St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
KILLED IN A BROTHiL,
d man, Supposed to be Fred ]. Wade,
murdered Last Night in a St. Paul
Bagnio.
Head Half Severed From His
booy as the Result of a Drunken
Row.
'us' VINO Did the Cutting Unknown
Ihree Arrests Made--yartous
Stories.

dT1OuS
Stories.
Shortly after o'clock this morning word
came 10 the police station of row near the
corner OF Cedar and Eighth streets
AT ABOUT the same time, a police.
iiian VINO had been notified
Oh Cedar street came upon four men who
were having a general fight on the side
walk, some ten or fifteen feet from the
corner OF Eighth and Cedar streets. AS
the ofhcer came up the men started to
break away, when one of them was
found to be terribly cut. and
bleeding terribly. The patrol wagon ar
rived soon after and the wounded man was
lying on cot in the central station five
minutes later. dying. Drs Ancker, Nc
Farland and Abbott were called at once and
tried to close up
THE UGLY CASH
but it was no use, and he died twenty min
utes after he reached the station. His
Jugular was cut. When found Oh the side
walk, ne had no coat On, and nothing about
MN to indicate who he was or where he
iived. His coat had been left in the house
ol prostitution on the corner of Eighth
anu Ceaar streets, and in this was note
pearihg III the corner the words. Fred J..
"aue III account with Peck & Son." This
was generally believed to be the murdered
mans name, and it was said that he
was railroad man. The three men
VINO were engaged in the row near the
were arrested and at the central station
they gave their names as RAYMOND Reed
William Wisdom and G. A. Mcfarland,
1t was difficult to get any very reliable
evidence as to which of them
DID THE CUTTING,
or how it was done. The entire
party had been in the brothel, at
the corner, of which Madame Du-
kas Tor Lucas is the proprietor.
and Miss Betty" stout colored lady, the
housekeeper. There were a half dozen ex-
cited females in the house when GLOBE
reporter called there few minutes
after the cutting occurred. The story OF
Miss Betty who saw all of
the affair that happened in the house is to
erect that three nien. whose names she did
not know. came tos the house about l
o'clock. One of them had been there an
hour or more earlier and had come back for
some beer. They had all been
drinking beer, and after a time
they began to get rather noisy. One of
them. whom Miss Betty said was named
Burns, said he was slugger, whereupon
another OF the party offered to bet $50 that
Miss Julia" one of the boarders,
COULD KNOCK HIM OUT
with the gloves. The bet was ac-
cepted and the money laid on the
table. The man who afterwards had his
throat cut, made a grab for it and put it in
his pocket. A quarrel ensued in which all
the men engaged more or less. Miss Betty
said she sent boy to inform an officer, and
while he was gone the men worked
their way through narrow hall leading to
the door. They opened the main door and
kept up the row in little storm entry.
This was the substance of all she knew
about it except that she remem-
bered some of the hard names
the men had called each other The women
in the house told about the same story, as
did also boy of Is or 16, who was en-
ployed there. When the
OFFICERS VISITED THE HOUSE
the floor Of the entry had been
thickly strewn with coal ashes and
the housekeeper said she put them there to
cover up the blood. 1t is probable that the
cutting was done in this entry. Careful
search failed to show any knife or other
weapon with which it might have been
done. After they were locked in
liclI CcIlS, he0u, NlnQOm and
Mcfarland denied that they were in any
way to blame. They said they had been in
The house at the time the trouble occurred.
aid that one of them worked there. They
told the same story as the woman about the
beginning of the trouble, and all three said
they had gone upon the street to
call the police. There were other men in
the house at the time, they said, and they
must have done the cutting For them
selves, they did not know anything about
it, further than that there had been a row
started in the house. They did not know
who the dead man was or where
he came from. They, too, thought
he was railroad man. Officers cross-ex-
amined Miss Betty and the men, but they
told them substantially the same story as to
the reporters.
THE DEAD MAN.
The man who was killed was a rather
tall, bony looking man with smooth face,
and dressed in an ordinary working
suit of clothes. He looked to be 35 or 40
years old. The doctors found that the
wound had reached from about the spinal
column, around the left side of the neck to
the front, the head being nearly half sev-
cred from the body. The iugular had been
cut The wound was rather Jagged and
rough and the man had bed to death.