The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-03
GOTTSCHALK TO FACE
CHARGE OF MURDER
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and it will allow the state to take its
evidence first hand to the grand jury.
Since his arrest last Friday night
Gottschalk has seen no person save the
police officers and the turnkey of the
county jail, who serves him with his
meals. No other person is allowed to
see him and he is locked in an isolated
cell upon the third floor of the county
Jail where no other prisoners are suff1-
GENTLY close to converse with him.
Breaking His Spirit
In this enforced solitude the defiant
spirit which marked his demeanor at
the time of his arrest is said to be grad
ually breaking away, and while he
maintains the surly air characteristic
of him he is said to be gradually weak
ening and nearing the time when the
police expect him to break down en-
tirely and say some word which will
throw more light upon the awful details
of the West Seventh street murder.
Meanwhile the whereabouts Of Joe
Hartmann, alleged accomplice OF Gott-
schalk in that murder, is as deep a
mystery as ever. The question of
whether Hartmann fed in fear of the
law and is now a rowing fugitive from
justice, or whether he was, as his ia
Their appears to confidently believe,
murdered by Gottschalk and pushed
under the ice OF Pickerel lake or of the
Mississippi river, remains an open
question.
A laborer employed at the lock and
dam has made the positive state
ment that he saw Gottschalk, whom he
knew. standing at the foot of one of
the runways early Tuesday morning,
gazing steadfastly at the swirling, ed
dying current of pitchy black water.
Not far away were the ashes remain
ing from a campfire which had EVIL
IDENTIFY burned for hours, possibly
through the whole night Near the fire
were two poles such as are used in
winter fishing through the ice. 'a'fSe'i'nt
Two Left the House
Mrs. Louisa Nelson, who rooms In
the same house where Gottschalk made
his home, $50 Goodhue street, is posi-
tive that Gottschalk and Hartmann
left the house together Monday morn.
ing to go fishing. There is no authentic
report of Hartmanns having been seen
since that time. Mrs. Nelson does not
know when Gottschalk returned: She
did not see him until the next day. A
story to the effect that Hartmann rode
some distance out Of Mendoza Monday
afternoon with an engineer on the
Omaha road came to the ears OF the
police several days ago, but an ex-
haustive inquiry among the engineers
running upon that division has failed
to lend it any support.
The police are loath to give any in
dorsement to the theory that Hartmann
was murdered by Gottschalk and are
continuing the search for him I'm neigh
boring towns and in the large cities Of
the country. While they admit that
the suspicious Of the elder Hartmann
with regard to his sons fate are appar-
entity well grounded, they point to the
fact that there is every indication that
the lad made preparations for flight on
the day after the murder was commit
ted, the Sunday before he, himself, dis
appeared and they declare that he evil
IDENTIFY contemplated flight. Whether or
not he accomplished his purpose re-
mains for developments to show.
New Developments Expected
According to the rumor which was
afloat all yesterday at the police sta
ton there will be some developments,
too and very soon. The police, while
unwilling to disclose the nature of the
late information received, are work
ing up some new and very important
clews which promise to mature in the
course of very few days.
At the conference held yesterday be-
tween County Attorney Kane, Chief of
Police OConnOr and Coroner Miller, as
result of which the inquest was post
poned, the case was thoroughly dis
cussed and the postponement Of the in
quest was taken, because, IN the light
of these new developments, the county
attorney did not wish to expose the
states line of prosecution.