St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-21
Evening Papers Would Make
the Coroner Seem a Grim
inal Protector.
But He IS Looking Into All Cir
cumstances Surrounding
Muldoon's Death.
Park Commissioner Ryan
Frees His Mind Once More
on Business.
Brawny Athletes Still Tug
ging at Ropes--Round-Up
Of the News.

GSIcEQ1V morning dL = d CiOCh OOE-
Oner Bvrnes began taking testimony re-
garding the death of Thomas MuldOOn.
Despite the fact that the evening papers
yesterday sought to show that the cor
Oner was in a deep-laid plot to assist
some murderer TO escape the clutches OF
the law and TO blind the eyes Of the
public to the real cause of MuldOOn's
death. the inquest is being conducted
carefully and diligently If a stranger
10 Coroner Bvrnes and to the ways of
''enterpriSIng" evening papers had
read the neon editions of those papers
yesterday, and later the evening edi-
tons. he would have been of the
opinion that the coroner of
Hennepin county was a leering
Mephistopheles, chuckling over the.
mysteries OF foul crimes. jeeriDg at the
frantic efforts OF sOrrowing relatives TO
search out the ruthless destroyer of the
life of a loved one, laughing TO scOrn the
demand of justice, screening with the
cloak of Office a scorer, daStardly assas-
sin. This stranger would have thought
further that The coroner had summoned
a jury OF secretly leagued criminals,
whose sole reason Tor existence was 10
battle the law and exert their mighty
powers to secure the triumph OF ill.,
EQUITY. vice and hideOus crime over the
potent forces of civilization. On tue
contrary, Coroner Byrnes IS a mild
hammered gentleman, with curly hair
and a gentle disposition VINO has
no desire TO harm one of the Great
uTes OF the earth, not even the num-
bleSt thing that lives; and the Jury Is
composed of men who have never in
their lives been known to burn orphan
assylums or club az, mendicants 10
death. Nor was the inquest conducted
behind tripple-barred doors guarded by
a Cerberus. The facts were these: An
inexperienced emplOYe of Capt. Con-
molly had been told by the captain 10
keep all OF those hangers on. who de-
light, To hear the gruesOme details of
death out OF the jury room, where they
had 10 business. This young man was
not acute enough to discover at a glance
the Importance OF couple OF very new
reporters and be told them that they
must not 20 into the jury room. They
never stopped TO investigate the
matter, TO ask the coroner. the only man
who had any authority in tile premises,
if he intended to hold 4 secret inquest.
/ They rushed off ana Smeared them
! L
cry statement they made concerning
the action and the attitude of tie cOrO-
neT. and the manner OF conducting the
| inquest was false and utterly unSUp-
ported by a single fact. The inquest
was not secret. and it was not called
! for the purpose of breaking down by
/ ridIcule the theory that MuldCon had
met with foul play.
The witnesses sworn Yesterday were
the two SchiebeS, the men VINO talked
with MuIdOun al the Elght-Alile house !:
Flynn, the man who went out Monday
morning with MuldOOn 10 get the hay:
| Ludwig. the proprietor of saloon at
/ Golden Valley who refused MuldOOn a
drink along about S o'clock Monday
I night because ne had already. from ap-
/ peaTanceS. had more than was good for
! him; Ludwlg's bartender; Heckrien.
! his man and sutton. the men who found
/ MuldOOn in the shea at Keegan'S lake
! and brought him to the city; Drs. Cary
/ and Orion. the surgeons who made the
examination of the remains. All the
/ aforementioned witnesses told substan-
TALLY the same stories that have been
| printed before. All 90 TO show that
MuldOOn took some liquor at the Eight
/ Mile house Monday evening. ana that lie
| bought a bottle Of whisky at that same
place Oh his way out in the morning.
| There was no evidence TO show that
! MuldOOn had been in an alteration
! with any one or TO show thar any one
had dealt fOully with him. The doctors
testified to the condition of the freezing
1 of portions of his body and TO the effect
| that would follow such freezing. They
| also said that none OF the external
marks or bruises on Muldoon's BODY
gave evidence of his having received
any blow that would cause death OF
would even render him unconscious and
hasten death by freezing. The inquest
Will be finished this morning. Unless
something as vet unheard OF or unlimited
of be developed at the session this morn
ing there will be nothing TO indicate
that MuldOOn met his death by any
other way than by freezing while under
the influence of LIQUOR.