St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
SEEKING FOR A MURDERER
Who Has Covered His Tracks Pretty
Effectually.
MANY THEORIES AFLOAT.
Nothing Definite Ascertained by the
Police Regarding the Death Of
an Associate.

The police are now tracing the move
ments of two st. Anthony Hill coach
men on the night that Officer Hansen
was killed, and circumstances are
strongly against the men. They have
been in trouble several times. and have
also been i'll the municipal court in.
more than one occasion. One of. them
had to be suppressed by Officer Grady
the last time he was before the court.
These men both sleep in the barns on
the hill where they work, and usually
approach the barns, through an alley.
near the place where the officer was
shot. They have been stopped by Off
GERS frequently, but after the one az
rested by Officer Grady was re-
leased from court, he gave it out that
he would shoot the next policeman who
stopped him Oil the street. 1t is said
that he made the same threat to Officer
Wilson in front of Tom Jefferson's sa-
loon. and that he showed pistol which.
he carried
TO EXECUTE HIS THREAT.
Thursday night this coachman was
down town and missed the cable cars.
He stood talking to an officer for some
time and spoke about having to walk up
on the hill. If he went home Immediately
that would make his arrival about the
sen was new man on that beat, and,
not knowing the colored man in queS-
ton, might have crossed the street and
ordered him to stop. The man, true to
his threat, pulled his revolver and shot
the officer. The fact that no footsteps
were heard by those who were aroused
by the shooting supports this theory,
for as soon as he shot the officer he
might have ran up the alley to the barn
where he usually sleeps. This is a
plausible story, and from the source
from which the information was de-
rived, it is supposed that the authOri-
ties are investigating the matter, and
that results will be
MADE KNOWN VERY SHORTLY.
The funeral of the murdered police
man will take place from his late resi-
dence, No. 404 Aurora avenue, this after
noon at O'clock. The preparations for
the ObSequieS were completed last
night. and the procession will form as
follows:
Mounted Police.
Twelve Men as Escort.
Band.
Five Platoons of Police.
Fire Department,
Carpenters Union.
Hearse.
Carriages.
Inc remains VIII De conveyed W llle
Norwegian Methodist church, where re-
ligious services will be held, after which
the cortege will proceed to Oakland
cemetery, where the interment will be
made. The police will turn out in
body, the following acting as pail bear
ers: Lieuts. Murphy, Dowlan and
Babe, Sergts. Pendy, Larson, Schweit-
ger, Zirkelbach and Getchell.
Yesterday afternoon Coroner Quinn
empanneled the following jury: W. l..
Lyons, S. J. Elmquist, A. p. Croonquist,
w. n. Shandrew. Alfred Bradley and
John Harmon. The jury viewed the
remains of the deceased and adjourned
subject to the call of the coroner who
will be governed by the success met
with by the authorities in
TRACING OUT THE CRIME.
There were various rumOrS atlOat yes
terday about clues and theories held by
the police, but up to late hour last
night no arrests had been made and the
police stated that they had not learned
anything new.
One report was to the effect that a
desperate named Sheridan was sus-
pected of the crime and is supposed to
be in hiding at one of the hotelsin the
CITY. There is no truth in this, how
ever, because SheridaniS now ''dOing
time" in the Iowa state penitentiary,
having been captured and sent up from
Elk River some time ago.