St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-12
BROKE A THUGS SKULL.
Mrs. Jacob EwaId Attacked in
Her Home While Her Husband
Is at a Wedding.

Mrs. Jacob Ewald Attacked in
Her Home While Her Husband
Is at Wedding.
Chicago News Record.
Wild cries for help startled the guests
at wedding Which was being held at
FOrty-ninth and State street recently,
and ten minutes after the guests had
left the festive scene the dead body of
man lay at the foot of the stairs lead
ing to Mrs. Jacob Ewald's fiat at 1859
State street.
The dead man is unidentified, but
Ewald and Adam Sarnelia. OF 1853 State
street. They are both locked up in the
town of Lake police station.
Ewald had left his wife alone in their.
home while he attended the wedding of
neighbours daughter. The ceremony
had been held and all was good cheer
and happiness, when above the merri-
ment terrified screams were heard. In
a moment the merrymakers were silent
ana again the cries. more heartrending
than before, rang out.
Jacob Ewald recognized even in the
shriekS his wife'S voice and rushed
from the room, followed by the other
guests. He was closely followed by
Adam Sarnelia. They rushed into
Ewald's home and there found a
stranger bending over the unconscious
form of Mrs. Ewald. They jumped
upon the man and in second his body
was humping down the oaken stairs, as
ii fired from catapult. Never looking
to see the result of their onslaught the
two men turned their attention to the
PROSTATE form of the wife. She was
carried to bed and Sarnelia fastened
q MI
her dress, which had been torn in her
struggle with the intruder.
The physician arrived, climbed over
the PROSTATE form at the foot of the
stairs. applied restOratives to Mrs.
EWald, and i'll short time pronounced
her injuries not serious. Besides few
deep scratches no wounds were to be
seen.
The wedding guests were gathered
about the sidewalk. No one seemed to
notice the still form of the man who
had been hurled down the stairs. The
doctor stumbled against it as he left
the building and paused. He placed his
hand over the heart and then discovered
that the man was dead. The body was
Strengthened out on the sidewalk and
all examination was made. Blood was
ooZing from wound in the mans head,
and the doctor gave it as his opinion
that the skull had been fractured by
the fall, and that death had been almost
instantaneous.
Ewald, all unconscious of the terrible
result of his rage, was sitting by his
wife's side when the police arrived.
She was telling him how the man had
crept into their home and how she had
discovered him. She rushed to the win
dows to call for help and the man at
tackled her. They were struggling when
she aroused the wedding guests with
her cries, which brought her husband
and his friend to the rescue.
She had hardly finished her narrative
when an officer from the town of Lake
station placed his hand on Ewald's
shoulder and told him he was under
arrest. Sarnelia appeared and said that
he had helped throw the man down.
stairs, and he was also arrested. They
were held without bail to await the re-
suits OF the cor0per's inQ uest.
The dead man was taken to Nc
Inerny's morgue. There was not a
mark on his clothing or piece of paper
in his pockets by which he could be
identified