St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
William Shane Found Dying
on the Sidewalk Shortly
After Midnight.
His Head Broken in Two
Places, Showing That He
Was Murdered.
The Object Of His Assassin
Evidently Was to Com
NIT Robbery.
Coroner Towers and the Po-
lice Trying to Get
a Clue.

AT about o'clock yesterday morning
Patrolman Joe Ryan found a man lying
apparently dead drunk on the sidewalk
opposite the Kasota block on Fourth
street north. He lay on the edge of the
walk. with his head hanging over the
curbStOne. and was bleeding from the
mouth. He was taken to the central
station, where Pat Harrington, the
keeper of boarding house at 103 North
Fourth street, identified him as Billy
Shane. lumberman, who came i'll from
the woods Monday, and was stopping,
as was his custom when in the city, at
Harrington'S place.
AT s. O'Clock in the morning Shane
was still unconscious, and was removed
proper treatment, but to no avail as he
DIED AT O'CLOCK
without recovering his faculties.
Investigation shows that Shane could
not have received the injuries that re-
suited in his death by falling on the
pavement, and that he was undoubtedly
assaulted, probably for purposes of
robbery. After the body had been re-
moved to the morgue, Coroner Towers
ordered an examination, which re-
vealed the fact that the skull
had been broken in two places,
one on the back of the head and one
over the eye. In neither of the places
was there any cut or liberation, and on
the forehead there was not even the
slightest abrasion of the skin, while
that on the back of the head was hardly
noticeable.
The two wounds are on opposite sides
of his head, and even if a fall could
cause so severe an injury it would be
impossible for both the blows to have
been caused by fall. owing to their po-
sition on the head. The police and the
doctors who made the examination are
satisfied that the man was Sand-bagged
by some desperate villain who
SUPPOSED HIM TO HAVE MONEY
and it is not at all certain that they got
none, as the authorities are as yet I'M
able to trace a $50 check given him ON
Monday by S. S. Brown, for whom he
had been working, and which, it
is known. he attempted to get
cashed at the Office of Hank Brown,
this it is not known that he had any
thing of value about his person. 1t is
believed that he got the check dis
counted somewhere. and that some ones
knowledge of the act led to his death.
Physicians say that while the fact
that, through blunder, the injured
man was allowed to lie for seven hours
in a cell in the police station, without
medical care is deplorable in the eX-
IRENE, it could in no way have affected
him, as the man must ne
cessarily have died any way, his :in-
juries being such that they would have
proved fatal III spite of the best surgical
skill. The fact that it did no harm, does
not excuse in any way the
STUPIDITY OF THE OFFICIALS.
who allowed any such thing to occur.
Coroner Towers and the police are doing
everything in their power to get at the
facts IN the case. and the former has
ordered an INQUEST at Gleason &
Byorum's morgue this afternoon. 1t is
not expected that any important evil
dence will be produced, but no effort
will be spared to have on hand as wit
nesses every one who might be able to
throw light on the mystery.
Shane was thirty-tive years old and
unmarried. He had been employed by
Brown Bros. and other lumbernlen i'll
this section Jor several years.