The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-05
KILLED In A SALOON
HENRY JONES STRIKES WHAT
PROVES TO BE A FATAL
BLOW
RESULT OF A HOT QUARREL

The Men Had Been Drinking To-
gether In a Minneapolis Saloon
Words Passed Between Them,
and Jones Slugged the Victim
With a Terrific Blow on the side
Henry Jones, living at 755 Bradley
street, was arrested early last evening
by Officer Arnold of the Margaret street
station, charged with an assault upon
Louis Bremen in the Britannia saloon on
First avenue north, Minneapolis, which
resulted in the death of the victim.
Jones spent the day in Minneapolis and
shortly before 5 o'clock became engaged
In an alteration which grew out of an
argument regarding the weight of steel
rails, with Brennan, with whom he had
been drinking. Hot words passed be-
tween the twof, and Jones finally struck
his opponent a terrific blow on the side
of the neck The man fell and Jones left
the place. Nothing was thought of the
occurrence at first until an examina-
ton showed that the man had been serf-
ously hurt. The matter was reported
to the police, and advices received from
Minneapolis early in the evening stated
that the man had died from the effects of
the blow
The Margaret street officers were d.
rected to find the man who had struck
the blow, and Officer Arnold arrested
Jones at 7:15. Detectives Smith. Kicks
and King of the Minneapolis force came
to st. Paul and took the prisoner TO
Minneapolis with them.
Jones is a switchman on the Omaha
transfer and has been in the employ Of
the railroad for over five years. Never
before has he had trouble of any kind
and he is highly spoken of by his en-
p!oyers and by every one who knows
him.
The Minneapolis police look upon the
affair as an accident for which Jones is
legally, but hardly morally, responsible
he went into the saloon and there met
herman and Joseph Schultz. both Of
Whom were strangers in the saloon. and
VINO We're on their way to the harvest
neIds Seeing that Jones was a railroad
man B1erman and Schultz began ones.
tlonlng him as to the opportunities for
getting west and as to what trains went
OF peer, Bierman stated that he too We
railroad man, and had worked buiIdino
railroads.
Inc conversation turned on TO the
weight of rails and Bierman said he bao
laid steel rails weighing sixty-five pounds
TO the yard. Jones insisted that Bierman
was mistaken, as the Omaha rails weigh
ed elghty-tlve pounds to the foot. The
argument warmed up somewhat and
BI6rman naSSe1 Tomas b.
claimed, drew back as if to strike hin,
Jones, 1t Is charged, then struck Bier
man ana Schultz attempted to strike
jones and himself felt the railroads
mans fist. Then Bierman made a second
attempt to strike Jones, when the latter
struck him again in the jaw and Bier
man staggered and fell against the bar
and then to the floor
Bierman lay unconscious on the floor
and the bartender sent for the police
and got the man on a chair Jones had
gone back to the railroad yards before
the patrol wagon arrived. On the wav
to the city hospital in the patrol wagon
Blerman breathed his last gasp The no
lice officers at once began a search for
jones, with whom the bartender was ac-
quainted, and easily found that he had
returned to his train and gone with it to
st. Paul, where he lived. At East st.
Paul Jones learned that the man whom
he had struck was dead and that the
police were probably looking for him.
He said nothing, but went directly to
his home on Bradley street and when
the police came for him he willingly gave
himself up and told his entire connec-
ton with the affair. I never meant to
90 such a thing in the world as kill the
man, said Jones. 4 never dreamed that
1 could strike a man hard enough to
kill him and I don't think I can"
Jones apparently had every chance to
escape had he so desired after learn
ing that his antagonist was dead but
he made no effort to do so. Joseph
Schultz, who was Bierman's partner, dis
appeared just after Bierman was taken
away in the patrol wagon. At midnight
the Minneapolis police had not found him
again.
Both Bierman and Schultz came to
Minneapolis from Chicago, bound for the
harvest fields. Thursday night they
stopped at the lodging house a "a Bridge
square, with another man, named John
Walls. Yesterday morning they took
what little luggage they had and left
saying they were bound for the harvest
fields. That was the last seen of them
there According to Schultz, however,
Bierman's home is at St Louis, as is
also his own Schultz claims never to
have seen Bierman until Thursday after
noon, when they met and struck part
nershipt to go to the harvest fields to-
getheF.
The Minneapolis coroner had Bierman's
body removed to the Hennepin county
morgue. An examination showed nothing
on the person to furnish any clew as to
the mans real identity or his relatives
All that is known of him is his name on
the lodging house register. He was dress
ed in the common clothes of a harvest
hand or railroad laborer and was a man
about 80 years of age, weighing about 1856
pounds, about five feet nine inches in
height. No bruises or marks of any kind
were found on the body.
This morning at 10 o'clock the coroner s
physicians will hold a post-mortem to de-
termine the cause of death. AS soon as
the various witnesses can be summoned
Coroner Nelson will hold an inquest at
Minneapolis, and upon the findings of the
. coroner's jury Jones fate now largely
hangs.
ORGANIZED A BRANCH.