St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-13
CUT FROM EAR TO EAR.
The ThrOnt of an Unknown Man
BADLY Gashed Last Night


BADLY Gashed Last Night.
The Minnesota Transfer stock yards came
to the front last night with a bloodyaffar that
may prove to be foul murder. Yesterday
morning an ordinary looking man, with
dark hair, red mustache and light blue
eyes arrived at the yards and made arrange
ments for the reception of a carload of
horses which he expected TO arrive last
night. He wore a dark-blue calico shirt
and a dark suit of clothes, over which he
had an overcoat. Around his neck was
tied dark silk handkerchief. He did not
give his name at the yards, and no one
took any more interest in him than they
would have taken in any one of the various
stock men who daily arrive at the yards.
He was known to have had considerable
money in his possession which he displayed
at the hotel where he paid his bill in adj
vance, but as is the custom, did not register.
About O'clock last evening he went
into the yards to see if his pen had been
supplied with feed for the horses, and that
was the last seen Of him until little after
10 O'Clock, when Woods. an engineer at the
yards, in passing the pen, heard some one
groaning, and going in the direction of the
sounds, found the man lying in
a pool of blood unable to
speak. Woods summoned assistance
and the man was taken to Merriam Park on
switch engine. \ physician was sum-
moned and after examining the mans
wounds said he could do nothing for him,
and suggested that he be taken to the hos
pital. He was brought in on the 1870
short line and taken from the
union depot to the city hospital
i'm the patrol wagon. Accompanying
him was William Ryan, employed at the
yards as manager. Mr.. Ryan said that he
had been around with the man during the
day but had not asked his name and no
one at the yards knew it. He saw him at
o'clock and he was perfectly sober. At
the hospital, DIR. Burk dressed the mans
wounds.
HIS THROAT WAS CUT
from ear to ear, severing the windpipe, but
luckily leaving the jugulaTs intact. On the
top OF the head was deep incisiOn as
though the man had been struck by a
sharp pointed Instrument and the skull was
fractured. His clothes were saturated with
blood and he had evidently LAID in the yard
three hours or more. When laid on a cot i'm
ward A at the hospital the man was unable
to speak intelligibly, but when asked his
name he muttered something that sounded
like Henry Sawyer. There were no papers
on his person by which his identity could
be fixed and his pocketbook was empty.
In his pocket were two watch keys,
but his watch had been taken. The
overcoat that he had worn was also
missing. Who committed the deed is a
mystery, but it was undoubtedly done by
some desperate character who did il for the
purpose of robbery. Mr.. Ryan stated to
the police that there was young fellow at
the yards who had come there yesterday
morning and who had started to come to
st. Paul with him last night about z
O'Clock, but changed his mind and returned
to the hotel. Suspicion seemed to rest on
this fellow, and about o'clock this morn
ing Detective John 0'Connor went out to
the yards for the purpose of arresting the
man. The chances are strongly against
the man living