St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-25
THEIR ERRING CLARA.
The Victim Of Last Thurs
days Fire Fully Identi-
fed.
Board Of Health Difference 8
Kick Up a Teapot Tenn
pest.
The School Board Doesn't
Want to Pay Interest on
City Bonds.
Mayor Winston on Police Dis
eipline--General News Of
a Day.

The relatives of Clara Morris, the cir
who lost her life in the burning Of
Brown Bros saloon, yesterday visited
| COnnOlly'S mOrgue and made arrange
ments for the funeral. The body will
! be removed to St. Paul to-day and buried
there. The brother-in-law of the dead
woman. a st. Paul contractor named
Paulson, has taken charge of the funeral
arrangements.
Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Paulson, the
mother and sister of the dead woman,
were in Minneapolis yesterday and
viewed the remains at the morgue.
Their lamentations were pltifui.
Poignant as was their grief, it was ac-
centuated tenfold by the manner OF
Clara's death and the place where she
died. The news of her sudden death
and the knowledge CT her shame came
upon them at one time and with crush
ing force. Mrs. Paulson would look
upon the calm face of her sister, and
then, turning away, with streaming
eyes and claSped hands, would moan:
"Oh. Clara. Why could you not have
died differently? Oh, my poor mother
This will kill her."
Mrs. Miller. the mother, sat as one
stunned, and silently wept.
Last Friday afternoon Clara left home,
say ing that she was going down street
to call upon a neighbor. Night came
and she had not returned. Mrs. Miller
became anxious, she knew not why.
She went to the house where Clara
had intended going, but her daugh-
ter had not been there. All night
long Mrs. Miller paced the floor,
anXiously waiting for her daughter.
She came not. Some presentiment OF
impending danger hung over the
mother as cloud. She could not rest.
No explanation Of her fears could she
give. She simply knew that her daugh-
ter was in danger. Days passed and
Clara did not return. The agony of the
mother can better be imagined than de-
scribed. Her s0n-in-law, Paulson, read
the papers every day, but he glanced
only at the st. Paul news. No intima-
ton reached them that woman had
died in a Minneapolis fire. When they
learned that truth yesterday they were
crushed by the blow.
The dead woman was only twenty
three years of age. She had always
borne most exemplary character
among her acquaintance In st. Paul.
one came OIL HlRnly IeSptctdUle pcople
who are in good circumstances. Charles
Strand, the driver for Brown Bros, in
whose room the woman was found, told
his story to the coroner yesterday.
Strand, probably laboring under the
idea that he would be held responsible
for the woman's death, left Immediately
after the fire broke out. and went
in hiding at the home of a
cousin in South Minneapolis. He
has known the woman about two
months. He first met her at her
aunFs home on West Seventh street, st.
Paul, and she mad been in the habit of
visiting him at his room every week or
so. Friday afternoon she called, but he
was too busy to See her, so she spent
some time in assisting Mrs. Lee in the
laundry work. Late in the afternoon
she went up stairs to Strands room and
went to sleep. Strands story and other
developments give the lie to the version
of the woman's presence in the building
told by Martin Nelson, Brown Bros
bartender. Nelson said that the woman
had asked to be shown to the toilet room
and that she was under the influence of
liquor. His story seems to have been a
fabrication.