The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-03
CRACKS SKULL OF
ALLEGED RODDER
r. j. Mills, Accused of Operat-
ing a Blind Pig, Badly In.
jures a Young Man.
"Give me your moneY!"

Give me your money!"
This was the demand that Robert J.
Mills says startled him in his confec-
tionery and tobacco store, at Univer-
sity and Hamline avenues, last evening,
about 80 o'clock. Mills, who has one
leg and has TO sustain his body in an
iron brace, says he was standing be-
hind the counter. The stranger who
made the demand for money he de-
scribes as slightly built young fellow
about twenty-five years old.
Il told him that hadn't any money"
said Mills in telling of it last night
But before l finished, he said, Give
me your money, you -, and came
over the counter at me. He grabbed
for my coat, and as I backed away
from him my clutches dropped and
was practically helpless. There was
hammer lying on the shelf and
grabbed it, and as he came at me 1
struck him on the head and he dropped
to the floor. When he got on his feet
knocked him down again. Then 1 drop
ped the hammer and grabbed him by
the throat and he got me around the
wrist.
While we were struggling 1 reached
for the hammer and hit him again.
Then he jumped over the counter and
ran out across the fields yelling at the
top of his lungs.
Il was pretty we'll used up and when
John Rathka came in few moments
after, told him about it. He got his
brother and went over to the Prior
station and soon some one telephoned
to the central station. officer John
Daily, who lives near here, caught the
man, and man sent up from central
station took him down.
Fractured the Mans Skull.
81 probably hit him harder than
would have done If I had not been
crippled and able to get about, but I
was frightened. If he had got hold of
my brace l would have been totally
helpless. 1 hit him with the head of
the hammer and cut his head I don't
know how badly 1 hurt him, but it
must have struck pretty hard, as you
can see the blood on these shelves and
1t was all over the counter and floor
don't know who the man was. l never
saw him before"
When the man was taken down to
the central station DR.. Moore, the po-
lice surgeon, examined the wounds on
his head and decided that he was badly
enough hurt to be sent to the city hos
pital which was done.
AT the hospital It was found that he
had three wounds on the head all lac
Grated, and such as, in the opinion of
the doctor, could not have been made
BY the shaIlmer which Mills claims he
used. Under one of the wounds the
skull was fractured.
At the hospital the man partially re-
covered consciousness and it was
learned that his name is Louis Segal a
Russian, twenty-five years old, and
employed by the Minnesota Transfer
company as a truckInan. He boards at
757 Smelling avenue, and has a cousin
living at 239 Jackson street. He could
not tell what had happened to him, but
insists that he had SIS before he was
hurt. When he was searched at the
central station he had no money on
him. His condition is serious.
Accused of Running Blind Pig.
Mills, the man who claims he was at
tackled, is the man who was arrested
yesterday morning on the complaint of
License Inspector Jessrang on the
charge of running a blind pig in his
store, 1916 University avenue.
Speaking of this charge last night,
Mills said it was false. The LIQUOR he
had in his place, he said, belonged to
the Cricket club, which had placed it
and other things in his charge because
of the frequent thefts at the club
house.
you can see the things under the
NOoAlCI IHcIc 1OI YOURSELF, lie Sd1O.
"Jessrang came in here with a friend
and asked me to give him bottle of
beer to save his life. and 1 gave him
a bottle Of beer which I was keeping
there. I did not know who he was I'M
til l was arrested afterwards. I sup
pose 1 am picked out because 1 am
lame and can't get about and take care
Of myself, While the eighteen places
where beer is sold above here and to
which 90 hut oh,
have brewery behind them, Jessrang
can't find"