The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-11-04
Are Frank Stama and Mic Paris
One and the Same?
Man Under Arrest in Town When
Fracas Occurred.
But Claimed That He Was Not
a Party To 1t.
From Fridays Daily.

Mystery Stlll eISuIOuuS lhe oeoooii'S
affair that took place at Tracy in the
Chicago & Northwestern yards last
Tuesday evening. A. R. Endersbe, chief
of police of Tracy, came to the city late
yesterday afternoon to see the Italian,
whom Officer Joseph Robb arrested at
the union depot on Wednesday night, as
being Me Paris, the man who was
wanted at Tracy for doing the stab
bling, OF most of it. The chief brought
with him German, who knew Mic Par
ris and who positively identified the
prisoner as being the man. Paris, when
arrested, gave the name of Frank
Stama, and said he had been working
with a threshing crew. He denied hav-
ing been at Tracy or working for the
Chicago & Northwestern road He could
speak but little English.
Last evening the Tracy chief had a
long talk with Paris, by means of an
interpreter, Christian Zotalis, the candy
man. Mr. Zotalis is himself Greek,
but he has some knowledge of the
Italian language, having studied it
while attending school in Greece.
Through this Interpretation was CLEANED
another tale from Paris. Paris admit
ted that he was at Tracy on the day
when the stabbing took place. The name
of his friend, the other Italian, who was
so badly cut up, was Tony Mangald.
Paris denied that he was in the fracas
or had even seen it. He said the last
he saw of Tony and Foreman Dan Lund-
berg was in a saloon, where they were
playing billiards. He left then for
WATERFOWL, which he reached afoot,
after walk of four hours. If he meant
WATERFOWL, S. d., he must be an ex-
cellent walker, according to his own
story. for he would have to travel about
twenty five miles an hour. He said, how
ever, that the place where he went was
about twenty miles from Tracy. At
WATERFOWL, as he called it, he says he
hunted up man for whom he had work
ed before, and sought work again. I'm
able to get it, he boarded freight train
and went to Sleepy Eye, where he took
a passenger train to Mankato. He was
intending, he said, to 60 to Minneapolis
in search of work.
Paris said he had a cousin in Chi
cago, to whom he wished to write.
He was furnished with stationery for
this purpose. Last night the Tracy chief
left with him on the train for Tracy.
The trial will probably take place at
Marshall, the Lyon county seat, where
court will open on Nov. Is.
Chief Endersbe is still much puz-
zled over the details of the fight and
the real blame for the stabbing. The
three Scandinavians engaged in the
fracas were Dan Lundberg, the Sec
ton foreman, Emil Peterson and a
certain Tom, whose surname the chief
did not remember. Lundberg received
one stab in the back, near one of his
kidneys. He is in pretty fair shape.
Peterson was cut about the stomach.
He seemed to be the most badly hurt
of all at first, but is doing nicely. Tom
has knife wound in the left shoulder,
seemingly struck from the front. The
Scandinavians blame the stabbing on
Paris. Mangald, the Italian, who was
in the fight, received five wounds, the
worst of which was struck from be-
hind through the left shoulder. Mangald
claims that Lundberg was the man who
stabbed him. Mangald has not been
talked to great deal, but the Scandi-
navians, two of whom speak pretty fair
English, have. According to their story,
Lundberg, the foreman, got into row
with the Italians, who complained about
their pay. A fight ensued. Lundberg
was attacked by the Italians. The other
two Scandinavians came to the fore
mans aid.
All four of the injured men are now
lying at the Tracy hospital. 1t is hop
ed now that every one of them will re-
cover. If one of them should die, the