The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-05
FUND IS MOUNTING
OVER $4,000 RAISED FOR WIDOW
AND FAMILY OF OFFICER
CHARLES MAYER
SUSPECTS ARE RELEASED
No Developments in the Way of
Fresh Clues of the Murderers
City Offers
Reward.
SUSPECTS ARE RELEASED

All day yesterday subscriptions poured
in to the newspaper offices in st. Paul
for the aid of the bereaved widow and
family OF Officer Charles Mayer. Chief
OConnor also received several additional
donations, bringing the amount in his
possession up to $l10, and a number Of
local business men also did some effective
work in raising funds. The total amount
collected from all sources up to last night
was $2,l4O and the present indications are
that this amount will be increased con-
Siderably
The total amount received at the Offices
or the daily newspapers so far amounts
to $l,SS7.6O A movement was also start
ed yesterday among the legislators by
Representative w. H. Noyes. who collect
ed $50 IN a few minutes late yesterday
afternoon. Mr.. Noyes Immediately turn
ed the money over to Chief OConnor.
This amount was only a Starter" how
ever, and Mr.. Noyes expects to raise con-
siderably more today.
Fred w. Sachse, of Foot, SchuIze e. Co..
was another that did some good work and
by last night he had already collected
S5l5 from among the business men. The
employees of the ]. George Schoch Gro
Gerry company made up q purse of $3.50
which was sent direct to the widow. The
check Of 500 from the National German
American bank was also sent direct. The
complete list of subscriptions up to date
follows:
Newspapers ... - 81 3a7 IN
+. w. Sachse ........,,,........ XIX 90
Chief O'Connor .. 110 "a
National German-American bank. 100 90
j. George SchOch employees ... II so
Total ............ 50 lac. 90
No New Clues Found.
Chief O'Connor said last night that
there were no new developments in re-
gard to the arrest. Detective Michael
Daily who went to Detroit, Mimi, to in
Eestigate the arrest of the three men at
that place Sunday by Marshal Harry
johnson, returned to st. Paul yesterday
with the information that they were not
the three men wanted and that they had
all been able 70 establish alibis as to
where they were on Friday night and
they We're allowed to proceed on theiE
way In spite of the fact that the men
tailed with the description Of the muir
derers, two of them established without
doubt that they started from Mime
apol1s two nights before the murder was
committed, and the third man was on his
way to Fargo to get work. He had been
at Staples on Saturday morning.
Chief O'Connor, in answer to a query
new in the matter and that no suspects
had been picked up by the police. No
stone is being left unturned in trying to
hunt down the murderers, and the way
in which they work makes it look as if
the police were on a track that will lead
to the arrest of the murderers before
long. The suspects at Minneapolis have
also been released.
City Offers $500 Reward.
For the capture Of the brutal murder Of
Policeman Charles Mayer there is now a
standing reward of $1,000. The county
commissioners, at their meeting Monday,
started the ball rolling by Offering $500,
and the board Of aldermen last evening
doubled the amount by making it 81 ,OO0
The resolution as it reads calls for the
amount to be taken out of the general
fund.- which some of the members con-
tend invalidates the entire award They
say it should be taken from the cOntin-
gent fund.
For the benefit Of the dead officer 8
widow and family the board unanimously
ordered the auditing Of a resolution set
ting aside $l0o. This will be taken from
the mayors fund and turned over to the
widow direct.
Henry Mayer Dying
The condition Of Henry Mayer, the
eleven-year- son Of the dead officer,
continued to grow steadily worse yester-
day, and he lay dying in a rear room up
stairs, while the funeral services over
the remains of his dead father were be-
ing held. He was still living late last
night, but DIR. L. c. Bacon. who has been
attending the boy said that he was so
low that he did not expect him to live
through the night. The youth is suffer-
ing with tubercular meningitis, growing
out of a hip-joint disease, and his whole
body Is row affected by tuberculosis.
This, coupled with the death Of an older
son about a month ago, and the fact
that a child was born TO Mrs. Mayer
about six weeks ago, makes the burden
SO much harden for the widow to stand