St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-07

| rivals. At about II: 80 a. m. young
man neatly dressed and gentlemanly
appearing, who had about 9o,cleck, last
night registered at the City hotel as
Charles Stanford, appeared upon the
street and proceeded to the postoffice,
where he called for mail addressed to
James White. lie returned at once
to the hotel, and within few moments
was accosted by the officers with re-
quest that he go with them to the post
office to be identified as the man who
called for Whites mail. This he con-
sented to do, aud between the guardi-
ans of the law quietly walked up the
street until the door of the office was
reached. when with the speed of
A Lightning Flash,
be dashed around the corner and up
side street in a run for liberty. The
officers, with Patrolman Schultz i'll the
lead, followed in hot pursuit, and in
order to warn the escaping criminal that
they were possessed of firearms and
determined to use them, a shot was
fred in the air, but the flying murderer
needed not the warning and a bullet
served to end the chase, the second shot
fired taking effect about two inches to
the right of the murderer's spinal col
umn, on a line with the top of his hip.
The man was picked up and taken to
Hotel Gibbs. A search of the prisoner
revealed his possessions to be revol-
yer, gold watch and chain, gold ring
and a small folding pocketbook COIL
tanning two tintypes, one of a'lady and
the second that of small child, which,
he stated, were portraits of his broth
er's wife and child. The watch chain.
revolver and ring are without doubt
those owned by Spaulding, the muir
dered man. Scarcely had the prisoner,
the officers and Chief O'Connor reached
the room assigned to them ere your cor
respondent, by kind permission of the
officers, was granted an interv Jew with
the wounded man. 1t was then he made
the statement above recorded.
WhaIen's Confession.
81 don't deny that killed Spaulding,
and that am Whalen. l will tell you
just how it happened. Spaulding and |
went out to the Fox river canal to try
and catch a train to Milwaukee. We
walked out on the railroad track and
stopped behind little shqnty out there.
We had some hard w0r Dis. Spaulding
wanted me to help him get to Milwau-
kee, and said that lie had stood by me
and l ought to by him. We both got
mad, and | told him he could go to hi,
and if he wanted to go OH the road
he could go alone. We kept get
ting hotter and hotter, and then
Spaulding reached into his pocket and
pulled his gun, and said: &C. d
you, will fix you. l will shoot your
l grabbed coupling-pin and hit him
over the head three or four times. He
was stunned, think. and rolled down
the bank. Then he came to himself
and raised up and shot at me once.
Then pounded him over the head until ,
1 thought he was fixed. l dragged him
to the canal and threw him in. My
shoes were all broke, and his were bet
ter than mine, so l took his. went
down with Harry Hatch on Freight
Train No. 90 to La Crosse. and got there
next morning at O'Clock. The papers
got it wrong. 1t was Thursday. From
La Crosse l went back to st. Paul. /
didn't stop any particular place there. l
Was There Monday Night.
walked out to Hamilton, and rode on
two or three trains here, some freight
and some passenger. l didn't get up
until about half-past IL this forenoon. |
thought maybe 1 was watched, but i
didn't know. l was fool to kill
Spaulding, but we had hard words. l
acted like fool to run away, but was
nearly scared to death after l killed
him. If | had done right, as thought
of doing, and hadn't run, l would have