St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-03

The inquest on the body of Joseph
Hedra, murdered by masked thugs
tuesday night, will be held this morn.
Ing at the undertaking rooms of Gross
d Dohm. The examination will be
conducted by Deputy Coroner Xanten,
and the probabilities are that five or six
witnesses will be called OIL to testify.
Ihese will include Matthias Valek. pro-
prietor of the saloon, who was slugged
before the fatal shots were fired; his
daughter, Freda, who ran down stairs
III time to see two of the gang leave the
saloon; Patrolman Joe Davis, Sergeant
Zlrklebach. Drs. Baker and Wheaton.
the former being called to the place
soon after the shooting, and the latter
having made the autopsy.
NO arrests were made yesterday by
the detectives, the greater part of the
day being put in by the officials in look
ing up the Whereabouts on the Right of
the murder of the FIVE young men az
rested OH Wednesday,. The quintette.
FRANK Smith, William Hobap, Clarence
Winch, Timothy Connors and James
Convey, were arralgned in the police
court yesterday morning, all being
charged with vagrancy. There was
some question about fixing bail for the
men. 1T being decided that the case
would he continued to this morning.
Henry Johns appeared as attorney for
Frank Smith. and insisted that as the
charge was only for vagrancy that the
ball be fixed for his client. The couIt
thought 2 was sufficient under the
charge, and this was promptly given
and Smith released. The other foul
were remanded to Jail until this morn
ing.
The officials claim that while there IS
moi at present the least evidence against
the five youths arrested, each of them
told, when arrested, a different story as
10 their whereabouts on the night of the
murder. and for this reason they will be
held until 1t can be positively ascer-
tanned where they spent Tuesday night,
or. rather. the evening OF that night.
David johnson. the hack driver, who
was 'held up" by two masked high
waymen Tuesday night on Pleasant
avenue, and robbed of $3.50, a couple of
hours after the murder. gives a very
good description of the two men. The
place where the hold-up occurred is
within half a mile of the scene
of the murder, and the descrip-
ton of one of the highwaymen is identi-
cal with that of one OF the men seensby
Freda Valek leaving the saloon after
the shooting. Johnson says the men
were about medium size One of them
was dark-cOmplexioned, and had aShort
dark beard. while the other was rather
sandy, and had about a weeks growth
of light beard on his face. They were
fairly we'll dressed, and wore SLOUGH
hats, n having a gray hat and black
O%yercoat, and the other a brown hat and
overcoat of the same color.
The theory advanced by the police
that The murder was committed by To-
cal toughs does not seem to be a very
tenable one. During the past month
eight places OF business, in various parts
OF the city, nave been visited by three
masked men and the proprietors and
others in the stores at the time forced.
at the point of revolverS. to hand oyer
their valuables. In each instance the
description of the men was similar to
the gang who murdered Hedra. the
same gang have also operated in Mime
aplis in the same manner, and SEEM
ingly worked the two cities, taking a
trick first in one and then going to the
other. One of the Minneapolis detect
ives visited st. Paul yesterday, and
after interviewing Valek and getting
such description as he could give of the
men, said the parties were undoubtedly
the same mes who had robbed several
stores in that cltv.