The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-11
LIFTED MIDDLETON up
WITNESS FOUND WHO FIRST
REACHED THE MURDERED
MAN
IMPORTANT BIT OF NEWS

IMPORTANT BIT OF NEWS
They Claim to- BE Able to Prove She
Had Nothing to Do with It
vereIy Criticised for His Orders
Keeping Her Relatives Away
From Prisoner Until Yesterday.
Robert Bouland, employed as driver OF one
OF the teams Of the night street-sweeping
force was the first person to see Middleton
after he shot.
B0uiand says he driving his team up
West Seventh street and when near the east
side OF Walnut street. on Seventh had his
attention attracted by the sound OF repeated
shrl whistlng He thought it was some
one who knew him and wanted ride, and
halted his team. Seeing no one, he drove on,
and was, he expressed 1t, scared by see
ing man undresSed, with the exception OF
an undershirt in q stopping position in front
OF store
The man called TO him, and Bouland
jumped of his wagon and went to the door
way. The man said he was shot, and when
Bou.and asked who it was that shot him,
replied:
They shot me when I came from the de-
rot"
BOuland says he was SO scared that he did
not ask any more questions, but assisted the
man to his feet and then ran for the doctor.
Bouland says there was no one came out Of
the store by the front door, and he did not
hear any shots. All that he saw or heard
before Middleton called to him was the
whistling. 1t was not a police whistle, but
short and sharp whistles. such as a person
would make to attract attention or use as a
signal. Bouland says there was light in
the room in the middle of the store, but none
IN the front part.
This was the only development in the case
yesterday and was made exclusively by The
Globe
The prosecution claim that Mrs Yarnell
was the last person to see Middleton alive
On Monday night and that according to her
own story the murdered man left her house
not more than an hour and q half before the
fatal shot was fired.
This, of Itself, the officials admit, is not
eliminating but taken together with the
story told by Mrs. Martha Wright of the
dispute between Middleton and q woman
which she overheard within a few minutes
OF the time when the murdered man left the
Harneu house. II furnishes the basis for a
theory, or suspicion, as the officials put it,
that Mrs. Yarueu was the female who was
overheard talking with Middleton.
The story reiated by Mrs. Wright is that
shortly before midnight Monday night she
heard the voices of a man and woman direct
~ IN the rear OF her apartments. Her rooms,
which ara on the second floor, in the rear of
the brick block at PSI West Seventh street.
are about seventy feet from the wing of the
house at 344 sherman street, which is oc-
cupied by Mrs. Yarnell, and her son and
daughter. Mrs Wright says the couple who
were talking was man and woman. She
states most positively that the voice OF the
man was that of Middleton, but she does NOT
make any statemen as to who the female
was. She says she does not even know Mrs
Harnell and the night was dark that she
could not recognize or see the couple.
her impression, she says, was that the
voice Of The female was that Of a young
woman. The conversation, she states was
or such a nature that she become not olly
interested but frightened The woman was
demanding money that Middleton had re-
ceived and which he had promised to give
deavoring to quiet the woman and cautioned
her to rot talk loud. as she would be
overheard. The woman paid no attention to
the request and talked about killing Middle
ton If he did not give her the money. Mid
dleton denied that he had secured any money.
but promised to have it in two days. This
did not appease the womans wrath and she
again threatened to kill Middleton, and said
she would not wait two minutes. The wom-
On, according 20 Mrs. Wright, said she had
been living in the back room of a hovelI
long enough and reiterated her demand for
the money.
The dispute waxed warmer and finally Mid
dletOn, with an oath, told his companion that
he did not have the money and she could do
what she pleased, The parties then, accord
ing to Mrs. Wright, moved away from the
rear Of the Yanell house and went in the
direction OF the rear entrance to Middeton's
store.
Mrs. Wright who had intended to go out
and notify the police TO the threats made by
the women, but. being i'll, fourd her strength
gone and went back TO bed II but
short time afterwaId that she says she heard
a scream, not one of surprise, but an agoniz-
ing shrek, and she Is certain it was a woman
who shrieked.
Mrs Wright fixes the time when she heard
the parties talking by the visit DR.. Wells
made to her room he having been called to
attend her. The doctor says when he return
cd to the drug store from Mrs. Wrights room
II was eight minutes to midnight This story
in effect tod to County Attorney Ander-
son by Mrs Wright. Wednesday night, and
the county attorney at once directed that Mrs.
Iarnell be taken into custody.
The statement OF MIS-. Wright evidently was
and Is the strongest evidence the prosecution
has 70 fasten the charge on Mrs. Yarnell, al
tHoug1 the police claim that Middleton and
mrs. HarneiI were on very intimate terms
that he had rented and occupied a room at
her house for a week or so at various times
during the past three months and frequently
visited the house at times when he was not
rO5ming there.
statement OF DR.. Wells, who says that Mid.
dIeton, IN answer to a question of one Of the
men IN t3e bed room as to who shot him re-
piled: She shot me"
Further than this the prosecution have no
otheF evidence and persons interested In Mrs.
A8rneiI stated last evening that already the
officials recognized a mistake had been made
ID arTesting her on a charge Of numbering
Middleton.
MRS. YARNELL's POSITION.
The attorney for Mrs. Yarnell. as we'll az
those who have interested themselves in her
behah' are working hard to gather evidence
which VIII result in her discharge at the me-
Hmlnary hearing to be held Friday. Messrs
Clarke and Cormcan, the attorneys. while re-
luslug to show their hand claim that the
evidence secured by them is of such a nature