The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19

could not have been what is known as
first-class professional criminal be-
| cause of the savagery displayed in
hacking and cutting the body after the
man was powerless to help or defend
himself
The further fact that he nailed the
door shut and clinched the nail instead
or taking the simpler method of using
bit of wood and utilizing the latch of
the door. is also pointed to in support
of this contention
Police Think Murderer Insane
The police idea of the crime is that
II was done by a person who was some
what deranged mentally, although the
department gives out nothing TO indi-
| cate what the cause of the arrangement
| might be.
The police were busy tracing the
| movements of the victim yesterday.
They looked into his record and con-
nections in the hope of finding a lead
that might suggest n clew.
The other theory is that the deed
was done by newly fiedged criminals
and that robbery was the basic motive.
The advocates of this idea say that two
| men probably were mixed into the af-
| fair If not actively, at least as guard
ana actor. Those who take this view of
| the facts say that Schindeldecker had
no enemy who could do the deed or who
would be likely TO try it. That he was
pleasant, popular tradesman and hap
PLY married and that he had an un-
| fortunate habit of showing his roll of
| money on all sorts of unnecessary oc-
| casions
They think that the men who killed
the butcher saw him show the roll of
| currency several days ago and care
fully studied conditions during the
/ meantime so as to be able to select
just such a moment as the one which
| was seized upon by the slayer of the
butcher
They saw just when Gerenz left the
shop each day and laid their plans ac-
cordingly. Choosing a moment when
no car was passing on Seventh street
| and when the customers of Schindel-
| decker were generally eating their mid
| day meals. one of the criminals entered
/ the shop and decoyed the active little
| butcher away from his stand. from
which he might easily pick up a wea-
| pom that could turn the tide against
| them.
| Innocent Order for Eggs
| The means taken to decoy the victim
! from the protection of his knives and
cleavers was an innocent order for
l eggs. With one hand on a paper bag
and the other full of eggs Schindel-
decker was defenseless and after two
| stunning blows over the right eye he
| was powerless to offer any resistance
1 to the hurried search of his person and
/ the cash drawer.
They SAY that the murder was the
result of the butchers showing evi-
l denees of returning consciousness.
| The police say that If the man did
not intend TO murder the butcher he
! acted very strangely in fastening the
door. They also declare that if robbery
entered largely into the motive for the
crime the robber was known to Schin-
deldecker, and the killing was merely
a safeguard and precaution taken by
| the criminal to prevent detection.
| Wife Learns of Murder
| The most sorrowful feature of the
! crime was the scene at the neat little
home of the murdered man.
| Today would have been the second
| anniversary of his wedding, and the
| comely young woman, barely out of her
| teens, who has been his wife for two
years, anticipated some little extra
| merrymakiDg to mark the event.
She had made a pretty little dress for
! her seven-month-old baby boy and
\ had selected two or three small gifts
to present TO her husband. Instead Of
] a merry anniversary in her comforta-
| BILE sitting room. the butchered body of
| her husband will lie there today.
Instead of feast and laughter and
| joy, death and desolation will be up
| permost. For the cakes OF the feast
the tears and bitterness of death have
been substituted.
AGlob man was the first to bring
definite news of the tragedy to the sor-
rowing widow. She had been told by
| women OF the neighborhood that a Sc
rious accident had befallen her hus-
band and womanlike intuitively sus-
pected that the whole truth had not
been told her. She noted the gravity
of expression of her visitors and with
uplifted hands implored to be told If
her husband was dead.
The newspaper man nodded his head
and the voice of the young widow was
raised in lamentation.
"Who could have done it-who could
have done it," she walled. He was
so good to me. / would give anything
to have my man back" And she hid
her face in her apron and wept aloud.
The baby boy seemed startled at his
mothers grief and constantly turned
his eyes toward her, while the par
oxysms of weeping shook her. He eooed
and gurgled in the arms Of a friend of
the family, but the mother was not to
be wooded from her grief by the prattle
of his little unknowing tongue.
The murdered man has a brother,
George Sckindeldecker, a blacksmith,
living of 1G56 West Sevenfh cfraof