New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-09
KILLED PERHAPS MURDERED
Stranger Found on Tracks With
Crushed Skull.
About Mile and a Half East of
Town on Northwestern.
May Have Been Thrown From
Train or Have Fallen Off.

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Crying piteously Murder, murder, y
in his delirium, William Schneider, a
Canadian, evidently on his way east
from the west, died in the st. Alexan-
der hospital Sunday evening from
fractured skull. Early Sunday morn
ing he was picked up near the North
western railroad track about mile
and half east on the cutoff to Man
kato by train crew.
How he came to his death is mys-
terry. Was he murdered? Or did he
fall from train and strike his head
on some object which inflicted the fatal
wound? Either theory is supposable.
There are many facts tending to in
dictate that he was killed by fellow
man, but the natural supposition is,
under the circumstances, is that he fell
from a train.
The first inkling had that a man had
been injured was about 10 O'Clock
when Mrs. Christ Ruemke, who lives
more than block from the place where
the accident occurred, heard means and
inarticulate cries. She called to her
son who had gone to bed and together
they went down to discover the cause,
but the noise ceased before they reach
ed the place and they turned back.
GIRLS HEAR MOANS.
Two hours and half later the
Misses Clara Nehls and Thora and
Ulga Anderson were returning from a
party at Koester's place and when
they were crossing the Northwestern
track on their way to Miss Nehls'
home they heard groans and cries,
but could distinguish no articulate
words. The girls thought the outcries
were made by drunken man and
thought no more about it.
The Anderson girls were afraid to
return home by the way they had come
and went down the st. Louis track,
but they still heard the groans and
they quickened their pace still thinking
of the drunken man. Reaching home
they went to bed and the groans could
still be distinguished occasionally.
INJURIES CAUSE DEATH.
The next morning at about O'Clock
the crew of the freight train which
pulls in from the east at that time,
saw the man lying PROSTATE a few feet
from the track and perhaps twenty feet
from the crossing, his head in pool
of blood which had dried on the sand.
They carried him to the station and
a physician was summoned and the in
jured man taken to the hospital. He
lived through the day and died early
in the evening. He never regained
consciousness but was delirious to the
last.
At the hospital he seemed to be i'm
agining himself driving most of the
time, for he would repeat the words,
"getup," "whoa" and "backup." And
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seem to seize his mind ahd he would
cry murder, murder" Nothing else
escaped his lips to give any clue to the
manner in which he came by his fatal
wound.
The mans identity was established
from papers found in his pocket. One
was receipt from the United States
land office receiver at Bismark, N. D.,
for Sl4 paid on land described as fol-
lows: southeast of section IS, town
l48, range "a. Besides this there was
business card issued by M. J. Skeels
of Bismark, with township plat on
the back on which was marked the land
as described.
HAD A LITTLE MONEY.
In his pocket was also found re-
ceipt from the agent Of the Shaw Lum-
Der Camp No Ii showing that the de-
ceased was entitled to the benefits of
the st. Joseph hospital at Chippewa
Falls for the year 1904. In his left
sock was found So in paper Canadian
money, and three United States cop
pers.
Schneider was man of medium
height, weighing about 100 pounds,
with dark hair and heavy black
CR0NE BROS. SPECIALS.