The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-20
MINNEAPOLIS

fore adjournment at o'clock. The
first was George j. Hammond, who
was before the jury for an hour Amos
c. Martin, William McKinnon, of st.
Paul, telegraph operator, and E. s.
Hoyt were the other witnesses called.
Half a dozen persons have been sum-
moned to appear.
1t is understood that the testimony
of the ST. Paul telegrapher, McKinnon,
was sensational. He is the man who
was engaged by G. E. Eve, of the
Chamber of Commerce, to come to
Minneapolis on Sunday morning and
make a test of the ticker service out
of the chamber
Just what the purpose of this Sun
day morning test may have been will
perhaps appear in the trial. but it is
asserted by the prosecution that Nc
kinnon's test of the chamber ticker
was to be made at the precise moment
when Tyler and Baldwin had broken
into the Coe commission company'S Of
fees and that their mission in those
offices was to find. out whether the
Coe company tickers responded to the
instruments in the chamber.
1t is pointed out that McKinnon's
evidence will establish collision be-
tween Eve and Tyler, in that Eve
knew Tyler was about to break into
the Coe Commission companys offices
and was awaiting the result of such
burglarious procedure.
The Chamber of Commerce officials
who have been involved in this mat
ter deny absolutely that they ever had
the remotest contemplation of bur-
gIary. They assert that if Tyler and
Baldwin committed any such act thcS
did so without authority of the cham
Der or any member thereof.
The publication of the details con-
corning this latest outbreak of hostility
between the two leading grain and
stock dealing organizations of the
Northwest has excited great interest
among all classes of people. Scores of
men and women who have never had
anything to do with stock or grain
speculation in their lives are asking
questions as to what the inner mean
ing of the conflict may be. 1t is the
topic of conversation in public places,
on street cars and in homes, where the
exciting incidents of the stock ex-
change have hitherto been of no inter-
est.
The true inwardness of how Messrs.
Hammond Hoyt and Martin came to
capture Tyler and his pal has not yet
been told. 1t is a very interesting in
wardneSS.
How They Worked 1t.
By some fortuitous trend of circum-
stances McKinnon, the St. Paul opera
tor, appeared to be a friend of Amos
Martin, who is a friend and employe of
Hammond. The latter fOstered Nc
Kinnons disposition to confide ana
shortly possessed himself of the de-
tails.
Martin very promptly put Hammond
in possession of the facts. 1t was ar
tin and Hoyt should be on hand early
Sunday morning to checkmate the
game. They were down on Sunday
morning at o'clock sharp in q mighty
cold wind and with very little oppor-
tunity for shelter.
For some time after their arrival
there was nothing doing. Soon, how
ever, Tyler and Baldwin put in an APP
pearance. They found the Bank of
Commerce building locked. AS soon as
the men hove in sight Hammond and
his aids took a position for purposes
of observation in the Oneida blo5k,
just opposite to the side entrance Of
the Bank of Commerce building.
Tyler and Baldwin tried the door,
but were unable to get in. They walk
ed a short distance, returned and made
some inquiries of a third party as to
what time the building would open.
Receiving an apparently unSatisfac
tory reply they crossed the street and
entered the Oneida block, whereat the
trio waiting there made every haste to
reach the second floor.
On the arrival of the janitOr Of the
Bank of Commerce Tyler and Baldwin
crossed the street and were admitted.
1t was believed that they intended get
ting into the offices with a skeleton
key SO very little time was given them
to operate in. About five minutes
elapsed and then Hammond ordered
the charge.
The three pursuers dashed across fhe
street and reached the corridor on The
fifth floor just in time to get Tyler and
his assistant in a blind pasSa ge. The
rest of the story has been already told.
Tyler and Baldwin were arraigned
before Judge Dickinson yesterday and
bound over to the grand jury in bail of
$500 each.
H. V. Mercer. attorney for the men,
made an effort to convince the court
that a mass of letters and other docu-
ments taken from Tyler and Baldwin
had been illegally seized in an en-
deavor through criminal procedure to
procure evidence in support of a civil
case Judge Dickinson denied the con-
tention.
The letters showing that Tyler was
in the employ of the Chamber of Com
merce through it's chairman, James
Marshall, and the chairman of the
quotation committee, Gus E. Eve, re-
main in the possession of the state.
They will figure in the case before the
grand jury.