St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
FELL AMONG THIEVES.
Dr.. ]. W. Herring of Kimball, Dak., Rob
bed and Badly Beaten by Chicago
Footpads.
Ano ther Dakota Physician in Trouble Of q
Somewhat Different Nature at
Bismarck.
Between Immigration and Railroad
Extensions, J Jamestown Thinks
aBocm is On.
Citizens of Fargo Elated Over Pros
pect of Lighting Their Town
With Natural Gas.
A Stranger From Dakota.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO. May 29.-Evidences of life
and death struggle were discovered yester-
day on the common west of the lake shore
drive, between the avenue and Schiller
street, by some worlzmen who were filling
up pond that lies little east of the CEN
ter of the common. The place is a very
lonesome one, and is the site of the old
Catholic cemetery. AS the workmen were
passing through the commons one OF them
found silk hat, and near bv were some
stones covered with blood. A little farther
off were cane, evidences OF light and
more blood, while in some brush near the
lake shore was blood-Stained cuff. There
were also several clOtS of blood and stones
covered with blood found near at hand, the
whole seeming to indicate that desperate
struggle had taken place there. There were
strong suspicious of murder and that the
murderer had concealed the body in
the pond or else thrown it in the
lake. The Chicago avenue police were
at work early this morning dragging the
pond and searching for the supposed vic
tim, but later in the day they discovered
facts which led to the conviction that the
crime committed had been highway rob-
berry. The victim was DR.. John W. Her
ring of Kimball, OAK, who has been stop
ping q few days at No. 43 Wells street.
He explained to reporter that he had re-
Gently arrived in the city in company with
Mr.. H. J. Law, a nephew of Robert Law,
the coal man. The latter was stopping
with his uncle on West Adams street, but
he being in moderate circumstances took
lodgings at the Denver house at the above
mentioned number. He said that on last
Thursday night he had gone up to Lincoln
park in company with one Ed White, a
member of Il North side saloon concert
company. They wandered into the saloon
and White brought him some beer, which
he thinks was drugged. About 9 o'clock he
left the saloon alone and was walking
leiSurely through the commons on his way
to his hotel, when two footpads met him
and one of them struck him with billy.
They followed up the assault by hammer
ing him on the head and face with stones.
Herring, being powerful man himself,
wrestled with the robbers and wounded one
of them. DR.. Herring states that the foot
pads took from him S70 and left him lying
upon the prairie insensible. He afterward
recovered and made his way to his hotel.
The hat that was found belonged to DR..
Herring, but the cane and cuff have been
identified as the property of White. The
police think that Herring was assaulted and
robbed by men who were accomplices of
White, and that the latter followed Herring
after he left the saloon in order to get a
part of the ''swag," and that the robbers
quarreled in making the ''divy." None of
the parties have been arrested, and White
is supposed to have left the town. Herring,
though badly beaten and bruised, is not Sc
riously hurt, and will recover. He is a mar
ried man.