The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-25
Lift ONB TOR DEAD
ROB TWO FARM HANDS ON
FOJRTE STREET
THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED

Michael and john Stewart and John
Doyle Are Taken Into Custody
Mike Has Two Knife Wounds
Under the Left Shoulder, but
Says He Knows Nothing of the
Robbery.
Incited by motives of robbery a gang
Of five thugs made murderous assault
upon Charles Gohde and Wenzel Scheerer,
near the Fourth street tunnel early
last evening, stabbing one of their victims
with a knife, while both Gohde and
Scheerer were pounded and kicked into
partial insensibility When Gohde and
Scheerer could no longer defend them
selves the highwaymen robbed them Of
$3.50 and made their escape.
The victims of the robbery are two
country boys who have been harvesting
in North Dakota. With their savings
they were on their way back to their
home at Alma Center, Wis This is the
second time they have been robbed since
they went west, as highwaymen held
them up at Fargo and took $40 from them
before they found work in the harvest
fields. The young fellows reached the
city yesterday afternoon. After seeing
the sights they found their way to a
saloon at Third and Commercial streets.
Shortly after 8 o'clock last evening they
left the saloon and started over the
Third street bridge When half way
across, they say, three men attacked
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fellows got away, they say, and ran
back to Commercial street. Then they
started for the more thickly settled part
Of the city by way of the Fourth street
tunnel. When near the tunnel they were
suddenly bounced upon again by the
three men that tried to hold them up on
the bridge and two other highwaymen.
Both boys made a desperate resistance,
but, badly frightened and so outnum-
bered, they were no match for their
assailants, who used clubs and knives in
the attack Gokde stood off the robbers
better than his companion and conse-
quently received the worst treatment He
was stabbed twice in the head and re-
ceived two blows from some blunt in
strument that laid open his scalp, while
his face and neck are bruised and
scratched where he was kicked after
being finally knocked down. Scheerer
was also beaten and kicked into in
sen5fbtlity While the fight was going on
the young fellows cried loudly for help,
but there seems to have been no assist
ance at hand, for the robbers were not
frightened away and took their own time
at searching their victims
That the robbers knew something OF
holding UP farm hands returning from the
harvest fields was evidenced by their
search. They went through each of the
young men Systematically, and in the
case of Scheerer. removed his clothing,
searching his undergarments, and even
took off his shoes and stockings, hoping
to find the hiding place Of the money.
Almost baffied, one Of the robbers hap
pened to put his hand in Scheerer' 8
pocket, where the roll Of S65 was found.
During the search one Of the thugs held
Scheerer's throat in q viselike grip SO
the victim could not call for help. Gohde
carried the largest amount of money,
having $165 in the pocket OF his overallS.
After the highwaymen had beaten him
into Inconsistencies and stabbed him
about the head, they had no difficulty in
securing possession of the money, and the
crowd disappeared down the railroad
tracks.
The first the police knew of the des-
perate fight that had taken place near
the tunnel was when Gohde, covered with
blood and wildly bewailing the loss of his
money, rushed up to Officer Bathke, at
Seventh and Locust streets, declaring
that the highwaymen had killed his
companion. Officer sBathke led the injured
man away from the scene of the robbery
without an effort to overtake the high
Waymen and sent him to the station.
When Conductor, Baumgardner, of the
patrol wagon, learned that Gohde thought
Scheerer was lying fatally injured or dead
under the tunnel he started back to in
Quire into the matter. In the meantime
Officer Skoog had reached the scene OF
the robbery and found Scheerer who was
also sent to the station. The cuts on
Gohde's head were sewed up by Assistant
City Physician Leav1tt.
AS soon as Capt. Rouleau learned of
the robbery he detailed every detective
attached to the central station on the
case. The detectives learned that Mike
Stewart, living at Fourth and CONNER
cial streets, had summoned a physician
and found the nature Of his injuries to be
two knife wounds under the left shoul-
der. Further investigation led to the ar
rest of Stewart, his brother, John Stew
art, and John Doyle, on the charge of
being the assallants of the two country
youths. One of the victims, Gohde, posi-
lively identified Doyle as one of the rob-
bers claiming Doyle had flourished a re-
volver during the fight. Michael Stewart
the police say, admits having been con
cerned in the fight, but claims to know
nothing of the two young fellows having
| been robbed. Doyle had about $40 in his
possession when arrested