St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-30
A BELL1GERENT CONDUCTOR.
He Goes on the Rampage and
Shoots Two Men.

He Goes on the Rampage and
Shoots Two Men.
A street railway conductor went on
the rampage yesterday, and, like Bar
NUNS Jumbo, was caught while on it.
At the present writing he lies on the
floor in the unlucky Cell 13, stupid with
drink and unable to tell his own name.
No one seems to know him, and aside
from the fact that he wears badge 25l
and is employed Oh the Bloomington
avenue line, there is no present clue to
his identity. He is charged with shoot
ing two men. and the charge is true, for
his victims are in the st. Anthony hos
pital, and the reYOlver-a cheap 32-cal-
iber-is at the station.
The conductor awoke yesterday morn
ing with feeling of ennui in his soul,
and he decided to get rid of it. he
adopted the plan known in street par
lance as loading up" He ''lOaded up"
all day and spent most of his time in the
afternoon at Monahan'S bottling house,
1876 Washington avenue south. While
there he continued his loading up"
process, and passed from the mellow
ness of social inebriety to the ugliness
of a bad drunk. He was ugly, and
body. The cashier of the Dottling house,
George g. Keller, became weary of the
continued clatter and chatter kept up by
the drunken conductor, and requested
him TO leave the place. The conductor
resented what he insisted was an insult,
but was finally induced to Stagger out
and up the avenue. He halted at the
corner and leaned against the glass
front of a store, meditating upon the
general untitness OF things and sweet
revenge. While thus meditating he fell
through the glass, and was promptly
kicked into the gutter by the unsympa-
thetic proprietor. This last rebuff was
too much. The conductor felt more
than aggrieved; he positively boiled
over with rage. He purchased a cheap
revolver and hied himself back to the
bOttling house.
He ordered more beer, drank it and
ordered more. This was slowed away
in the same manner, and then the con-
ductor shuffied over to where Cashier
Keller sat ensconced behind his railing
and desk. He first inSuted Keller, and
then kicked the desk, also the chairs.
In fact, the conductor conducted
himself in manner not at all
becoming, even for street railway en-
ploye. Cashier Keller, although a
peaceabie man, found patience no
longer virtue and got out
from behind his desk. He began haul
ing the conductor out of the place, when
the latter pulled his cheap revolver and
fired The bullet sped wide of It's mark.
Instead of landing in Keller's body it
struck the uplifted arm of waiter, M.
G. Montague, who was removing tray
full of dishes in the rear of the room.
The bullet plowed into the elbow of his
left arm, sh&ttering it. When the bellig-
erent conductOr-he is probably a Capu-
let-saw he had missed the cashier and
shot Montague. he pulled the trigger
of his revolver again. This time his
Keller's chest. From there it passed
around the ribs and lodged in the
skin.
The conductor then ran, or staggered,
out of the bottling house and across the
street, where he halted against the
fence 9.lich skirts the Milwaukee rail-
road yards. Patrolman Frank Butler
captured him, and in q few moments he
was lying on the floor in the station
house. He was So drunk he could not
utter a word, the excitement, combined
with the beer and WhiSkey, having ap-
parently supplied him. He was dragged
into cell Is and left to snore, while the
patrol wagon hurried back to the bot
tllng house and took the two wounded
men to the ST. Anthony hospital. Drs.
Hunter and Friedlander dressed their
wounds. They stated there was no
doubt but Keller would recover pro-
vided no internal complications devel-
oped. Montagne's wound is painful,
though hot serious.
1t was learned late last night that the
name of the conductor was Brathen,
and tha he lived at the corner of Six
teenth avenue south and Thirty-second
street. He is an eX-barber, and at one
time conducted shop on Cedar avenue.
Those Forgeries.
Bankers are talking good deal about
a stupendous series of forgeries which
have been committed in Minneapolis re-