The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-24
CITY NEWS
MAYOR PUTS PRICE
ON MURDFRER'S HEAD
Calls Special Meeting of COun-
Gil for Purpose of Fixing
Reward


council will be held at o'clock this
afternoon for the purpose of authoriz-
Ing the offer of a reward to the per-
son who shall furnish information
leading to the arrest and conviction of
the assassin of Christian II. Schindel-
decker. the West Seventh street butch
er, who was brutally murdered by some
person, yet unknown to the police, last
Saturday.
Mayor Smith yesterday issued the
special call for the meeting, the first
special call of the character that the
mayor of st. Paul has been called upon
to issue for years. The amount of this
reward is not fixed yet. The council
in its meeting will decide upon the
sum, and not less than $1,000 will be
offered. Some figure between $1,000
and $500 will probably be named.
The murder of Christian H. Schin-
deldecker. which occurred in his meat
market 523 West Seventh street, was
distinctively an affair close to the in
terests of st. Paul as a city. The mur-
dered mans place of business is on an
important thoroughfare. The murder
occurred between IL and / o'clock on
Saturday afternoon. Feb. is. The as
sassin, after completing a murder as
bloody and as cruel as the most fiend-
ish ingenuity could plan, made good
his escape, and is still at large. The
county may offer a reward for the ar
rest and conviction of the murderer.
The state is very liable to do so.
Police Are Baffled
The case is one that has thus far COM
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days of tireless work the department
finds itself in the possession of little
more knowledge of 1.-The case than il
possessed when first the alarm was
spread that murder had been done.
Clews have been run down and found
to be worthless. Stories told to the
police by many people have been in
vestigated and totally discredited. OF
theories there are many. Not sin
gle one has proved out to a definite
end.
The murderer of Christian II. Schin-
deldecker probably never will be known
to the police and to the law courts un-
less someone who knows speaks. The
offering by the city of a substantial
reward may tempt some person, who
has thus far kept hidden the awful
secret of that days work. to communi-
cate that knowledge to the police and
so aid in bringing the culprit to the
bar of justice.
Coroner Miller yesterday announced
that the inquest to fix the blame for
the Schindeldecker murder would not
be held until Friday, March 3. The
poStponement of one week is taken in
the hope that by the expiration of that
time the guilty person will be under
arrest.
The past three days have resulted in
nothing from the police end of the
case. Working along the most meager
clews that ever confronted detectives
in a St. Paul murder, they have ac-
complished very little, far less than
would be necessary to justify the ar
rest of any persons upon such a seri-
Gus charge as murder.
So far as the police have been able
to ascertain no person saw the muir
derer enter the meat market that Sat-
urday noon, nor did any persons see
him leave. Numerous stories have
come to the police of suspicious look
ing characters seen loafing about the
premises on that fatal Saturday, but
not a single one of these have been
found worthy of extended investigation.
Veil of Mystery
A veil of mystery that would well
puzzle a Sherlock Holmes or a Lecoq
in the unraveling has drawn about the
tragedy of the meat market shed where
the body of the murdered man was
found lying in q pool of blood which
had flowed from thirty cleaver wounds
and had mutilated the corpse out OF all
semblance to a man.
A hammer found by the side of the
murdered man was regarded for a
time as a most important clew leading
towards the Identification of the mur-
! derer. Initials were discovered upon
its head. They were the letters &C.
H." the initials of the murdered man.
People, neighbors and customers and
friends of the murdered man, have
come anxiously to police headquarters
TO tell of suspicious looking men whom
they have seen in the neighborhood of
the meat market on the day of the
murder. or prior thereto. The murder