St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-30
SHOT BY A R0BBER.
CHARLES THOMPSON TELLS HOW
HE RECEIVED HIS BULLET
WOUND.
MAKES SOME STATEMENTS
TO THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, REV
MIs. HORTON AND ATTORNEY
TAYLOR,
But THEY ARE NOT BELIEVED
dale and Walked Home After
Being Shot.

Charles Thompson. the man dying
at 400 North Franklin street from a
bullet wound received Friday night,
made his ante-mortem statement yes
terday afternoon. He asserted SOL
eInnIy that he was held up at the
gates of the Kittsondale stable on
University avenue about 7:30 Friday
evening and that as he raised his arm
to throw rock which he was carrying
at his assailant, the latter shot him
and ran off. Then Thompson walked
all the way to ST. Paul. For various
reasons the police do not believe
Thompsons statement, but think that
he is adherirg to this story in the
presence of death simply to shield q
friend and accomplice in some criminal
act Of his own. It is a matter Of con-
lecture whether the two themselves
attempted to hold up a third person
who fired the shot, or whether Thomp-
son was wounded in an alteration.
The symptoms of pneumonia which
were detected Sunday evening in
Thompson's case developed rapidly
through the night. He is constantly
| attended by his friend Charles Han
sen, or Hoslzins. as he is generally
known, by Mrs. Thompson and by a
Mrs. Davis, who is a friend of the
family.
DR.. Appleby made frequent calls.
At o'clock yesterday MOI ming he
found his patient sinking. The time
had passed for further external hem
of
displayed no longer any tendency to-
wards an erysipeletic condition. The
location Of the wound is different from
what was at first reported. The bullet
apparently a large one, entered the
right side Of the chest about an incn
and a quarter below and the same dis
tance to the right of the nipple. It's
course was directly through tie lower
lobe of the right lung and slightly
upward. so that it left the back just
! below the lower edge OF the right
shoulder blade. Such a wound is not
necessarily fatal, but it's result would
be much graver in case it had been
inflicted on one whose system is not
! in the best conditan or who is after
wards obliged to inhale or become
chilled by frosty air. DR.. Appleby
found yesterday morning every indi-
cation of what is called hemostatic
pneumonia. The rupture of the blood
vessels of the lung had, in other words,
caused the circulation to stagnate in
that region and filling the chest cav
1ty to bring about what is technically
styled hemothoraX. The right lung
was widely congested, the left lung
being less affected. The characteristic
FEVER OF PNEUMONIA
had overspread the entire system.
Thompson was fast losing conscious
ness. About II a. m. Drs. Justus Ohage
and Finnel were called in consultation
by DR.. Appleby. Both the consulting
physicians agreed that their profess
sion could do nothing more for the pa
tient, whose recovery under the best
treatment was altogether improbable.
AT 1 p. m. Thompson had become alb
solutely comatose. His pulse was then
l3S. Two hours and half later, how
ever, he rallied decidedly, his pulse re-
ceding to 126 and his respiration be-
coming freer. But his temperature had
risen to los degrees, most dangerous
elevation. A short time afterwards
County Attorney Butler arrived to OBJ
tain, in the interests of justice, an ante
mortem statement from the dying man.
Thompson's face was then drawn and
yellow His Sunken eyes had the
CLASSY, fixed look seen in those of a
chloral fiend. His lips were parted and
he breathed so rapidly and with such
difficulty that every breath was a
moan. His hands wandered restlessly
back and forth from the bed clothing
to his forehead. Thompson's appear
ance was less painful than it had been.
He was not only fully rational, but he
could still speak in heavy bass voice,
audible even in the room below About
his bed were the county attor-
ney, DR.. Appleby, Chief of Police Clark,
Chief of Detectives O'Connor Mrs
Thompson, her friend Mrs. Davis and
the little daughter, Marie. Being as
sured that he was about to die, he
held to his lips copy of the Scriptures
and swore to utter a true statement
Then he said that he left ST. Paul about
$3.50 p. m. Friday on the Interurban
line for Minneapolis. There he spent
about three hours.
''Where did you so over there?" asked
Mr.. Butler.
81 went to several different houses,
but didn't stay long anywhere"
"Tell us the name of somebody YOU
saw there-somebody you spoke to-
''Well, I can't do that, exactly No,
I can't remember But didn't play any
games anywhere
Thompson continued his story. He
left Minneapolis just about p. M, but
got off the Interurban car at Smelling
avenue to save the expense of the ad-
ditional nickel. He was willing to walk
the rest of the way to st. Paul, for he
was very hard up, and needed every
cent. Fearing footpads, he secured
large rock and held it in his right
hand.
WAS HELD UP.
Just opposite the doors of the gates
of the Kittsondale driving park, on Uni
versity avenue, about half-past 7
o'clock, a rather tall man appeared
suddenly from behind the park fence.
Owing to the darkness Thompson could
not clearly distinguish the strangers
features. The apparition walked rap
idly towards Thompson, and when
about six feet distant drew a revolver
and pointed it towards Thompson, say
ing briefly, Hands upn'
: Then Thompson raised his right arm
so as to throw his rock. The arm no
sooner went up than the highwayman
fired. Thompson felt himself wounded,
but did not think it was a serious in
jury. He said nothing, and did not
fall He would have turned to escape
had not the stranger rapidly adopted
the same prudent course, without wait
ing to search his victims pockets.