St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-15
MUROERERS OF llNOOLF.
POLICE ASSERT 7HEy HAVE THEW IN
CHARGE.
MEN CONFESS TO ROsBERIEs.

| The police now have in custody two
young men, Otto Milhausen and Charles
Ermersch, who they assert were con-
| cerned in the murder of William Lin
dolf at the saloon corner of Wabasha
street and College avenue Oh the even
ing of May 2.
Both men are young IN years. thu
| oldest being but twenty-five ami
| they were but two months
ago released from the st. Cloud
reformatOry on parole, having
| been sent TO that institution from st.
| Paul in the summer Ut 1872 for burg
larry.
Milhausen was arrested last Saturday
afternoon, and since that time has
| been occupying secluded cell In the
| central station. According TO the state
ments of Chief of Detectives McGinn,
Milhausen made q confession OF the
various crimes committed by himself
and Ermersch since their release from
the reformatory. In the confession
made, however, he stoutIy denied that
either he OF Ermersch had anything to
do with the killing of Lindolt, but ad-
mitted that they had committed numer-
GUS burglaries and highway robberies i'll
and about the city.
( From statements made by Milhausen
the detectives must have gained clue
to the Whereabouts of Ermersch, for
Saturday evening three detectives took
hack and drove to the residence. at
45S Blair street. where Ermersch
was found in bed suffering from all
acute attack OF pneumonia. 70 the
officers us they entered, Ermerscli re
marked that they would find nothing.
not even revolver, and he further As.
sured them if lie had one about he
would have used it on them. The sick
mans condition was such that he could
not be moved. and in order to guard
against his escape two officers were de-
tailed to watch the house night and day.
The arrests made by the detectives
were Kept quiet. and in the meantime
the officers have been at work verifying
the tales of burglares and highway
robberies as related by Miihausen. In
each and every instance the statements
made by the prisoner as to crimes COM
mitted by himself and Ermersch have
been found To be correct. When pressed
as to his whereabouts Oh the night that
Lindolf was murdered. MilhauSen said
both he and Ernersch were at Red Rock
and slept in a Shanty there all night.
In his possession when arrested was
found gold watch which he said had
been taken from farmer whom they
had held up near the fish hatchery on
the afternoon of May 2. He also said
Ermersch had i'll his possession
gold watch which had been
stolen from the residence of man
named Winter On Jackson street hill
some weeks ago. This story WAS verb
fed by the finding of the watch in the
bed occupied by Ermersch when the
detectives visited him.
The police officials had another inter-
view with Milhausen last evening, and
although they would not admit That he
had made any confession relating to the
murder of Lindolf. steps were at once
taken to remove ErmerSch to the city
hospital.
At So'clock last evening a consulta-
ton was held over Ermerseh by Drs.
Wheaton, Abbott and Hanley, and half
an hour later the Rondo street patrol
wagon was driven to the honse at 45S
Blair street. A detail of police. headed
by Chief GaIvin and Chief of Detect
ives McGinn, went with the wagon. and
Ermersch was taken to the city hos
pilal.
The physicians. seen last evening. SAID
that ErmerSch had severe attack of
pneumonia. but thai his chances for re-
covery were tirst-class. The news that
Ermersch was wanted for the murder of
William LindoIf had the effect of arous-
ing the rather quiet neighbOrhoOd in
the vicinity of Blair and Arundel street,
and when the patrol wagon drove up to
the house crowd of 500 people assem-
bled to witness the removal of the
prisoner.
LindoIf. 1t will be remembered, be-
fore he died kept repeating that he had
shot one of his murdererS, and the ru-
NOR was current last evening that
Ermersch had a gunshot wound in his
groin. This, however, was denied by
the physicians and later by the police
officials.
The house at 45S Blair street is oecu-
pied by Carl SCHNEIDER. wood turner.
his wife Louise being Ermersch'S
mother Schneider. seen last evening,
said that his steps0n, who had been
away from home for about two years,
came to the house Oh the evening of
May Z. The boy appeared to be in
Nod md I,p -
sank into a chair and nearly tainted.
He complained of pain in his
lungs, and his mother. Mrs. SCHNEIDER,
undressed him, and put him to bed.
The next day he was no better. and on
Wednesday. Assistant City Physician.
Hanley was called in. Schneider said
that he asked no questions, and knew
nothing about the sick mans business.
On Saturday evening the police came
to the house. and since then all officer.
and sometimes two, had been on guard
there. The boy, he said. might have
done wrong, but he felt salts fed that
he had nothing to do with the shooting
OF Lindolf.
Albert Pankopf. the musician. who
passed the saloon on the night of the
murder few moments before the
shooting and saw the two men looking
| in the window, was taken to the central
station yesterday to see if lie could
identify Milhausen as one of the
| parties. Pankopf thought the prisoner
E, looked much like one of the men, but
he would not positively identify him,
| IL ,ro, oIso talypu tn tho hopea n, ID i,;,u
| street and given a look at Ermersch,
but, while he expressed the opinion that
| Ermersch looked like the other one and
his clothes were OF the same kind, he
would not be positive as to his identity.
Chief of Detectives McGinn refused
to talk about the case last evening, but
intimated that the right men had been
! Ga ntured as the trial OF the casp would