The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-29
BRING OFF TWO VILLAINOUS AS
SAULTS ON WEST NINTH
STREET.
In A SINGLE EVENING, TOO.
IRA KELLOGG, A GUEST AT THE
BUCKINGHAM, SLUGGED AND
RUBBED.
OTHER VICTIM is NOT KNOWN,
Although the Police Have Been In
formed of Both of the Crimes
Already.

Ira Kellogg, sixty-two years old, liv-
ing at Red Wing and visiting relatives
at the Buckingham, was slugged by
highwaymen near the corner of West
Ninth and Exchange streets at 1890
o'clock last evening. Mr.. Kellogg was
on his way to the Buckingham, and
when in front Of the free dispensary
building on Ninth street was struck
from behind evidently with a billy or
brass knuckles. He fell unconscious to
the pavement and must have laid there
about five minutes. When he recovered
consciousness his overcoat was unbut-
toned and his pockets turned inside out
Blood was flowing from a severe cut
in his right temple and he was unable
to see owing to his right eye being
closed from the blow he had received
His age and the shock attending the
assault had rendered him almost help
less, and he was obliged to crawl on his
hands and knees to the buckingham, a
block and a half away. The police
were at once notified and several Of
f1cers sent to the scene, but all they
could do was to ascertain how the as
sault occurred.
Mr.. Kellogg has an impression that
in the assault and robbery, but this
is merely an impression, as he heard
no one behind him and was unpre-
pared for the blow. He remembers
being struck and knew nothing more
until some minutes afterward, when
he regained consciousness and found
himself lying on the sidewalk. A gold
watch and chain which he carried was
missing, and also a small sum of mon
ey, between 81 and So. DR.. Brimhall
was called and accompanied the police
to the apartments where Mr.. Kellogg
is visiting, but another physician had
dressed the wounds and his services
were not needed.
AS usual in such cases the police
were very reticent about the assault
and robbery, and at 1 o'clock this morn
! Ing Capt. Rouleau professed to be sur
prised to learn that there had been
any such assault DR.. Brimhall, when
called up by telephone at midnight, re-
! fused to talk about the affair. but
denied that he had dressed the wounds
| of any one who had been slugged by
| highwaymen. TO all questions about
| the affair he politely referred the re-
porter to Capt. Rouleau at the central
station, who, the physician stated,
| knew all about it,
In search for the victim of the as
! sault the G o b e reporter learned that
! the smuggling of Mr.. Kellogg was only
one of the hold-ups, or rather knock
downs, which came off on Ninth street
in the same vicinity last night A
young man named Burke, who was Wis
| iting at 100 West Ninth street, heard
| some shouting for help shortly before
midnight, and going to the front door
| saw small man lying on the sidewalk
directly across the street from where
Mr.. Kellogg had been assaulted. A
! stout, tall fellow was busily engaged
! in kicking the man, who was lying on
| the ground. Burke started across the
| street to render assistance, at which
| the tall man ran toward Fort street and
the one lying on the ground jumped to
! his feet and ran the other way as fast
as he was. able. Burke walked to the
place on the sidewalk, where the man
had been lying, but all the evidences that
remained was pool of blood. The
patrolman on the beat, seen afterward
said he understood that the man who
was slugged lived on Wabasha street
but just where he did not know Fol
! further information he referred the re-
porter to his superior officers, but al
the central station nothing was known
about the case Of if there was, 1t was
not given out