St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-26
julie Meyer sworn.

@. You live in ST. Paul? "A. Yes. sir.
@. What is your-occupations A. Lam at
the Metropolitan hotel, IN charge of theirbar
and billiard ROOM
@. You were there on the night of the 2ed
of June? A.. Yes, Friday.night.
O.. Did yeusee a mansknown as John d.
Clapp that night? A. Yes sir.
q. Where did you see MIN? A. ! saw
him in the bar: he wss talking to me for
fifteen or twenty minutes.
@. What time was this? A. Well, I don't
exactly remember the time: Somewhere
along about 10 O'Clock, think. Maybe it
might havesbeen a. little after TO-.
@. Howilong was he in the barronms A.
about fifteen minutes; twenty minutes,
may be. -e-
Q. Was he intoxicated at that timeb A.
Well. yes; he was under the influence OF
LIQUOR. He had just came from Minneapolis.
He had been doing some business over there
with Joslyn d Keogh. and some of these PEG.
pie. he told me-. And he had quite Jag"
on.
@. Which way did he &c out? A. He
went out.through the-rotunda of the house.
told him he had better go home; he said he
would.
A Isaw him III the rotunda of the hotel
again in about from seven to ten minutes.
@. Ten minutes after? A. Yes, from
seven to ten. s-.sAscts5l
Q. Was he all right then? A. He had.his
throat cut He was sitting in chair in the
hotel with his tbroateut
q. That was ten minutes after he leftsth
bar? From seven to ten minutes.
g. Did he say anything to you? A. No,
sir; he couldn't speak; he was unconscious.
q. Did you ask him any questions? A.
No. sir; got towels for him and gave them
to my son that was there. and wet the tow
els. and thought it was only scratch and
put them Oh. tried to stop the flow of blood.
untilsth gentleman that ran for the doctors
could get them
@. Did yom notice his hands at alls A.
No. sir, L didn't notice anything in his hands
at all.
By a juror: - 90, ].
q. would like to ask you how long he
was in there when he came In? How long
did hesstay, a few minutes .euly. at your barr
A. He.mustshaye been talking to me prob.
ably fifteen minutes.
@. How many drinks did he take while
therey A. He had two glasses of beer
@. That was all ne dfankf "A. That was
all he drank.-sir
Byan0ther juror:
Q. Did we understand you to say that he
was only;gone seven to ten minutes? A. He
was gone to exceed from seven to ten min :
tutes before he came back and was in that
chair.
q. With his throat cuts A. where.he
died. in the chair. or on the floor, rather; he
wasn't gone more than that length Of period,
from seven 10 ten minutes, when he bid me
good night.
" (hv Mr. Butler) Dld you see Ef1f0
Examined by Mr.. Mum: S~'s
@. MI. Meyer, you say that you have
known Mr.. Clapp for some time, haren.tyon?
"A. 1 knew him quite we'll. sir right well.
G. He wassalpretty good-sized man? A.
He was very powerruLman.,sir; very pow
erfnl man. And an arbitrary man. under the
Influence Of liquor.
@. He is whats A. Very arbitrary and
very positive.
q. Well. went farther than that, didn't
1t. when he was under the influence of
liquor: A. / never knew him to hit man
i'll my life. but he was one OF those kind of
people that knew he had the strength. and it
terminated ;he.knew het he was about.
Mr. Butler-I don't think we ought to go
into that matter, because if we do there will
be counter witnesses on that 1t will be neces-
sary to bring.
@. Yon say he was in there from fifteen to
twenty minutes? IA. Yessir, with me
q Disclosed that he was under the influ-
ence of liquor? A. Oh. certainly he was
lie had just come from Minneapolis; he told
me he had.
@. You advised him to go home? A. I
advised him 10 go home, and he says. "All
right guess / wilI.'' And he bid, me good
night and away he went, ana the last 1 saw
OF him; when he came back there again.
some strangers, some gentlemen helped
him In
BY juror:
Q. Was there anybody else in the bar
tlenan came in there a. the; time was there
He was a hack driver. aud he got change for
a dellar:I gave him two half dollars and
| then the bell boy was there. There was an
| order from some people upstairs; don'tre-
! member whether there was anybody else
| there or not. butI remember that case.
@. By Mr.. Munn--When was it the hack
driver came in with the dollar and got two
halves? A. He came just at the time that
ECiapp, think, was just about going ont that
door into the rotunda, whenthis hack driver
came in and got the change for the dollar.
q. Which way did the hack driver come
| in? A. The hack driver came III from the
| Third street entrance
@. You gave him The change and he went
| ont again? A. And he went out the Third
| street entrance.
q. You gave him the change Just about
! the time Clapp went out the rotunda? A,
| Yes; Ciapp went out through the screen
| door into the rotunda.
| q. Then Clapp was there when the hack
| driver came in, of course? A. Just going
| out l think. Lam not positive, but Isthink
| he was just bidding me good night as the
hack driver came in
c. fBy Mr.. Bntler) Who was the hack
driverY A. His name wss Brown. l pelievs;
Albert Brown.