The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-27


day night at Mckinley and Hamline
avenues, near the southwest corner of
Como park. His body, pierced bv three
stabs in the breast, was found 1vins
faceesdownward, yesterday morning at
o'clock by William Dietz, a carpenter
residing at $40 Van Buren, street. who
was on his way to work on a house
being built by Mrs. A. Weinholzer. near
the state fair grounds.
The police are looking for James
Philips, who was with Bowe Monday.
and who has disappeared Phillips and
boWe, both strangers in st. Paul, had
been working for Matt Willmus a
FARMER, whose place is a mile and a
half north of Hamline They came TO
WlHnus' place last Tuesday from
minneapolis employment agency, and
mad been moving hay.
MONDAY, on account of rain, the men
mad been unable to go into the field,
ana While louhging about the farm got
into dispute between themselves.
winch, however, was made UP soon
after. They left Willmus' farm in the
AFTERNOON, intending to go to st. Paul.
and the farmers son drove them to the
end OF the car line. They were not seen
again, and the police have been unable
10 learn where they passed the re-
mainder of the day.
1t is supposed. however, that thew re-
turned to Hamline together in the even
Ing, and that while on their wav to. the
1arm became involved in another quar-
rel winch led to a fight with knives.
Inc appearance of the dead mans
BODY, the nature of the wounds and the
condition of the ground near where
the body was found, indicate that
struggle preceded the stabbing
Only One Wound Fatal
Of the three wounds found in Rove,s
breast, Coroner Miller said that only
one was deep enough to cause death.
IL was Immediately above the heart.
Whlle another stab and slash are on
the right side of the breast The mans
vest is pierced, but his coat is not cut
ABOVE the breast wounds. The pockets
were turned wrong side out and a cent
was found beside the body. The right
arm OF the coat is cut and the hat-was
cut in two places.
When the body was found the coat
was Off, though one arm was still nartJv
on, and the hat was a short distance
away, While an open poeketknife, with
out blood upon the blade. was found
under the body. From these circun-
stances the police infer that the men
were engaged in duel and that the
fatal blow was inflicted when RoWe
was IN the act of removing the coat.
1t appears that the men became en-
gagged in the fight with their coats on.
and that Bowe. after receiving one or
Two scratches and a slash over the arm,
from his adversary's knife, paused an
instant to remove his coat and that
While doing SO he received the knife
wound above the heart.
The ground for several feet about
the spot where the body was. found
was torn UP, indicating that the men
mad tussied some time before the
struggle ended. A trail of blood ex-
tended from one side of the road to
the other.
Struggle Was Not Noisy
The scene of the encounter is within
stones throw of the park boards
barn, and within view of the Northern
Pacific shops. The struggle must have
occurred without unusual noise, for at
the barn Raymond Micko, the night
Waterman, was on duty, and when
seen yesterday he said he had heard no
disturbance during the evening or
night. Two watchmen at the Northern
Pacific shops, j. T. Treanor and Philip
Demers, patroled the grounds about
the buildings and failed to notice any
noise during the night
Matt Willmus, the farmer who en-
pfoyed the men, said he knew nothing
of their identity beyond the names
they gave him when they started to
work for him week ago.
They told me they came from Chi
cago." said Willmus yesterday "They
performed their work and I paid no
particular attention to them, though I
noticed that they were frequently to-
gether. They seemed friendly until
Monday morning, when, after quitting
work on account of the rain, they had
dispute and I overheard, them calling
each other profane names.
"Fhe trouble apparently ended, for
they afterwards spoke together and
asked to have my son drive them to
the car line. They rode off together,
and my son says that they did not ap-
pear to be angry on the way, and
promised to be back in the evening
Before leaving both men sharpened
their knives on the grindstone. I did
not pay any attention to the incident
at the time, for there was nothing
strange about their manner. Before
they left they asked me for money and
I gave each $1.50 They told me that
they had been partners for four years
and that they had come to Minneapolis
from Chicago
SShaS 0oS 6SSSIfPtfoH OF fHiliipS
Whiting five hours after the discov-
cry of the crime Chief of Police O'Con-
nor had descriptions of Phillips tele-
graphed to surrounding towns and had
the St Paul and Minneapolis forces on
the lookout for the man. Police
watched the depot, and conductors of
outgoing trains were given descrip-
tions of the man. Over 400 bulletins
were sent out by messenger or wire
and the chief is confident that Phillips
will soon be arrested.
Phillips is twenty-five of twenty-six
years old, five feet six inches tall
weighs $50 pounds, has smooth face.
dark complexion, dark hair, curly at
the ends, wears black clothes, black
fedora hat and blue shirt. His COM
panion, whose body is now at the
county morgue awaiting a claimant
was apparently about forty years of
age. His hair, which was dark, was
tinged with gray; he had a short,
stubby mustache and was shabbily
dressed. He appears to have been
native of Europe.
and that Bowe was killed by his part
ner," said Chief O'Connor. Though
the pockets were found turned inside
cut, it does not seem that the murder
was committed for robbery It is
more likely that after the man was
dead his partner. thinking that he