The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-28
HAD THE RIGHT CLUE
LIE SUEUR ROBBERS PROBABLY
SAME MEN WANTED FOR
MAYER MURDER
IDENTIFIED BY PHOTOGRAPHS
Pictures Sent Out by Chief O'COnnOr
Recognized by LIE Sueur Cit
liens Who Saw the
Men.

1t is almost certain that the murderers
Of Policeman Mayer operated in South
ern Minnesota before coming to St
Paul, and that they robbed a saloon in
lie Sueur Center on the night of jan
10, as suggested in 7 h G 0 b e several
weeks ago.
While the st. Paul police acted on that
suggestion, and made an investigation,
they have never made public what facts
they ascertained. There seems, however,
to be no doubt that the three men in
question were the three men wanted for
the murder of Mayer.
One of the state capitol employees re-
turned from lie Sueur yesterday and
brings the information that the circulars
issued by Chief of Police O'ConnOr, pup
fishing the pictures of the three men
wanted for the Mayer murder, together
with descriptions of the men, have just
been received at that place, and that
two of the men were positively identified
as tie men who were in lie Sueur on
Jan. 10.
On Jan. 10 three men appeared in LIE
Sueur and remained about town long
enough to be well noticed, and then dis
appeared. The next morning the three
men appeared at the depot in LIE Sueur
just as the o'clock passenger train for
St Paul pulled into the depot. They
were IN very much of a hurry, and did
not have time to purchase tickets. AT
daybreak a horse and buggy was discov-
cred abandoned above the hill at LIE
Sueur, just out of sight of the town
proper Later it was discovered that
the night before a saloon at LIE Sueur
Center, a small town fourteen miles dis.
tant from lie Sueur, had been broken
into, the safe blown open by nitrogly-
cerin, and rifed of about 500. near
neighbor also missed horse and buggy,
and it was then clear that the three men
had gone to LIE Sueur Center, robbed the
saloon, stolen the horse and buggy,
driven rapidly to LIE Sueur, and caught
the train for ST. Paul
The first thing that suggested that they
might be the same men who shot Mayer
was the similarity of conditions attending
the robbery at lie Sueur and the at
tempted robbery at Jessrang's saloon In
both cases the entrance through the back
door had been made in precisely the
same manner. The Mayer murderers left
behind them q bottle of nitroglycerin,
the same as had been found in LIE Sueur
Center at the scene of the robbery.
When the pictures of the Mayer sus-
rects reached lie Sueur the citizens i'm
lnediateIy declared that two of the men
were easily recognizable as belonging to
the trio which left LIE Sueur on Jan 10.
The third man they were not so positive
Of. The pictures were identified by
August Stingenig. telegraph operator;
William R. Rothwell, a druggist Thomas
Chaster the city marshal; John McKasy.
a merchant, and Esperson &, Jones, who
run a restaurant in which the three men
took lunch. They are all more positive
than ever that the three men were the
Mayer murderers, and that they came to
St. Paul from LIE Sueur, and laid low
long enough to ascertain how much of
row the robbery had created, and then
began their operations in st. Paul.