New Ulm review., 1895-07-10

O1 poo1 QUILL
The people of New Ulm were shocked
Thursday morning to hear that Night
Watch Albert Winkelmann had been shot,
and when death ensued Friday morning
the feeling and desire that the wrong
should be avenged became all the more
intense.
Who did the dastardly deed and what
was the motive are still mysteries, but
the prevailing sentiment is that ere long
both will be ferreted out. The first per-
son to discover the wounded man was his
cousin, Albert Kiesling. At three clock
in the morning, young girl employed
at his home heard peculiar groaning
and, becoming frightened, closed the
window blinds, and went to sleep. At
four o'clock. she was awakened by the
same groans and called Mr.. Kiesling, for
getting however to tell him what she had
heard, When Kiesllng went out of the
house, hewas attracted by the same sound
and noticed the body of man lying in
the middle of the street that runs be-
tween his house and that of Jacob Kloss-
ner Sr. At first he thought it was a
drunken man, but when he saw the hat
and cane at some distance he became
alarmed and called his neighbors. Then
it was that they realized that there had
been foul play, Drs. Weiser and Frit-
sche were summoned and arrived short
ly after four. They found the man in
comatose condition and unable to speak.
He was lying on his back in a pool Of
blood and there were evidences of his
having struggled to get onto his feet.
Several questions were put to him re-
garding who might have performed the
cowardly act, but no satisfactory answer
was el1cited.
He was found about thirty feet from
where the shooting evidently occurred
which was at the lower corner Of Mr..
klossners yard at the intersection of
Front anG First South Streets. Here his
hat, cane and revolver were found, and
the sidewalk and ground for several feet
around were saturated with blood. The
suppoSition is that he must have leen
walking along this sidewalk from Herl-
the fence or electric light pole, fired the
shot as he passed, for the bullet entered
the left side of the neck and had it's exit
at point little higher, but otherwise
at corresponding place on the opposite
side of the neck. The left side showed
the powder marks, and from this it is
evident that the murderer could not have
been over two feet away. The fact that
his revolver was still in the leather pouch
is also evidence that he was shot una
wares, and that when he reached for it
he no longer had the strength for short
time to hold it. He probably fell at this
point, and later on managed to get to the
place where he was found.
Where the murderer went to of course
is not known, but it is reported that
tracks were traced into the river, and
blood found on grass where they entered
the water
AS soon as Mr. Winkelmann was found
he was taken to the hospital, where every
effort was made to arouse him but with
out avail, death coming early Friday
morning.
Coroner Rothenburg was then sum-
moned and an inquest was held with a
jury composed of John G. Rudolph, A.
W. Bingham, Theo. KobaaTsch, G. A. Ot-
tomeyer, Henry Behnke and Louie Muel-
Ter.
Several witnesses were sworn and the
testimony of all seemed to tend towards
showing that tramp was the murderer.
Geo. Peuser said that he asked him if 1t
was the same tramp that they saw to-
gether in the park and that the wounded
man nodded in the affirmative. DR.. Wei
ser testified that he asked him if it was
a tramp, and that he answered "yes." H.
L. Saverien said that at the hospital he
also heard him say to himself that it was
q tramp and curse him as he said it.
People are not inclined to give much
credit to this theory however, for it is