St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
A MURDEROUS ATTACK.

Colored Girl Shot By States Prison Bird.
John Allen is. "a notorious negro who has
served two terms in the penitentiary, one OF
which was for highway robbery and the latter
for murderous assault with razor, his SEN
tence for the latter crime having expired about
three weeks ago. He was arrested at 0:30
last evening by Detectives John O'Connor
| and Ahern, at Farley ColwelPs saloon on
Sixth street on charge of having
hack on the Fort road about two hours pre-
vious. Upon his person was found muir
derous pistol carrying a 32-caliber ball, and
he was at once locked up in the city hail.
The particulars, as gathered from Leroy
Marstou and wife, with whom the wounded
girl lived at 172 Eighth street, are as
follows: Allen, who had been hang
ing about the premises for several
days, came into the house at 4:3O
yesterday afternoon and whispered some
thing to the girl, whose name is Della Smith,
aged II years. Soon after she went round
the corner of Jackson street with him with
light covering on her head, saying she would
be back in few minutes. The Marstons
saw nothing of her again until about $40
in the evening, when hack driver named
Jim VIM came helping her in the back
door, the former leaving at once without
word. About ten minutes after entering the
house Della began to complain, saying
''That old Niger man shot me-"
On examination it was found that 80
caliber ball had been fired through her body
from just under the right shoulder, passing
upwards and coming out through jagged
wound just above the ri ght nipple. No
blood was found to be flowing from the
wound but there were no evidences OF inter
nal bleeding On being questioned, the girl
said she had been to DR.. Murphy's Office
and that he had told her to go
home and keep the wound wet with
towels soaked in cold water, but gave her no
idea that it was dangerous. messenger
boy sent to the doctor at midnight came back
and said that gentleman would call in the
morning, repeating the caution to keep wet
towels in the wound.
The story of the girl as told the Marstons
is that Allen hired hack to take her to Fort
Smelling to collect S15 from one Sergeant
johnson, and he rode up there with her They
arrived at the Fort where she collected her
SIS, putting $40 in one pocket and SIS in
anOIner. Nnen uedT Dill Sauu place vi
the return trip, Allen demanded her money,
and she refusing to give it up, he pulled his
pistol and placing the muzzle back of her
right shoulder. fired. He then robbed her of
the $40 in one of her pockets, and also went
through the hack driver, Jim VIM, and fled
from the vehicle.
After the shooting had become known, a
colored man spied Allen cody
taking lunch at the Delmonico
restaurant on jackson street, and on
the information he was afterwards arrested by
the officers as above stated. He is known to
the police as very desperate and dangerous
character, and is said to have terribly beaten
a colored woman at Minneapolis last week.
He will be arraigned before Judge Burr this
morning and probably jailed to await the
result of the girls injuries. Search for the
hackman was unavalhng up to late hour.