The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-23


G, A. Lapierre, 214 University avenue
NE, was called to dress Mingo's wound.
Il The coroner was called to view the dead
child.
MAN HUNT BEGINS ~.
Detectives Are Early on the Ground
Several Clues Found.
A frantic telephone message was sent
to the Minneapolis police headquarters,
and altho the crime was committed in
Anoka county, the next car from the
city bore detail of detectives and uni
formed police. Hasty investigation of
the premises was made and then the
man hunt began in earnest.
A Journal reporter and two residents
Of Columbia Heights started the search
and wer rewarded by finding two hand
kerchiefs, one red and the other blue,
which had been used as masks, a sweat
er, sweater mufflet, canvas coat and
q. black cap. All Of these garments
had been mentioned by men in the sa-
of the bandits The articles were all
found lying along byroad, half a block
west Of Central avenue, and about a
block from the saloon.
On Fortieth avenue, a few rods west
where two rigs had waited for the ban
dts. For a space of several feet, the
grass showed signs of having been
trodden by the restless horses. From
This place the distinct tracks Of two
buggies could be easily followed thru
the field to Van Buren, street and the
Corporation line road, where one rig
turned west and the other east. Traces
of the rig that went west were soon lost,
FOR the road is a well-beaten thorofare,
which did not show the wheel marks.
The other rig, however, was easily
ta.opn 10 JUh i
turned toward the city, and finally went
east on the Broadway road.
Men Were Seen.
is While the officers were investigating
the wheel tracks, Mrs. J. M. Garfield,
peared with the startling statement that
a few minutes before she had seen two
men creep stealthily across Central ave-
nue. near the railroad crossing and dis
appear in the woods on the east side
of the street.
The officers fastened to the scene and
Mrs. Canfeld's story was corroborated
by the finding of new pair of overalls
IN the brush on the west side. Of the
street, just where she said the men
had emerged from the brush.
All the men in the saloon agreed that
the three men wore overalls.
:, AS it was only few minutes before
was due to leave Shoreham, it was
thought that the bandits would try to
board the train at Wilson's siding, two
miles east Of Central avenue. Accord
ingly posse, headed by Detectives
Hansen and Johnson, boarded the train
and went as far as the siding, but found
no trace OF their men. Detectives Han
sen and Johnson continued with the
freight train, but the posse returned to
Central avenue.
A Woman in the Party.
Just what became of the bandits af-
ter they drove post-haste away from
the rendezv us on Fortieth avenue, is
purely matter of onjecture. That
Y one rig, driven by woman, went down
Central avenue Is proved by the state
ment Of William Spain Of Columbia
Heights He was returning from Min
noapol1s with team, and as he drove
ne met a one-horse open buggy. The
horse was going at good pace, the
woman was driving and a man was
lying back in the buggy. The speed
with which the rig was going attracted
Spain g attention, and when he noticed
the limp appearance of the man he
concluded. that both were intoxicated
When he reached the -postoffce he
was met by several excited persons who
told him Of the holdup and murder
Then he remembered the rig and was
a al to describe the woman and horse
lie SAID that the woman wore light
jacket and q theater hat. The horse
was small, light-bay animal. The
5lan was in such q position that he
could not see him distinctly, but no
ticed that he was Of small stature.
q. Whether this rig stopped shortly
allowed the man to get out and e
back to the place where the overall
were found is not known. The officers
believe that the men who were seen BY
Mrs. Canfield to run across the roat
were from the other rig, which wen
west on the corporation line road.
Mr.. Spain also said that another rig
in which were two men, was following
B the one driven by the woman, bu
thought that it might be that Of SOM
persons not connected with the crime
The theory held by the officers is tina
the rig which went west bore thre
men, and that two of them, probabl,
the ones that did all the shooting il
< the saloon, left the rig and made thei
way thru the woods to Central avenu
and crossed over, either intending t.
walk east or to board an outboun,
train. The full moon made it SO ligh
that the men may have seen that tn
police were on their trail and aban
don1ng their purpose, remaining hidde
in the underbrush until they were abb
to make their escape with safety.
-Four Men and Woman.
In the party of bandits, it is though
there were five persons, four men an
a woman. Three Of these men wen
into the saloon, while the other man an
the woman kept the horses 50 as to b
ready for their companions when tn
loot had been secured.
Several persons claim to have see,
the party while it was en- route to tn
scene of the hold-up, and all say tina
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