The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-28
DR.. BROWN
at the Finn Temper
ance Hall Saturday
Evening, in Repub-
lican Politics with
the aid of a Stereop-
tican. All invited.
MURDER.
Chas. LiiaS Fatally Cuts Gust
Halmiss Friday Evening.
TALK OF LYNCHNG.
Liias Spirited Out of Town For
Fear of Lynch Law.

Again this city has IurnlsneQ
another Finn cutting ARRAY which
resulted in the death Of one of the
combatants and may result in the
hanging Of the other Friday eve
ming al about s o'clock the citizens
were startled by the announcement
that another of the numerous cutting
cases had taken place and that Ia
consea aence the life blood. Of a man
was slowly ebbing away and that
another victim was added to the list
Of those who died by the knife.
1t seems that Chas. Liias and Gus.
Halmiss, two gentlemen Of Finnish
extraction. the latter employed as
barkeeper in the saloon of Jacob
Lamps. had become entangled in an
alteration which had developed into
a hard u hand fight According TO
the story. Halmiss pulled knife and
sfahi ed Liias in the shoulder infiict
inc small wound The men were
married. before further damage could
besspsla. Sat not until suadry blows
lad Ae seiaanged- This was carly
in the evening and nothing more Was
taoagslt 81 he affair.
later Lisas entered the saloon and
again 0pened the controversy with
Ealmiss w4o at that time was OF
duty Ihe men seemed 10 be perfect
" at ease and no violence was
ante psted. 4 few moments after
Hallliss pat on his coat and started
for nome hrough the back door. No
500 a4a sc stepped cut than Liias
folloaa aud only a few moments
elaI,saa before the solnGs of scufiing
were sea1d outside. HaImi5 was
found seaf WOOD pile with a deep
knife ana ia his thigh. The cut
had nrnet ated TO the bone and sever
ed al terry. A messenger was at
once aispa tched for a physician while
anos hsr 1t for the officers Chief
OF Po.ee Garrison promptly arrested
LiIaS and he was taken TO the lookup,
Hahn S. Ia the meantime having re-
ceiEes tie attention Of Drs- Wunder
and senal Of the Shipman hospital.
Itwss found that the injured man
could not survive the loss of blood,
and died an heur later.
The feeling ran high and Chief Of
Police Garrison, in order to protect
the prisoner spirited him away down
the Duluth & Iron Range tracks to
the long bridge where the passenger
train was hailed in the morning and
the murderer taken to Duluth.
Monday, Deputy Coroner Vail sum-
moned q jury consisting of l. A.
Norberg. foreman. A. ID. Ellefsen,
Frank Thomas, Paul Uren, n. Floyd
and A. j. Homer, and, after hearing
the testimony of several witnesses the
Jury came to the verdict that .-Gus.
Halmiss came TO his death by means
of wound inflicted by knife in the
hands of Chas. Liias and that the
said Liias inflicted the wound with
the firm intention of causing the
death of the said Halmiss.''
1t was deemed advisable to hold the
preliminary examination in Duluth
and the witnesses were summoned TO
appear there today Liias is a
desperate character and man whom
the larger majority of those in the
saloon business in the city. would
rather see 60 by their business places
than come in. His crime is rather
hard one and no doubt he will be
dealt with according TO law. Muir
der in cold blood means a life sentence
81 death by the moose.