St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-19

END: give everything away except the
county seat. but that we must hold on
to, come what may. Gentlemen. you've
heard me. Turn the crank of the
chrome. John. half the proceeds goes to
the church. Hurrah for Cal-e-do-n-l-a! -
At this outbursr. cheers after cheers
were given, and pandemonium relgned
supreme. The last distinct articulation
heard from any one after this that night
was from the lips of Lou Olson. who re-
marked that he ''would have TO go to
Fargo anyways"
The next day the winters sun arose
in all its majesty, bright, beautiful and
Dakota-like. 1t was 8. TO-. aye, even II
o'clock before a majority of the deni-
Zens of Caledonia had finally released
themselves from the embrace of the
sleepy god, Morpheus. and in fact DR..
Faux was not visible until nearly 2
o'clock p. m. The excitement of the
evening before. apparently. had com
pletely exhausted everybody, and they
sought recuperation in sweet and peace
full Slumber, wei! aware that Oh the NOR
row there would be a repetition of the
terrible excitement of the day and even
ing before.
At 3:30p. m. DR.. Cleveland's bell rang
a merry jingle as signal that the hour
was near at hand for the assembling of
the coroner's jury to sit on the bodies of
Boyd and Tuedge. The ringing of the
bell was according to previously ar
ranged programme, and was thus UNI
dersood by everybody. AT precisely 4
p. M. sharp, the coroner, jury and
scores of citizens were present to wit
ness the proceedings of the inquest and
post mortem examination. Everybody
were in their respective stations. The
room was literally packed with an eager
and eXpectant Caledonia audience.
Coroner Strom sat in his high-backed
armchair provided for the occasion, i'll
his usual austere but dignified manner,
and perhaps a little more so than usual,
as this was an extraordinary occasion.
The room was perfectly quiet-op-
pressively so. The death-like stiffness
which pervaded within would remind
one with the supreme awe with which
an audience is held at Quaker meet
ing. Every one appeared to be listen
ing intently to catch the first words
which should fall from the coroner's
lips, and watch the proceedings of that
august jury and the results of the post
norton by Dr.. Cleveland and Joe
| Clark. At last slight motion OF the
articulating organs of the coroner gave
evidence that he was about to speak.
| He said: I'VE will now proceed. DIR.
Cleveland, yourself and Mr.. Clark will
| Immediately conduct the autopsy of the
bodies" All eyes were now turned on
the doctor, who majeStically arose from
his seat and took two OF three steps
forward and exclaimed: Bring forth
the stiffs." then turning his face to-
wards the jury, and thence the audi
ence, he continued:
''Mr. Coroner, gentlemen of the jury
and fellow citizens, this is terrible
duty we are called here to perform. A
terrible and wicked murder has been
committed. AS far as my part in this
examination is concerned. permit me to
make few brief remarks in the way of
Introductory. | desire to explain to you
the mode of dissecting the human body.
Ii appears in this case that the bodies of
our friends Boyd and Tuedge, are in the
condition of congelation, and it is quite
difficult to perform the autopsy in the
most approved and scientific manner as
it is my practice. Their rigidity will
prevent me from closely inspecting the
molecular changes c0incident with the
development of the tissues. and which
also makes the blood corpuscles oval
and irregular at the edge, and thus the
sphincterani in proximity to the aper-
ture in the face has tended to contract
the ObanaSicuS of the S.
At this moment noise is beard at
the door. Hank! bark. Hist, oh, hist!
There should be awful silence on this
momentous occasion. The door is
opened, ana two men step in, carrying
over their shoulders number of huge
wolf skins. A death-like silence imme-
diately pervades the room. A sepul
chral voice was heard in the direction
of where the jury is seated:
''No-no-yes why not iS-'tis not
it vast is-Boyd and Tuedge."
Then a dull and sickening thud was
heard in the direction of the speaker as
if he had fallen heavily to the floor in
dead swoon.
"What kind of a programme are you
fellerS carrying out here that you stare
at us in such a strange manner and APP
pear to be all nearly scared to death? ]
don't know as | owe you anything.
Whatin the devil have you got covered
up over there?" said Boyd in a coarse,
bull-frog voice.
Guess we'd better invoice the prop
erty," remarked Tuedge, in an uncon-
cerned manner.
They both step over to where the
bodies lie on the bier, and Boyd removes
the horse-blankct which covers them.
"Well. by the rip-roaring, bald-headed
Jew. 0, sun-broWned sirocco, who ate
the CASTLE soap! Tuedge. east your
eagle optics on those StiffS," exclaimed
Boyd, pointing his index finger towards
them.
''Our two big wolvesw cries Tuedge.
''Well, I'll be darned; and these fellers
holdin' an inquest ever 'em. They must
all be off their Jimtown. Ha. ha."
DR.. Falk, who had somewhat recov-
cred his equilibrium after behOlding
Boyd and Tuedge alive and in the flesh,
advanced two OF three steps towards
| them and exclaimed:
BE thou spirits of health or COLLINS damned.
| Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts
from hell
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
| Thou comst III such Il questionable shape
That would speak to thee"
We'll" continued the doctor, eff
those bodies lying OIL that bier are not
Boyd and Tuedge who are they, and
where do you come from and where are
you going?''
WELL" replied Boyd, ''you all seem
to be terribly excited, and if it will re-
lieye YOU in any manner, Will tell you.
Those bodies lying there are the
carcaseS of two big wolves which we
killed the other day and had hung them
to tree for the convenience of skinnin'
'em. We came directly from home and
we are going over to Minnesota to get
the bounty on our wolfskelps and sell
the SKINS"
where's Dave Kelly?" queried
Tuedge. He can probably enlighten
you to your entire satisfaction. 1t is
doubtless another one of his practical
| Jokes he's been playin' you"
'By the eternal ding-dongs,' NUT
| tered Yankee johnson.
1t was now the scene changed. In
stead of the height of excitement of a
few moments before, when the tension
! of muscle and mind were drawn to the
fullest extent. pervading every one.
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