The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-02
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NOTION DEPARTMENT

and herself stood the agile little brown
man, a keen-edged razor in his hand.
He grappled with her under the bed
and in the desperate hand-to-hand
struggle the girls hands were terribly
cut. One finger was almost several
where she sought to protect her throat
and breast, and her left hand was
frightfully gashed A small triangular
cut was made on her right cheek and
another cut on her round chin went to
the bone. Sometime during the strug-
gle, the murderer inflicted a deadly
wound, long, straight cut, beginning
under the right ear and extending
downward for 10 inches across the left
breast.
Then the girl, who had given three
piercing shrieks, which were heard by
people next door, broke away. rushed
down the hall and down the 'creaking
stairs to the sidewalk. She ran 20
feet on Drumm street, turned in at her
fathers barroom and fell at his feet,
her blood drenching the clean sawdust
on the floor.
Her mother and sister rushed in
from the kitchen and, with aprons and
cloths. tried to stop the blood that was
streaming from her wounds. The
father ran for a doctor, but none could
be found in that region at such an
early hour. Police Surgeon Stice had
been sent for by Policeman Shaw. but
he arrived too late to save the girl, who
literally bled to death.
THE dying girl was lifted to the pool
table in the barroom, and as the jugu-
lar vein was not severed she lived for
three-quarters of an hour. If she had
had medical aid sooner her life might
have been saved. She never spoke
Of ch al hrrf
sister at once remembered the East In
dian and his threats, and asked IL he
had done 1t, to which the dying girl
nodded assent. While the girls life
dripped and oozed away her little black
and tan dog Toby licked her hands,
and all the afternoon lay on the green
table where the girl breathed her last
'Ramer's body and that of the girl
were removed to the morgue, and later
the girl was taken to an undertaking
establishment, where the body was pre-
pared for burial The little East In
dian, with his bronze skin, short dark,
curly hair and face covered with clot-
ted blood. is still at the morgue.
Nothing is known about Ramer ex-
cept that he was a native of Mauritius,
about AZ years old. Kramer may not
be his true name. In his pockets were
found a bottle of vitriol, a recommend
alton from the captain of a whaling
schooner, certifying that Phillip Ra-
nous" had sailed with him and was
good cook, and a life insurance policy
of $1,000. issued by the American Lee
gion of Honor at Wakefield, Mass, in
1892, to Thomas Holmes and payable to
his sister. Ella Holmes. No one knows
whether the policy belonged to Kramer
or was stolen.
The room where the murder and sui
eide took place was a sea of blood the
floor afloat and the walls spattered and
splashed. The carpet was taken up
and the floors scrubbed, but the tell
tale spots had soaked deep into the
wood. The girl fell just beneath a shelf
of books-the gift of her sailor lover
and underneath an old engraving of the
Hausfrau Charlotte cutting the bread
and butter.
In the afternoon the barroom was
locked. Inside there was a group of
weeping brothers and sisters, the
mother who sobbed despairingly and
muttered in broken German, and the
father who walked about mechanically.
There were gold fish in a tank, cana
ries shrilling in cages overhead, little
alcohol flame at the bar, and on the
pool table that was a deathbed a small
dog that whined dismallv