St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-17
Queer People

order Of things would arise. The par
ents of young Huntington were at once
summoned. The aged mother was be-
side herself with grief. The death OF
their son was afflIctiOn enough, but the
honest old people appeared to be
grieVed more that their son should have
committed the two crimes of robbiug
his EN- ployers and then attempting TO
murder than over the mere fact OF his
death.
That he is dead is bad enough" said
the mother, "but that he should DO such
a thing Is terrible"
President Edmundson Talks.
j. ID. Edmundson. the president of
the bank. was seen and asked for his
version of the affair. He said:
"Huntington, Cromwell, Hayden and
l were sitting in the private office.
Cromwell was in the northwest corner
Of the room. in the northeast Hayden
about the center and Huntington be-
tween Hayden and myself. We were
seated about a table that stands against
the north wall. Mr.. Hannen, the cash.
ier, had been sitting between Hayden
and Huntington until a few minutes
before the shooting took place. when he
went into the front of the bank.
Hayden and Cromwell had been
questioning the young man very
closely about his mode of living.
On one occasion he had deposited $40 in
the bank, and Cromwell asked him
where he got it. Huntington said he
borrowed it. but when asked of whom
he borrowed it he could not remember.
and said that it was none of their busi-
l. oil ~ fN. ..0-y
OF whom he got the mOn.y to pay back
the loan. Up TO that time had the
most implicit confidence in Hunting-
toms honesty, but l must confess his
eyaSive answers made me doubtful of
1t. | saw that something unpleasant
was about to occur and got up TO leave
the room. JuSt-as 1 got up Huntington
did likewise. lie passed behind Hay
den, and | supposed he was going to get
drink al the water tank. There was
nothing in his actions that indicated
nervousness or excitement. l was
about half way between my chair and
the door when |
Heard a Pistol Shot.
and, looking around. | saw Huntington
standing between Cromwell and Hay
den. and a little behind both, with his
revolver pointed at the former. l hur-
rled out of the private office, and as
went | heard several more shots fired.
ran out and gave the alarm. and when
several Of us went into The private
Office we found Huntington lying on
the floor with blood streaming from
wound in the back Of his head, and the
two other men suffering from the effects
Of his deadly aim. We have always
considered John ali honest young man,
and If there was any weak point in his
character it was little tendency to eX
traVagance. Of course, the amount
he was in the habit of spending would
not have been eXtraVagant in man OF
means, but was rather more than a
young man ought to spend who draws
only S45 IuOnth."
Hayden. one of the wounded men, in
conversation about the affair, said:
1--WE had only been talking few
minutes, and no accusation had as yet
been made, but the questions we had
been asking were very pointed, and
were easily taken by him as leading up
to direct charge of theft. At times
he talked loudly and in q somewhat eX-
cited manner, but just before the shoot
ing he cooled down, and we had not the
slightest intimatiOn of what he was
about to do. He suddenly got up with
out any show Of anger and. pulling out
the revolver, commenced firing, first at
Cromwell, then at me. We had no
weapons, and were not prepared 10 de-
fend ourselves, nor is it likely we
should have thought of doing so if we
had been armed, the shooting was done
so rapidly and it was all over SO soon."