The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-21
Chief O'ConnOr Pushes Inves.
tigation and Declares Him
self Confident That Murderer
viii Soon Be Run Down
Pocketbook of the Dead Meat
Dealer Is Found In Pile of
Rubbish by Coroner Miller
Inquest VIII Be Held Friday

The finding of the blood-stained
pouch used by Christian H Schindel-
decker in carrying his personal money,
and the summoning of a jury by Coro-
! ner Miller to take testimony Friday
morning regarding the means whereby
Schindeldecker came to his death were
yesterdays only developments in the
murder mystery which has enshouded
West Seventh street since Saturday
noon.
While Chief O'Connor was still conf
dent last night that the murderer would
be placed under arrest before many
hours, he said that no new develop
ments had arisen which could be made
public.
Yesterday the chief saw and inter-.
viewed dozens of people who believed
that they might enlighten him upon
some substantial point in the clearing
up of the mystery. What passed be-
tween himself and these persons he re-
fused to disclose, saying, however, that
| no one had been able to give any def
mite information which might justify
an arrest.
Finds the Pocketbook
The buckskin bag in which Schin-
deldecker customarily carried his
! money was picked up yesterday morn
ing by Coroner Miller, who found it
lying partly concealed in a pile of
rubbish to one side of the rear exit of
the Schindeldecker meat market, 523
| West Seventh street.
The porous leather bore on the bot
tom and sides the imprints of three
| fingers, marked in blood, undoubtedly
| of
body lay scarce three feet away when
the murderer discarded the empty
| pocketbook after drawing forth the
money it contained.
The imprints left were made by a
man with large hands, indicating that
the murderer must have been a man
used to rough work, or else a man Of
considerable stature. While the size is
fairly we'll marked in the impress left
of the lines of the fingers it is not
marked with anything like the clear
| ness that would be necessary to make
an exact Identification Of the muir
derer possible as was the case in Mark
| Twain's classical "Pudd' 'nhead Wilson,"
The only real value in the marks is
! believed by the police to be as a sort
of conclusive bit of evidence in case
| the guilty. party is captured.
| In the hurried search of his victims
pockets for valuables the murderer's
right hand came in contact with some
blood soaked portion of the dead mans
clothing. He clutched the leather with
the three bloody fingers and drew it
forth. Then, noticing the imprint left
there. and shuddering at the sight of
his victims blood upon his own per-
son, he hastily wiped his fingers dry
before he proceeded further in his
search. When the wallet was opened,
and relieved of the money it contained,
the fingers which did the work were
dry and free from blood, for there are
no other marks on the wallet.
Escapes Without Blood Stains
The theory is growing stronger that
the murderer escaped from the butcher
shop with his hands and clothing inno-
cent of any traces Of blood. The first
thought suggested was that the blood
must have spurted about all over the
fiend welding the cleaver.
| The fact is well established that
when man is stunned into an un-
| conscious state the action of his heart
lessons very materially. While the
blood of healthy man in full possess
SION oI ms sense VIII squirt Tor ulS-
tance of many feet when a large ar
| terry is severed, the reverse is quite
true when the victim is senseless. The
| action of the heart, decreasing in
strength until sometimes 1t is scarcely
appreciable at all, forces the blood
much slower through the veins and
barteries, and the result of a deep cut is
ofttimes to merely allow the blood to
flow slowly out, as it naturally would
of it's own specific weight.
1t is true that drops of blood have