Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-17
THE MURDER CASE
TNo UEST Of THE B0DF OF THE coy
4LBERT TER WILLIGER.
Testimony Going to Show Malice on the
Part of Torftsen-The Full Details OF the
Crime-The Verdict.

Part of Torftsen-The Full Details of the
Crime-The Verdict.
The coroner's inquest upon the remains
of the boy, Albert Terwilliger, killed by
Sven Torftsen on Tuesday, was held yes
terday afternoon in Warmers undertaking
rooms. The following jury was empanel-
ed: B. F. Cole, Charles Robinson, F. NJ.
Parcher, S. Slosson, Fl. Cady, @. S. Der,
tram.
Simon W. TerwiIliger, the father of de-
ceased, testified that his son was sent to
school on the morning of Feb. IA, after
which he did not see him until brought
home corpse.
P.J. Gilbride, saloon keeper, testified
that the boy was brought to his saloon; Dr.
Hanson summoned; the doctor ordered a
hot brandy made, and witness said mo it
is too late; the boy is almost dead" boy
then gasped twice and died.
John Anderson testified to seeing the
boys, as he supposed wrestling,
on sidewalk on the morning of the
18th from a window: G. P. Johnson
and A. T. johnson were with him in the
room; did not see the boys before
they came together and did not know who
the boys were; the boy who was killed was
thrown down; the boy on top let go, and
the fallen boy arose to his feet and started
to cross the street, bat fell; the other boy
then went to his side and undertook to
raise the fallen boy; when he found the
boy could not stand upon his feet, he ran
away; there was a third boy; the two re-
manning Boys ran away; then two Of the
BOYS came and carried the fallen boy into
a saloon; the boy who was killed was the
smallest of the three; saw no blows struck;
did not go down from the room until the
boy was taken to his home.
Andrew Johnson was the next witness.
He testified that he lived at 81 Fifteenth
avenue south; on the morning of the 18th
inst. he was at home in his house with the
other two witnesses; he saw the boys
wrestling; one was down. The balance Of
the testimony was identical with that of
the preceding witness.
G. P. Larson being sworn, testified that
he also lived at 81, Fifteenth avenue south,
and that he was up stairs in the house to-
gether with the Two last preceding witnesses
His testimony was the same as the others;
he saw the boys wrestling; saw one boy
down; one boy stood looking at the
two wrestling; one of the latter
was thrown down; afterwards the upper
most boy got up, when the other under
took to go off, but fell in the street; be was
picked up by two young men who took him
into q saloon on the corner of the street.
Victor Hultin, the boy who was with the
two boys during the fight was next sworn.
I am thirteen years old; live at 1905 Sec
ond street South; knew the boy who was
killed; witness identified remains as those
OF Albert Tervilliger saw him last alive
Feb. IA, on Third street and Sixteenth ave-
nue. South, saw him fighting with Sven
Corleen on the sidewalk; Sven Corleen
asked Albert if he could fight;
Albert said ''yes;' they then began to
fight; Albert fell beneath Sam; and then
both fell together; after few moments
they got up; saw blood running down
Albert's clothes; Albert took his hat and
said, 81 will go home;" he went across the
street and fell; he laid there little while;
Sam went to him and he and I went to lift
him up; said, "come home, and I'll help
you;' Albert did not answer; number of
young men and girls came along; they
took hirH to saloon; I went to his house
and told his mother Of the occurrence;
told her that Albert was hurt; [ then re-
turned to the saloon; saw Albert
lying on table; did not
know whether he was alive Or not;
I then went to school; they were fighting
only two OF three minutes; Sam vas on
top when the boys were down; did not
sac Sam have knife; Sam went home
crying; when l went to school the teacher
told me not to say anything about the
fight to anyone; Frank Late, a schoolmate,
told the witness he saw the fight; I stood
about twelve feet away during the fight;
Sam had his arms around Albert during
the time they were down.
Officer Shredder, who arrested the boy,
testified to the circumstances. He made
the arrest in the house of the boys parents,
at the corner of Cedar and Washington
avenue; at the house the coroner asked the
boy for the knife; the boys father started
to get it from shelf; coroner stopped
him, saying, 'Let the boy find the
knife; the boy jumped upon bed and
reached to book shelf above the bed and
got the knife; the boy said he had the
knife in mis- pocket and further showed
hole in the coat pocket. The pocket is an
inside pocket on the leftI side; coat given
into charge of Chief Munger; the boy said
the knife was open and went through
the coat; there was no
hole in pocket at first
but the boy in illustrating how the knife
was in his pocket, although cautioned By
the coroner, not to make hole, pushed the
knife through the coat makinga hole just
above the hole on the outside of the coat,
claimed to have been the one
made when fighting with Albert.
The coat was shown witness and identi
fed as the one worn by Sam at the time.
Upon examination by the jurors it was
found that in reviewing the pocket there
was only one cut in it, and that was the
one made by the boy in showing the
coroner how he carried the knife:
The first hole on the outside of the coat
which is the hole pointed out by the father
as the one made in the fght-upon close
examination proved to be below the bot
tom of the pocket, and it also plainly
showed from its character to be worn and
not cut. The edges are irregular and ragged
while the edges Of the upper hole were
clean cut.
Drs. Hill and Evans testified that they
conducted the post mortem examination
of the remains and found that the boy, Al
bert Terwilliger, came to his death from