Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-19
LATE MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
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Especial Telegram to the Globe.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 1S.-At little before
this morning the attention of a Mr.. Al
len was called to the PROSTATE form of a
man lying hatless and coatless on the side
walk at the corner of Second avenue south
and Third streets, crying Justify for help
Allen assisted him to his feet and to his
horror found he was literally covered with
blood and gore from head to feet. He
whistled for the police and by the time
they reached Washington avenue met off
GERS Hill and Nelson coming to his call.
Soon after they were joined
by Officer Smith and others. The man
was taken to the police lookup and DR..
Quimby summoned The man was a sorry
sight. His face was covered with clotted
blood and fresh blood was profuseiy oozing
from a deep cash on the cheek while blood
was also streaming from his lacerated
hands and wrists. After an hours hard
labor the doctor was enabled to sew up the
gaping wound, which may be described as
follows bad triangular lacerated wonnd
over the prominence of the right cheek
bone; deep Irregular cash on either
wrist and severing an artery on one, besides
other nominal wounds about the hands, but
with proper care none are considered dan
gerous. The man was excessively inebri
ated, and it was with the greatest difficulty
that any statement could be pumped out
of him. He is Swede, and said his name
is Henry Magnusser. He owns a board
ing house, at 80 North Fifth street. It
was evident that the wounds had not been
made with knife. He stated that he
could not remember where he hadlibeen,
other than that he went into Anderson's
saloon, on South Washington avenue,
where he and others drank. He had lost an.
overcoat, undercoat and cap. He
said he went out and was followed by two
men who attacked him. He ran for his
life and undertook to get into house for
protection He then only remembers
breaking of glass and general rumpus."
Nothing is distinct in his mind. He
was evidently too intoxicated to realize
anything at the time, but the great loss of
blood he had suffered had the effect eof
SOLDERING him off. Officers Hill and Nell
son procured lanterns and tracked the
mans footsteps down the streets. They
could easily follow the trail by the blood.
It led them to the Stolof hotel, at 325
South Third street, owned by LarsaL
Stenseth. Going into the house, in the
kitchen were found pools of blood about
| the floor The walls and ceiling were
also spattered and covered with bloody
| finger marks. A trunk in corner had
been opened, and from it taken clothes
and linen, which were also saturated with
blood, as though used!!.-in wiping CORY
hands. The upper sash of an old-fash-
toned window had been shattered and ut
terly demolished, but the lower sash was
whole.
The proprietor seemed amazed. He
| claimed that he had heard not sound,
and that no one had been in his house.
He stoutly maintained total ignorance of
the whole affair. Examination outside
developed the fact that no one went into
house through the broken window, as
suggested by the landlord. The snow on
the sill and beneath the window was un-
disturbed, and the broken sash was as high
from the ground as an ordinary mans
head. The landlord was taken into custody,
and at o'clock detail of police was sent
to search every room in the house, and the
clothing of every one of the twenty boar
ders for pointers. At this writing the
affair is wrapt in the deepest mystery. One
of the boarders stated to a GLoBE reporter
that he heard a crashing of glass
and a big fracas generally, but
refused any further statements
At 1 o'clock this morning a
colored man named Henry Smith