St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04
found, for will find him for you.
will find the
.D-HANDED MURDERER

will find the
RED-HANDED MURDERER
of Thomas TOllefson for you-he who it
was who, with the aid of these SO-called
detectives, for the sake of getting this
reward have together hoodwinked Rob
ert Jamison, the assistant county
attorney. We will only be able
to, get justice in this fair city of yours
when these so-called guardians of the
in their places, men who will not COM
mitt murder for reward. This man Of
blood, this Reddy Barrett, are we to be-
lieve him under oath? For the state
mentS of Snch man as that would you
build Scatf0ld out there and surround
1T with cOrdOnS of police for these boys,
Tim and Pete. Would you lead them to
that scatfold, place on it those two inno-
cent boys; adjust the black caps and
white shrOuds and launch them into
eternity? Let li0t and revolution come
before you stultfy your manhood by
doing such a dastardly thing. There is
no foundation for believing his story.
Lame and halt, it is absolutely unSup-
ported. By its own weight it must fall
"a monument of lies, uttered by man
without semblance of manhood, whose
very form is libel on Gods attributes.
What will we think of these detectives
who rushed in and bOlStered up Reddy'S
story to the prosecution when they
knew it was not true; who but this man
could you expect to tell story like this?
He was animal to do the deed and he
was animal to be driven by cOward'S
conscience to try and escape just retri-
button. Here he is, man twenty-five
years of age, who has spent large part
of the last five years in the county Jail
.,f e..
petty crimes. During this time he
of all kinds, and then he bor-
rOwed $500 from his mother
She saw the unhealthy status of affairs
and foreclOsed her lien, and sent these
other two boys up here to take posses
sion. The name Hnb of He'll was given
to Barrett'S place years ago. What Bar
rett's place? Why this Reddy Barrett's,
for the other two boys had only come
here couple of weeks before this hon.
icide. These
FOOT-PAD ROBBERIES
have been constantly committed all
over the lower part of this city. Why
were not these famous detectives seek
ing out the perpetrators of these rob-
ward to be offered? Has single foot
pad beeu detected? No; why is this?
This man Reddy Barrett had moved out
after his mother had fOreclOSed her lien
and the saloon was closed: he had
plenty of time on his hands to practice
highway robbery, and it seems he used
his time for this purpose. You remem-
Der when this Reddy Barrett was put
upon the stand and told to tell his
story. What does he say? He says III
would rather you would ask me the
questions" You see he was afraid he
could not tell his story alone; and you
will remember that it was dark, rainy
night, and yet almost the first thing he
says was there was plenty of light, and
Mr.. Davis comes to his rescue by saying
You mean there was plenty of light at
the Boston fire." Half of the men who
are convicted are convicted On the
perjured testimony of these detectives.
You will have to admit the principal
work of criminal lawyers is to protect
innocent parties from the detectives.
See how they convict burglars. A bur-
glary is committed, they find shoe
track, they take some suspected party
and they put his foot in the track, and
ten ''coppers" who stand around swear
] that
IT FITS EXACTLY,
and the man is convicted; or handker-
chief is said to have been found at the
place of robbery with certain marks on
it, and man is arrested, and two Offi-
GERS will come forward and swear that
they found handkerchief on him
with the selfsame marks, and
he is sent to states prison for years
while the real burglas goes free, until
some time when by chance they happen
to catch him and send him to prison for
some crime he has never even heard of,
but which these brave detectives have
heard of and also have heard that large
reward is offered for the conviction of
the offender. You see what was said
about the way they walked up to the
driver and presented their pistols to his
stomach and demanded his box. Do you
think that if this had been done there
is any doubt but what Tollefson would
have given up the box. Do you think
there is man on this jury that would
not? A distinguished man who was en-
gagged to assist the county attorney in
this case left it after talking with the
Swede girl who. it is claimed. hired the
boat to Reddy Barrett at Mud lake, and
found out that the detectives who were
working in this case, were, as he said,
trying to retard the ends of justice.