St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-16

front door of the house opened, andia
negro stepped out. In his right hand
was pistol. which he placed in his hip
pocket, and then started down Ninth
street on brisk run. Following him
from the house came negress, who at
once set up a shout for help. By this
time hundred people. attracted by the
shooting and the wonan'S cries, were
attracted to the spot. A negro who
lives at I'll Ninth street, the adjoining
building, rushed down jackson street
for the police, and many of the spec
tators, imagining he was concerned In
the shooting, started after him. At the
corner of Seventh and Jackson streets
Patrolman Carroll stopped the fellow,
but, being told of the murder, hurried
to the scene.
On the bed in one of the rooms on the
ground floor of the house lay the dead
body of Henry Rollins, while his wife,
acting like a crazy woman, was rushing
as fast as the crowd of spectators would
allow from one room to the other, crying
that her husband had been shot. The
officer cleared the house of the crowd of
people who had gathered, and tele-
| phoned to his superior officers and the
coroner. On the arrival CT the patrol
wagon Mrs. Rollins and Laura Smith,
or Mrs. johnson, as she calls herself,
| were taken to the central station. Cor
oner Whitcomb arrived shortly after
ward, and the dead mans body was
taken to Dampier's undertaking rooms.
| The stories of Mrs. Rollins and the
Smith woman regarding the murder
vary somewhat as to the details and
immediate cause of the shooting. Mrs.
Rollins story is that the couple came to
the house last Saturday and rented a
room on the second floor. at the time,
the Smith woman claimed
JOHNSON WAS HER HUSBAND.
Mrs. Rollins knew this was not true,
but as she was acquainted with Mrs.
Smith little thing of this kind made
no particular difference. According 10
the story of Mrs. Rollins, Johnson and
Mrs. Smith had row on Tuesday
morning, ,and her husband told johnson
that there must be less noise in the
house. johnson at that time, Mrs. Roll
lius says, threatened to do her husband
|
business or he would see that he did.
Yesterday morning, she says, her fus-
band and johnson had some words in
the hallway and few seconds later b ef
husband came in and closed the door OF
the front room, holding it SO johnson
could not come in. johnson forced the
door open, and the two engaged in q
tussle. Her husband reureated toward
the bedroom, and as he did so johnson
pulled a revolver and fired shot al
him. He staggered to the bed, and
johnson then fired a shot at her and
backed out the door.
The Smith woman, or Mrs. johnson
as she calls herself, was seen at the cen
tral station yesterday afternoon. She
was seated on bunk in the cell, and az
she wrapped a shawl about her head
and shoulders with one hand, she with
the other deftly removed a cigarette
from her mouth and blew cloud o.
smoke toward the ceiling. Mrs. Smith
is very free in her use of words, and thu
epithets she applied to the dead man il
the course of her conversation would
not look well in print. From her state
ments it would appear that johnson
was every proud man," and did ne
want to associate with the Rollins fam
lily. Rollins, she said, had urged lie
to leave johnson, and as sht
had told johnson of this he hat
not the best feelings toward Rollins
| She says they had no water pitcher Il