St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-04
HIDEOUS HORROR
A Cruel Murder Is Committed
In the Very Heart Of Min
neapolis.
CATHERINE GING SHOT DEAD.
Her Body Found While Her
Life Blood Was Still
Warm.
SUICIDE THEORY ADVANCED.
But the Bullet Hole in the
Back of Head Dis
pelS 1t.
UICIDE THEORY ADVANCED,
REPORTED WORTH $4,000.
She Had Been Away From Her
Home the Past Three
Evenings.

A foul murder was committed in
Minneapolis last night. A murder en-
vlroned with horrible mystery. The
victim, Catherine Cling, dressmaker,
lies at the county mOrgue stark
and cold in death. There is a
bullet hole in the head about
two inches back from the right ear.
A surgeon's instrument, probing in the
hole, followed the course of the bullet
through the brain and discovered 1t
| lodged under the left eye. from which
position it was dislodged by Coroner
Spring. Somewhere between and
O'Clock last night William Err
hart, railroad man employed
at the St. Lonis depot, was
vending his way homeward. He ira
versed West Thirty first street, the
| other side of Lake Calhoun, and when
in the vicinity OF Excelsior avenue.
he noticed a horse and carriage
coming down the road toward
him. The horse was going
at rapid gait, but it was too dark for
Erhart to see if the carriage had an
occupant. At the intersection of Thirty
first and Excelsior, Erhart discovered
a dark, ungainly heap lying in the
middle Of the roadway. 1t proved to be
the
Body ola Dead Woman.
She had been dead but few minutes,
for there was still warmth in the hands
A buffalo robe lay beside the body. Err
hart notified the police at once, and the
patrol wagon went to the scene of the
murder. The body was taken to
the morgue, and Coroner Spring
made an examination. At first it
was supposed the woman had met with
an accident; that the horse had run
away and she had been thrown out and
killed. This supposition, however, was
| dissipated by the facts, and the coroner
decided it was case of horrible mur-
der. The woman was we'll dressed, and
work sealskin sacque. j. E. Stoyer,
Tribune c0mpoSitor, identified her as
Miss Catherine Cling, dressmaker, who
has dressmaking rooms at IS Syndicate
block and lives at Thirteenth street
south. Last night at z o'clock Miss
Cling engaged a horse and carriage at
Goosman's livery stable, s and 10 East
Grant street. AT 0 O'Clock
The Horse Game Home Alone.
The lines were laid across the DASH
board, and the horse had not turned
hair. The livery proprietors state that
this incident shows cOnclusively that
the horse had not been driven at a high
rate of speed, and in their opinion some
person had driven it within a block
of the stable, else the lines
would have dragged themselves off
the dashboard to the ground, under the
animals feet. This adds still more mys-
terry to the affair. The liveryman also
states that the horse is an old one
and could not under any circum-
stances run any great distance. Some
thought last night that it might
be case of suicide, but the officials at
the morgue state that while it is poSsi~
bic such is the case, it is not probable
from the nature of the wound. 1t is
too far back, and would neces-
state a very awkward position of
the arm to suicide in such
manner with a pistol. There were
no indications that a struggle had taken
place in the carriage. for, with the ex-
ception of the buffalo robe, everything.
even to the whip, was in its aceus-
toned place. The seat, however. was
Covered with Blood
and theory is advanced that some per-
son shot the unfortunate woman from
the road, and that she fell from her
seat. carrying the robe with her, while
the horse logged home. Another theory
is that some person occupied the car
riage with her, and that when
her head was turned to the
left shot her in the head,
in the place indicated above; then threw
the body out upon the road and drove
into the city as rapidly as the old horse
could travel, leaving it somewhere in
the vicinity of the barn. after first lay
ing the lines over the dashboard. In the
event of suicide, she probably fell out
of the carriage, and the horse, nnham-
pered by driver, trotted home, the dark
ness preventing any person from uotic-
ing whether the seat was occupied or
not The police argue that it
seems hardly possible that young
woman would commit suicide under
such peculiar circumstances. The body
was not identified until after midnight,
which A0~sessitates the precluSion of