St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-20
KILLED BY The BOWL.
A Murder Sensation Dwindles
to King Alc0hols Tyr
amy.
Two Men Evidently Killed by
Unlimited Strong Pota-
tons.
Latourelle Is Acc uitted and
Regales Court With a
Speech.
Weide, the Missing Real Es-
tate Man, Found at
Last.

Yesterday morning shortly before
information was given to the police that
two men named Charles Whalen and
Edward Ryan had been found dead in
their beds in the same room in the Man
itOba house, OH Third and Broadway.
On the arrival of the police officers
Whalen was found to be dead, but Ryan
was still alive. He was vomiting con-
siderably, and few minutes after the
police took charge of the case the man
died. RumOrS were quickly flying round
the city that both men had been muir
dertd, but the post mortem examination,
which was held last evening at
the morgue, would indicate that the
deaths were due to alcoholism, and were
only remarkable from the strange coin
cldence of occurring at the same time
and place. The police made a most
rigid examination of the case and its
surroundings, and placed under arrest
the companions Of the dead men who
had on the previous evening INDUCED
in a drunken debagch. All the men
have recently arrived FROM Dakota,
where they have been working with
threShing machines. Whalen arrived in
drunk ever since, while Ryan, who ar
rived three weeks ago, has, ac-
cOrding to the statements made,
simply lived on whisky and beer.
Whalen and Ryan have been at the
Manitoba house, and frequenting all the
saloons in the vicinity. On Wednesday
evening they were in the saloon of the
Minnesota home drinking with a num-
Der of men. Whalen had fight with
man named James Mulyck. who was
stopping there, and was knocked down
a number of times. Ryan took no part
in the fight, and eventually the men
were separated and Mulyck went up to
bed, while the rest of the men went
over to the Manitoba house. After
taking number of drinks of beer. the
bartender asked q man named Ed Glea-
son to take all the men up to bed, as
the porter was sick. Gleason has a
fractured arm, and took the men up
stairs to a room on the second floor
WHICH fronts on Third and Broadway.
All the men were very drunk at the
time. and went to sleep in their clothes
There were four beds in the room:
Gleason occupied one, while six men
slept In the others, the men being
Nhalen and Ryan, who are dead,
Whalen's brother Pat. Dan Tierney,
John Gallagher and another man, whose
name is unknown, and who has not yet
been arrested.
Gleason made a statement to Chief
Clark, that when he got up at 6 yester-
Gay morning the men, who have since
died, were all right, for Ryan called to
him to stop talking and let him sleep.
Dan Tierney also stated that when he
left the room, Whalen, with whom he
slept, seemed to be all right. All the
men except Whalen and Ryan left the
room before z, and when at 10 the
h0uSemaid. went into the room she
found Whalen dead and Ryan dying.
When the police arrived they were al
most OverDoWered by the horrible stencil
in the room, the two small windows being
closed. and the air sitting from fumes
of stale beer, tobacco and vomit. The
first theory of the affair was that both
men had died from poison, as both had
vOmited considerably. Officers were at
once sent out to round up all parties
concerned in the matter, and the police
arrested James Mulyck and his partner
who tonight with Whalen, John Gala
ger, Dan Tierney, Pat Whalen and Ed
Gleason who had slept in the room
They were locked up at police head
quarters to await the result of the post
mOrtem examination which took place
last evening and the decision of the
county attorney.
The bodies of Whalen and Ryan were,
by order Of Coroner Quinn. taken to the
mOrgue, and at last evening the au-
topsy was performed by Drs. Quinn
and Wheaton in the presence of Drs.
Darling, Rogers and Xanton. The
doctors made most searching eXamin-
alton. and found that all parts of the
bodies were in perfect condition. The
lungs were tested, also the hearts,
brains, kidneys, spleen and livers, but
there was nothing to indicate that the
men had died violent deaths. The
theory that the men had been SutfOcated
by the fumes from the stove was eX-
ploded by the finding of the lungs in
perfect condition. No sign could
be found of any corrosive matter
which might have caused death, and
the medical men were of opinion that
alcoholism was the cause of death, and
that the fact of the men dying at the
same time and place was most re-
markable coincidence.
A very careful chemical analysis will
be made of the StOmachS OF the two
men, which were sealed up in Jars by
the coroner.
The sensational story published yes
terday by an evening paper that both
! the men were known to have had coz
siderable money, though none was
found on the bodies when searched, is
entirely incorrect. What little money
the men did possess when they arrived
in st. Paul was spent for liquor, and for
the past two days they had importuned
cuotomers in the saloons TO buy drinks
for Them