The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-20
LOUIS RAYMOND DRIVEN FROM
HIS STORE AT THE PISTOLS
POINT.
UNKNOWN STRANGER TRIED
TO SHOOT A SECONDHAND STORE
PROPRIETOR ON EAST Sew
ENTH STREET.
WHAT DOES MRS. THOMAS KNows
Is Questioned Closely by the
Police officials.

Loud cries Of Murder! police! help!'
sounding from the rear of Louis Ray
monds secondhand store at 499 East
Seventh street shortly before o'clock
last evening created considerable eX-
element in the vicinity and attracted a
large crowd. When neighbors reached
the scene they found Raymond back
of his store in high state of nervous
excitement, and for a time he could
make no explanation beyond wildly as
sorting that an attempt had been made
upon his life, declaring that he had
only escaped would-be assassin after
a desperate encounter in the store.
Raymond showed no signs of strug-
gle, with the exception of several small
scratches on his right hand, which he
said had resulted from his Selling the
revolver which was pointed at his head.
After becoming somewhat Gained,
Raymond said he had been reading the
paper in his store when a man entered
the front door, and before he could
leave his chair pointed a revolver at
him. The man, Raymond says, did not
utter a word, but advanced toward
him, wild-eyed and apparently desper-
ate. Raymond sprang from his chair
and crawled behind the counter and
started on his hands and knees for the
rear of the store. He says the stranger
crouched down also and followed him.
Back of the counter, Raymond says,
the man got so close to him that he
feared every moment would be his last
and grabbed the revolver. Then be-
gan a struggle, he says, the stranger
muttering to himself, and Raymond
begging for his life, promising to give
the unknown all the money in the
place if he would not kill him. In the
scuff1e show case was knocked over,
making considerable noise, when Ray
mond says the man with the revolver
ran out of the front door. Raymond
then rushed to the rear entrance and
cried for help. He says he is positive
that the strangers object was not rob-
berry and declares that the man meant
to kill him, though he processes to
know no reason why any one should
desire his life.
The police investigated the case later
and say there was a woman concerned
in the affair, Mrs. Thomas, living
over Raymond'S store. The woman is
said to be the wife of a railroad con-
tractor, and was taken to the central
police station, where she was subjected
to the questioning process, but denied
all knowledge of the affair in Ray
mond's store. Raymond, however, says
he heard a quarrel going on in the
Woman's apartments half an hour be-
fore the man with the pistol entered
his place, and claims to have heard the
Thomas woman run out on a back
porch and call for help. He said he
thought he knew the man, but after
ward contradicted this statement,
though declaring it was the same man
whom, he says, he heard upstairs. He
described his assailant as a tall man
with black mustache and wearing a
black derby hat The Thomas woman's
husband is said to be not over five feet
TALL heavy set and wears a brown
mustache. Raymond says he has only
known Mrs. Thomas as she has occa-
sionally visited his store. The woman's
husband is said not to have been seen
about the place since last Sunday.