Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-26
THE CREELSBURG TRAGEDY.

morrow.
THE CREELSBURG TRAGEDY.
Some Facts about the Murdered Young
Men-EffOrts being made to Arrest the
Perpetrators.
The following dispatches sent from this
city and Grand Forks were the first init
nations given the friends of the Ward
boys in Chicago of their brutal assassi-
nation.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 23.-Dr. E. P.
Ward The following dispatch from DEVILS
Lake is received: Charlie and Fred Ward
found dead near Creel City this morning,
both shot,. We have the remains and will
give them every attention.
Signed VIM. T. S1MRALL.
Mr.. Simrall is friend of mine, and will
do as he says. Wire me your wishes, and 1
will see them carried out. Inyour great
affection you have the heartfelt sympathy
of your affectlonate cousin.
Signed CHARLES G. SMITH.
Mr.. Ward went at once to the Hon. Chas
B. Farwell, who showed him the following:
GRAD FORKS, Oak, April 23.-Hon. G..
B. Farwell: Have just learned that
Charles and Fred Ward were killed at
Devils Lake this morning. No particulars.
Break tha news to parents. I go to the
scene OF the murder Immediately.
Signed l.. P. GooDHUE.
The decedents, as already stated in dis
patches to the GLOBE, were nep news of the
Hon. G. B. Farwell, of Chicago; they are
the sons of DR.. E. P. Ward. also of that
city, and long identified with its govern
ment, his last service in an official capac
ity having been rendered as clerk
of the board of police commissioners.
Frederick, the elder of the brothers, was
thirty years of age and has been resident
of Bartlett since January last. He was a
graduate of West Point and closely identi-
fed with the organization and command
of the First regiment Illinois National
guard, composed of the leading young
men of Chicago. He was a man of
unquestioned bravery, as was evidenced
during the July riots in 1877,
and numerous instances of his fear
lessness during that period are related.
Charles Ward, the younger of the two, was
twenty-five years old and had resided in
Bartlett since last October, where he was a
He, too. was a man of great bravery,
| which he signally exhibited two years
ago while a guest of his uncle,
G. B. Farweli, at Lake Forest,
| suburb of Chicago. One night
ed to gain entrance. Deceased heard them
prying at windowblind, and rising from
his bed and resisting the attack with such
that4 he H,,r
treat. At the time of his death, he carried
a handsome gold watch and chain, given
| him by Mr.. Farwell, as an expression of
gratitude for his bravery.
Last evening GLOBE reporter met Mr..
j. II. Norris, we'll known safe dealer in
Chicago, from whom he obtained some
particulars as to the feeling then with re-
ference to the tragedy.
Il left there the day the news of their
death was received he said ''but from
what heard it was clearly evident to
my mind that the opinion on
all sides was that it was cold blooded
murder. Of course we only heard the bare
reports communicated to their relatives by
kilograms, but these were taken as conclu-
sive in the case, and left but one impress
sion, that it was unprovoked and deserving
of the severest penalty"
Was any movement inaugurated there
to discover the guilty parties?"
Il cannot say as to that, though 1 did
hear that Charley Farwell would take steps
to ascertain who they were."
Did you hear what shape his efforts in
that connection would take?'
Nothing beyond the employment of a
detective force to probe for the facts.
Any one who knows Farwell would not
be long in deciding what
course he Will pursue. He is said to have
been strongly attached to the boys, and
will use every means in his power, and he
has the means, to procure the capture and
conviction of the murderers."
You don't know whether he has com
missloned any detectives to undertake the
job?"
mo, do not, but during Monday it
was stated, believe, that he would dis
patch detectives at once to the scene of
the tragedy"
From the remarks made by Mr.. Norris
1t will be seen that the relatives of the
murdered men are keenly alive to the stu
alton, and within day or two it is prob
able detectives will reach solution of the
mystery.