St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-25
STILL SWEARING rHEM.
McGinn Pumping Meyers for MUIR
: der Clues.

For three days Charles Meyers and
Joseph Mckinney, arrested on suspicion
OF being concerned in the murder of
Martin p. Erickson, have been locked
up undergoing what Chief Of Detectives
McGin calls q sweating" In the
meantime the detectives have been
working on the case, but with indiffer-
ent success so far as securing any Grim.
mating evidence is concerned. Edward
Erickson, a brother of the murdered
man, was taken to the shanty occupied
Dy the two prisoners yesterday, and
with a detective carefully examined the
ham bones found there. but was unable
10 Identify them as a part of the hams
stolen from the butcher shop a week or
so previous to the murder.
Meyers and Mckinney were both
fcloseted with the chief of detectives
yesterday afternoon for several hours
but nothing OF any Importance was
ELECTED from either. Meyers claims to
nave been in his shanty OH the night of
the murder, but otherwise could not
give his whereabouts on the night in
question. He was usually home in the
evenings n supposed he was that
night. He said he passed the shop
on the morning following the murder
n saw Grape on the door, but
aid not inquire as to the
ause. He was in a saloon at the cor
ner OF Eighth and Broadway when he
read about the murder in the papers.
Meyers is reported as saying in answer
to a question of Chief McGlnn that the
evidence required to hang a mar would
De to find some II VINO saw the man
Killed. Since his arrest he must have
been approached by some one with the
proposition to hire an attorney, for he
told IL of the detectives that he did
not care whether he was hanged
or not he would not hire an
attorney. He had 500 in his pos
session when arrested, but he is natur-
ally of a saving disposition. as Oh Dec.
- ne we mt to the w%orkhouse for ten
days on a charge of drunkenness rather
than pay a fine of $40, although at the
same time he had nearly 5000 sewed up
In his 0 a Another suspicious circum-
stance, according to the detectives, is
THAT KeyerS is fond of '~'playing the
norSes," but he evidently has had no
better luck than hundreds OF others, as
his roll of 5000 shrunk to 500 in little
over a month.
Edward Erickson was present at the
private inqulsitiOn in the Office of Chief
McGinn yesterday afternoon. but Was
not SO positive about the identity of
Myers as he was on the first day of the
prisoners arrest. His idea now is that
Meyers answers i'll a general way as to
size. height and voice of the assassin,
but he would not swear positively that
he was the man. 1t was thought to
arraign the prisoners in the court yes
terday afternoon, but finally this was
postponed until tomorrow morning, in
order that several more clues could be
run down.
An Intimate friend of the murdered
man stated yesterday that Erickson
had told him the evening of the murder
that he had been very successful in the
matter of collections during the day,
and had been paid about $500. A visit
to the bank where Erickson did bust
5 ness shows that he deposited less than
100 on Feb. l. But $50 in cash was
= found in the safe when opened after
the murder. and the gentleman whom
Erickson told about his collections said
tina under the circumstances it might
lbs possible that the assassin had Sc.
cured quite a large sun of money from
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