The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-09
PURELY FORMAL vERDICT RE-
TURNED IN THE MusGRoyE-
CINQMARS INQUEST.
THEY HANGED THEMSELVES.
NO ONE FOUND, AT LEAST, WHO
KNOWS ANYTHING TO THE
CONTRARY.
EVEN THE POLICEMEN IGNORANT
Neither Saw Nor Heard Anything of
the Mob That Hurried the Men
to Death.
Special to. the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
GLENCOE, Mimi, Sept. S.-After a
hearing covering nearly two days, the
coroner's jury, summoned to inquire
into the lynching Of Musgrove and
Cinqmars, came to the not unexpected
conclusion that the two men came to
their death by hanging at the hands
of persons unknown. The verdict is a
purely conventional one and shows
that the investigate so far held Is a
total failure. 1t is stated that the SEN
timent Of Glencoe is against the men
who so harshly took the law into their
own hands, but If this is the case 1t
was not at all apparent during the in
quest. No one could be found who
could or would give any definite ac-
count of the lynching or who knew
anything concerning the identity of one
of the lynching party. It Is apparent
that If anything is to be done to hunt
down the men who lynched the two
prisoners, it will have to be done by the
state and that not much help can be
expected of Glencoe or any of its citi-
zens. The formal verdict returned at
8 o'clock by the jury was as follows:
An inquisition taken at Glencoe in Mcleod
county, and the 7th and 8th days of Septem-
Der, A. D. 1895, before R. S. Miles, coroner
OF said county, upon view OF the bodies of
Dorman Musgrove and Henry A. Cinqmars,
lying there dead. By the oaths of the Jurors
whose names are hereunto described being
sworn to inquire on behalf Of the state Of
Minnesota, when, how, and by what means
| the said Dorman Musgrove and Henry A,
Cinqmars,. respectively, came to their deaths
upon their oaths do say that the said Dor
man Musgrove and Henry A. Cinqmars came
TO their death by the breaking of their
necks and strangulation caused by their be-
ing hanged from g bridge across Buffalo
creek. in the village Of Glencoe, by persons
whose names are to the coronsr and jury un-
known. In testimony whereof the said cor
oner and Jurors of the inquest have hereto
said.
Among the witnesses examined to-
day were Nightwatchman p Dixon
and Joe Hawlish, whose beats extend
within half block Of the jail and who
are required to make their rounds
every half hour The density of the
ignorance which prevails here was ex-
emplif1ed in the case Of the officers who
testified that they neither saw nor
heard anything of the lynching party.
Sheriff Fred Sandman was put on
the stand to detail the finding of the
bodies. He had been aroused about /
o'clock, and, after calling up the cor
oner and other officials. had traced the
mob to the bridge by the tracks left In
the road. He said that he had not had
the least suspicion that there was any
danger for the men. He supposed that
they were perfectly safe in the Jail.
he had no idea who constituted the
lynching party.
After the inquest the body Of Cinq-
mars was claimed by his heartbroken
parents and they left this afternoon
for st. Paul, on the way to Rhineland-
er, Wis, where, at his old home, the
body of the young man will be laid
away. Musgrove was buried at o'clock
at the villages expense. His sister, of
Jasper, Ala, telegraphed: 'Give hin,
decent burial and mark the place"