Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-18
The Police Reticent as to the Evidence
They Have Against Him.
OTHER CASUALTIES AND GRIMES.
The Usual Number Of Railway Acci-
dents-FireS and MisdemeanOrs.


this morning about bringing SchelIer into
court for examination. The district attor-
ney will spend the day in examining the
case. Messrs. Ebbetts and McKenney have
been retained by Scheller. 1t is not known
just when the police commenced the inves-
tigation which resulted in the arrest.
Sunday night information was filed with
She police concerning Scheller's where
abouts on the morning of the fire. Every
thing was done last night to protect the
prisoner from a mob in case one was
formed. In the afternoon W. II. Ebbetts
visited Chief Wason and Iabored with him
and the sheriff to remove the prisoner
80 Racine to protect him from the ven
geance of the Third and Fourth warders.
To keep Scheller in jail here would be to
place him at the mercy of mob.
The mayor was then called upon, and it
was arranged to ascertain the state of feel
ing in the localities mentioned and also to
arrange for a special train to carry Schel-
Ter 70 Racine, in case there were signs of
trouble. An engine was held in readiness,
and a considerable number OF day police
kept well in hand at police headquarters.
Scheller came to Milwaukee with Mr.. An
tisdel from Detroit about nine years ago,
when the latter assumed charge of the
NewhaIl house. He had been chief clerk
of the Biddel house in that city when Aa
tisdeI kept it.
The two men, it is said, have always
been warm personal friends. Scheller
learned the printers trade in his youth
and worked at it in Detroit for six years.
Besides Scheller's well known financial
difficulties and his high insurance, another
t hing gave rise to the first suspicion. This
was no less than
AN ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP THE NEwHALL HOUSE
by gas explosion some two weeks ago.
About this affair VIM. Hughes, head por-
or. makes this statement: Il am in the
habit of going to the hotel about o'clock
in the morning. About two weeks ago I
went up the main entrance, and when 1
got near the elevator 1 smelt gas right
away. The smell of gas was terribly strong,
and seemed to come from the bar rom. l
was nearly knocked down, the odor was so
overpowering. Just as 1 opened the door
the bar keeper, Henry Mccormick, came
in the front way. 1 asked him what the
trouble was and he said he didn't know,
but thought it was the gas meter. We
both rushed in and looked at the meter,
but it was all right. We came out into
the bar room and threw open the doors.
then looked up and found that every one
of the six chandeliers had the gas turned
on full force. I could hardly believe what
saw, and SAID to Mccormick:
s'My God, what's this for?"
He said he didn't know, and that Schell-
er was in the place when he left We
turned all the gas off and went up stairs.
I told Mr.. Antisdel about it, and he asked
me if lit match. I told him did, and he
said I did wrong. Scheller didn't come
around next day at all. It was three days
before he showed up, and he said he was
sick. He was asked about the gas, and he
said some one must have had a key to
the door and got in and turned them all
on"
Hughes says boy known as Little Pete,
who worked in the bar room, said that he
left Scheller in the place about o'clock
that morning.
was found in the ruins this morning, but
was an unrecognizable mass, so much so
that it was impossible to ascertain wheth-
er 1t was the body of man or woman.
This makes in all forty bodies taken from
the ruins since the morning after the fire,
twenty three being identified. The loss of
life as far as known foots up sixty-three,
with twenty still missing.
sCHELLER REMOVED FOR SAFETY.
About 80 last night carriage stopped
in front of the jail, l,and the sheriff with two
deputies took Scheller from his cell to the
carriage. Sheriff Bentley and deputies
then entered and were hurriedly driven to
the house of correction, where it was at
first intended he should be placed. On
reaching the house the inspector, in the
absence of the officers in charge, refused
to receive the prisoner. A consultation
was then held between the sheriff and
deputies, and it was decided to remove
him from the city. 1t is said he was taken
to Racine on the midnight train, but a
gentleman from Racine said hewas sure he
was not there. It is reported from trust
worthy sources that Scheller was
TAKEN TO WAUKESHA,
and is now locked up in jail in that place
The official at the sheriff's Office stated this
afternoon that Scheller had been taken
away, but that he would be brought to the
Milwaukee municipal court on the day set
for examination, but further he would say
nothing either about the removal or where
he was taken. When Scheller was brought
out of jail he uttered scarcely a word.
''This is pretty rough to have such charge
as this hanging over you," was all he was
heard to say. He seemed to be almost
COMPLETELY BROKEN DOWN,
and followed the officers in dazed sort of
5 way, as though he hardly knew what he
was doing.
The failure to find the register of the