The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-17

morning that bail fund Of $4,000 had
been raised. but this report is not re-
garded as well founded.
There is some question as to whether
the court will agree to the arrangement
to have the former mayor confined at the
city hospital. He is now under surveil-
lance at the Hotel Nicollet.
The Home Coming.
The homecoming of DR.. Ames from
New Hampshire was Witnessed by a large
crowd at the union station this morning.
The Burlington train which brought him
from Chicago was an hour late, but the
people. who had assembled on schedule
time to see the former mayor waited pa
tiently until the train pulled in.
There was no demonstration at the sta
ton. Sheriff Doane, Of Nashua, was the
first Of the Ames party to alight. He
lifted the doctors little daughter from
the train. Sheriff J. w. Dreger Of Hen
nepin county, and Henry s. Mead, the
prisoners attorney, stepped out. Then
DR.: Ames' form came into view. There
was a great raining of necks as the tall,
neatly attired man leaning heavily on a
cane stepped laboriously to the platform.
with Sheriff Dreger and Mrs. Ames clasp
ing either arm. The closely cropped gray
beard did not disigure the well remembered
features and he was at once the center
Of curious regard. The crowd surged In
with difficulty that they could make their
way to the elevator on theirsway to the
ground floor. $3.50
The doctors presence was fully as COM
nanding Of yoge. He maintained grave
and reverend demeanora as he moved slow
" and feeblya toward the exit. The digni-
fed and suave manner which had been his
distinguished characteristics in his palrny
days were not wanting. He swept the
crowd with his gaze and nodded repeatedly
to familiar faces in the throng. The party
stepped into a carriage at the entrance OF
to the Hotel Nicollet. where, after being
assigned to quiet parlors, they took break
fast.
Doesn't Look the Invalid.
The people who greeted the fugitive
mayor on his return were surprised to see
| him looking sd WELL" The fact that his
appearance was much better than reports
| from New Hampshire would indicate, was
the subject Of much comment Everyone
had expected to see a. greatly emaciated
| man of bent frame and long, flowing beard
Instead, they discovered that his personal
appearance, save for his greatly enervated
condition, had not suffered any striking
| change since he was last seen in Minne-
apolis. 81
While he much thinner than formerly
weighing at least fifty pounds less. that
fact is not apparent in the lines Of his
face, nor is one impressed with any
marked wasting away of his body.
The doctor wore a trim black suit and
black Fedora hat.
After breakfast at the Nicollet, DR.. and
Mrs. Ames were left in room 146 while
Sheriff Dreger went to court to prepare
for the arraignment. In the meantime
several friends Of the prisoner were adj
mitted to see him. among the Captain
Dudley who served In the municipal court
police detail under Ames' appointment.
Old FavorItes Call.
At. the hotel this morning DR.. Ames
received several visitors, among whom
| were DR.. E. j. Clark. Captain E. W. Dud-
| ley, v. P. Roberts, his attorneys, Henry
S. Meade and Frank M. Nye, and Others
Several other people sought admission to
the room, but owing to Dr. Ames' physi-
cal condition, they were denied.