St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
ALL THE LAW ALLOWS
Imprisonment for Life Is the
Sentence Imposed Upon
Bandit HolZhay.
He Is Convicted at BesSemep
Of Murder and Highway
Robbery.
Wolverines Do Not Counte-
nance Capital Punishment,
Else He Would Hang.
The Prisoner Breaks Down
and His Attorneys Appeal
the Case.

OESoL0Eh, ulCIss -NOfs july
in the case of Reimund HolZhay, the
highwayman who held up the Gogebic
stage and murdered Banker Fleiseh-
bein, went out at $3.50 a. m. and re-
turned at 10:15 a. m. with verdict of
guilty. HOlZhay was sentenced to i'm
prisOnment for life AT hard labor. The
bandit broke down and seemed dazed
when the foreman of the jury an
n0unced the verdict. The attorneys
for the prisoner will make efforts to Sc
cure new trial. The judges charge was
read to the jury this morning, and lasted
about twenty minutes. This is as Sc
we're a sentence as can be given
in Michigan, this state having
abolished capital punishment. Rel
mund HOlZhay was born at SOlzburg,
Austria, on May %, 1867. Previous to
his birth two of his fathers brothers
had emigrated to America and settled
near Green Bay, Wis. Eight years ago
young Holzhay came to this country
with his parents, who settled in North
kindly to the rough life of the pineries
and became well versed in wOodcraft,
and achieved local fame as an
EXPERT HUNTER AND ANGLER.
His excursions into the forests were
frequent ana were prolonged for days
and even weeks at time. AS he be-
came older attempts were made TO have
him work. One of his nncles, who is
lumberman at ShauwanO, Wis, took him
i'm hand and placed him at work in his
mill. Young HOlzhay rebelled and left
the mill after few weeks work. All
attempts to make him workman were
futile, and he spent his time in the for
est, or else at home devouring
dime novels. The yellow-covered,
blood and thunder stories made
HIM long for glory and excite
ment, and four years ago, at the age Of
eighteen, he went west to fight Indians.
Indians were scarce, and the young
man was compelled to go to work. The
work of herding cattle proved congenial,
and he spent nearly two years in MOn-
tana as cowboy, while there imprOv-
ing his craftsmanship and instilling
lawless notions of heroiSm, foStered by
further course of dime novels and
works of fiction from the nickel
libraries. Eighteen months ago Young
Holzhay returned to Pulcifer.
Shawano county. Wis, where
one of his uncles was liv-
ing his aversion to honest labor contin-
utd, and he resumed his old lie of fish
ing and hunting during the summer.
During the winter of 1SS7-S, he spent
several months IN the pinerieS as
chopper. Living in the same village
was a family named Huntly. The
youngest girl, dashing young brunette
of sixteen, attracted Holzhay's atten-
ton, and the
YOUNG PEOPLE BECAME LOVERS.
To present his sweetheart with the
trinkets that delight feminine heart
HOlZhdy required money. Work he
would not, except under compulsion,
stealing seemed easier. His first at
tempt at robbing houses were success
full, and he became criminal. From
robbing lonely houses to something
bolder was but step. Early in Febru-
cry of this year this year the stage run
ming between Pulcifer and Shawano
was robbed. The government mail was
demanded of the driver by man who
wore mask and flOurished a
revolver in true road agent style.
The trembling driver complied with
the request, and HOlZhay ritied the reg
istered mail, Sitting open the pouch
with a knife. Two weeks later the
robbery of the mail was repeated. ID.
ii. Pulcifer, from whom the town of Pull
cifer, where Holzhay lived, took it's
name, began an investigation of the
rObberieS. His suspicious were speedily
fastened on young HolZhay, who did not
work. but always had money. From
that time HOlZhay has been an outlaw.
hunted by government officials. Pink
ertOn detectives and <sheriff's posses in
all parts of Northern Wisconsin and the
upper peninsula of Michigan. Before
leaving the neighbOrhOod of his home
HOlzhay robbed the mail coach a third
time. Finding the county too hot for
him he retreated to the forest,
from the scattered settlers. Sev-
eral weeks were spent in the mining
towns of the Marquette and Menominee
iron rang IS, and then HOlZhay found
his stock of money rapidly decreasing
and planned bold stroke. 1t was no
less than the robbery of train. On the
evening of May %, HOlZhay, armed with
one revolver and without mask. went
through passenger train OH the Mil
Waukee & Northern railroad, between
Iron Mountain and Ellis junction, Sc
curing at least $500 and several watches
from the dozen or more of passengers,
and so frightening the conductor that
that worthy locked himself in the bag
gage car, and could be hardly induced
to come out half an hour after Holzhay
had jumped from the moving train with
his booty. The affair
CREATED A GREAT SENSATION,
No train robbery had taken place in
the Northwest since the days when
Jesse James and the Younger brothers
terrOrized Southern Minnesota. Large
rewards were offered, and detective:
Of aiH1nnS Soor0hQA
ern Wisconsin for the bandit. While
the search was being made, Holzhay was
spending his ill-gOtten booty in Chicago
and Milwaukee. The money dill not
last long, and HOlZhay found himself
in Milwaukee without cash or frieLds.
While he does not admit it, there seems
no reason to doubt that he was the au-
thor of the daring mail robbery at Mil
waukee. A pouch of registered mail
was stolen from mail wagon near
the pOstoffiee, and the letters were
rifled, drafts and checks were stolen
and presented in payment for clothing,
ammunition and arms at Milwaukee
business places during the next day by
a young man whose description by the
victimized merchants tallies very closely
with Holzhay's appearance. Holzhay
was in Milwaukee when the robbery
was committed, and few days later re-
appeared at Pulcifer, where he was
hidden by friends. Several weeks were
spent there before Inspector Pulcifer
learned of his presence, and when an
effort was made to entrap him the willy
outlaw retreated into the fastness of
the forest, where he was at home. but
where the city detectives were unable
to make any headway. Holzhay
worked his way westward leisurely,