St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-30
MURDERED IN A BAGN|0.
A Minneapolis Man Receives His Deaf b
Blow at Spokane Falls.
A VERY MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
Julius Schockens the Victim---A
Woman Supposed to Be at the :
Bottom Of It.

Friends of julius Schockens, who
lived for some six years in Minneapolis,
are in receipt of news from Spokane
Falls, w. T., to the effect that he was
stabbed in bagnio at that place Satur-
day, March II. receiving wound from,
which he died the following Tuesday.
The Spokane Daily Chronicle OF We'd
nesday, March q, says, concerning his
death:
The cold, dead body of julius schockens
lies in the hospital OF the Sacred Heart
Death was caused by knife wound on, THE
left side. The fatal blow, whether acclde n
ally or purposely administered, was struck on
Saturday night last at bagn1o known as No
33, on Stevens street, between Main ana
Front Except the dead man, no one was
present but woman of the town named
Belle Earle, who claims to have known
the deceased for the past seven years. Yes
terday afternoon the injured man breathed
his last at the hospital, the woman Earle
being with him at the end.
THE WOMAN WON'T INTERVIEW.
Last night Chronicle reporter endeavored
to get an interview regarding the matter,
but was unsuccessful. At noon to-day the
reporter called at the house by previous ap-
pointment, but could get no statement from
the woman. Friends of the dead man nave
been questioned as to all the facts bearing
on the case, and they know nothing except
that the whole affair is wrapped in mystery.
AT 2 o'clock this afternoon the reporter saw
Coroner Penield, who up to that time had
no notice that an inquest was wanted. To
the reporter, according to what he has
learned in searching for facts connected
with the affair." he is of the opinion that for
the good of the city an inquest should be
held and rigid inquiry made. Schockens
had only been in the city about two weeks.
during which time he was in the employ OF
S. j. Holland.
biYtU HIyn
years of age and conducted wholesale
liquor business at 1915 Washington av-
enue south, in partnership with w.
BurnSteln, under the firm name OF j.
Schockens & Co. Afterwards he ran
saloon at 400 Washington avenue south.
July 81 he went to Hurley, Wis, and
engaged in the liquor business, but was
burned out. He then went to st. Paul
and opened cigar store on Fifth street
between Robert and Jackson streets.
He left suddenly during the winter, and
it appears he went west, although his
friends did not Know his where
abouts. He came to Minnie
apolis in November, 1888, from
Chicago, where he has cousin,
who is one of the firm of Levine q Co.,
liquor dealers. Another cousin, X.
WolfsOn, lives in Kansas City, and he
has number of relatives i'll st. Louis.
The woman whom the Spokane
Chronicle speaks of as Belle Earle, is
undoubtedly Belle Currier, with whom
the deceased lived while in Minneapo-
lis, at 429 Washington avenue south.
She also accompanied him to Hurley,
where they kept house, and it is pre-
sumed, either accompanied or followed
him to Spokane. She is a French
woman, who was born and raised in
Toronto. She was known to possess
dangerous temper, and the friends of
the deceased think she may have been
either directly or indirectly responsible
for his death, Notwithstanding it is as
serted that Shockens before he died
said she was in no way to blame.