St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-07


The police now claim that they have
in the persons of "Speck" White aud
Charles Fisher two of the trio who eli
last Tuesday night murdered Joseph
Herda, at the saloon of Matthias Valek.
The GLoRE on Sunday published an
account OF the arrest of the two men
and the escape of the third member of
the party from the officers. together with
the evidence which up to that
time the police had secured connect
Ing them with the murder. YeSter-
day White and Fisher were taken from
the ''sweat-boX" and escorted by de-
tectives to the scene of the murder.
Nalek has been confined to his bed
since the night of the murder from the
wound in his head made by revolver
III the hands of one of the thugs.
When White and Fisher were ushered
into his presence yesterday Valek at
once identified them as two of the
three who assaulted him and afterward
murdered Herda. White, he said, an
SWered in every way to the man with a
black handkerchief over his face who
ran behind the bar as soon as the gang
entered. Fisher he identified as the
one with a red handkerchief who or
dered him to throw up his hands and
slugged him. At the time Fisher was
arrested a revolver was found on his
person, and Valek was SO certain yester-
day that Fisher was one of the. assail-
ants that he recog niZed the revolver
taken from Fisher as the one with
which he was slugged.
Valek's daughter, Antonio, who ran
down stairs to the saloon at the time of
the shooting just in time to see one of
tine gang leave the front door of the sa-
loon, is confident Fisher is the one
whose back she saw going out of the
door.
Deputy Sheriff Picha also Identifies
White as one of the three men he saw
lettering in the vicinity of the sa-
loon couple of hours before
the murder. The revolver found on
White at the time of his arrest was
thlrty-eight caliber one, and as the bull
lets found in Herda's body were of the
same size the police advance the theory
that it was White who fired the fatal
shots. The officers who made the arrest
of White and Fisher claim that during
the struggle sister of White ran out of
the house, and was handed some article
by her brother. AfterWard the Off
GERS say the girl admitted having been
handed something by her brother, but
explained it was nothing but black
handkerchief. AS two of the men who
were concerned in the murder of Herda
had their faces muffied i'll black hand
kerchlefS, the officers consider the
statement of the woman as another link
in the chain of evidence against White.
The third one of the men who escaped
from the officers when White and Fish
er were arrested has not yet been ar
rested. Last evening Chief Garyin
stated that the one who escaped was the
notorious Freddy" Hackett, who is
well known to the police throughout the
Northwest. Hackett is an all-round
thief and burglar, and has served a
couple of terms in the peniten-
tiary at Saltwater. He was sent
from Minneapolis for a gun"
fight with an officer who attempted TO
capture him as he was holding up Pc
destrian OH Washington avenue one
night about five years ago. lie was
also sent TO Saltwater from this city
three years ago for burglary, and served
two years, being released last spring.
Photographs of Hackett have been sent
out by the police, and a description of
him telegraphed the police Of the prin-
cipal cities.
The statement made by the detectives
here that White, Fisher and Hackett
are the parties concerned in the Harris
murder at Minneapolis last summer is
denied by the Minneapolis police Off
cials.
White and Fisher will be arraigned in
the police court this morning, but the
state will insist on continuance for
week OF ten days in order that the police
may have an opportunity to apprehend
the missing one of the trio. Both
White and Fisher stoutly deny
the charge, and their defense will
be an alibi. Whites mother and sew
eral other members of the family say
that he was at the house all the evening
Oh which the murder occurred, and a
railroad empIoye will testify that Fisher
was engaged as fireman on locomotive
on the same night.
1t was expected that Operator Corley,
at Merriam junction, would reach st.
Paul yesterday for the purpose of set
Ting the question as to whether Richard
Reed was one OF the men who had shot
him OH the night OF Oct. 81; but he has
not sufficiently recovered from his
wounds to be able to travel.