Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-04
BLOODY OVERSKOES DISCOVERED.
The Missing Mans Display Of Money at
Minneapolis,
NOTED BY SOME GREEDY EYES.
A Mystery That Deepens the More it is
Investigated.

sin two nights and days of ceaseless and
tireless, but fruitless search and inquiry.
Who can tell what horror of dread .'and
suspense has been suffered by the anxious
and loving relatives and friends of the
dead young man: For two days investi-
cation has piled her utmost skill and cum
ming to ferret out some clew to the wretch
ed tragedy, but up to the present time
not the faintest discovery has been made
which can be construed as revealing any
definite fact concerning the deed or the
disposition of the body.
What a mysterious demon is crime!
How it covers and shrinks away from the
light of investigation; how it breads detec-
ton; how it must loathe and hate and
fear goodness and light and virtue; with
what torturing doubts and suspicious it
must assail and cruelty itself!
1t is difficult to reconcile the DEGREES of
Providence with such crime as this on
any other grounds than that Fate spares
the miscreants awhile from detection in
order that they may experience to the full
the lashings and tortures of conscience.
THE HORROR
which directly followed the intelligence of
the tragedy subsided in measure yester-
day, ay,although the interest in all that apper-
tanned thereto was as great as ever. It
may be said, indeed, that never before has
any affair of like nature created such
widespread interest and sympathy, while
nearly every man, woman and child in st.
Faul takes at least an active thought in
hoping for speedy solution of the trag-
edy and the arrest and punishment of the
criminals.
Nothing was discovered yesterday that
could assist in the discovery of the body
or lead to the apprehension of the mur-
derers. The circumstances of the affair.
as given in yesterdays issue of the GLOBE,
so far as revealed were freely discussed
and there was the iteration of the same
general sPeculatiOns and numerous the
cries.
sANGUINARY SHOES.
Early yesterday morning a young man
while walking on the bluff at the
foot of Minnesota street, ran across
"A pair Of rubber overshoes.
An inspection showed that they were
smeared with blood, several clots of blood
being on both shoes, both inside and out.
The shoe worn on the right foot was par
ticularly bloody on the inside, and the
blood was still moist and wet, as though
but recently shed. These shoes were
brought to the city hall, where they re-
main as mute witnesses to the struggle of
Monday night In size they are No. 10,
and they have been worn some time.
The finding of this last evidence would
indicate that in all probability the rubbers
were worn by one of the assassins, and if
this surmise is correct, then the principal
theory given in the GLOBE yesterday is
substantiated. This theory was, that after
the deed had been committed, the perpe-
traitors went down the track in the direc-
ton of lower town, as evidenced by
the finding of the pocket book.
On reaching the point where the track
leads into Bench or Second street, the men
must have proceeded up Second street,
and while in the act of so doing it must
have occurred to them that the possession
of the bloody shoes would be sure means
of detection, when they must have been
thrown OF at the point where found.
The GLOBE reporter called on Mr.Pierce,
father of the young man, yesterday, and
that gentleman stated that he was of the
impression that his son wore rubbers. He
stated at the same time that the chain and
coin fo und on the rock Tuesday had also
been fully identified as belonging to his
son, the coin having been presented to de-
ceased by his brother.
The blood-stained condition of the shoes
found yesterday fully demonstrates the
terrific nature of the struggle that must
have followed the attack.
Mr.. Pierce also informed the reporter
that it had been the custom of his son
when coming home late at night to carry
his knife in his overcoat pocket with the
blade open.
In this event he must have made q
strong resistance when attacked, the the
~ory being that his assailsnts being at
first only intent on. robbery, when they
found that the young man was armed and
prepared to defend himself, they attempt
ed to forcibly overpower him, and in the
ensuing struggle he was stabbed and killed.
WAS BE sHADowKD.
Ayoung man at the union depot stated
yesterday that he was standing by whom
young Pierce bought his ticket to Mime
apolis last Monday; that when he made
the purchase he displayed roll of bills,
and that he, the witness, noticed by
ISLANDER eye the money and Mr.. Pierce very
keenly. Can it be, then, that he may have
been shadowed to Minneapolis and back,
and that the murder was an act of deliber-
ate intention.
Mr.. Newberry also stated yesterday that
when Pierce called on him Monday night
he seemed somewhat anxious and uneasy,
and it transpires that they were after all
only on terms of acquaintanceship, Mr..
Newberry now stating that he thought it a
little strange at the time that Pierce
should have called at such a late hour of