St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-24
CRIS1 OF OFFENDERS.
Several Wagon Loads of Hard
Characters for Police
Court.
TOUGH LOCALITY SECURED.
Chief Clark Proposes to Rout
Out Several Harbops
of Thieves.
TOUGH LOCALITY SECURED.
FOOTPADS AND MURDERERS
Will Find Hard Lines in st.
Paul and Must Get
Out.

When a tough who has committed
some crime In this city gets away from
the police and detective force he will be
slicker than they usually make them.
This morning there will be a%rraigned
in the police court a large collection of
people, among them being a number of
tough characters. The list at the GEN.
trail station alone numbered fOrty-One
at 9 O'Clock last night. In addition to
these there will be a number of Ordi-
nary cases from the other stations In the
city. There will be several wagon
loads of offenders to be bauIed to the
bull pen" this morning. Among them
will be a dozen of women most of
whom were arrested at the corner Of
Eighth and Robert streets Saturday
afternoon in the fremont house dis
reputable resort.
Others of the collection are Edward
Flanagan, Tim Connors alias Texas"
Connors and John Depew, who will be
charged with shooting Alfred Clark. the
colored barber, Friday night near the
corne of Eighth and Broadway streets.
The colored man Clark was at the e n
trail police station yesterday and identi-
fed the three men as being the ones
tina held him up and assaulted him.
He cannot say which shot him.
but he declares they accosted
him and then beat him into
insenslbility. He resisted, and one
of them shot him after hitting him in
the head with the revolver. Clark had
his head tied up with handherchiefs in
addition to the surgeons bandages. He
lo~oksIpale and feels weak from the shot
and the smuggling. A number of men
were shown him II at a time, and he
picked out the three men named as his
assailants. Flanagan is only twenty
three years old, but he has quite a police
record. He was sent to the re-
formatory over a year ago for
burglarizing a tailor shop near the
water works. be has been arrested
a number Of times. He recently got
out of the reformatory and went to
Minneapolis. He came to st. Paul last
Friday, having been just released from
the workhouse, where he served thirty
days. Fin or 'Texas" ConnOrs has a
police record. He is twenty-fOur years
old and recently got out of the work
house. John Depew is twenty-five
years old and, like the other two,is we'll
known by The detective force. Texas"
Connors was arrested by Detectives
Daily and MeGuiggan, and the arrest of
Flanagan and DepeW was made by De-
tectiyeS McGulggan and Meyerding.
1t Is fortunate for Clark, as well as
the three men lie says assaulted him.
that the man was not killed. If that
had happened the murderers would
probably have escaped Identification,
but the escape of Clark and his identi-
ticatiOn of the assailants makes it pos
sible to place one or all three of the
men out of the way for soine time, so
that they may not commit other depre-
dationS.
The raid on the fremont house Sat-
urday will probably do much to purify
the air in the vicinity of Eighth and
Robert streets. The police lave known
for some time that the vicinity men
toned has been very tough. 1t has
been common to hear screams of women
Ill the late hours Of the night in that
vicinity. Drunken women have been
seen there frequently at night. Last
week some one standing in the
door of the fremont house threw
a glass that barely missed a
reporter who vas returning from
the Prohibition convention at Relief
hall. The glass was evidently thrown
| at another nan who had just left the
,Jno, II orasboJ uroincto l0or& ,,o,
where the reporter was walking, and a
crowd of half a dozen men standing in
the saloon door laughed at the little
excitement caused by the incident.
Within a block OF that place there are
one or more negro dives where robberies
and thefts frequently occur. The find
ing of the dead body of Charles c. Han
son in the neighbOrhood Friday norm
ing and the assault on the man Clark
Friday night led to the raid in which a
dozen persons were arrested Saturday.
Among those arrested are several
young women 1t is said that young
girls. apparently not very far along in
the teens. nave been lured to the neigh
borhOod mentioned and started on the
road to ruin. The police have deter
mined to clear up this neighborhood,
and it is probable hat other arrests will
follow. Under the former administra-
| tons of Chiefs Clark and O'Connor
the dives along Eighth street from
Robert to jackson streets were cleared
out. and a number of the negro women
and other tough characters were driven
out of the neighborhood, many being
sent to prison. During the Garvin-
McGinn reign the colored people re-
established themselves in that neigh
bOrhOod, and a nest of white people also
made their quarters at the place where
the arrests were made Saturday. While
the police lately learned that there was
a bad lot IN the neighbUrhoOd they had
nothing to justify them in taking strong
measures until the two incidents men
toned occurred. Evidence as to the
character of the neighborhood has been
collected. and there is no doubt now
cesspooi in that part of the city.
The detective force has been busy in
other parts of the city and picked up
some old offenders, who will be taken
into police court this morning on
| charges of vagrapcy. One or these is
the noted JOckO Conway. Then there
is Austin HOban and George Cohen.
The latter is just out of the w%orkhouse,
where he was sent for ninety days for
snatching a pOcketbOOk from an old
woman. Hoban and Cohen were ar
rested by Detectives DAILY and Koran.
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