St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-29
FRANK STINsON, AN ALLEGED
THIEF. ROUNDED UP BY DIR.
CASSERLY
MADE CHASE FOR LIBERTY.
THE DOCTOR HUNG ON EVEN IN
NE FACE OF BUL-
LET'S.
STINSON
x w II L
Eat He Was Finally Oyertaken
And Turned Over to the Po-
lice officers.
FIRED.

y thin, sallow-looking young man,
carrying a gun in his hand and run
ninS at a gait of fifteen miles an
hour, pursued by short, stout man,
with dark mustache and blood in
his eye" threw the people in the
vicinity of S15 Juno street into con-
sternation about II o'clock yester-
day forenoon, as he darted in the
front door, through the parlor. dim
Ing room and kitchen and ran out
the rear door of some four or five
houses in succession, the man in the
rear shouting TO every one he passed:
Give me a gun. Give me a gum
Let anybody contemplate an epi-
sode Of this kind and then say if he,
TOO, would not have been just a trifle
excited. if he happened to be in the
parlor of house through which such
pair made such an impromptu
tour. Who We're they? Wen, that
is the same question the occupants
of each house asked as the coat-tails
OF the man in the rear vanished
through the kitchen door.
The man in the lead was Frank
Stinson, and the pursuer was DR..
William H. Casserly, the veterinary
surgeon.
SunsOn has been living at S75 Juno
street, and for some time past there
had been a suspicion that his con-
duct might warrant inquiry on the
part of the police. 1t became a fact
that, though Stinson had no chickens
OF his own, he had dead chickens to
sell every few days. Other things
also tended to point at him the fin
ger of suspicion, but no one ever took
the trouble to go any further than re-
mark about the mysterious chicken
dealer, until yesterday, when DR..
Casserly unceremoniously uncovered
a whole mine Of information, and, in
cidentally, goods enough in Stinson's
house to start a secondhand store.
Wednesday night DR.. Casserly's
buggy was stolen, and he at once sus-
pected his mysterious neighbor of
having appropriated it, so he con-
cluded to pay him visit. Stinson was
absent, but a young woman who
has been living at the same house
appeared at the door. In front of
the house the doctor saw his hitch
ing weight and medicine case, which
had been taken from his buggy, so he
told the young woman that unless
she told him Immediately where his
buggy was he would have her ar
rested on the spot. This so fright
ened her that she confessed to her
husbands having stolen it, and said
he had gone away with it.
Just as the doctor was about to
taka his departure, Stinson was seen
coming toward the house on horse
back. But before he arrived, the
woman ran out to warn him. The
doctor, divining the situation, fol-
= lowed, but before he reached Stinson,
the latter had dismounted and taken
to his heels, the doctor being too close
to enable him to get the horse under
way and make his escape on horse
back.
The docter gave chace. Having
heavy overcoat on, he was unable to
keep within hailing distance the first
block or two. The doctor finally
threw off his coat, and then it seemed
to be about a dead even thing for sew
eral blocks. Finally the doctor began
gaining, and then Stinson drew a gun
and made a back motion as if threat
ening to shoot. But the doctor kept
right on, and was pressing the fugi-
tive closely, when the latter made
mad dash into a house, the door of
which happened to be partly open. In
through the parlor, the dining room,
the kitchen and out the rear door he
ran before the inmates had time to
realize that an intruder had invaded
their home, ard before they could in
vestigate in dashed the pursuer, shout
ing: Where is he? Where is he? Give
me a guni Give me gunr' But he
scarcely paused. Realizing by the
open doors the route that had been TAX
en- by the man he was after, he shot
right through and left the astonished
people to figure out an explanation for
themselves.
Stinson had gained little ground
by this play, but when they reached
the street again the doctor was coming
up with him so fast that the former
thought it necessary to use his gun
He turned and fired twice. Gritty as
the doctor had shown himself to be,
he did not care to face a gun after the
bullets began flying, so he took shelter
behind a tree. Stinson then ran in
through another house the same as
he had the first one, and the doctor
followed close behind. Then Stinson
tore his way through another, and still
another, and in the hide and go seek"
play between him and his pursuer he
gained several laps, reaching the street
again with a good lead. But the doc
tor kept right on, several others now
joining in the chase. The doctor finally
overlook Stinson at the corner of
Portland avenue and st. Albans street.
When Stinson was overhauled he at
tempted to use his gun, but was
knocked down with a sturdy blow
from the doctor, who took the gun
away from him and beat him over the
head with it, cutting a cash in the
back of his head and splitting his lip.
He turned him over to the police at
the Rondo street station, who sent