The Saint Paul globe., 1898-04-01

bert All the Minneapolis man wanted
was to have Ramsey county foot the
bill for the necessary detective work
on the case and he would furnish the
material to start On-provided that
when the story was worked out his pa
per should have the exclusive right to
print it.
The county attorney agreed to the
conditions and was given the clue that
he wanted. Assistant County Attorney
Zollman gives this version Of the case
that had been worked up before the
proposition was sprung:
They had found that a woman who
had come to Minneapolis under pc
culiar circumstances had disappeared;
that there was probable cause to sus-
pect that she had met with foul play
at the hands of the people with whom
she associated, and when last seen she
had boarded a train going to White
Bear.
"It was shown" said Mr. Zollman,
| supposed to have been killed had left
her husband in West Virginia and
came West with another man. She
had when she left her home about a
thousand dollars, and when she arrived
in Minneapolis she went about with
crowd of toughs and fast money spend
ers. The money did not last long, and
| after it was gone the gang she asso-
ciated with tired of her. One of them
| got into trouble with his wife, and the
woman was a witness against the hus-
band in a divorce suit
| "One of the gang, a Jew, well known
| to the police by a soubriquet that is
peculiar, was heard to threaten the life
Of the woman. He always carried a
knife One night the woman was as
! saulted on the streets Of Minneapolis
and left for dead. That was last
spring. She came over here in April
and stopped at the Grand Central
hotel, and from there she wrote to the
| husband she had deserted that She was
going to Duluth. One day, in the early
summer, she left ON a Duluth train,
and was never seen afterwards.
THAT, in BRIEF is the story, but there
was a lot Of detail that supported the
| theory of her death at the hands Of
her former associat tes-who, by the way,
had been in ST. Paul, and who disap
| peared about the time she left. 1t
| looked like a good case. I laid it before
| the board of county commissioners,
and they thought so well of the mat
| ter that we were empowered to go to
| any reasonable expense to investigate
the matter. Two young men, reporters
! on a Minneapolis paper were retained
| at S25 per week to do the work on the
| case.
II went into it pretty thoroughly be-
| fore the arrangement was made. I
went to a dressmaker in Minneapolis
who had worked for the woman who
| had disappeared and compared with
| her record the measurements Of the
| clothes taken from the Lambert lake
skeleton and found they agreed in the
minutest details Then I turned the
young men loose. They really did get
up q good explanation Of the mystery.
! One of them went to West Virginia
| found the husband Of the missing wom-
an and saw the letters that he had
| gotten from her The dates were all
| right and the height and weight Of
the missing woman corresponded with
| the approximated measurements Of the
| body found.
/ ''They got the names and movements
| of the men with whom she had asso
| ciated; they found that she had taken
| up with another man in st. Paul, and
| had broken with him. He was a rail-
road man, and she went to the gen.
| eral offices of the company for whom
| he worked and threatened to make
trouble for him. The man was run down
| and found at Port Arthur. He was
| evidently innocent of any completely In
her death.
'"They heard a rumor that she was
| alive and living at a certain address
Oh Michigan avenue in Chicago. They
went to Chicago and could not find her
| This was some time ago, but they
| found other and more promising clues,
and journeyed about quite bit.
wonder they didn't take a trip to Eu-
rope while they were at 1t.
| II didn't like the way the thing was
| going; it was dragging too much, and
| went before the county board and
laid the matter before the members,
telling them that I would not advise
for or against any further expenditure;
they could do as they liked They au-
thorized the search to continue. Every
day I expected the Minneapolis men
would turn up with proof of the wom-
ans death, but the connecting link
could not be supplied.
"One day I got to thinking about the
string Of clues that took the woman