St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-21
THE MARKET ROBBERY.
Both Parties Recognizing the Same
Money as Theirs-Other Grim
inaI Matters.


was taken up in the district court yesterday. his
accomplice, Robert Kruger, and himself. securing
separate trials, Messrs. Eagan and Cathcart con-
Quoting the case for the state and Messrs. Co.
forth and Weymouth for the defense.
Thomas Nealy, about seventy years old, was
first examined He recounted the matter of the
defendants hiring his stall and paying him $40
for it, and his going into St. Peter street saloon
to have q witness to the bargain, where he
showed his roll of $3.50 in bills, which he took
from his inner coat pocket in presence OF Con
molly and the saloon keeper, TO deposit the $40
with it.. Of this money his daughter had given
him $50 four days before, in which he
remembered there were two or three
$40 bills and a. ''yellow bill" he
drank several times with Connolly at saloon
over the trade to bind it. and finally started home
late in the evening from his stand and was called
back, when he found all the place was dark, and
he was suddenly hit on the head and became In
sensible. He deposed as to the fellow KrHger
coming upon deck about4 o'clock in the after
noon in question to help Connolly clean up the
stall. He bought some ducks from squaw Tor
81 so, and with his own money, but it getting
late he sold them to the new stall-keeper at the
the same price. He, witness, handled the money
found by the police on the defendant at the time
of his arrest, before the court, and recognized
the "yaller bill, it being silver certificate. He
couldn't read or write, but could count. When
his daughter gave him the $50 it was four days
before, in bed room at home, and he was IN
tending to hire stall in the new market house
with his money and to stock it.
His wife testified to finding him with his pock-
cts rifed, insensible and with a bloody face,
rolled up against his stall door on the evening
in question, and that she got him home before
he missed his money. She did not know how
much he had, but she notified the police at once
of the robbery.
IA fO ryi,y har fail
and to the denominations of the bills she paid
him. She examined the roll of bills before the
jury and identified the ''yellow boy and she
thought one of the others. The general worn
appearance of the money also was the same she
had noticed while paying it to her father.
Officer Scheffer described his arrest Of the two
robbers, and his taking 30 from the watch
pocket of the defendant, which he said Neay's
daughter described to him perfectly soon after
the arrest. When the defendant was arrested
he did not seem scared. and asked who had been
robbed. sos
Thomas Connolly on being sworn oorroborated
Neay as to the renting of the stall but did not see
the atters roll of bills at all that day He claimed
he lent Nealy ten cents to help him buy the
ducks of the squaw. He left the place
and locked up, going down Wabashaw street
alone, while Kruger went with the old man to-
wards ST. Peter street. This was att O'Clock.
Kruger met him by appointment half hour Ia
til midnight and stad together that night. He
swore that late in the month of October that he
by work and other legitimate means become pos
sessed of S175 at Lisbon, Dakota, which he
brought to st. Paul. and which for time he de-
posted in the safe of the st. Paul house, where
he then boarded. A week before he had with
drawn his money from which he had bought a
SIS suit of clothes paid $40 for the stall, and by
other expenses had run down to the amount
found on him. He swore to his perfect identif-
cation of the money found on him as his own be-
ing strong the $50 bills, and also on the tsyel
low note. On cross-examination he said he
had hardly been been acquainted with
Kruger more than single week, though he saw
him week before daily in the Third street saloon
which they frequented. He was positive he lock-
ed up his stall on the evening in question, and
started down Wabashaw street at O'Clock. He
met Kruger on the street and told him he had
purchased STALL as he on his way down to
buy goods at a commission house. But he didn t
go to the commission house, for they turned and
went back to the market. He lent Nealy ten
cents to make change in buying the ducks of the
squaw. He saw him take So bill out of his
silver pouch to buy the ducks, but never saw his
''roll." He had bought forty pounds of turkies
of a farmer and resold them the day before he
bought the stall, and before that had sold pork to
a suburb butcher on Mississippi street. He was
intending to make the stall headquarters for his
expected pork, butter and other trade. Recess
until p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At the afternoon session the cross examination
of the defendant Conley was continued. He said
he left the market at o. clock. Soon after that
1 saw Kruger in a saloon, with a number of
others, but do not know the name of the saloon.
1t was at the corner Of a street. When l came
to the city and that morning had $40 and some
cents, and paid out of that, on the day spoken
of, $3.50 to Medley, $40 of which was on the
stand he sold me at the market. / also spent
some of the money in buying and selling, but
made some profit all sold. / had the priv
lege of the stand for four months. Kruger was
to have no interest in the stand. He was not an
associate of mine, and did not know him be-
fore. moved to the shanty as es l rented
it. The saloon l went in was on corner
near the market, and went into no other sa-
loon.
Mrs. Mary Kilmann: / never saw the prisoner
before. Neeley and Kruger were in my hus-
bands saloon on st. Peter street about o'clock.
They both treated several times, and were pretty
full. Kruger went ont first. but | do not
know which way either of them went. Neeley
went out few minutes after Kreuger.
CHAs KILLMANN.
Saw the defendant and Neeley in my saloon on
the day the trade was made of the stand and
saw the money paid to Neeley. Conley had a
not say how much They were in several times
that afternoon drinking The last time l saw
prisoner was at o'clock, when went to sup
per. They drank nothing but whisky.
cHAs. Carroll.
said he saw prisoner in saloon in which he was
playing between nine and ten in the evening of
the robbery.
cHAs, TABER
who keeps the st. Paul hotel, said the prisoner
boarded at his place in November last, when he
said he came from Dakota. One day my bar
tender gave an envelope, which he said be-
longed to Conley or Conroy, l do not remember
which, and said it contained S12O, and for me to
put it in the safe. A number of days after that,
the bartender came to me and said the man
wanted his money as he was going to leave. l
came and got the money and gave it to the bar
tender, who turned it over to Coney, after
taking out the amount of his board
bill. L am not certain whether
he gave it to him in my presence. The prisoner
was dressed at that time differently from now.
which makes him look changed, but am pretty
sure it is the same person. Yes, indeed, l am
sure. The bartender IL in San Francisco or some
where else.
This closed the case for the defense.
In rebutta the state called Sarah Johnston,
neice of Mr.. Nicely who was visiting at his
place at the time, and who said, the night of the
ROBBERY she went uoWn 81. refer street 10 90 10
a store, and passed the place my uncle had. He
was inside and two men were with him, one of
whom was tall and the other short. L am sure
the prisoner was one of them. That was at 8
o'clock, as the market clock struck when / was
passing. They were in there sitting around the
stove talking, but l could not hear what they
said.
The complainant was also called, who again
stated the amount of money given him by his
daughter, as well as what he had himself.
uAfter very able pleas by Messrs. Egan and Go
forth, Judge Wilkin charged the jury by rehears-
ing the testimony, and saying that the recogni-
ton of the money was one offthe specific points
in the case, most of the other evidence being
circumstantial. He also cited the hour in which
Connolly gave as that of leaving the stall and
closing it up, and the testimony of Mrs. johnson
nlacing il at instead of O'Clock. The Jury re-