St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-28
The Deed Evidently Commit
ted to Secure a Sum Of
Money.
Finding He Was Fooled. Price
Gives Himself Up to
the Police.
The Body Of the Murdered
Man Discovered About
Midnight.
III have killed a man."

These were the words which Charles
Price last evening addressed to Officer
Calvin, of the Margaret street
detail, on duty at Post Sid
ing. Price was laboring under
great excitement, and by his dress indi-
Gated that he was a tramp. The officer
at once took the self-confessed mur-
derer to the Margaret street police sta
tion. where he gave full details of his
crime, adding that the murdered
man was John Manchester, and that his
body would be found in coal shed of
the Wisconsin railroad. near North st.
Paul. Communication by telephone was
at once had with the marshal of North
st. Paul. Marshal Stroupe proceeded to
the coal shed. An awful sight met his
eyes. There was the body of the MUIR
dered man just as the murderer had
said. The body was laid on its back,
the arms folded across the chest. The
head was one mass of blood, the brains
protruding from the forehead. The
face was bespattered with blood. Near
by the body lay pick with which the
murderer had committed his awful
crime. And for what had he jepoardized
his life?
Read the words of the murderer.
They are:
'We were old acquaintance but l
had not seen HIM for two years. l met
him yesterday morning. He said he
had 600 bills that he had pinched from
man in Fergus Falls, and he
Promised to Divvy
with me. We drank all day in the Shak-
opee house. he played cards, but
wouldn't let me play because had no
stuff. Ididn't bear him any grudge for
that, though. In the evening he
bought pint of whisky, and
he gave me a dime. with which
I bought eight eggs. We went to the
coal sheds to spend the night. When
thought he was asleep I thought
would find out If he was lying to me
about the money, and reached over to
search his coat. He pulled his gun and
said: "You - of -, I'Il shoot
you." My gun was too far to reach,
and picked up
A Rusty Pick
and swiped him on the head and his
brains ran out. When I saw what l had
done searched him and he didn't have
single bill on him. He'd been lying
to me. / covered his head with a
coat and left him. I came to
st. Paul and gave myself up to
the police. Manchester was crook. 1
met him at the Wisconsin Central juno
ton Saturday. / got on the train to go
to Chippewa Falls and they put me off
there. We walked IN from there to
North st. Paul."
Didn't Believe 1t.
At first the officers disbelieved the
story. 1t seemed incredible that sane
man, especially tough character as he
evidently was, would do such thing.
Word was at once telephoned to North
st. Paul, and George w. Stroupe, the
marshal, took wagon, and, with the
telephone operator, drove at once to
the sheds. There they found
that the whole horrible story
was true. There lay the body as though
the man was asleep. His arme were
crossed OH his breast and coat was
carefully spread over the head. When
the coat was lifted
The Sight Was Sickening
The skull was shattered, the brain
was protruding in mass from the gap
ing hole, and blood was spattered every
where. One eye was torn from the
orbit, and was hanging by shreds. The
face was battered into a mass of
discolored meat. The officers picked
the body up and, placing it under the
seat Of their wagon, drove to the Mar
garet street station in st. Paul, and it
was gloomy ride for the two men
through the dark night with their hor-
rible load.
DR.. Amoss, the deputy coroner, was
acquainted with the details of the crime,
and promptly reported at the Margaret
street police station, where the body was
removed from North st. Paul. He Or
dered it's removal to O'Halloran and
Murphy's morgue. Preliminary ar
rangements were made for the inquest.
Covered With Scars.
Price is a rather large man, with a
wicked face. He is covered with scars
received in fights. He comes from that
most vicious Of criminal classes,
the merchant marine. He says he was
born in Watertown, Ireland, and
came to this country in 81.
He is about five feet ten inches tall and
is quite muscular. He wore 70 ugh
blue shirt, corduroy pants and heavy
shoes. He says he first met Macallester
in San Francisco in 1887. They
Knocked Around
California together for about two years,
and from that time they had never met
until yesterday. In the mean
time Price had been travelling all
over the West. Macallester had
been in Texas and Missouri most of the
time and had come to MINI esota within
the past week. The murdered
man was about the same
height as his murdere r, had
blue eyes and close cropped brown hair.
He was thirty-eight years OF age. He
was dressed in shirt of striped jeans.
and wore blue overalls over a pair of
dark pants. When found he had
on no shoes. The weapon with which
he was killed was found beside him.
The marshal did not look for the pistol
of the murdered man, which Price said