The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-05-12
BRUTALLY KICKED.
John Harris Held up Late Tues
day Night.
VIM. Haggerty Jr. Under Arrest on the
Charge of Having Assaulted and
Robbed the Man.

day night on Front street, for the pur-
pose of robbery The victim was man
about 40 years of age, whose home is IN
Rochester, n. Y. but who has been
working on the Omaha grading at Ma
della for fifteen days Harris is loco
motive engineer but has not been en-
Dloved at that for some time, probably
on account of his love for liquor He
came to Mankato Friday last and stop
ned at the Commercial House, and later
changed to the Harper House. He
proved to be a good natured, inotfensive
man Last evening he visited two or
three saloons and spent 81 to So in treat
ing, and became considerably intoxi-
Gated by the time the saloons closed at
midnight
Harris was ST en- sitting in front of
DR.. FOllman's drug store between 1900
and 1870 o'clock, in company with sew
eral other parties. one OF whom was
VIM. Haggerty Jr., who was recently
pardoped out of the state prison at Still
water A short time later, he walked
into the police station and reported to
the officers OH duty that he had been as
saulted and robbed He bore plenty of
evidence of the assault, for his head was
one mass Of blood clOts, his eyes We're
blackened and swollen, and he had
great punches on his head He was
able to give a description of one OF his
assailants, but the night men left the
case for the day men to work upon for
some reason or other, and it is wonder
that Harris assailants did not skip the
, town.
Harris account of what happened
after leaving his seat in front OF DIR.
Follman's drug store is as follows: He
started north on Front street with
Young fellow with whom he had been
drinking, and who answered the de-
scription of Wm Haggerty Jr. He says
that he asked his companion where
there was a boarding house where rail
road men stay, and the fellow replied
. that he was a brakeman and knew OF
such place down street and that they
would 20 there Harris says that he
soon became suspicious of his compan-
ion and said that he did not care to be
in the company of such man. The
latter then left, but soon returned and
struck Harris blow in the face which
felled him to the sidewalk. Another
party came up at that moment and the
two kicked Harris head in a most
brutal manner and finally searched his
pocket, taking what money they could
find, which Harris thinks was about
s.. 50. They overlooked some change in
his watch pocket. When they left him.
Harris made his way back to the city
hall and reported what had happened.
He was allowed 10 spend the night at
the hall
Harris thinks that the assault occur
red on or near the sidewalk near the
Chicago & Northwestern freight de-
pot.
This morning the officers arrested
VIM. Haggerty Jr at his fathers home
on Agency hill. Haggerty was still in
bed when the officers called. He was
taken to the city hall and placed in the
y sweat box. He denied ever having seen
Harris before. denied having been in
saloon where Harris was, and claimed
that he had gone home at 11:45 p. m.
A good deal of evidence was found
against Haggerty. Four or five repu-
table gentlemen remer,ber distinctly
having seen Haggerty with Harris IN
the saloon in question until midnight,
and remember seeing the two sitting In
front of DR.. Follmanns drug store un-
til quarter after twelve When Hag-
gerty's shoes were examined, the
right one was found to have sew
eral large blood stains upon it, The
largest was under the instep and there
was another on top near the end OF the
toe The other shoe also seems to have
bloody marks but not as distinct. There
was blood on Haggerty's hands, and
comparatively fresh wound on one
hand, but probably made previous to
last night. When confronted by this
evidence, Haggerty had no explanation
to offer for it's presence. Finally he
claimed that he had had tustle with
his brother last Friday and that the
presence Of the blood might be explain
ed in that way.
Thos. Kehoe, who lives in one part of
the house in which the Haggerty's live,
found twenty-five cent piece in the
clubhouse this morning. 1t appeared to
have been soaked in blood. Kehoe had
not heard of the trouble and washed the
coin. The latter was where it would be
found by the first conner, so it could
not have been there yesterday.
Harris was not sure that he recognize
ed Haggerty, as the latter seemed to
have different suit of clothes on today
from what he had on last night, Har-
ris sight is not good and he wears spec
tacles.
County Attorney Hughes examined