The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-14
BLEU'S BAD RECORD
HE HAS BEEN CONFINED IN SEW
ERAL INSTITUTIONS IN HIS
SHORT CAREER.
TAKEN BACK TO MORRIS,
WHERE HE WILL BE KEPT UNTIL
THE TINE FOR HIS
TRIAL.
GREAT EXCITEMENT AT HERMAN.
Lynching Would Have Followed If
the Prisoner Had Been
Taken There.
GREAT EXCITEMENT AT HERMAN

! In charge of Sheriff Edward n. NaSh,
the latter's brother and Deputy Sheriff
Charles Cater, of Grant county, Daniel
| Bleu left for Morris, Mimi, over the
| Breckenridge division Of the Great
| Northern railroad at o'clock last
night. He was securely handcuffed,
but, judging from his mild actions, no
! one would expect that he would at
tempt to escape. The Grant county Of
ficers arrived in Minneapolis yester-
! day morning, and with Inspector Doyle
went to the municipal court and Sc
! cured an order for Bleu's release. He
was turned over at the workhouse and
| locked up at the central station at
noon. He was locked up in famous
cell IA and held until train time last
night. Cell No. IA is the one occu-
pied by John Moschik during his tenn
porary stay at the station.
To Deputy Sheriff Cater belongs great
credit for the unraveling of the mys-
| terry Last Tuesday he received a let
/ ter from the father of the missing boy
The latter stated that his son was
missing somewhere between Herman
and Minneapolis. With this slight clue
the officer started out He learned of
BIeu's actions about the Nelson farm.
He explored the spot where the two
had last been seen together. Then
he returned to Herman and told his
friends that he verify believed that
PrOsser had been killed while hunting.
His friends laughed at him and &C
ccmpanied him to the scene, more to
please him than anything else. They
had no idea of making a find. But near
q oil Trash
Pushing stick into the earth, Deputy
Cater became convinced that some
thing had been buried there, and with
a little digging the body was unearth-
ed. The first shovel brought up
quantity of hair.
The body was scarcely four inches
under ground. 1t had been a quick
job. The coat was over the head of
the dead man, and Bleu admitted to
the officers that he dragged the corpse
by the feet into the grave. The exca-
walton was too short The skull was
not more than three inches under the
ground, and the feet less than two
inches.
The scene of the murder is about a
half of a mile from the Nelson barn
Bleu returned to the barn with the
shovel in less than an hour, walking
the mile and burying his victim in
that time. The officers say that had
he buried him in a field and deep down
and then plowed over the grave, the
crime would likely never have been
discovered
Sheriff Nash says that Friday night,
after the coroner's jury had adjourn
ed to yesterday, there was great ex-
element in Herman. The town was
filled with half-drunken threshng
crews. Had Bleu been in Herman
that night" said the sheriff, 'he would
have stood little chance of surviving
He surely would have been lynched
or it would have taken the whole town
to have protected him. There is a fair
Iy good country Jail at Norris, and I
anticipate no trouble on our return
Our fall term of court adjourned a
week ago, and I expect that we shall
have to keep our prisoner until next
| May, when court convenes again. This
is the first murder trial Grant county
has ever had, and it has been organic
ed since 1875 That's a pretty good
record, isn't it."
Daniel Bleu spent two years in the
state refOrmatory. He was sentenced
from Becker county in February, 1894
| for stealing a horse. He was paroled
| Feb. 4, 1896, and was discharged Nov
| D. 1896. He attempted to escape Feb &c
/ 1895. Bleu was raised in Minneapolis
| and is well known on the East side
He spent number of years on the
! White Earth reservation. Last winter
he went to a training school at Juneau
Neb., but was taken sick with pneu-
monia. Last spring he returned to
Minneapolis and then worked for w T
| Neill, an eXpressman. 1t was about
this time that he met the young man
he murdered. Bleu bears fairly good
record in the city, and on this he relies
to great extent to help him out of
his present trouble. However, he seems
resigned to his fate, and said last
night: 81 am going to tell the whole
story truthfully, if I die for it." Bleu
| is twenty-one years of age, short in
stature and clearly shows the Indian
blood in him. He is dark featured, has
long straight, black hair, and is very
quiet
81 can feel the rope about my neck
now. I expect to get either the rope
or a life sentence If my crime had
not been discovered when it was,
could not have been able to keep my
secret more than a week longer. It
kept me awake at night. L dreamed
about it, and when I was performing
my duties it troubled me SO much
| that L was continually making mis-
| takes"
These significant words were spoken
| by Dan Bleu, the self-confessed muir
derer of poor John Prosser, as the
| prisoner was in Cell IA at the Central
| police station last night. He spoke
| freely and, with horrible vividness, re-
| reated the details of the brutal muir
der, which have already been made
public.
when l shot him I was about ten
feet away We were walking along,
and the thought came to me like a
| flash My gun, it was a double bar