The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-08

Talk About the Quarrel With
Murdered Man.
Mrs. Ardilla Yarnell, living at S44
Sherman street was arrested at
o'clock this morning, charged with the
murder Of Arthur Middleton, the tea
broker, on West Seventh street, early
Tugaday morning.
The woman was escorted to the CEN
tral police station by Chief OF Detec-
tives Schweitzer and County Attorney
Anderson. who took her UP into the
women's ward for a long consultation.
Mrs. Yarneu is forty-one years Of age
and has lived In st. Paul ten years.
She rents rooms at S44 Sherman street.
Her husband has been for five years
an inmate Of the soldiers home at
Sandusky, o.
The arrest was the result Of yester-
days continued police work.
Investigation made yesterday in the
Arthur Middleton murder case did not
strengthen the theory that the fatal
shot was fred by burglars. Middleton
before his death informed one OF the
house physicians at the city hospltal
O short man, entered his apartment
and one of them fred at him four shots.
From information gathered II was not
thought possible that this was the
true story. Certain disclosures made
to the police tended to prove
that there was a woman IN the store
with Middleton e very short time be-
fore the shooting, and 1t Is a question
whether the murdered man did not
make up the burglar story to shield his
midnight female visitor.
On the night of the murder, q few min
utes before or after midnight, one OF the
occupants of q house within hundred
feet of the rear entrance of Middleton's
store heard the voices Of man and
woman engaged in q dispute.
The person whose attention was at
Eracted by the talk was a woman. and
Is she was sick and had orders from
her physician to take a dose OF medi-
cine every hour she had slept very lit
tie during the evening, being particu-
lar as to dosing herself with the medi-
cine on the even hours.
1t was shortly before midnight that
she first heard the voices, and after
taking a dose Of medicine she walked
to one Of the windows Of her room. AS
she neared the window the voices of
the parties, one OF whom she recog-
nized as Middleton. became louder, the
woman who was with him being much
excited and talking very loud. The
conversation between Middleton and
the female who was with him lasted
for about half an hour or more and
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on the conversation.
From what the invalid heard Of the
talk the woman was endeavoring to
have Middleton pay her a sum OF
money which she had loaned him. Mid
dleton kept cautioning the female not
to talk to loud as people would hear
her, but the woman was so excited that
the caution was not needed.
QUESTION OF MONEY.
From the talk OF the woman it ap-
peared that Middleton had been prom
ising that certain money would be re-
ceived by him within day or so and
that when 1t arrived 1t would be turn
ed over to her. The woman IN sisted
that Middleton had received the money
and that she should be paid at once
Middleton said he would get the
amount inside Of two days, but this
did not seem to appease the woman
and she said she would not give him
two minutes. She threatened that If
Middleton did not pay the money at
once she would kill him, and her talk
became so violent and abusive that
Middleton finally told her with an oath
that she could talk all she wanted too,
but he cid not have the money and
that was all there was about It,
The woman insisted that she knew
Middleton had received the money and
that he was lying when he said he had
not. The talk between Middleton and
his companion became so violent and
30 many threats were made that the
sick woman decided that she would
leave her room and go out and notify
the police AS she arose from her
knees by the window where she had
leaned to overhear the conversation,