The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
DEATH OF WILLIAM PETERSON AT
DETROIT is TO BE INVESTI-
GATED.
WHERE is THE $500 IN CASH
THAT THE ST. PAUL MAN HAD
WHEN HE STARTED
EAST.
DETECTIVES ARE ON A HUNT
For Evidence as to the GOinEs and
COmings of His Last
Hours.
The Detroit Free Press of Saturday

The Detroit Free Press of Saturday
says:
Little doubt remains that the man
who was run over and killed at the
Brush street depot Thursday night
was William Peterson, twenty-four
years old, late of ST. Paul, Mimi, and
on his way home to Sweden, when he
met his death. Yesterday morning
Coroner Dickson telegraphed the North
st. Paul Table company, whose address
was found in a book taken from one
Of the dead mans pockets, asking if
he was known to them, and received
the following reply: Been in our en-
ploy several years. Had from $500 to
$500. Left here alone. Has a StepbrOth-
er here. Bound for Sweden The COM
pany notified Peterson's stepbTOther,
whose name is Victor Olsen, and a
little later Coroner Dickson received
a wire from him to the following effect:
Table company handed your message
TO me. How was my brother, William
Peterson, killed? Had he any money
on him? Had about $500 No one who
saw Peterson here While alive Witness
ed him making any display of money,
but on the contrary, he seemed to be
hard UP, for as soon as he took up his
quarters at Maynard's lodging house,
308 jefferson avenue, Tuesday, he ask
to some place where he could set work
at his trade Of Varnisher or finisher in
furniture or paint shop.
Mr. Maynard states that Peterson
appeared to be under the influence of
liquor all the time he was at his house,
but c. ]. Carruthers, of the Grand
Trunk city ticket office, who saw de-
ceased several times while he was try
ing to arrange to have his ticket eX-
tended, says he saw no indication that
Peterson had been drinking. He fur
Their says that Peterson seemed down
cast over his mishap with his ticket,
and this gave the impression that he
was hard up. The general belief yes
terday was that if Peterson brought
any large sum of money from St. Paul
he lost it in some way in Chicago, and
not in Detroit.
Detectives Sadler and Lombard in
Vestigated the case yesterday. They
found that Peterson must have passed
through the gate to the train alone.
He was afterwards seen walking be-
tween the two tracks and on the fur
Their side Of his train from the plat
form a few minutes before the time
for the train to pull out It is thought
that the train may have started before
he expected it, and that he tried to
board a car and was thrown beneath
the wheels Some marks were found
that seemed TO Indlcate that his body
had been dragged along beside the
track about thirty feet before he was
run over. Nothing could be learned of
his having been in any of the saloons
near the depot during the evening.
Patrolman Kunkel, who saw Peterson
and another man together about an
hour before the time for the train to
start, did not see either of the two
again. Mr.. Maynard thought Peterson
left his bO1Iep q bOJIt n'cTOcIy whom 10
lodger in the house says she heard
him in his room for an hour or more
after that.
Coroner Dickson will hold an inquest
Tuesday afternoon and has telegraphed
his stepbrOther Olsen, for directions
for the disposition of the BODY