corner, heard the
familiar voice of the little revolver in the
direction of lower Third strss,s, he at
once t...rted down Third, and when near
Rosabel he was met by man named
Charles Cotton, who was apparently much
excited, and who exclaimed to the officer,
''Oh! my partner is shot, When the Off
Ger could obtain an understanding from
him as to what he meant, the idea was that
his partner johnson had fuss around the
corner, on Rosabel street, with three or
four fellows and had been shot. Officer
O'Keefe took Cotton with him and went
around into Rosabel street, and there on
the wood pavement, about seventy-fve feet
north of Third street, towards Fourth
street, lay the body of a man. OKeefe
spoke to him but could get no reply. He
felt OF him and he was warm. He
looked all around on the pavement for
blood but could find none. He could not
see any indications of the man having
been shot and concluded it must have been
mistake. He went to neighboring sa-
loon and finding some Swedes got them to
pick the man up. They did so, and moved
him to house near by and put him upon
a bed, where he was left in charge of some
Swedes. None seemed to think at that
time that the man was dead. On the con-
trary, all believed it was very bad case
of drunkenness.
A SURPRISE.
Having done what appeared to be the
best thing he could do for a
drunken man, Officer OKeefe went
back to his beat, and to attend to his regu-
lar business. Yesterday morning he was
greatly surprised to learn that the man
that was supposed to have been drunk the
night before had actually been shot and
was dead. He went down there and found
it really WAS so. An examination of the
in the middle of the stomach. Officer
O'Keefe, when he went around On to Rosabel
and found the man on the sidewalk appar
emily drunk, says he ran across the street to
the saloon where the man was shot to get
some help, but as soon as he got upon the
sidewalk he saw two faces at the window,
the looks of which he will never forget
and which he could swear to anywhere,
looking through the window, but no sooner
did he reach the door than the light in the
saloon went out, and not a sound could be
heard in the building.
PARTIES ARRESTED.
Yesterday morning the police arrested
Ole Sorenson, Peter Benson, Charley New
strom, and Charlie Cotton, who claimed to
be the partner of the deceased. It is ex-
expected that it will be shown that the
first three are the ones the deceased, John
son had the difficulty with, and it was as
serted yesterday that Ole Sorenson, the
first of the three, was heard to say on Sun
day that the deceased "would have sore
stomach before a great WHILE" It
is also reported that the deceased
was in DR.. STEMS saloon about o'clock
Sunday night, where he had some words
with some. parties, but nothing came of it
as DR.. Stein ordered them all out, and be-
fore any further difficulty occurred they
left.
AS SILENT AS THE GRAVE.
Yesterday morning representative of the
GLOBE went to the saloon where it was sup
posed the shooting was done and there found
two or three Swedes, but when they found out
what he was after both of them shut up
their mouths, and scarcely word could
be got out of them. They could not un-
derstand a word of English though not
three minutes before they had talked it
very freely and understood it perfectly
well when they we're addressed in English.
They were two of the coolest blooded in
dividuals the writer ever encountered, and
evidently knew good deal more than
he desired to tell.
WHAT WAS DONE WITH THE BODY.
The remains were removed to the under
taking rooms of Mccarthy & Donnelly
where a post mortem examination was
held. The bullet was found near the back
bone, having passed through the liver.
THE INQUEST.
The inquest was held at Mccarthy &
Donnelly's at 4 o'clock, a jury being en-
paneled as follows:
Richard Ireland, Edward Spiegel, R. S.
Haas, L. Shaw, j. w. Frost, Horace Dun
ne.
John Cromstead, being sworn, testified
to having known deceased, Wilhelm John
son, for about month; last saw him at
supper time Sunday night; this
was at the Scandinavian house;
next saw him at 1890 o'clock; police
man called witness and told him there was
drunken man outside; witness went out
and recognized the man as one of his
boarders; brought him in and laid him in
the hall; witness carried him into the hall;
found him dead the next morning Mon
day.; the man brought in was the deceased.