New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-27


known and requesting them to send on
the first train as many experienced men
as could work to advantage. Mr.. Ry-
dell came on the next train. [ inform
ed him that the matter of ferretting out
the crime was placed in his hands, and
in the hands of his agency, in the hope
that the guilty party, whoever he was,
might be apprehended: l told him that
the county was ready and willing to
pay all necessary expenses incurred
and that if any advantage or better
results could be obtained from getting
more detectives, we would authorize
the employment Of additional men,
These instructions were given not only
once, but a number of times. The
superintendent of the Minneapolis
office of the Pinkerton agency, Mr..
Callihan, did come up and worked on
he case with Mr.. Rydell as long as
he thought he could be of any service.
Second: On the evening of the
homicide the idea of getting blood
hounds did not occur to anyone so
far as | know, but, in any event, it
was then too late in the night to COM
municate with places sought to be
reached. The next morning this was
taken up promptly and with vigor.
We were unable to locate any dogs of
that kind in the Twin Cities. The fol-
lowing were then called up: Chief of
Police: West Superior; Chief of Po-
lice, Duluth; State Reformatory. ST.
Cloud and State Prison, Saltwater
: At none of these places could dogs be
) obtained, though persistent # orts were
made to get them. Waterloo, Iowa,
W1nona, and other places were reach
| ed by telegraph, bat all to no avail.
In answer to telegram sent to Duluth
, the following message was received
dated Nov. 2:
? ''Einar Hoidale, Co. Atty.
"B1OOd-hOund man witness before
Grand Jury. Impossible for him tc
get away.
&C. II. Troyer, Chief of Police. .
l In answer to to the message tc
I Waterloo, Iowa, the following tele
4 gram was received dated Nov. =.
"Einar Hoidale, Co. Atty,
n "CannOt come. Letter follows.
e III. Yordy."
q Following this was a letter stating
that he had no trained dogs that hi
s could rely on. These efforts to OBJ
: tain dogs were kept up persistent.
# and earnestly for three days and wer
S then abandoned only because it wa
j. too late even if the dogs could be pro
e Cured. But in the face of these eff
S orts to secure dogs in the hope tina
they might be of some service, I hav
S repeatedly and maliciously bee
e charged with criminal neglect in fail
ing to procure such animals.
o Third: The county commissioner
IS have at all times done everything i
in their power. They have done thei
IS full duty. Every request for assist
$ ance made by myself, or by Gen
Childs, has been cheerfully an
d promptly complied with. If there
If anything that the board should hav
le done and has failed to do, do nc
know what it is. 1t may be that thos
ID who know more than I can speak.
ic Fourth: A great deal has been sal
about the efforts made by the author
10 tiles to apprehend cocaine fiends an
Il it has been repeatedly charged thu
10 this was done for the purpose of d
IN verting attention from the real Grim
t. nal and as a part Of a general schen
nc Of cOncealment and deception. III
:. Sunday after the homicide a numbe
10 of Twin City reporters came here
= search of story for their respectiv
- papers. They evidently conclude
that the cocaine tiend rumOr WOul
a make the most readable news and tt
-, result was that it was published broat
- cast over the state. The authorize
49, here knew all about the story befol
"a it was published but we gave it lit
;. or no attention. However, as soon {
~ it was published, letters, telephor
~ messages and kilograms regardin
- cocaine tiends from all over this sta
- and other states began to pour in u
49, on US. We ignored them all exec
49, three. In one case county attorne
from one of the western counties tel
graphed and telephoned a number
10 times that he was following a suspe
Il from town to town and, after some
'V lay and upon most urgent reques
w made by this attorney, we made an {
GO fort to investigate in that case. Wi
~ out any suggestion or request from
Oh the authorities at Rochester arrest
." a drug fiend and this was looked int
re. There was also an arrest make at c