St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-01
POLICEMEN ACTIVE
Death OF an Unknown Man
Starts the Coppers on a
Wild Chase.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS MADE
Bad Women and Tough Men
Rounded UP and jailed by
the Dozen.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS MADE
THOUGHT 1T WAS MURDER
But Andrew Hanson Had a
"Cyst" on His Brain Big
as an Egg.

An autopsy was performed at the
county morgue yesterday afternoon
upon the remains of the man who
died at the city hospital about l
o'clock yesterday morning, sup
posedly from the effects of a dope
administered in a house of Hire
pute at 223 South Second street.
| The autopsy revealed the fact that
death was due to brain trouble, and
no trace of poison or alcohol was
found. The direct cause of death was
the formation of and bursting Of
what is known as a cyst in the brain.
The autopsy was not completed
until about o'clock last evening,
and, pending it's result, the police
department, headed by Chief Smith,
put in a very busy day. Della Whit
comb, Mabel Miller, Nellie Lee and
Lizzie O'Connors, the latter being
the wife Of the proprietor of the
joint, one Jim O'Connors, who was
arrested by officer Dugan and In
spector John Courtney with Bill
rested during the forenoon.
The circumstances surrounding the
sudden death of the man, whose
name is Andrew Hanson, were very
peculiar, and gave the police good
cause to arrest all persons who were
in the joint at 223 Saturday night
and make a thorough and complete
investiga tion.
Shortly after midnight Saturday
night a young Swede named Palmer,
boarding at the Scandal house at
Second avenue south and Second
street, accompanied by Arvid John
son, the dead mans partner, ran up
to Officer Dugan at the corner of
Third avenue south and Washington
and stated there was a man very
sick in 223 South Second street, and
that they could not find doctor.
Johnson stated that the sick man
was his partner.
TIE place at 223 South Second street
was to all appearances a joint erect
ed for the purpose of fleeing lum-
Der jacks. Passing by on the ave-
looking candy store and barber shop
side by side. Between the sides of the
buildings, 223 and 221, there is, how
ever, another dark, narrow entrance
which, followed through several
heavy doors, leads one to a dance
hall, in which is an old-fashioned
piano and a half-doZen wooden
oh n ing. nir-@., 4: -.
preme. Back of the dance hall are
three smaller rooms, which serve as
a pantry, kitchen. dining room, wine
rooms and beer halls. On the second
floor of the building, if one cares to
risk his life by going up the stairs,
are some fifteen small bed rooms,
where women who pick up men on
the street take them for a few
hours and then give place to new
corners. The place has no liquor
license, yet beer and drinks can be
bought at so much per and only
the most abandoned women fire.
quent the place. Jim O. Connors is
the proprietor Of the place, and Liz
Zie O'Connors is the landiady.
Into this place it was that John
son and Palmer led Officer Dugan.
Lying on a rickety lounge in the
kitchen was Hanson, unconscious
and gasping for breath. Officer Du-
gan at once realized that the man
was in a serious condition, and sent
for DR.. Moulton. Before the phySi-
clan arrived, however, Dugan had
called the central patrol wagon, and
had the man hurried to the city hos
pital, where it was stated that no
power on earth could save his life
They said he had been doped, and
upon examination thought that Han
son had been given an overdose of
| morphine. In twenty minutes after
being brought into the hospital Han
son died, frothing at the mouth
then unknown, and with no clue to
his identity.
Immediately following Hanson
death Inspector John Courtney, ac-
companied by Officer Dugan, went to
the joint at 223 to make an investi-
cation. All of the women who made
the place their hang-out had disap-
peared, and there was no one in
the grimy building but Jim O'Con-
nors, proprietor; Lizzie O'Connors,
his wife; Billie King, a sort of a
cook about the place, and an I'M
known Swede sleeping up stairs.
King had refused to help Officer
Dugan carry the sick man to the
stretcher, and told a story conflict
ing with that told by OConnors,
both men being drunk. Knowing
the reputation of the place, the po-
lice at once decided that the dead
man had been doped by some of
the girls about the place. From the
stories told it appeared that Hanson
had entered the place with his part
ner about 8 or 10 o'clock The two
had met some girls and gone into
the wine rooms to drink. Hanson
drank two glasses Of beer given him
gratis by one of the women, and
shortly after drinking the beer fell
off his chair, gasping for breath.
He was picked up, placed on the
lounge and allowed to lie there for
IWO " SOi1HOlS dllQ Tic WOul-
an assuring his partner, Johnson,
that Hanson would come around in
few moments and be all right.
Johnson finally got scared, however,
and, accompanied by Palmer, went
for officer Dugan.
O'Connors, the proprietor, and
King, the cook. We're taken to the
Courtney ;Gd Officer Dugan and
locked up on charges q drunkenness,
pending Jan investigation. King
claimed that Hanson was sober when
he entered the house, and O'Connors
claimed he was drunk. King stated
that Nell Lee. Mabel Miller. Della