The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-23
SOME NEW FACTS ABOUT 1T.
IMPRESSION IS ONLY TWO SHOTS
WERE FIRED, BUT EACH
KILLED.
HAT THE PRISONERS SAY.
Each Gives History of His Life,
But Is Very Mute on the
Murder. ~


| ming, and bullet hole through a bed
screen and a pine partition, are the
only indications left to-day Of the
! bloody tragedy enacted therein last
Friday morning at lis.
AS already told in the G O b e, the
victims were Edward Paul and Jacob
Hayes, his nephew, young men aged
respectively % and 19 years. Their
murderers, George Kelly, and his ac-
| complice, James Cunningham, are
| safely incarcerated in the Washington
| county Jail at Saltwater. Both Of the
murdered boys were buried at Hudson,
| Wis, Sunday.
A reporter for the Glob e spent
| several hours at Wyoming yesterday.
and talked with those citizens Of the
town who know all that is known Of
the shooting, except what DR.. Burn
side Foster has told. The recitals heard
indicate that there were several pecu-
liar features surrounding the killings.
| For at least ten minutes after the
| shooting even DR.. Foster did not know
that any one had been killed; and 1t
was only after the neighborhood had
been searched for him that Ed Paul
was found lying dead behind the res
taurant counter.
William Paul, the proprietor of the
resrant, and his brother George, Of
Hudson, Wis, showed the reporter
the interior arrangements Of the res
taurant and gave their surmises Of
how the fracas occurred.
After alighting from the freight
train, the desperadoes hung around
the depot, as stated. When the pas
senger came along and DR.. Foster got
off, they did not get after him imme-
diately. He inquired at house on
one side of the tracks with view to
securing a conveyance to take him to
Osceola. He was directed to the res
taurant and livery barn kept by the
Pauls, on the other side Of the track,
about a hundred yards away. The
trio Of wanderers gave him time to
rouse up Paul and Hayes, and still did
not attempt to molest him.
1t was not until'he had made bar
gain with the boys, and the trio were
about ready to proceed to the stable
in the rear of the restaurant. that Will
son and Kelly stepped into the res
taurant. When they entered Foster
was standing at the end of the counter,
about ten feet from the door. Hayes
was evidently a little further back,
and close to a bed in one corner of the
| room.
| At the foot Of this bed there Is a. door
which leads into a room where Mrs.
William Paul was sleeping with her lit
tie son. The robbers, after ordering
hands up" made Hayes close this
door.
Ed Paul had gone behind the counter
to light a lantern, and as Kelly stood
just inside the threshold Paul was not
more than two feet from him. He was
| so close, in fact, that when Foster be-
| gan to struggle with Wilson, Paul
seized a bottle and endeavored to hit
Kelly. The blow fell short, and the
bottle crashed through a show case,
smashing the glass and badly denting
| the frame.
| Foiled in his intention, Paul stopped
| down behind the counter, when Kelly
reached over, and, pointing his gun
| downward, fired. The ball reached it's
mask and Paul fell on his face. He
must have died instantly, because, as
stated, no one knew he was even hurt
| until a quarter Of an hour later
| In the meantime DR.. Foster had
| seized flat iron from shelf and tried
| to hit Wilson. He missed him, for the
heavy iron made it's mark on the floor.
| Then Wilson cut loose on the doctor
head with the butt end of his gun, and
Kelly aimed at young Hayes, who,
from all indications, had started from
| his position near the door to help
Foster, while Kelly was reaching over
to shoot Ed Paul. But the
COOL AND NERvY DEVIL
with the big gun got Hayes before the
| lad could get to Foster. The bullet
went through the young fellows body
and passed on over the form Of a man
on the bed, lodging in the board par
tition.
BY this time Foster was knocked out
but had saved his watch; for as soon
| as Kelly realized that the two bows
were shot he ordered retreat which
was made up the track to the north, as
already described.
| When DR.. Foster knocked at the res
taurant door Ed Paul and a. man
named Wilson Lyle were sleeping In
the bed. Jake Hayes was lying on a
cot at the foot of the bed. The reporter
ate supper last evening with Lysle, in
the room where the murders were com
mitted. He is employed on the section
| and is quiet. middle-aged man.
Asked If he had been awakened by the
|
mo, I was not. I had been Ioadine
and carrying wood all evening, and did
not go to bed until 10 o'clock. I was
very tired and slept soundly. Until the
| shots aWoke me I did not know the
| boys were up and had lighted a lamp,
AS soon as was aroused proceeded to
dress, and I think it was my move
| ments which frightened the robbers
away before they had secured all the
booty. They did not get DR.. Fosters
| watch, nor did they attempt to go
| through Hayes or Paul. I had O. re-
volver, and If I had known what was
| going on could have used it to good eff
feet from behind the screen; but when
| 1 realize what all the noise meant #
was too late
Mrs. Nellie Paul, wife Of William.
who was sleeping in the next room
| with her child, was awakened by DR..
| Fosters arrival. She said:
| Jake was standing near the door
| leading into my room when the order
was given to hold up his hands. One
| Of the men asked rs there anyone in
| there?' and Jake said no. Then close
that door, said the same voice and
Jake shut the door. Then I Jumped up
| and ran out: but Immediately thought
they might go into my room searching
| for money and kill the baby. So I
| went back and got him and ran out
| again I went over to the section
| shanty Ca few yards North, alongside
| the track, but then thought the rob-
bers might run that way and find me,
| so came back to the rear of the house
| AS L did so the men ran rapidly away