St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
A WOMAN IN THE CASE.
Indications that Hosli Was Murdered on
Account of Jealousy.
More Light Thrown on the Mystery
at the Investigation.
Mary Wehile's Damaging Testimony
Progress Made Yesterday.
Eey to the Situation.

new Developments in the Farmers Home
tragedy. The prediction has been verified.
The motive has certainly been discovered.
Unexpectedly the key was struck at the
coroner's investigation yesterday, which has
thrown more new light on the murder,
which is one of the most mysterious that
ever occurred in Minnesota 1t now looks
as though woman was at the back of it
and an 1T that Fritz Booking had muir
dered Henry Hosli through Jealousy.
The testimony of Mary Wehile,
servant girl at the Farmers Home indi-
cate this theory. She testified that on last
Thursday Hosli came into the kitchen,
where she was working, sat down and
talked to her about fifteen minutes When
he had left Booking rushed in and GEN.
sured her for entertaining him, after which
he appeared angry and at times excited up
till the time he was last seen on
Friday evening. the time the
murder was committed. From the testi-
mony of the girl, who is of fine form and
passably good-looking, and that OF others
it looks like as if he had become enraged at
him and murdered him principally on the
girls account. 1t also looks as if Booking
and Heffner planned the murder while sit
ting at the table in the saloon
in the evening and committed the
crime shortly after they disappeared.
Booking acts like he is guilty.
The inquest was resumed at the city hall
Yesterday afternoon shortly after o'clock,
DR.. C. Z. Clark, the deputy coroner, pre-
siding. with Mr.. c. D. Gregory acting as
prosecutor for the county. At o'clock
the inquest was adjourned till o'clock on
Sunday morning, by which time some
valuable testimony will have been obtained.
A full report of the inquest is appended
below.
Fritz Booking, the bartender, who is
believed to be the man wanted, was the
1irst witness sworn. and he deposed as fol
lows: The parties i'll the saloon, when l
came back from the postoffice, were Joe
Lukinger, Mat Marty. Old Fred, Louis Hef-
ner. Joe Frazier and Charles Bensinger.
They remained inside some time after came
back. This was on Friday night after
o'clock Yes, Hosli slept in the room on
Thursday night and got up about or
o'clock l never saw him go to bed with
his clothes on but one night. Don't know
whether he had his clothes on Friday night
OF not If Louis and Heffner said l tried to
take his clothes off on Friday night they are
mistaken. No, never said to the hired
girl either he or | had to get out of that
room. 1 talked about him to her, but don't
remember whether it was Friday afternoon
or night No, l did not see Hosli when 1
went into the room on Friday night. When
l first seen him on Saturday morning l
saw the
BLOOD ON HIS EAR
and the revolver on the floor and told Louis
he had a stroke of the apopleXy and did
not think much about it at first. l sup
posed he had been drinking too much. Be-
tween 5 and o'clock on Friday evening l
went with Mr.. Holler to his new store to
see it. Was not in there over fifteen min
utes. 1 then went to the postoffice and
next to either Kruger's or Brenners. Was
not there long. l got back after o'clock
and was in the saloon till 9. The board
erS were then coming for supper. Andy
Wood 1 think was back of the stove when 1
went in. 1 forget where he
was after that. Oh, no, l never
had trouble with Hosli. No never had
no trouble with him about him going to
! bed No; did not carry revolver when
/ | was boarding at Shemulys. Yes, l
know Shultz. the treasurer of the Sons of
! Herman. Yes: know that Shultz got the
money from the lodge. l don't know where
! he is now. No; 1 don't know whether he
is in Germany or not. l was not expelled
from the Sons of Herman lodge because l
knew about him getting the money. but l
left it on my own account. Yes; l known
it was not on Saturday morning that we
heard the noise ON the window. Oh.
Louis, he said: ''Oh! that's only the police
man. He wants his morning
drink" Laughter. On, no: Louis
did not say it was a ghost.
Officer Thomas Shattuck was next sworn.
He said: When l found the revolver l said
this is the weapon that done the work.
nj of ar1H
Ills shirt was badly torn. The bed was
HORRIBLE LOOKING SIGHT.
never saw anything equal to it. No,
have never talked to Boeckinger or Heff-
ner The bed looked demOraliZed. The
clothing was tossed about but there was no
indication of there having been scuffie in
the room during the night.
DR.. Pratt was next sworn and testi-
fed to having made a post mortem
examination upon Hosli. Usually in
slant death is the result of q bull
let taking the course this one did. 1t
would not be probable that man could re-
tain consciousness with such a wound.
Around the orifce we found considerable
clotted blood with q dark substance
III it that reSembled powder.
We inferred that those dark substances
was powder. but that l cannot testify to.
DR.. Willard was sworn, and testified to
having made a post mortem examination
with the other physicians. He said that
when ne was called to the room in which
HOSli was murdered he noticed consider
able blood on the floor He said that at
first he did not know that he had been shot,
and that the position he was found in indi-
Gated that he had died from the struggle
that he was found in. Everything, he said,
indicated that he had died in a death Strug-
gle. The body, he said could have been
placed in the position found in half-rigid
state, but this appears unreasonable.
W.C.HOler: l was at the Farmers Home
about $3.50 o'clock, where l remained about
half-hour. l went to my bakery about
o'clock. Fritz was at my bakery just
after l went in. Yes, l heard Fritz and
Baker qnarreling at the Farmers Home,
and l saw him.
PULL HIS REVOLVER
out of his pocket and show it to Mary and
say, ''Now l am ready for him." He said
that Baker had insulted him and that he in
tended to get even with him. I don't
know whether he had the revolver with him
when he was up town or not. No. l did
not hear Fritz mention Hosli's name at all.
Thomas Gilmartin was the next witness ex-
amined and testified as follows; 1 work in
the Gazette Office. On Friday evening [
had supper at the FarmeSr' home and saw
Louis and Fritz. l noticed that Fritz had
been drinking and had terrible expression
in his eye. His face was flushed and l sup
posed he had been having trouble. Fritz
started to go and get my satchel about $40
l waited for him till after 9 o'clock and he
did not come back. so l left. 1 was not
rooming there; just taking my meals.
When Fritz started after my satchel he
said, ''Fll be back in a minute" noticed
then that he was laboring under some
mental excitement. Louis left about the