St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-03
MURDER FOR ROBBERY
Masked Men Enter a Wabasha
Street Saloon
At 10 O'CLOCK LAST EVENING,
Glands Up" Commanded They
to the Bartender
AND THE FIVE OTHERS INSIDE
Robbers Began Shooting and
Bartender Returned Fire.
BARTENDER FATALLY SHOT.
AND THE FIVE OTHERS INSIDE
BARTENDER fatally SHOT.

William Lindolf. bartender at the
saloon of l.. R. Kohlman, at the corner
of Wabasha street aud College avenue,
was fatally shot last evening by two
masked men that entered the place for
the purpose of robbery.
A few moments before 10 o'clock the
side door of the saloon at the corner of
College avenue and Wabasha street
was hurriedly opened. A second later
three patrons of the place. the wife of
the proprietor and the bartender were
startled by the sudden appearance of
masked man, who, pointing a revolver
toward the group, shouted. Hands
up"
The demand was so unexpected that
for moment the five persons stood
as if petrifed. Mrs. Kohlman was
the first to speak. and she remarked to
LindoIf. the bartender:
willie, it looks like robbers. You
better get the revolver"
Lindolf made toward a drawer be-
hind the bar. in which weapon was
kept. and managed to get the revolver
in his hand. The rapidity with which
Lindolf obeyed the instructio rs SEEM
inyly disconcerted the highway
man for a moment, but as Lin
al ,:xI
pistol in his hand the murderous thug
opened fire on him. Lindolf crouched
behind the bar near. the front window
Of the saloon, and as he did SO the
front door opened. and second masked
man entered. The fellow. who had
evidently been watching the play made
by his partner from the front door of
the saloon. began to shoot at LIN
dolf as soon as he entered.
Lindolf, however, was very game,
and as lie stopped behind the
bar be fired shot through an opening
in the counter at the thug who entered
the front door. In the meantime the
masked man, who came in the side Of
the saloon, continued shooting at Lin
dolf until he had exhausted the shots in
his revolver.
The two robbers then left the saloon,
one going out the front and the other
the side door.
Mrs. Kohlman, as soon as the men
left, ran to Lindolf, who was lying be-
hind the bar. He said he had been shot
in the stomach, aud Mrs. kohlman at
once started for the residence of DR..
Hanley, living few doors away. AS
she went out the side door on college
avenue she saw the man who went out
just ahead of her running toward Cedar
street. DR.. Hanley went to the saloon,
aud on making an examination, saw that
Lindolf was mortally wounded. One of
the bullets had entered the right hip as
he was crouched on the floor and passed
through his body. Another had entered
the body at the pit of thas stomach and
caused an internal hemorrhage. He
was taken to the city hospital by the
central patrol, accompanied by DR.. Han
ley, and given all the attention that Drs.
Ancker and Hanley could devise. The
hemorrhage, however, could not be
located and at II: 80 death resulted.
Lindolf was twenty-five years old. un-
married, and had been employed as bar
tender at the place where ne was shot
for some time. He came from Germany
and his parents live there.
The police were notified of the shoot
ing soon after it occurred, and Capt.
Lowell, of the Rondo street station. and
Lieut.. Murphy, of the central station.
were soon at the scene. The saloon,
which was crowded by neighbors and
pedestrians, attracted by the shooting,
was cleared, and the witnesses of the
shooting were questioned as to the af-
fair.
George Thompson. living at 1913 Mar
tin street. said that he was sitting at a
table at the side of the bar room in such
a position that he was concealed from
the rear door, by stove. The first he
knew lie heard the side door open and q
second later heard voice say "Hands
up." He saw a short man wearing
dark suit of clothes and
black stiff hat with his face
concealed by a white handkerchief
pointing gun toward Lind off and the
three men who were standing at the
bar. He at first thought it was joke
but when the man began to shoot he
decided it was regular "ho.d up" AS
soon as the highwaymen left the saloon,
Thompson ran for a police officer. He
described the man who entered the
front door as tall and thin, wearing Q
light suit of clothes and having COL
ored handkerchief drawn across the
lower part of his face.
B. S. Coffee, who happened to be
passing down Wabasha street, heard the
shooting, and. stopping OH the opposite
corner, saw one of the robbers run ous
of the side and the other from the front
door.
The side door opens on College ave
nue., and. the street being dark, Coffeo
could not tell how the fellow was
dressed. The one who came out the