St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-07
A Minneapolis Young Man
Tells a Remarkable Story
Of His Experiences.
He Gets VitpiOl in the Face, Is
Slugged,. and Loses Lots
Of Money.
Besides, He Claims to Have
Lain Four Days Uneon-
SciouS in the Bushes.
The Police Hear His Tale, and
Are Inclined to Believe
1t True.

Henry R. Hague, a young man about
twenty-five years of aye, who now lies
on bed of pain at the home of his be-
trothed, Miss Diestart, who resides with
her parents at 2517 Monroe street north
east, Minneapolis, claims to have been
the victim of one of the
most daring, brilliant and suc-
cessful highway robberies ever
committed in Minnesota. If his story
be true, he was robbed in broad day
light and not over two blocks from the
Monroe street car line, of over $4,000
worth of cash and valuableS. Hague is
the patentee of an improved forge which
has been =,
SELLING LARGELY
i'm Dakota, and he came here only
about six weeks ago to be married to
Miss Diestart, and was stopping at heE
home on Monroe street. Last Tuesday
morning at about $3.50 he went over
to a barber shop on Harrison street
and Twenty-fOurth avenue TO get a
shave, but found the place closed up.
AS he stood in front of the place large.
heavy, dark-Skinned man asked him il
he wanted to be shaved. On receiving
an answer in the affirmative, the
stranger said that he had chair and
outfit at his house around the
block. The two started to go there,
! taking a path through the block among
the trees. When they got in the midst,
of the trees the volunteer barber sud-
denly threw bottle OF some burning.
liquid,
PRESUMABLY vITRIoL,
in Hague's face and then stru ok him
heavily twice with some blunt instru.
ment. Hague remembers nothing more,
until he awoke Friday afternoon and
found himself Lying in the bushes.
where he was when his companion at
tackled him. His hands were tied, and
he was SO weak and sore that it took
stagger back to the Diestart RESI-
ldence, four blocks away. He
arrived there nearly fainting, and
was Immediately put to bed, where he
has been ever since, and where he is
likely to remain for some time time tO
come. His face and head are one huge
blister, and it is almost a miracle that
his eyesight was spared to him. There
are also two marks of blows on the back
of his head. When he arrived home and
RECOVERED HIS SENSES
Hague found that he had been robbed,
while unconscious, of $4,000 in certi-
fed checks, S400 in cash and some dia-
monds, valued at over $1,000. Hague
could not be seen last night, and the
people at the house where he is stopping
refused to be interviewed, as they said
the detectives had instructed them to
give no information regarding the mat
ter. The chief points in Hague's
story were, however, learned from
other sources, and are as above
given. When the robbery was first re-
ported to the police the detectives
thought the young mans story very
fishy, as it certainly. does not seem
likely that man could be so badly in
jured as to be unconscious four days in
the open air and recover sufficiently to
walk four blocks unaided. After max
ing a thorough investigation of the
case, however, they are inclined to
think that the facts in the case are as
stated by the victim. They think they
have clue that will lead to the detec-
ton of the per rpetratOrs of the outrage.