St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-27
SUNDAY At SALTWATER.
The Jury In the Keator- Glaspie Case
Fails to Agree.
ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS HAND.
Defects In q Window Pane, However,
Take the Poetry Out of This
One.

The Jury in the keatOr-GlaSple case,
which retired with instructions soon
after O'clock Saturday morning, re-
manned out over night and until l
o'clock yesterday afternoon, when, be-
ing unable to agree, they were dis
charged. The jury reached only one of
the propositions to be determined, the
one necessarily preliminary to any dis
cussion of the question of the amount
of damages, and that was the question
as to whether or not any conspiracy ex-
listed between the defendant and st.
John, the latter's representation of the
value and character Of his principals
(Glaspie's) land leading plaintiffs to
make the purchase, by which
they claim to have been greatly
defrauded. The first question the
jury had to determine was whether
there was any such connection between
st. John and Glaspie as to make the
latter responsible for st. Johns manner
of promoting the sale. The jurymen
stood evenly divided on this question
when the first ballot was taken and
there had been no variation when they
were discharged. The case of the same
plaintiffs, in which they seek to recover
from st. John, will come Oh for trial
posed of Philip McDermott, James
ers, Daniel Mexican, c. H. Pratt. A. NJ.
Dodd, Patrick Whelan, George Lam
mers, Charles Boo, John Mathews and
F. Whitman.
Stories of mysterious hand, some
times hidden and again plainly seen in
ghostly outlines, have been current for
some time in the neighborhood of East
Churchill street and First street, the
residence of John Mahon, 303 Churchill
street, being the theater of the alleged
supernatural exhibitions, all of which,
though curious and aWe-aspiring to the
thoughtless and credulous, are easily
explainable on natural lines. Mr..
Mahon and his daughter live in the
lower part of his very comfortable
home, tw0-stOry house, the upper part
of which is occupied by another family.
Mrs. Mahon died not long ago after
weary and very painful illness, and Cos
sips easily connect the fact OF the lady's
death with the so-called portents
Transparency shown at the win
dows. On one OF the upper
most panes of glass in the
est the west appears the palm, four
fingers and thumb of a bony and atten-
uated hand, said to vary in distinctness
and to be more plainly marked just be-
fore darkness begins to come on. A
similar phenomena has been observed
at the hall window upstairs, except here
but three fingers and half of the palm
of a hand are shown, and even tn at
much is at times wholly invisible. Re
ports of these appearances spread and
were magnified until the matter has be-
come one of great annoyance to the
worthy gentleman who owns the house.
He is, moreover, considerably incensed,
and is disposed to show mighty
an and fully materiali I han hand &C.. Of
ing to injure the good fame of
his property by reporting it as haunted,
or i'll any way the scene OF operations
inconsistent with PLAIN, matter-fact,
everyday life. He does not propose to
have the commercial worth of his prop
erty thus deteriorated. The imprints
on the glass which lively fears and
spirits are merely defects OF the glass
occurring in it's manufacture, Or, as has
been suggested, the actual imprint left
by the GLACIERS hand, that when wet
with varnish or some similar liquid was
pressed upon the paneS when they were
set. The changing degrees of distinct
ness with which the marks are seen de-
ponds undoubtedly upon the point
of view and the conditions of the light.
Mrs. l.. B. Tayler is visiting friends
at Baldwin, Wis.
John S. Gray, a former Saltwater
boy, has returned from ten years resi-
dence in Dakota on visit to his old
home and friends.
Muller post No. 1, G. A. R., attended
the First Methodist church last evening
on invitation of the pastor, Rev. j. M.
Bull, himself veteran colonel of vol
unteers, and listened to an eloquent and
stirring memorial address from their
once militant comrade in arms.
The rafters Glenmont, of Winona,
and Meta Durant, of Clinton, arrived
yesterday.
Philip Potts and family will start for
their future home in San Jose, CAL.
June 10.
HI. McKusick arrived from up river
Saturday night. and says that the jam
at Rock Island. near FrancOnia, would
he out by Sunday night; also, that the
Eau Claire and part of Kettle drives
were at Tennessee meadows. The
Moose drive is on the rear,of the Rock
Island jam.