Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-27
Tie Murdered B0ys,

The remains of Charles and Frederick
Ward arrived in this city from the scene Of
their immolation, by yesterday mornings
train on the Manitoba road. The cases
containing the bodies were removed from
the car in which they had been borne, and
laid upon stretchers, awaited their transfer
East by the express which departed for
Chicago at noon. Though the day was yet
young, the passing throng halted in their
footsteps to stand and gaze upon the visi-
BILE presence of death. To gaze upon the
caskets wherein were laid human forms,
whose memory so short time since fitted
like rays of sunshine over the hearthstone
of parents, wife, friends. Wherein were
composed stifening limbs that a few
short hours agone reioiced in the
fullest flush of life and
health and strength. To gaze
upon that which embraced the relics of
mortality, whence the soul went out with
the dawn of the day, and which will soon
be laid away in the cemetery by the lake,
to mingle with nature in her sweetest forms
of life. That the assassination has aroused
a feeling of horror, and loathing that is
universal, was evident from the remarks
let fall by those, who in the gray light of
the morning were witnesses of the final
scene to tragedy more deep and dark and
damrable than any included in the warp
and woof Of the criminal annals of Dakota.
Both we're young men, brave, generous,
enterprising; pioneers in the van of West
ern progrees-Daniel Boones with the
method of Bayard. Men with the air of
a grenadier of the old regime, who
never in any storm or rally,
desperate melee or sorrowful
encounter, forgot to dof his plumed hat to
an adversary, and cry out through his gray
moustache as he stiffened the sword arm,
''En Garde." The universal comment was
condemnation for the deed and hope that
the guilty parties would be brought to JUS
tice. If this was neglected the section in
which the tragedy occurred would certainly
be damaged almost beyond measure; force
would claim precedence over law, and the
decision of a disputed claim would not be
rendered by the courts, but by the con-
testant who could pull the quickest. Even
IL CHO O1ALAAO PuA1SScu, Sdlu oOu1O WIN,
though indifferently familiar with the facts,
yet knew enough thereof to
predicate an opinion not al
together derived from sympathy, the
place and its inhabitants of to-day would
ever be associated with dead mems bones
The authors of the crime might pass away,
but their names as also the crime inself
would survive the present and become the
inheritance of future generations. To
them it would come in the spring time,
and when the rustic of the falling year
gave note that summer had gone. To
them 1t would be conveyed with the re-
QUEEN OF the golden ears and waving grain,
with the russet year and with the snow as
1t spread its carpet of white to soften the
march Of time.
GOoDHUE INTERVIEWED.
l.. Z. Goodhue accompanied the remains
hither and continued with them to Chi
cago, where he will arrive this morning.
1t is hardly necessary to remark that he
was extremely pronounced in his opinion
of the tragedy. He denounced thegcrime
IN unmeasured terms as an uncaIled for
unprovoked and cowardly murder.
care you familiar with the facts preced.
ing the shooting?" he was asked.
"There is no one, not present, who could
be more familiar than myself. brought
the boys out"
''Was there any trouble anterior to the
shooting?"
Last fall business transac-
tions involved Charles and Creel
IN some sort of dispute which.
however, was adjusted. In March a party
was organized against them headed BY
Creel. You see the boys didn't associate
with every one and this occasioned some
feeilng, which it is thought was instigated
by Creel. The rest you know"
You were not on the ground at the time
of the shooting?"
"No,but 1 got there the next morning Tn
regard to the shooting the story told by
Elliott I am Informed was snbstantialIy
correct. L found the bodies in charge Of
parties and took care of them preparatory
to their shipment to Chicago,
''What did you hear with referanca 70 tto
boys opening fre?"
"The proof that they did not