The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-24
ROCCATz MURDER Is
PUT UP TO POLICE
Coroner Kistler Says Inquest
Will Be Purely Formal
Affair

1t is for the police and not the coroner
to locate the responsibility for the death
OF Emil RoggatZ, the coachman employed
by DIR. Philip Mueller, who was shot a
week ago Coroner KistIer yesterday
swore in a jury and the inquest will be
held tomorrow at the county morgue.
Coroner Kistler says it is his intention
to conf1ne the inquiry to an examination
OF the surgeons who attended the dead
man and those who performed the autop-
sy. This showed that the bullet had per-
the intestines That the man lived as long
as he did is a mystery to the surgeons.
The funeral of RoggatZ will be held Sun
day afternoon at the residence of his
cousin, Theodore Mix. 2601 Fremont ave-
nue. north, at o'clock, and at 2:30 there
viii be services at the German Lutheran
church at Eighteenth and Dupont ave-
nueS north.
Witness is Missing
There is another mystery in connection
with the case. Frank Johnson. the sa-
ioonkeeper. who saw three men dash
through his saloon at 277 Cedar avenue
shortly after the murder. is missing. He
was last seen in his place OF business
Thursday, and on that day he sold a half
interest in the place to Chris Olson, Of
Northfeld and that night he and the
woman who was in the saloon with him
at the time disappeared
Johnson told the police that on the night
OF the shooting he and his wife were sit
ting in the front of the saloon and three
men rushed through the front door and.
instead of stopping at the bar, hurried
through the rear door and into the alley
Defore he could demonstrate with them
Tor their conduct. These three men cor
respond with those described by street
car conductor on the interurban line as
the men who boarded his car at Twen-
tieth avenue south a few moments after
the flight through the saloon.
Dr: Muellers horse and cutter were
FOUND at Fifteenth avenue south and
Eighth street, a short distance from
JobnsonS s saloon. The police for time
We're puzzled to account for the disap-
pearance of johnson. but now they have
learned that certain family reasons caused
him to make himself scarce as soon as he
closed up his business in Minneapolis
The members of the coroner's jury who
nave been called in the Roggatz case are
S. B. Gvetz. 521 Fourth street north;
Charles Heims, 2023 Lyndale avenue
north; Al Hahn, 104 Royalston avenue; NJ.
ward Rudd, 533 Lyndale avenue north;
John 2. Nash, S2S Seventh street south.
Corners Case Closed
There Will be no inquest in the case of
Rlchard ConnerS. the negro who was shot
6y John Livers in dressing room of the
BiJou theater Friday night, nor will John
I1vers, the member of the Williams and
walker company who shot him, be in
dicted.
The company has left the state and is
playing at Pittsburg. Pa. 1t will be i'm
possible to secure the attendance of the
witnesses TO the quarrel between the men
and without them it would be a waste of
money to indict Livers and bring him to
Minneapolis for trial
This is the opinion of the county at
torneys office
At the time of the shooting Friday
night Corners said the affair was an ac-
cident; that the revolver fell from the
pocket of one of the members of the
company and fell upon the tile floor and
was exploded. The bullet entered Con-
neTs neck and he was taken to Asbury
hospital and the opinion of the surgeons
was that the injury was slight one
Before he died he asserted to Assis-