St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-05
THE w1NKLER INQUEST.
What the Hit,,esses IN tie Case Hare
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THE WINKLER INQUEST.
What the Hitnesscs in TIE Case Haze to
Sag Regarding the Shooting.
The coroner and jury resumed the inves-
tigation into the facts connected with the
shooting of David Winklor yesterday after
noon with the following results:
Daniel B. Wood being duly sworn testified
as follows: I reside at 1915 North Fourth
street; served as special policeman; am
member of the Levi Butler Post OF the Il. a.
R., and found l was appointed special
through reading the GLOBE; the lieutenant
told me to go to the fair grounds and that a
policeman there would show me what to do;
that was on Sunday preceding the Wednes-
day OF the Grand Army parade and the 2Oth
of July: was sent around at the grounds
the first day 10 several points and on Mon
day was sent to the Milwaukee depot and
then to Nicolet and Washington avenues;
on Monday was again sent to the Milwau-
kce depot and attended the parade on wed
nesday; on Wednesday evening was sta
toned on Washington and Nicollet avenues
THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING
"wednesday night, the officer in charge at
headquarters told nc to go on Washington
and Nicollet and occasionally on First
and Second streets as far as First avenue
south; while on my beat on some point ON
Washington and Nicollet, about 2 O'Clock IN
the morning, l heard shot fired, and went
toward the place Of shooting on Second street
and First avenue south, where l saw men
scuffling; this was on First avenue south
toward the river; they were in the act OF
regaining their feet; were not down but
partly up; there we're two scuttiing, but L
think I saw men leaning against the Pome-
roy building; / asked the men scuffling II
there was any one in trouble and received
no response; | noticed one OF the
man had star; asked if he had his man
and he answered he had; had drawn my
revolver before that, but did not use it, and
put it back into my pocket:when l got to the
corner of First avenue south and Secoud
street the officer was on the south side of the
street, towards First avenue, and the pr1s-
oner was on his right hand side; after they
mad turned the corner heard s. shot fired;
was then only short distance, probably ten
feet, from them; on hearing the shot saw
A MAN WITH A REAoLvER,
and saw his hand dropping from the face of
the man shot, and on his right hand side;
the man who fred the shot ran down First
avenue south, toward the river; then drew
my revolver and fired after the man running
toward the river; the revolver failed to go of
and | again fred; the man who shot was OF
medium size; the man running said, "Get
out now, boys;' ! saw two others, one OF
whom ran down Second street; the other
man ran diagonaliy across Second street; l
saw three men together; kept firing but did
not follow them a long distance, and then
called for police; shouted several times for
police and heard whistles and men run
ming; the wounded man lay on
his back on the sidewalk;
the first policeman who arrived was large
man, but don't know vino he was; he
told me to 20 and report Immediately at
headquarters and l did so; went back
again to the place of shooting and then
went to get stretcher to fetch the wounded
man to the lookup and assisted in carrying
him on the stretcher to the lookup; he was
apparently conscious when he reached the
lookup; went again to headquarters, and
being asked by the man in charge whether l
was going on duty again and answering
was not able to go on duty he told me it was
best for me to go home; on my way home |
met two officers or perhaps three, and one of
them said that l had better go back with
them to give an explanation of the affair;
walked back with them and on the way
back one of them asked what kind of n gun
had and told them it was an ordinary
one, size 80 caliber; I gave him the weapon
and he examined it; think he was a detec
tive; he passed it to the other officers and said
he had better keep it, and l was satisfied he
would (Here pistol was handed to witness
for identification and he recognized it as the
one in his possession that night Did
not see the pistol since until to-day;
at the court room; l am positive this is the
pistol had that uight, and it is the only one
| ever used; after going back to the lock-
up man asked If had any objection to 90
before the wounded man to be identified,
and said had none whatever: when be-
fore him the wounded officer identified ME
as the man wearing the
BADGE AND STAR,
and said, "That's the man. Some one
asked, SIS that the man that shot you!n and
he said, II can't say that" l then went
out, took chair and sat down for while,
and remained there until six O'Clock; the
chief told me that had better go home and
get some rest and l then started and went
home; l went Immediately to my room and
went to bed; the next day after 1 sent
word could not go on duty, but the mes
sage was not delivered; my wife the next
day after reported l could not go on duty,
and think it was the Monday following l
went myself and reported.
To juror-The two men, Winkler and
his prisoner, were on First avenue south, per-
haps fifteen feet back from the street, when
arrived on the scene of the shooting, and
some men were on Second street, in front of
Pomeroy's saloon; was In the army; en-
listed in the fall of '64 in the Ninth Maine
volunteers and was in no general engage
meut; did not 60 to Ninth avenue south and
Third street after the shooting that morning.
Here Patrick Reilly, who had testified to his
being asked by special on Ninth avenue
south if ''Dave was dead,n said Wood was
not the man he saw there. The witness said
he came to Minneapolis in the fall of 1866
and gave the names OF those he had worked
for.
NOT THE REVOLVER.
officer Fred Malone sworn-I remember
taking pistol from a man on the corner Of
Sixth avenue north and Washington on the
morning of the shooting; Wood is the man;
met Wood and asked if ne knew who did the
shooting and he said it was man wearing q
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